Ronald John Thomas . British Army Royal Signals I am trying to find out information on a serviceman, Ronald John Thomas, who I believe was in the Signals Regiment in WW2. He is the Grandfather of Emma Thomas who has asked me to help her trace her Grandad.
Any information would be most welcome.
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Flt/Sgt. Ronald Thomas . Royal Air Force 115 Squadron (d.31st March 1944) Doing a ride in the country with my bicycle, I suddenly saw a kind of monument situated between a little earth road and a field. It was a very beautiful sunny day and I was particularly happy on my bicycle, so I decided to have a look at that monument lost in the middle of nowhere. There was a panel on the wall on which it was written :
In Memory of:
- F/Sgt Ronald Thomas
- F/Sgt Dennis Atkinson
- Sgt Robert F. Taylor
- Sgt James Kensett
- Sgt Frank Haawksworth
- Sgt Peter Jack
- Sgt Harry Kendrick
- 115th Squadron of the Royal Air Force
- 31 March 1944
- Bois des 7 Fontaines (that means: Wood of the Seven Fountains which is situated in Belgium, near the little city of Braine l'Alleud (3 km from Waterloo, so not very far from Brussels)
- Ils sont morts pour notre Liberte - They gave their lives for our freedom
So, I unfortunately realized that their plane crashed there when WWII was almost over. Thanks to the sacrifice of those young men (and so many others), I have always been able to live in total freedom and without a swatiska sewed on my suit. Thanks again to all of you, young men. How lucky we have been in Belgium to have England and America (and of course, other countries) who liberated us.
We shall never forget - Never.
I took my bicycle back, it was still hot and sunny, but I was rather sad about what I learned some moments before.
God bless you all.
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Cpl. Sidney John "Taffy" Thomas . British Army 4th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders from Swansea My father, Sidney John Thomas, joined the TA prior to World War II and found himself a Welshman in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. He was part of the BEF sent to France at the start of the war and was captured at St Valery on 12 June 1940. The Battalion was covering the evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk. My father, like the rest of the 51st Division, spent the remainder of the war in prisoner of war camps across Europe. His experiences, and those of his colleagues, were recorded in a meticulously kept log book which was provided by the YMCA. This log book, which I still have, contains poems, drawing and photographs relating to their years in prisoner of war camps. By 15.07.40 they had been marched across Europe and reached Thorn (Fort XV) in Poland. He spent the next 4 years in Lobsen (22.08.40.), Graudenz (22.04.42), Kulm (03.03.43.)before returning to Thorn (01.04.44)and then being marched to Fallinbostel (Stalag XIB) in Germany, where they arrived on 12th August 1944.
Many POWs contributed to the contents of the log book, they include: G Foot;- H Lowe;
- S M Taff;
- A Macgillvray;
- Nobby King;
- W Drake;
- J Westcott;
- Clifford;
- G Broughton;
- Alfred James;
- Eric J Holmes;
- J Owen;
- S Brands;
- Alex Clarke;
- S A Godfrey;
- J Ludford;
- W Waldack;
- "Wally";
- J Holt;
- B Gurner;
- G E Barder;
- R Wilson;
- Harry Cottle;
- A James;
- C Foot;
- A A Rees;
- F Richmond;
- F MacDonald;
- J Morrison;
- A MacKenzie;
- G MacKenzie;
- R Johnson.
My father survived the war, returning to his home town of Swansea where he lived until his death in 1991.
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L/Cpl Sydney Arthur Thomas . British Army 5th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment from Cambridge (d.7 April 1943)
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Flight Lieutenant T Thomas DFC. RAF 59 Squadron
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TE Thomas . British Army Royal Tank Regiment TE Thomas served with the Royal Tank Regiment 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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Flight Sergeant Theophilus John Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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Sergeant Theophilus Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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Sergeant Theophilus Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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Flight Sergeant Theophilus John Thomas . RAF VR 106 Squadron (d.2nd January 1944) Lancaster JB642 bomber with the 106 Squadron on operation to Berlin, lost on the 2nd of January 1944. JB642 was one of two No.106 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. Airborne 0020 2nd January 1944 from Metheringham. Outbound, crashed at Hoya, a town straddling the Weser, 14 km SSW of Verden. Those killed are buried in Hannover War Cemetery.
At 18, Sgt Withington was amongst the youngest to die on air operations in Bomber Command. P/O F.H.Garnett KIA Sgt D.McLean KIA F/S T.J.Thomas KIA Sgt E.M.J.Pease KIA Sgt E.Edge KIA Sgt J.A.Withington KIA Sgt A.A.E.Elsworthy PoW was interned in Camps 4B/L3, PoW No.269841.
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L/Cpl. Thomas Thomas . British Army 1st Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment from Ferndale, Rhondda Valley, S.Glamorgan, Wales
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Cpl. Thomas Thomas . British Army 1st Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment from Ferndale, South Glamorgan.
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TJ Thomas . British Army TJ Thomas 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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TJ Thomas . British Army TJ Thomas 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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Pte. Victor Albert Thomas . British Army Royal Army Service Corps from St. Leger Crescent, St. Thomas, Swansea Victor Thomas joined the Army Service Corps when he turned 18.
He was sent unprepared and almost unarmed to Crete aged 23 he was captured and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Eastern Germany. In his words:
"We didn't have anything at all to defend the island, we were using rifles from World War One with two rounds each. They captured us and put us in cattle wagons and took us to Germany."
He caught Diphtheria in the camp and became so weak that he couldn't walk or work. He was looked after by New Zealand-born doctor and officer Earl Stevenson-Wright.
He was taken to Berlin with one guard to the hospital. When on the Berlin underground a lady gave him her seat as he could barely stand. She told him that her son was a POW in Canada and hoped people would do the same for him there.
The Germans were going to shoot Uncle Vic due to his repeated escape attempts. Dr. Stevenson-Wright stepped in and told the Germans that Vic was his batman and therefore shouldn't be shot. It worked and he became Dr. Stevenson-Wright's batman from then on until they were moved to separate camps.
He was in the following camps:
- Stalag VIII B (Lamsdorf, Silesia) in October 1941
- Stalag III D (Steglitz, Berlin) in 1941
- Stalag IV G (Ostritz, Saxony) in 1944
He witnessed many things, including seeing a barbed wire compound in a wood where the Germans had herded Russian POWs and left them to starve to death.
He saw the destruction of Leipzig by RAF carpet bombing and told me of the terrible effect it had on the camp guards who lived in the city with their families.
The German guards, despite being short of food for themselves and their families, always passed on the Red Cross parcels to the POWs whenever they occasionally made it through.
He also received food parcels, which arrived addressed from The Cafe. They were really sent by Miss Cascarini in St. Thomas, who did not put her name to them for fear of persecution of her family in Italy.
Almost at the end of the war they were marched Westwards, guarded by very jumpy Hitler Youth. He managed to slip away with another POW and head towards the Western Allied lines. Whilst hiding in a barn an American plane strafed them, killing his companion right at the end of the war. Upon being liberated he spent many months in hospital recovering from his ordeals and severe malnutrition.
After the war he re-visited Germany several times, to meet some of the Germans who despite everything had been kind to him. He never had a bad word to say about Germans in general, just specific people there who behaved extremely badly.
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Pilot Officer W J Thomas . 59 Squadron
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Pte. Walter Thomas . British Army Royal Army Service Corps Walter Thomas served in Aldershot in 1944 with the RASC. He survived the Second World War and died in 1983. Thank you for your service Walter.
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Pte. Walter Thomas . British Army 7th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders from Bradford (d.15th Feb 1945)
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Sgt. Wayne K. Thomas . United States Army 1st Army Engineers I am looking for information on Sgt. Wayne K. Thomas, US Army, 1st Army Engineers.
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Wilfred Thomas . British Army Black Watch I am looking for any one who can help tell me anything about Stalag Va,
my father, Wilfred Thomas was a prisoner there,he was in the blackwatch. I have photos of him there
and letters. I would also like to know if there are any trips to this camp.
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Cpl. Wilfred Owen Thomas . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers from Neath, South Wales (d.11th Nov 1944) I don't know a huge amount about Wilfred Owen Evans, Just that he was my Great Uncle on mum's side. He was serving in Italy in 1944 with the Royal Fusiliers 2nd Battalion and whilst on patrol came under fire. He was apparently the last JNCO killed in the Battalion in Italy. The patrol despatched to look for Wilf's patrol also came under fire. The Lt and Sgt killed in the subsequent action were the last Officer and SNCO killed.
If anyone can expand on this, or if anyone knew Wilf Thomas.I'd love to hear from you
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Rifleman William D. Thomas . Canadian Army Royal Winnipeg Rifles from Winnipeg (d.8th June 1944)
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Pte. William Thomas . British Army 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment from Middlesbrough (d.30th May 1940) Willy Thomas of 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment died during the evacuation to Dunkirk, presumed by Artillery shrapnel.
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Cmdr. William Scott Thomas DSO.. Royal Navy HMS Flycatcher
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Sgt Thomas. . RAF 608 Sqd (d.2nd Aug 1941 )
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Sgt William Frank Thomas. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.13th Jul 1943) Bomb Aimer William Thomas was killed on 13th July 1943 in Lancaster LM328 GZ-F2 of 12sqd
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Ange Thomaso . Ange Thomasco was a POW and was one of many POWs who were on a train on 28 January 1944 having been evacuated in anticipation of the Allied advance. They had mainly come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, 35 kilometres to the north of Rome. The Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, became the site of the inadvertent bombing by the American 320th Bombardment Group. One of the men on the train, Richard Morris of the U.S. Army, wrote that the train was halted on the bridge over the river when the Allied bombs started to fall, and that the German guards fled the train, leaving the prisoners locked inside. Many escaped, Morris included, through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. Historian Iris Origo wrote that 450 were killed when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river.
Described by hospital authorities as Mauritanian. He survived the wreck with wounds to his head and left hand and was sent to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
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Warrant Officer Albert Thomason . RAF 57 Squadron I am looking for information about my uncle, Niels Christian Evensen, shot down near Dieppe, France on 17/12/1944. Is there anyone who remembers him?
The crew were:
Capt N.C.Evensen RNAF
F/S W.G.Gulliksen RNAF
F/O John Roger Garling RAF, 154595 (name on Runnymede Memorial)
Sgt H.G.Bjoroy RNAF
W/O Albert Thomason RAF VR 1117171 (buried Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery)
Sgt A.R.Powell RCAF
Sgt D.S.Scott RAF
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Roy Thompkins . I refer to the note on Thomas Lawrence Williams being rescued from the Orama and taken prisoner, being held in Stalag 13A page.
My late father Roy Tompkins was also rescued from the Orama, and taken prisoner.
I would be interested to hear from anyone else, or relatives or friends of anyone who was also rescued from the Orama.
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Sgt. Thompson . British Army Pioneer Corps Sgt Thompson, Pioneer Corps survived the sinking of the Lancastria.
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