Sgt. John Walter Webster . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 207 Sqdn. (d.2nd March 1943) Sgt Webster was a member of the crew of Lancaster ED533 EM-N which was lost on the night of 2nd/3rd March 1943. The full crew were:
Sgt R Isaacs, RAFVR
Sgt R Brown, RAFVR, Flt. Eng.
F/O GA Bissett, RAFVR
F/S KG Peters, RAFVR
Sgt WO Shelley, RAFVR, Wop/AG
Sgt JW Webster, RAFVR
F/O FB Hawkins, RAAF
The Lancaster had taken off at 1833 from Langar to lay mines in French waters. It was presumed lost over the sea. Sgt Brown, whose body was washed ashore on 27th May 1943, is buried in the Department of Basses-Pyrenees at Biarritz (du Sabrou) Communal Cemetery. The others have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. F/O Bisset was a graduate from Aberdeen University.
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Spr. John Webster . British Army 91 Field Coy. Royal Engineers from Aberdeen (d.1st January 1945) John Webster was the son of John and Williamina Webster of Aberdeen, husband of Helen Webster of Aberdeen.
He was 34 when he died and is buried in the Druten Protestant Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands.
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W/O. Lindsay "Buzz" Webster . Royal Air Force 10 Sqd. (d.5th March 1945)
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LR Webster . British Army LR Webster 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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Maurice Webster . Maurice was a POW who was shot for being cheeky to a guard.
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AC2. Peter Davis Webster . Royal Air Force 37 Squadron from Easington, East Yorks After Wireless Operator training at Yatesbury from October to December 1940, Peter Webster went to West Freugh on a Gunnery Course. Eventually Peter joined 37 Squadron, had a little adventure over the Med and the Sahara.
Peter undertook an early cruise around the med in a small dinghy with 5 other chaps. Spending 10 days adrift (a record at the time). Another record was in gathering five Royal Navy Destroyers to rescue him. He eventually boarded HMS Kimberley. Unfortunately two of the crew swam towards the Destroyers and were never seen again. This episode landed Peter in the Goldfish Club. A little while later he and the crew of his Wellington had to bale out over the Sahara and had a long walk home back to their lines. For this Peter joined the Caterpillar Club and the Late Arrivals Club. Peter survived the War and lived in Easington until the grand old age of 87.
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R Webster . British Army East Lancashire Regiment R Webster served with the East Lancashire 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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R Webster . British Army Highland Light Infantry R Webster served with the Highland Light Infantry 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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R. G. Webster . Royal Air Force RAF Upper Heyford R.G. Webster was stationed at Upper Heyford during 1943.
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Sgt Robert Ernest Webster . British Army 307 Coy. Workshops Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers from Barrow-in-Furness My father, as above, now sadly deceased, talked very little about his war. I know he was in Egypt and in charge of a REME Workshop. But he has no campaign medals and we have no photos. I understand he was originally in the RAF but transfered when the REME was started. I would love to hear from anyone who knew him.
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Robert Henry Webster . Royal Navy HMS Indomitable Robert served on HMS Indomitable during WW2. I just want some info or pictures. He was my grandfather. Unfortunately, he died in 1996 and didn't like talking about the war.
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Flt.Lt. Robert George Webster DFC.. Royal New Zealand Air Force 70 Squadron from Sydney Australia
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Sidney Webster . Royal Air Force 32 OTU
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Stkr. Thomas Webster . Royal Navy HMS Repulse from Widnes My uncle Tom Webster was on HMS Repulse which had docked in Mombasa. He, along with some others, were transferred to HMS Ceres on which he served until 1944. Then he served on HMS Zealous until the end of the war. Repulse was sunk by the Japanese air force.
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W Webster . British Army Gordon Highlanders W Webster served with the Gordon Highlanders 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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WC Webster . British Army Royal Artillery WC Webster served with the Royal Artillery 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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Pvt William Barr Webster . British Army Ayrshire Yeomanry from Glasgow My Dad, Willie Webster was called up 1940, first stop Maryhill Barracks in Glasgow.
Dad confirmed he was a Lorry Driver in Civies but the Army, being the Army, made him a signaler.
Attached to the Ayrshire Yeomanry, he saw action in Sicily, Italy and North Africa. He was involved in blocking Jerry at the Kasserine Pass, where he always said we stopped the rout with smaller guns than the Yanks going the other way!
I always loved the stories he told, he was very matter of fact, no heroics just human stories about his life as a soldier in WW11.
After seeing the movie "To Hell and Back" with me as a kid, which was about Audie Murphy,American's most decorated soldier, Dad realised that Murphy had paralled his tour in Italy but mentioned he'd never heard of this hero!
Out pinching eggs with a Yorkshire pal one night, they came across an immaculate Jerry Officier, who pulled out his side arm. Dad, nor the Yorkie, didn't have a pea shooter between them and thought their number was up...until the Jerry offered surrender and passed over his side arm....seems he'd only landed recently with German Youth and realised the game was coming to a close...he could tell Dad was a Jock and his pal was a Bradford man as he'd spent time in the UK before the War at University. Apart from relief, Dad's immediate reaction was joy contemplating how much the side arm was worth to the next Yank!
The stories seemed endless and were repeated time and time again to my delight. I used to rib him about never seeing an angry German. As time has gone by and I've experienced more of the world and had time to think about it, who the hell did I think I was, if I could only take these words back, he was a hero and the truth is they were all heros in the every true sense of the word!!
I miss you Dad.
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ATW Wedd . British Army ATW Wedd 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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Sgt Brian Walter Edward Wedderburn. . Royal Air Force 76 sqd (d.17th Apr 1943 )
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PFC. John W Wedekind . US Army 317 Infantry Regiment from Clarion County PA Mr. Wedekind attended my church when I was a boy. He and his wife Loretta were friends of my parents, and I was friend of their only child Terry.
The only thing I know about his service is that he had been a prisoner of war in Germany. I found today on the internet that he was in Stalag 2A from 17th September 1944 to 17th October 1945.
Mr. Wedekind passed several years ago, as did his son Terry, but Loretta Is still living in Clarion County PA (as of June 2014)
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Pte. Francis Maude Wedgbury . British Army 8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment from Redditch My father, Frank Wedgbury was captured near Dunkirk on the morning of 2nd June 1940, which was his 21st birthday. I believe he was one of the few survivors of B Company, 8th Worcesters, who fought the rearguard at Bambecque. He spent the remainder of the war in Stalag 344 (previously VIIIB)in Poland, and was liberated in May 1945
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Gdsmn. James Wedlock . British Army Scots Guards from 7 Home Farm Row, Hamilton James Wedlock enlisted in the Scots Guards on the 8th of April 1940. I am a 2nd cousin to him, and am still researching his military service.
What I do know is that he became a POW at Anzio in 1944, and was incarcerated originally at Stalag 4B for 1 month, February to March 1944. He was moved to Stalag Thorn 357 for a period of 5 months from March to August 1944. Finally interred at Fallingbostel, also named Stalag XIB from August to April.
Upon his liberation in April 1945, he reported that he suffered from pneumonia for 6 weeks during his incarceration.
He married Margaret Gormley during his service in 1941.
James is the son of Richard Wedlock and Elizabeth McMillan
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Kenneth "Twitch" Wedlock . Royal Air Force 121 Squadron from London Kenneth Wedlock, my father, served with 121 Squadron (Eagle Squadron American Volunteers) from 1939 until the squadron was absorbed into US Airforce in 1941. He transferred to 256 Squadron until end of WWII serving in UK, Malta, North Africa and Italy. He was an electrical aircraft fitter.
After WWII he became a CAA licenced electrical engineer for BEA at Northolt then Heathrow. He left BEA due to lack of promotion and became a black cab driver in London retiring when he was 85.
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Pte. Beng Swee Wee . British Army Straits Settlement Volunteer Force from Singapore
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Eric Rudolph Weeden-Roberts . Civil Defence ARP from 28 Hawkesfield Rd, Forest Hill, London My father, Eric Weeden-Roberts, served in the ARP in the Forest Hill area of south London, whilst my mother and sister - and eventually, I - lived in the country away from the bombing. Our house was hit with an incendiary bomb. My father slept downstairs on a camp bed, at the ready to go out when needed. Like many people of his generation he didn't speak much of his war-time experiences, but it was always assumed that being in the ARP was often more dangerous than serving in one of the three services. I wish I knew more.
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R. F. Weedon . 100 Squadron
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Arnold "Fred" Weekes . Royal Navy HMS Nelson I don't know if anyone can help, but I have been working with a gentleman who served on HMS Nelson, Mr. Arnold Weekes (Age 92 known as Fred). I would like to know if there is any information anyone can give me on the ship or contacts who may remember Mr. Weekes. I would love to be able to pass on any information to this gentleman who fondly remembers his sea going days. Any info I could pass on to Mr. Weekes would be gratefully received.
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Pte. Frank Edward Maurice Weekes . British Army Royal West Kent Regiment My father Frank Weekes was a dispatch rider. He escaped from France via Boulogne at the retreat. Later back in UK the West Kents were on the move to Italy though they did not know that. My father was riding in the column when a doctor came out of his drive and drove over my father. He spent 3 yrs in hospital, eventually losing a leg and that was the end of his war. Ironically not many came back from the Italian campaign so losing a leg but staying alive was maybe not such a bad deal.He didn't speak much of the war except to say he saw things that no-one should have to see.
I still have his riding helmet, gloves and goggles which will be passed down through the generations with his story. He died many years ago but I know he remained sad as to the loss of his friends from boyhood days spent in Higham Kent.
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S/Sgt. Weeks . British Army Royal Army Medical Corps My father was captured when Crete fell and was in Stalag VIIIB. He was a S/Sgt in the RAMC. He was repatriated in late 43/early 44 with an exchange of prisoners. I would like to find any others and the reason father was chosen. Perhaps because he was in the RAMC accompanying the sick?
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Pte. Harry John Weeks . Army 2 Motorboat Company RASC from Kent (d.4th Aug 1943) I discovered some pictures and info in my Gran's bits and peices about two of her brothers who were killed in WW2. I would appreciate any info on Harry Weeks or just about his unit, no 2 or no 247 motorboat company. Thanks in hope and anticipation
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