John Toole . British Army
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Peter Toolen . Army Royal Artilliery I am trying to find some information about my father, Peter Toolen, who served in WW2 in the Royal Artilliery (a radio operator, I believe). He was captured in Egypt and taken to a POW camp in Italy. I do not know much else about him except that he escaped when the Italians surrendered. My father died in 1965 and I am trying to find out his story.
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L/Bmbdr. Michael Tooley . British Army 8th Coast Regiment, 30th Bty. Royal Artillery from Eccles, Lancashire (d.2nd Oct 1942) My Uncle Michael Tooley died on the Japanese POW ship the Lisbon Maru which was torpedoed by the US submarine Grouper.
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F/O. Paul William Tooley . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 90 Squadron (d.16th September 1944) By chance, I've come across the grave, in Dordrecht Cemetery, southern Netherlands, of Flying Officer Paul Tooley, a distant relation. I know no more than this.
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F/O. Peter William Tooley . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 90 Squadron (d.16th September 1944) On 16th September 1944 Peter Tooley was on a mission in his Lancaster LM169 to Moerdijk in Holland. The plane crashed near Strijen Sas in Holland. His grave is on the cemetery in Dordrecht, Holland.
I would like to contact a member of his family.
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Eric Toombs . British Army Catering Corps Is there anyone left alive who served with the Leicesters and the Sherwood Foresters in WWII in North Africa, Greece and Italy? My father was in the Catering Corps. Other names we know: Ron Allen, Sgt Arthur Reynolds and Danny Wheatly.
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JH Toombs . British Army JH Toombs 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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WE Toombs . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WE Toombs 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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Gdsmn Gilbert Douglas Toomer . British Army Coldstream Guards from Bournemouth
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Flt.Sgt. Robert E. Toomey . Royal Canadian Air Force 428 Squadron from Ottawa, Canada Flight engineer, Flt.Sgt. Robert Toomey was returning from a bombing raid of the port area of Stettin Germany on 16th/17th August 1944 when the aircraft was shot down into the Baltic Sea off the coast of the Island of Sejero, Denmark. It was his fifth sortie. The aircraft was coded KB751.
He was the only survivor of the crew of seven, and helped to bury his pilot two days later. He was captured, interrogated for three days while suffering from tonsillitis, then transported by train to a prison camp in Bankau (Bakow), Poland.
Conditions in the POW camp were horrible, with little food or medical care. After five months, the prisoners were forced to walk over 250 km in a snow blizzard and below freezing temperatures with very little food, sleeping in barns and factories as the Russians were closing in. This became known as the Long March, Central Route.
Of 1,550 on his route only 720 survived the walk. Many passed away from starvation, fatigue and illness. Soldiers were told they would be shot if they didn't keep up. They arrived at another POW camp at Luckenwalde, just south of Berlin. A friend from Toomey's combine, Percy Crosswell was shot and killed trying to escape this camp.
Unknown to the prisoners, Hitler had signed an order on 22nd of April 1945 that they were to be executed if Germany was forced to surrender. Fortunately, the camp was liberated that month.
Crew of Lancaster X KB751, coded NA-Q
- F/O W. Fairgrieve RCAF
- Sgt R. Toomey RCAF
- F/O L. Brown RCAF
- F/O H. Slater RCAF
- P/O R. Boyce RCAF
- F/O J. Srigley RCAF
- P/O W. Lamb RCAF
C. Lafleur
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CERA. Ernest Harold "Lofty" Toon Croix de Guerre . Royal Navy HMS Lookout from Coventry My story relates to the events involving HMS Lookout on the night of 18th March 1945. The ship was the last survivor of the (Lightning) class fleet destroyers. We had had a busy war, mainly in the Mediterranean in fact I think statistically we were the most heavily bombed of the flotilla to survive the war.
At the end of 1944 life was beginning to quiet down although our major task from then on was to carry out bombardments of the German armies as they marched northwards up the left flank of Italy. The Italians had surrendered and the German activity diminished and by the time we had reached Spezia there was a definite feel of peacetime in the air.
We lay alongside at Spezia and took advantage of the quiet period to tidy up the ship. On the 16th March we sailed to take up a patrol position in the Gulf de Juan. Our captain Lt Cdr Hetherington DSO, DSC and two bars
informed us of our appointed task for the next period.
Because the war had eased to almost zero in Italy our troops were to be transferred from Spezia to Marselles allowing them to join up with our troops in northern France who were pressing on toward Germany.
Information was received that the enemy were in the process of laying mines on the route to be taken for our troop convoys.
Four allied destroyers were to patrol 50 miles apart on the route Spezia to Marseilles, this force known as le Grande Guarde, lookouts position was nearest to Spezia whilst meteor was followed another 50 miles toward Marselles by a French vessel and then the last 50 miles was covered by another Frenchman.
At approximately 0200 hrs we went to action stations, three enemy minelayers had been sited off Spezia. Lookout opened fire with all three turrets firing 4.7inch flashless ammo. The enemy was taken completely by surprise one being sunk by lookout and one being severely damaged by a combined attack from lookout and meteor,the third ran of with tail between its legs and was found within the next few weeks beached and badly bent in Genoa. Was this, the battle of Cape Course, the last firing of naval guns in battle during the war in Europe? Ernest Toon.
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LJ Toon . British Army Inns Of Court Regiment LJ Toon served with the Inns Of Court 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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SJ Toon . British Army 27th Lancers SJ Toon served with the 27th Lancers 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 Toone . British Army F Toone 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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Petty Offcr. Toop . Royal Navy HMS Manchester
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BCW Tooth . British Army Sherwood Foresters BCW Tooth served with the Sherwood Foresters 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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J Toothill . British Army Lancashire Fusiliers J Toothill served with the Lancashire Fusiliers 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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AC2. Frederick Tootle . Royal Air Force 149 Squadron from Liverpool (d.12th April 1940) Frederick Tootle was the son of John and Grace Tootle of Liverpool. He was 19 when he died and is buried in the Falnes Churchyard in Norway.
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MH Toovey . British Army MH Toovey 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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RS Toovey . British Army RS Toovey 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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WO1 Harry Tooze . British Army 1st Battalion Welch Regiment from Salford, England My grandad, Harry Tooze told me that one of his fondest memories of WW2 was when Erwin Rommel visited the camp and he was able to dine with him. I was shocked that he would dine with the enemy. Grandad said he had respect for Rommel as a soldier and considered it an honour to sit at the same table with him.
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WR Tooze . British Army WR Tooze 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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George Topham . Royal Marine Bandsman HMS Penelope from Great Ayton My father George Topham served as a Royal Marine Bandsman on HMS Sheffield and HMS Penelope among other ships. I remember him telling me when they were looking for the Bismarck our own planes tried to torpedo the Sheffield thinking it was the Bismarck. My Father died many years ago.
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F/S J. B. Topham . Royal Air Force pilot 514 Sqd. On the 3rd of August 1944 at 11:58 F/S Topham took off in Lancaster LL716, JI-G2 from RAF Waterbeach to attack a flying-bomb supply facility at Bois de Cassan. The aircraft was shot down at 1410, crashing 10 km south of Beaumont (Oise), France, all the crew survived. Topham evaded capture along with F/S Dennehy, the other's were taken as prisoners of war.
- F/O J.B.Topham
- Sgt J.D.Reid
- F/O S.Baxter
- F/S J.R.McClenaghan
- F/S H.Gilmore
- F/S F.W.Dennehy
- Sgt J.Scully
- W/O W.E.Eyre
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Pte. Leonard Topham . British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment from Birmingham (d.29th July 1941)
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Sgt. David John Topley . Royal Air Force 500 Squadron from Maidstone, Kent My father was known as both Dave and John Topley, he joined up before the start of WW2 as a volunteer at Detling. He was with 500 Squadron at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Coastal Command. I heard stories of the postman waiting for some kippers that Dad had sent home.
He volunteered for a special assignment that took him to North Africa, Italy and to the Balkans as the Flight Engineer for the B-25 Mitchell used by Air Vice Marshall Slessor, who was the Commander of the Allied Air Forces in the Mediterranean and Middle East. He loved that plane, it was polished aluminium, no armaments but quite fast. Dave/John maintained his attachment to 500 Sqadron long after peace returned and he was de-mob'd.
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Harold Topliss . War Office Agriculture Department from North Kelsey Moor Harold Topliss was my father he came from a farming family in Lincolnshire. We don't know much about him during the war other than he was with the War Agriculture based at Boughton Camp moving POW's around to work on farms. This was how he met our mother who was in the Land Army working on a farm at Piddington. During the war he lodged with a family in Lesson Road, Brixworth.
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RC Topliss . British Army Royal Armoured Corps RC Topliss 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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L/Cpl. John Joseph Topping . British Army Royal Signals from Preston, Lancashire Jack Topping served with the Royal Signals.
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C. Toppings . Royal Air Force 226 Sqdn. My great uncle C. Toppings (WO/AG) who was Canadian, and Australian pilot V. Smith along with British bomb aimer S. Burdon were shot down by navy flak on an anti-shipping strike on 26th August 1941 off the coast of Holland. Their plane was Blenheim No. 27305 was stationed at Wattisham.
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