Did any of your family serve during ww2, if so what did they do?

nickc · 12-04-2006, 12:58 PM

Did any of your family serve during ww2, if so what did they do?

I thought this maybe interesting information worth documenting, research or for general purpose, I visit this site and others regularily because of an interest in WW2, and this is because i am proud i had family who served . So i will kick it off with mine.

Grandfather(mothers side) 79th Armoured Div (1st Fife&Forfar Yeomanry)Crocodile tank operator Sept '44 france

Great Uncle(Fathers side) Captain in Royal Signal Corps India/HQ British Liberation Army Signals.

ok i hope this works , if any one wants to add to this then please do so.

39thmilitia · 12-04-2006, 01:27 PM

Mother's father. RAAF instructor pilot. No action.
Mother's side, not sure who. Killed at Tobruk.
Father's father. Captured at Singapore.

All Australians.

spidge · 12-04-2006, 01:35 PM

Good post. I will put a bit in when I get a bit more time.

Jim Clay · 12-04-2006, 01:57 PM

Quick answer - yes.

More detailed answer:

Dad - RAPC and Signals (driver) - no combat; with occupying forces Holland/Germany 45/46.
Dad's brother - RAF ground crew, UK
Dad's other brother - dunno
Dad's brother-in-law - dunno

Mum's brother - KOYLI, KIA Italy 1944
Mum's other brother - RA I think, then joined Commandoes (fought at Hill 170, Burma, 1945)
Mum's 2 brothers-in-law - one was a regular pre-war; dunno regiments.

Jim

plant-pilot · 12-04-2006, 02:27 PM

Most notable was my Uncle. Served on long range patrols in the North African desert, although has never said that he was LRDG, so I am assuming that there were other groups or units that took part in that sort of operation.

Volunteered for the Parachute Regiment whilst in the far east and was on para cse 78 at Kabrit on 29/10/43 and eventually jumped into Arnhem on the second lift with 11 Bn. Shot under canopy and captured as soon as he hit the ground. He had the POW number 075326 and went to Stalag 12A and is reported to have been moved to Stalag 11A.

Once his injuries had healed sufficiently he escaped captivity with a friend from a POW camp near Nieheim and hid in a small village called Pömbsen near Bad Driburg, with the help of two teenage farm girls. There they remained within the view of a German observation tower visible through the barn window, until liberated by the arrival of American forces.

He's 12 foot tall in my eyes and you'll never have anyone prouder of their uncle than me.

Gnomey · 12-04-2006, 02:35 PM

Yes.

Grandfather (Dad's side) - RN - Arctic Convoys
Grandmother (Dad's side) - Womens RN (can't remember the name)
Grandmother (Dad's side) Brother - KIA - I think in Burma
Great-Grandfather (Mum's side) - Time & Life War Correspondent (and maybe MI5)
Other Great-Grandfather (Mum's side) - MI6 - Germany
Grandparents (Mum's side) - Both too young to serve

redrat · 12-04-2006, 03:32 PM

a relitive of my grandads was in burma in 1943s i think , he was in the royal west kents , he died fighting japs on the tennise courts at rangoon we belive.

Ali Hollington · 12-04-2006, 04:52 PM

You might find he was at Kohima and or the battles at Imphal. From memory the RWK where at Kohima and the battle was fought over areas including a tennis court.

Regards

Ali

morse1001 · 12-04-2006, 05:25 PM

Two uncles in law both served with the same LRDG then Italy and Up to Austria.

On fathers side, uncles fought with the RAF in both aircrew and Groundcrew.

Father served with Home Guard from start to finish.

One aunt Joined Naafi and landed in France in June 1944 as part of EFI.

Mark Hone · 12-04-2006, 05:42 PM

My Dad was conscripted in 1942, served on an AA battery at Gravesend before joining the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in Burma, fighting in Field Marshal Bill Slim's masterly 1944-45 campaign which inflicted the biggest defeat suffered by the Japanese army in the Second World War.

12-04-2006, 12:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
nickc Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 62	Did any of your family serve during ww2, if so what did they do? Did any of your family serve during ww2, if so what did they do? I thought this maybe interesting information worth documenting, research or for general purpose, I visit this site and others regularily because of an interest in WW2, and this is because i am proud i had family who served . So i will kick it off with mine. Grandfather(mothers side) 79th Armoured Div (1st Fife&Forfar Yeomanry)Crocodile tank operator Sept '44 france Great Uncle(Fathers side) Captain in Royal Signal Corps India/HQ British Liberation Army Signals. ok i hope this works , if any one wants to add to this then please do so. __________________ Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." Last edited by nickc; 12-04-2006 at 05:33 PM.

12-04-2006, 01:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,025	Good post. I will put a bit in when I get a bit more time. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

12-04-2006, 01:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
Jim Clay Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 251	Quick answer - yes. More detailed answer: Dad - RAPC and Signals (driver) - no combat; with occupying forces Holland/Germany 45/46. Dad's brother - RAF ground crew, UK Dad's other brother - dunno Dad's brother-in-law - dunno Mum's brother - KOYLI, KIA Italy 1944 Mum's other brother - RA I think, then joined Commandoes (fought at Hill 170, Burma, 1945) Mum's 2 brothers-in-law - one was a regular pre-war; dunno regiments. Jim Last edited by Jim Clay; 12-04-2006 at 02:19 PM.

12-04-2006, 02:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
plant-pilot Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 989	Most notable was my Uncle. Served on long range patrols in the North African desert, although has never said that he was LRDG, so I am assuming that there were other groups or units that took part in that sort of operation. Volunteered for the Parachute Regiment whilst in the far east and was on para cse 78 at Kabrit on 29/10/43 and eventually jumped into Arnhem on the second lift with 11 Bn. Shot under canopy and captured as soon as he hit the ground. He had the POW number 075326 and went to Stalag 12A and is reported to have been moved to Stalag 11A. Once his injuries had healed sufficiently he escaped captivity with a friend from a POW camp near Nieheim and hid in a small village called Pömbsen near Bad Driburg, with the help of two teenage farm girls. There they remained within the view of a German observation tower visible through the barn window, until liberated by the arrival of American forces. He's 12 foot tall in my eyes and you'll never have anyone prouder of their uncle than me. __________________ M3... the ship of the desert 2003

12-04-2006, 02:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
Gnomey Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 2,957	Yes. Grandfather (Dad's side) - RN - Arctic Convoys Grandmother (Dad's side) - Womens RN (can't remember the name) Grandmother (Dad's side) Brother - KIA - I think in Burma Great-Grandfather (Mum's side) - Time & Life War Correspondent (and maybe MI5) Other Great-Grandfather (Mum's side) - MI6 - Germany Grandparents (Mum's side) - Both too young to serve __________________ "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum

12-04-2006, 01:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
39thmilitia Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 76	Mother's father. RAAF instructor pilot. No action. Mother's side, not sure who. Killed at Tobruk. Father's father. Captured at Singapore. All Australians.

12-04-2006, 03:32 PM	#7 (permalink)
redrat Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: durham Posts: 21	a relitive of my grandads was in burma in 1943s i think , he was in the royal west kents , he died fighting japs on the tennise courts at rangoon we belive.

12-04-2006, 04:52 PM	#8 (permalink)
Ali Hollington Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 153	You might find he was at Kohima and or the battles at Imphal. From memory the RWK where at Kohima and the battle was fought over areas including a tennis court. Regards Ali

12-04-2006, 05:25 PM	#9 (permalink)
morse1001 Very Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland Posts: 4,585	Two uncles in law both served with the same LRDG then Italy and Up to Austria. On fathers side, uncles fought with the RAF in both aircrew and Groundcrew. Father served with Home Guard from start to finish. One aunt Joined Naafi and landed in France in June 1944 as part of EFI.

12-04-2006, 05:42 PM	#10 (permalink)
Mark Hone Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bury, Lancashire, England Posts: 297	My Dad was conscripted in 1942, served on an AA battery at Gravesend before joining the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in Burma, fighting in Field Marshal Bill Slim's masterly 1944-45 campaign which inflicted the biggest defeat suffered by the Japanese army in the Second World War. __________________ In memory of Corporal Jack Hone (1923-2004), proud 14th Army 'Steelback'.

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