Seaman Thomas Tubman . Royal Navy HMS Capetown (d.16th November 1939) My grandfather, Thomas Tubman, served on HMS Capetown and was killed in 1939. He is buried in Gibraltar. Can anyone tell me how he was killed, what battle took place etc. and what happened to the Capetown?
Update
Capetown was a light cruiser, built by Cammel Laird, launched in 1919.
4290 tons, 425ft x 43ft, armed: 5 x 6in.
Between 1934 and 1938 she was based in the Far East and was then laid up in reserve until 1939 when she was recommissioned in September 1939 and was then based at Gibraltar for service with the Med. Fleet. She escorted a couple of convoys to the eastern Med during mid-1940, but in August 1940 she went to the Far East again and was based at Bombay. She there took part in supporting ops in east Africa, being damaged by a torpedo on 8th April 1941 and was under repair at Bombay until August 1941. She remained in Indian waters until she returned to UK in 1943 from when she was used as an accommodation and depot ship for landing craft; in this role Capetown took part in the D-Day landings. She went into reserve 1944 and was scrapped at Preston in 1946. She did not see any action in 1939, so I would presume that your grandfather died either in an accident or from illness.(David H)
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Jim Tuchen . Royal Air Force 460 Sqd. Jim Tuchen served as a mid upper gunner with 460 Sqd.
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Pte. Harry Arthur Tuck . British Army Attchd. Welch Rgt. Royal Army Service Corps My father, Private Harry Arthur Tuck, served with the Welch Regiment on Crete in 1941 and was wounded and taken prisoner. I think he may have been a bren gun carrier driver as he was RASC, attached to the Welch Regiment. He was a POW in Stalg 8 in Lansdorf and was repatriated in October 1943 via Sweden.
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Sgt. Kenneth Martin Tuck . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 70 Squadron from West Hamstead (d.5th Mar 1942) Kenneth Tuck was the son of Alfred Osman Tuck and Agnes Tuck of West Hampstead, London. He is commemorated at the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.
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Sergeant Reg Tuck. . Royal Air Force 10 Sqd.
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Pte. Albert Adolphus Tucker . British Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from St. Austell, Cornwall (d.5th Oct 1944) My father's Uncle Albert Tucker was in the 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry.
He landed in France in the second wave of the D day landings and fought his way to Arnhem and fought there until he was injured on the 4th October 1944 and died the next day on the 5th. He was a bren gunner and is buried at the Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen Holland.
Is there anyone out there that knows of this man?
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L/Bomb. C. H. Tucker . Bermuda Militia Artillery from Bermuda (d.12th February 1942) Lance Bombardier Tucker is buried in the Pembroke (St John) Churchyard in Bermuda.
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Cpl. David Henry Tucker . British Army 1st Btn. Irish Guards My granddad, David Henry Tucker, was a prisoner of war in Stalag IVB from the time of his capture during the Anzio Landings in Italy until liberation at the end of the war. When I was a child, he talked to me about Red Cross parcels, about the brutality of the Germans, but more of the brutality of the Cossacks. When he spoke about the liberation by the Cossacks he never spoke of his concerns for his own safety - but in terms of the way the Cossacks treated the Germans. In fact, the stories he told of the Cossacks actions towards the Germans gave me nightmares!
I don't know how my Granddad got back to the UK after the liberation - I can't remember the details, but I know he never left the UK again. Nor was he ever hungry again! He was always jolly and very happy to talk about his experiences. I was very young when I asked him about the War and I know he didn't go into any level of detail with me. He died, sadly, in 1985. It was the same year he had planned to go to the re-union of the POW Survivors for Stalag IVB.
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Cpl. David Henry Tucker . British Army 2nd Battalion Irish Guards from Knottingley David Tucker was my granddad, sadly no longer with us. He, too, was a POW in Stalag 4B along with other survivors of the Anzio Landings in Italy. Like the other survivors, when he was captured by the Italian forces they handed them over to the Germans.
He was transported to Stalag 4B (a long long way from Anzio) where he spent the remainder of the war. I don’t remember any stories from the journey, but I remember lots of his stories about the hunger, but despite the hunger still unable to eat a tomato that was smuggled in to his hut from the commandant’s garden. (I have never successfully eaten a tomato without being ill). I also remember his stories of the camp’s liberation by the Cossacks (as he referred to them) and for the vodka they left with the starving POWs.
After he returned to the UK he vowed never to leave the UK again, nor to be hungry again. And, he was true to his word. If anyone remembers him, I would love to hear from you.
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W/O Dennis Arthur Tucker . RAF(VR) pilot 101 Sqd. from Alperton, Wembley, Middlesex. (d.4th Sep 1943)
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Don Tucker . US Navy USS Boise My Uncle Don Tucker, my father Joe Gilliam, his twin brother Warren, all served on the Boise. All three were Radiomen and were ship's company by mid 1941.
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1st Lt. Edwin W. Tucker . US Army 12th Medical Regiment Medical Corps from California After completing my tour of duty with the US Army in Germany in May 1975, I had the honor and pleasure of serving under Dr. Tucker from late 1975 to mid-1977, when I was working as a civilian counselor with the US Army's 5th General Hospital Drug and Alcohol Service in Bad Cannstatt, Germany. Dr. Tucker (also a civilian, but who was a WW2 veteran) was the Chief of Service and a well-known and highly regarded authority in the field of substance abuse treatment.
During one of our many conversations, I recall his telling me that he was serving as a young US Army doctor in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in December 1941. He was taken prisoner at the surrender of US forces there in early April 1942, survived the infamous Bataan Death March to Camp O'Donnell, and was then transferred to the Hakodate POW Camp-Babai on Hokkaido Island, where he was held for the rest of the war.
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EW Tucker . British Army Royal Armoured Corps EW Tucker 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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EW Tucker . British Army Royal Armoured Corps EW Tucker 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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FC Tucker . British Army Royal Armoured Corps FC Tucker 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. George Henry Tucker . Royal Air Force 50 Squadron (d.8th Jul 1944) George tucker served as a flight engineer with 50 Squadron.
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GW Tucker . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment GW Tucker served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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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Chief Yeo Sig Herbert James Francis Tucker . Royal Navy
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Gnr. Leonard "Sam" Tucker . British Army Royal Artillery from London
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Leslie Garfield Tucker . Royal Navy HMS Suffolk from Plymouth, Devon My grandfather, Leslie Tucker was born in May 1924 at Plymouth, Devon, England and died in 1992 in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
Unfortunately our family doesn't have a lot of information as he was sent to the Navy from an orphanage.
What I have been able to gather is that he was on the training ship HM St George on the Isle of Man and then was on HMS Suffolk.
The records had more information to offer on his brother, Ronald Waldron Tucker, who trained at Indefatigable in Liverpool 1936 and joined Bibby line shipping company on SS Cheshire as a deck boy and bugler in 1938.
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RA Tucker . British Army 12th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment RA Tucker served with the 12th Btn. 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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Lt. Reginald Martyn Tucker . British Army 29th Station Transport Company Royal Army Service Corps from Beckenham, Kent My father, Reginal Tucker, was a Lieutant in the RASC during WW2. He did his officer training at Clifton College and I have photographs of him with his platoon on the back of which is stamped '29th Station Transport Company'. He served in North Africa, Italy and Germany - and I think he was at Belsen at some time as it was clearly a scarring memory.
I know little about his wartime service and would love to know more. Does anyone recall him?
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RJ Tucker . British Army Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment RJ Tucker served with the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding 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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Rooseman P. Tucker . United States Army 1056 Engineers (Port Construction & Repair Group) from USA I served in the 1056 Engineers (Port Construction and Repair Group) in WWII. We helped build the railroad bridge over the the Rhine river in April, 1945 in slightly over 10 days.
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Stok1. Edward James Tucker. . Royal Navy HMS Janus (d.9th June 1944) Edward Tucker served in HMS Janus.
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F/Sgt. William John Tucker. . RAAF 12Sqd. (d.15th Jun 1943) Pilot William Tucker of the RAAF died on 15th June 1943 flying Lancaster III W4992 GZ-A Bar with 12sqd
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Pte. Eric Tuckerman . British Army Royal Army Service Corps My StepFather, Eric Tuckerman 4th from right in the middle row. He was a Private in the RASC. My Father, Walter Grant is 5th from right on the top row. He was a Private in the RAOC.
I hope other visitors will find their loved ones on the photograph and possibly put names to faces.
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Pte. Eric Tuckerman . British Army Royal Army Service Corps Pte. Eric Tuckerman, served in the RASC and was in Stalag XXB and became very goods pals with my father Pte Walter Grant, RAOC. When my father married my mother, Stella Arber from Sheffield on 29th December, 1945, Eric was my father's best man. Later, when my father died in 1975, Eric courted my mother and they were married in May 1977. Sadly, Eric died in 1996 and my mother died on Christmas morning 2002. I have put on my webpage a group photograph of Walter, fifth from the right on the top row and Eric fourth from the right on the middle row, when they were in Stalag XXB. There is also a group photograph of Walter second from right middle row when he was in Stalag XXA as well. webpage: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~tuppencechange
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L/Cpl. Archibald Robert Tuckey . 7th Battalion from Brackley, Northants (d.20th November 1944) My brother Archie Tuckey died, aged 24 from injuries sustained, I believe from a land mine. He is buried in Woensel Cemetery, Eindhoven, Holland, I think he was taken to hospital in Eindhoven, as my parents were initially informed that he would be repatriated.
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E Tuckwell . British Army Royal Armoured Corps E Tuckwell 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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