Pte. Joseph Vivers . British Army Seaforth Highlanders from Clarencefield, Dumfriesshire My dad, Joseph Vivers served with the Seaforth Highlanders in India, Singapore, and Java. At the end of the war he was a prison guard at Java jail guarding Japanese prisoners of war.
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PO. Albert Vivian . Royal Navy HMS Dorsetshire My grandfather served on HMS Dorsetshire and was Petty Officer Albert Vivian. He was involved in the Bismarck pursuit and was onboard when the Devonshire was destroyed, on Easter Sunday, 5th of April 1942.
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P/O. Edward Douglas Vivian . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 50 Squadron (d.12th July 1941) Edward Vivian served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in WW2 flying with 50 Squadron.
His plane crashed in the vicinity of Veensloot, near Veendam, on the night of 12th of July 1941. The target for that night was Bremen. All of the crew of this plane were killed and they are buried in the local cemetery at Veendam. Vivian came from South Africa. He was 26 years old.
Son of Edward Valentine Vivian and Florence Muriel Vivian of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
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Sgt. Ronald Vivian DFM.. RAFVR 9 Squadron Ronald Vivian was an Air Gunner in Wellington bombers and was based at Honington in Suffolk. And on the night of 11th of January 1941 as part of a 6 member crew took off for a bombing mission to Turin.
Aircraft WS- R1224 was forced to land near Miserieux in France and all the crew were uninjured however they were all interned. Five of the grew managed to escape and eventually returned to the UK and took place in further operations.
Sgt Vivian was awarded the DFC on 25th September 1942 was promoted reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant.
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AC Vizor . British Army AC Vizor 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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AG Vizor . British Army AG Vizor 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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RH Vizor . British Army RH Vizor 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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. Theodore Vlok . Royal Air Force 37 Squadron from Piketberg, Cape, South Africa (d.6th July 1944) My uncle Theo Vlok, who I never met since he was killed in action at age 22 in Italy in 1944 before I was born, was like me a South African, and served in the RAF although he received his flight training at Lyttelton near Pretoria, at East London and Youngsfield in the Cape from 1941.
He was apparently very popular and talented as a navigator in Lancaster and Wellington bombers. His squadron was based in a castle in Foggia, South Italy, from where they carried out bombing raids into Northern Italy and Austria. He was there from March 1944 till his death in a bombing sortie over Vienna, Austria in early July 1944.
His Wellington was shot down by a German fighter after successfully dropping their bombs on a German airfield, and went down in flames with only one survivor, the wireless operator Jimmy Mitchell, who managed to bale out. Charlie Keighly was apparently the pilot, and Andy Andrews the co-pilot.
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RA Voaden . British Army Inns Of Court Regiment RA Voaden 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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Les Voase . British Army Royal Army Service Corps Les Voase joined the RASC as a driver early in the war and was commissioned in May 1943 into the RASC before transferring to the King's Own Scottish Borderers in May 1945. While he was with the RASC he worked on tank transporters and he may have been involved in taking the surrender of u-boats in Scotland at the end of the war.
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F/Lt. R. Voase-Jeff . 87 Squadron (d.11th Aug 1940)
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Ronald "Bill" Voce . Royal Air Force 248 Sqdn. My father, Ronald `Bill' Voce was a navigator with 248 Sqdn, based at Banff and Portreath during WWII.
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Sidney Edward Voce . British Army Wiltshire Regiment from Salisbury, Wiltshire Sidney Voce served with the Wiltshire Regiment and the Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery.
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Ed Voelkl . United States Army 119th Anti-Artillery
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Capt. Antoni Henryk Voellnagel . Royal Air Force 138 Sqdn. (d.21st April 1942) 138 Squadron flew on Special Operations duties in WWII, and lost an aircraft on 21st April 1942 over Austria. The crew were:
Wing Co W.R. Farley DFC, RAF (2nd pilot)
F/O J.A. Pulton, RAFVR (airgunner)
F/O R. Zygmuntowicz, PAF (pilot)
Sgt C. Madracki, PAF (navigator)
F/Sgt B Karbowski, PAF (rear gunner)
Capt. A.H. Voellnagel, RAF
Sgt L. Wilmanski, PAF (airbomber)
Sgt M. Wojciechowski, PAF (wop/airgunner)
All the crew were buried in Durnbach War Cemetery, Collective Grave 9.H.20-24.
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Private Kenneth George Voisin . British Army 1st Battalion Cameron Highlandeers from St Helier, Jersey & Barnsley This is a brief outline of the story of my Uncle's war.
He was evacuated from Jersey in the Channel Islands with his brother, mother, grandmother and some cousins. They reportedly saw the little ships on their way to evacuate Dunkirk as they crossed over to England.They had left everything they owned behind, including a family business.
They were put into a basement of a church hall in Barnsley in Yorkshire until they were able to find somewhere to live.
My Uncle then joined the Army. I am unsure when or where but he was in the Highland Light Infantry at one point. He was then transferred to the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. I am now going to type information from a very basic embarkation diary that he kept (not for very long) at the beginning of his journey to Japan.
Thursday May 3rd 1945
Left Ayr, caught train for Greenoch and then joined ship on the Clyde (SS Corfu).
Friday 4th May
Still in the Clyde, awaiting rest of Convoy, beginning to settle down aboard
Saturday 5th May
Rest of convoy arriving and getting ready for sailing. Just before midnight sailed out of Clyde.
May 6th Sunday
On the way now but can still see England in the distance.
May 7th Monday
V.E. Day announced on the wireless for tomorrow. Sea very rough and not feeling too good.
May 8th Tuesday
V.E. Day. Churchill and King speak over ship's wireless. Sea still as rough.
May 9th Wed.
No work today and we are allowed 1 pint of beer to celebrate V.E. Day but did not feel too good to drink it all.
May 10th Thursday
nothing much to say only that sea is not quite so bad but still no sign of land. Drew weeks rations - 140 cigs, 4 bars chocolate, 7 packets of biscuits - 4/4d
May 11th Friday
Land at last.We sailed into Gibraltar for a few minutes and left most of convoy. Entered Mediteranean.
May 12th Saturday
Sailed past (Oman?) and Algiers in North Africa. Sea as calm as a lake and getting warm.
May 13th Sun
Passed (Bizerta?) and Cape Bon. Weather very hot.
May 14th
Passed Malta at 3 am and Tunis in evening. Sailing right along North African coast.
May 15th
Changed into tropical kit. Passed (Derna?) early this morning.
Sadly he did not continue with his diary.
By 1946 he was in Japan. I have to do more research to identify where he was in the interim but at Christmas 1946 he was at Kochi. Once I have furtherinformation I will update his story.
I have a few interesting pieces from his time in Japan. before and after the bomb pictures, instruction cards about interacting with locals, silk handkerchiefs, a saki barrel and lots of photographs.
He was a lovely man. Sadly he had no children of his own.
But the war had a huge impact on him from a young age.
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Leanord Vokey . Royal Navy HMS Forfar
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W/O Reginald Ernest Vokey . Royal Canadian Air Force 415 Sqdn. from Quebec (d.18th February 1943) Hampden AE 435 "U" (415) crash Docking
This Hampden was based at Thorney Island (east of Portsmouth, Hampshire) serving in No. 415 Squadron RCAF in Coastal Command. At the time of its loss, it was operating out of the Coastal Command airfield at RAF Docking. The Hampden took off at 2030 hours on 18th February 1943 for an operation against German shipping off Iymuiden, Holland. It immediately crashed on take-off near to Docking railway station. There were no survivors from the crew of four and they were buried in St Mary's Church Cemetery, Great Bircham, Norfolk, a short distance from RAF Docking. The aircraft was acting as a torpedo bomber in its Coastal Command anti-shipping role, and the area was quickly evacuated because it had an unexploded torpedo on board. The crew were:
W/O2 (Warrant Officer Grade 2) P.B. Campbell, Pilot, RCAF
Flying Officer K. R. Maffre, Observer, RCAF
W/O2 R.E. Vokey, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RCAF
W/O2 Z.M. Niblock, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, RCAF.
Hampden AE 435 was one of a batch of 425 B1 aircraft manufactured by English Electric Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire and would have been converted to a TB1 (Torpedo Bomber) for use within Coastal Command when the squadron converted to Hampdens in January 1942. As a B1 aircraft it may have seen service operationally with a Bomber Command squadron.
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Staff Sergeant Edward Volberding . My Grandfather, Staff Sargeant Edward Volbering, was captured at Kasserine, was interned at Stalag 2b and then escaped during the Death March. He and a couple others were able to make it to a farm where they hid in a compartment underneath the floor boards of a barn. That night a Panzer scouting group came and parked in the barn and spent the night with them right over their heads. That day the tanks left and Ed and his buddies thought things were a little suspicious so they moved up to the loft of the barn. Sure enough the Panzers came back that night and they found the compartment where my grandfather was the night before, but they didn't check the loft. The next day the Panzers left and it was another day or so before Ed and his buddies again heard tanks. This time they were ours and my Grandfather was rescued. Any information that anyone can find about the inner workings of Stalag 2b would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You for putting this website together.
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Lt(jg). William Albert "Bill" Volbers . United States Navy from Erie, Pennsylvania
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John Volkes . Royal Canadian Air Force W/op airgunner. 419 (Moose) Sqd. from Chatham, Ontario
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D Volley . British Army D Volley 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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H. J. Voorspuy . Royal Air Force No. 320 (Netherlands) Squadron RAF from Holland On 18th March 1944 the RAF irccraft, a Mitchell FR177 of 320 squadron, was hit by flak near Abbeville, France. It ditched into the sea at 13:14 hrs (GMT) at 50'21N - 00'45E.
Crew Members were:
- H.J. Voorspuy
- Sgt. J. Vink
- Cpl. K.F. Van Nouhuys
- Cpl. M. Engelsma
All saved by ASR Walrus.
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EK Vose . British Army 3rd Dragoon Guards EK Vose served with the 3rd Dragoon Guards 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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GE Vose . British Army GE Vose 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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W Vose . British Army W Vose 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: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch 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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PO Stanislav Vouk . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 351 (Yugoslavian) Sqdn. from Yugoslavia (d.20th Oct 1944) Pilot Officer Stanislav Vouk is buried in the Dunta Doli Civil Cemetery in Croatia.
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Marine. Vowell . Royal Marines 45 Commando Dad joined the Marines 22/8/1938 was posted to H.M.S. Columbo 30/7/1939 and was at Gibraltar when War was declared. It was then sent to the Denmark Strait looking for German ships, while there they captured the german ship Henning Oldendoff on the 17/11/1939. Dad was posted to H.B.L. R.M. Brigade 1/4/1940 then onto 45 Commando 11/8/1943 finally from September 1943 to June 1946 he was Combined operations (H.M.S. C.O.P.R.A.) He was released to Fleet Reserve March 1950.
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