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Sgt D. L. Templeman. . RAF 12Sqd. Sgt Templeman was the W/Op. of Lancaster DV157 PH-Z with 12sqd
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Ewell Temples . United States Air Force I am looking for the following crew members of the Maxwell House II (SN 42-73245). I have checked the WWII Casualties and these men were not listed on the web page and I believe the following men may have made it back from the war:
Richard Meredith Serial No: 0-728902
Thomas Stephens Serial No: 0-683542
Thomas C. Smeal Serial No: 33253233
Ewell Temples Serial No: 34444337
Charles Pero Serial No: 12168305
John F. Cook Serial No: 19148135
Joseph C. McClung Serial No: 38288140
These men were part of my uncle's crew. If you know these men or any of their family members please contact me. I do have photos of them. The men in this group who did not make it back are:
Joseph C. Rich Serial No: 0-739054
Edward Ryan Serial No: 0-672445
Royal Butterfield Serial No: 0-728565
Fred Hart Serial No: 32437482
I have the MACR from mission B that these men were on. I also have a story of this mission as witnessed from the 10th AF, 7th BG. I would like to correspond with these men or their families. I lost my uncle 2nd Lt. Rich from this crew. This crew was shot down on 27th November 1943 and some were taken prisoner. My uncle was taken prisoner and died in POW camp.
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P/O. Gordon McNab "Timmy " Templeton DFC.. Royal Canadian Air Force 186 Squadron Timmy Templeton flew with my dad and I wondered if anyone had a photo?
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JG Templeton . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JG Templeton served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. A. M. Ten . Royal Air Force No. 320 (Netherlands) Squadron RAF from Holland (d.10th July 1941) A Hudson N7396 of 320 Squadron was lost during training flight over England.
The crew were:
- A.M. Ten Kerkel - Killed and buried at Leuchars
- Sgt. W. Hijkoop - Killed and buried at Leuchars
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Pte. Leonard Fred "Chub" Tendick . US Army Infantry Dental Corps from Milwaukee, WI, USA My dad, Leonard Tendick, was captured during the Battle of the Bulge, he was listed M.I.A. January 6th, 1945 from France and was held at Stalag 5A. He was liberated, April 19th, 1945 from a large prison camp at Fallingbostel in Western Germany.
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Drvr. Christopher Stanley Arthur Tennant . British Army Royal Signals from Norwich My late father, Christopher Stanley Arthur Tennant, was a driver in the Royal Corp of Signals and served in the western desert until his capture by the Italians. He spent some time in a POW camp somewhere near Naples before being placed in a cattle truck and spending 3 days getting to Germany.
Originally, I have him in Stalag 4B, which puzzled me slightly as this camp was liberated by the Russians, and other parts of his story did not fit with this camp - I will come on to this later. However digging a little deeper it would appear that he was moved to 4F. He said the conditions were bad and that the whole hut had body lice so badly that they were regularly dusted with DDT until they found the man who always managed to miss the dusting and burnt all his clothes, after which things improved.
He appeared to live for his Red Cross parcels which were shared with a friend (Dusty Miller, a lad from the West Country) who appeared to tell him many West Country dialect words, one of which was "Dumbledore" for a bumblebee (no JK Rowling did not invent the word), and which he always used as a term of endearment for his three grand-daughters. The Red Cross parcels were always intercepted by the German guards who always took the socks and soap much to his chargin.
He apparently worked clearing railway lines, often frozen to the core with little clothing but had no idea why the lines were so busy day and night and for what reason. Just before he died he told me the following, he never spoke of this to anyone else within the family, just me and until today I have never been able to verify the facts.
At the end of the war the guards left the POWs in the camp. They could hear the Russians advancing one way and the US forces the other and they prayed that the US would reach them first. They did, luckily and starving the men set out to find food. They followed the railways lines and came across a concentration camp. I believe that my Dad may have been one of the first in. He said that what he saw had haunted him his entire life, and that following that they went into the local town and looted the Post Office. It is only today that I have been able to verify that the camp was liberated by US forces and that there was a concentration camp nearby.
I have his diary from 1941 that he managed to keep going all through the war and one entry reads "excused work today, yellow jaundice weight 6 stone". He was luckier than the victims nearby but I am sure it coloured his whole life what he saw that day. He was a sweet gentle man who hated injustice and although he died 15 years ago he is very much missed by his entire family.
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F/Sgt. Edward Drake Steele Tennant . Royal Australian Air Force 624 Squadron from Coburg, Victoria, Australia. (d.1st Feb 1944) Edward Tennant was the son of Robert and Williamina Tennant, of Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
He was 31 when he died and is buried in the Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery, Albania. He is remembered on the Special Memorial E, his grave having since been lost.
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Marine. Gordon Thomas Tennant . Royal Marines
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Able Sea. James Chapman Tennant . Royal Navy HMS Glendower from Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire James Tennant was my father, he served on HMS Glendower as a 1st Class Gunner on the Quarter Deck from 14th of September 1942 to 1st of January 1943.
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Lt.Col. John Edward Tennant MC,DSO.. Royal Air Force from Urquhart, Scotland (d.7th Aug 1941) John Tennant was killed in action and is buried at Innes House Burial Ground, Innes House, Lhanbryde, Elgin, Moray, Scotland.
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Pte. William Ernest Tennant . British Army 4th Btn. Welsh Regiment from Wolverhampton (d.26th October 1944) William Tennant is my mothers brother and I have recently visited his resting place in Bergen op zoom
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P/O Keith George Tennent . Royal Australian Air Force 83 Squadron from Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (d.27th Aug 1944) Pilot Officer Keith Tennent was the son of Walter James Tennent and Margaret Helena Tennent, of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
He was 22 when he died and is buried in the Randbol Churchyard in Denmark with his crew mates.
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Sgt. Albert Victor Tennuci . British Army 16th Parachute Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps from Liverpool Bert Tennuci was born of a service family on 20th of March 1922. His father was a Sergeant Major in the 5th Dragoon Guards, which were then serving in Palestine. The family traveled to several other postings and it was not until 1930 that the young Bert Tennuci first set foot in England. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1936 as a Boy soldier and reached the age criteria for adult service just 17 days before the outbreak of the Second World War. After various postings, by May 1943 Bert was a Nursing Orderly with 84th General Hospital RAMC stationed in North Africa. Looking for some excitement, he volunteered for parachuting and successfully passed, transferring to 16th Parachute Field Ambulance RAMC, just in time for the Sicily operation. After service in Italy, he returned to the UK in late 1943, where 1st Airborne Division began their training for the invasion of North West Europe. After several cancelled operations, Bert and the rest of 16th PFA went to Holland in September 1944 on Operation Market Garden, bound for Arnhem. The Battle plan intended that 16th Parachute Field Ambulance would move with the 2nd Parachute Battalion, snake to the outskirts of Arnhem, where they would leave to go to the St Elizabeth's Hospital and set up a Main Dressing Station there. Unlike much of the rest of the 1st Airborne plans, this is precisely what happened. By about 21.00hrs on 17th of September 1944, 16th Parachute Field Ambulance had arrived and Sergeant Tennuci was NCO in charge of wards. German forces occupied the hospital area eventually and marched most of the unit away into captivity. A few selected personnel were allowed to remain behind, Bert Tennuci being one of them. Later, Bert was sent to the Airborne Hospital established at Apeldoorn and after some time became a Prisoner of War. Bert was finally liberated, and after a perilous journey through Poland and Russia, returned to the UK via the Russian port of Odessa in April 1945. After the war, Bert remained in the Army and in 1952 achieved the post of Regiment Sergeant Major of the RAMC Depot. He was commissioned in 1956, and retired in 1977 having risen to the rank of Colonel, his last posting being Commandant of Defence Medical Equipment Depot at Ludgershall. On his retirement he became Curator of the Medical Services Museum from 1977 till he died suddenly at work in November 1983.
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Sgt. Harry R. Tenny . Royal Air Force 419 Sqd. They were laughing and scratching at about twenty thousand feet along with another eight hundred crews from the combined crews of Bomber Command consisting of Lancaster, Halifax and Stirling.
Each aircraft had four engines and a crew of seven men. Sometimes a second pilot was added to the crew, this would be a budding pilot and at twenty years old this first experience was often referred to later (if he was lucky) as weird.Aircraft were sometimes referred to as, "Kites".
All of my crew were under twenty five. The skipper was twenty and I was eighteen, the rest were in between and were a bit more experienced than me as they had been flying other aircraft before I joined them.
They had experience with two engine aircraft such as Wellingtons, Hamdens and Whitleys, that up to this time had been the backbone of Bomber Command.
All around us were the hundreds of aircraft, each all tensed up as we were and each member of the crews alone with his own thoughts, wondering and hoping that they would be one of the lucky ones to reach the target which was the big city of Berlin and then get back to their base safely and the welcome from their respective ground crews and comradeship of the mess when a toll was taken of the nights success or a silence which meant only one thing, that the nights losses were either very heavy or of a personal nature to certain members of the squadron.
This was always the time to reflect before the line shooting began or to use an American term, "shooting the breeze"
To survive, a pilot would try to dodge the flack, hence the saying, "close the hanger doors".
This is perhaps an odd thing to say, but I never did feel frightened nor did I ever hear anyone else say they were.
Perhaps we were all so keyed up and enthralled by the beauty of the night with it's so many colours that fear had to take a back seat.
Some colours meant death for someone.
Our bullets, perhaps one in three were tracer, seemed to race away like aburning string of beads.
Any that hit would kill or ignite a fuel tank.
Our attention was taken by an aircraft ahead of us with two engines on fire, it was taking evasive action when it suddenly exploded.
Suddenly we were flying through burning debris.
Before we could collect our thoughts yet another bomber was in trouble and taking evasive action with all it's guns blazing.
Then it began to lose height and the nose dipped and it took a downward path.
As it disappeared from our view we saw a couple of F.W.190 German fighter planes following it down.
We had a healthy respect for these German fighters.
We soon discovered we had troubles of our own as the rear gunner suddenly opened upwith his guns while screaming to the Skipper to take evasive action as quick as he could.
But sadly the Skipper was too late and we now had three of our engines blazing.
Carrying a full load of bombs in the bomb bay, the last thing we needed exploding around us was shrapnel. I suggested to the Skipper it would be prudent to part company with ourfaithful kite and he gave the order to bale out.
Alas, only four of us were able to comply with the order, and we lost three brave crew members who will forever be in our hearts.
We quickly donned parachutes and opening the escape hatch left the burning aircraft.
Royal Air ForceBOMBER COMMAND LOSSESof the Second World WarVolume 4Aircraft and Crew Losses1943
419 Sqn Halifax II Jd464 VR-N Op:Berlin
F/O R Stewart RCAF + T/o 1952 Middleton St. George. Homebound, shot down from 18,000 feet by a night-fighter and crashed in the vicinity of the Black Forest. Those who died have no know graves.
The crew were:
- Sgt H R Tenny
- P/O S E James RCAF
- Sgt V A F Cleveland
- Sgt A Embley
- Sgt L Northcliffe RCAF
- Sgt D H A Garland RCAF
The name "Dulag Luft" was well known to most of the aircrews in the interrogation camp of the Lufftwaffe and was a little feared at home.
But as we arrived at the Camp we got a noisy reception by what looked like a hundred different Allied aircrews. We were distributed amongst the various cells that contained six or more of air-crews that had been shot down these last few days.
At this time we were losing about thirty aircraft a day.
Many swapped yarns about their exploits but the main thread of the conversation was, "Stick to the Geneva Convention Code and only spout your Name Rank and Number".
Harry Mott was one chap in my cell and I asked him how he got on when he was questioned, and he told me that when asked what happened what happened when the gallant Luftwaffe had shot him down.
And Harry said, "Three things happened", the Interrogator got his pen out at the double and asked, "Yes, yes, what three things?" Harry said after a moment of dramatic pause, "FLARES GONE, BOMBS GONE, MOTT GONE"
And that was all they could get out of Sgt Harry Mott.
Yet another wise guy told them he had been flying a new type of aircraft and after being plied with John Player cigarettes he told them it was a Huntley and Palmer with Peak Frean engines.
I don't know for how long it threw them, but it lightened our day, as we were all getting a bit despondent by this time.
We had no idea what the future held for us.
After three days we were assembled outside and taken to the local Railway siding and put into cattle wagons where we stayed a further three days.
We were allowed out at intervals to obey the call of bodily functions. Then at last we moved and ended up in a huge camp called Stalag 4B between Dresden and Leipzig in lower Saxony.
At that time it held about twenty thousand Allied POW, eventually however it was to hold forty thousand of every nationality but mostly British and Russian.
The Russians, poor devils, had a rough time of it, and since were not a member of the Geneva Code the Germans took advantage of this and took it out on any individual and indeed the nation as a whole and we saw lots of evidence of how they engineered some atrocities that were not necessary to advance their war effort.
Whilst being held prisoner, Sgt Tenny exchanged identity with Pte T. Barker of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and escaped from Stalag 4b.
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F/Sgt Harry Tenny . 419 Sqd.
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Harry Tenny . Royal Air Force Harry Tenny swopped identities with Tom Barker of 1st Btn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, so that Tenny could get back to the RAF. They were both interned in Stalag 4B.
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Pte. Abraham Ben David Tepper . British Army Pioneer Corps from Petah Tikvah, Israel (d.29th Sept 1945) Abraham Tepper was the Son of David and Brachu Tepper, husband of Aliza Tepper, of Kefar Bahadraga, Petah Tikvah, Israel.
He was 38 when he died and is buried in the Petah Tikvah Cemetery in Israel.
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Sgt. Victor P. Terrana . from Rochester, New York, USA Victor Terrana enlisted on the 24th of January 1941. He served with an Infantry Regiment and was captured in Sicily, he was held as a Prisoner of War in Stalag 2B at Hammerstein, he was released on 14th Sep 1945.
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CAT Terrey . British Army CAT Terrey served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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F/O George Thompson Gilbert Terris . Royal Canadian Air Force 50 Squadron from British Columbia (d.6th Nov 1944) He was a member of a 7-man crew of a Lancaster bomber that took off from RAF Skellingthorpe at 1619 hours on 6th November 1944 and did not return. the aircraft crashed over Holland.
Crew members, who are all buried in the Heerde general cemetery, Holland, were: -
- Flt/Sgt Ralph Andrew Dowling (R/270087),Toronto, coll. grave 667
- P/O George Amos Dunkelman (J/95289),Midland,Ontario, coll. grave 667
- F/O Frederick Arthur Horning (J/36835), Toronto, coll. grave 667
- F/O Robert Edward Rennie (J25818), Prince Edward Island, coll. grave 667
- F/O George Thompson Gilbert Terris (J/36306), B.C. grave 666
- Sgt William Darby (1737140), coll. grave 667
- Flt/Sgt Michael Arthur Cook (R/263352), grave 665
The graveyard is 9 miles from SW Zwolle, Holland.
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Sgt. George Terris . British Army Bomb Disposal Royal Engineers from London
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Alan Everard Terry . British Army Royal Signals from Birmingham Alan Terry was taken prisoner during the Seige of Calais in 1940. He was reported missing on 5th of June 1940 and was subsequently recorded as a Prisoner of War. He was held at Stalag XXB in Marienburg for the remainder of the War.
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ASW Terry . British Army ASW Terry served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Corporal Dennis Terry . RAF 166 Squadron My grandfather is pictured in two of these photos with Lancaster ME746 - R2. His name is Cpl Dennis Terry and he was a Fitter 2A with 166 Squadron. Each bomb was hand painted by himself onto R2.
Photo 2 is the official letter of completion of 100 operations.
Photo 3 is R2 at the end of its ops (124).
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E Terry . British Army Royal Armoured Corps E Terry served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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P/O. Frank Arthur Terry . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 7 Squadron from Strood, Kent (d.11th Apr 1943) Pilot Officer Frank Terry was the son of Arthur Benjamin and Isabel Francis Terry of Strood, Kent.
He was 20 when he died and is buried in the Luxembourg (Hollerich) Communal Cemetery in Luxembourg.
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Bandsman James Mercer Terry . Royal Marines HMS Nelson
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Sqdn.Ldr. Kenneth Thomas Peart Terry DFC.. Royal Air Force No. 42 Squadron from York (d.26th Apr 1944) Kenneth Terry was a member of the famous chocolate family of York and there is a memorial to him in York Minster. He won a DFC while serving at RAF Leuchars with No. 42 Squadron, flying Beauforts. It was awarded as the result of a successful attack on a ship off the coast of Norway in November 1941. He was awarded his DFC while serving at RAF Leuchars with No. 42 Squadron flying Beauforts. At the time of his death, he was the Squadron Leader of No. 547 Squadron. His niece is one of my wife’s clients
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Sgt Ray Terry . RAF 12Sqd. from Rhodesia
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