91 results found for: Concentration Camp (Special Medical Teams)
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…England’s declaration of war with Germany. West travelled back to London, and enlisted as a Private, in the Royal Army Medical Corps (to his own dismay as he wanted immediate action in France). He then applied for transfer for several months before being accepted for a commission in the Royal…
…Forced Labour in Germany and a year in Oranienburg Concentration Camp, had been sent back home to die in May 1944, extremely thin and unable to walk, delivered in a barrow. “Boys such as Jan would often take coded messages in a schoolbook on the train to Eindhoven and return…
…H C Upton. “Herbert James Lempriere Hallowes was born in Lambeth, London on 17th April 1912. As a boy he spent three years in the Falklands, where his father was a medical officer. Hallowes was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School at Stratford-upon-Avon. He joined the RAF in…
…whom he saw action in the Battle of France, until he was shot down and wounded on 13 May 1940. After recovery that October, he commanded a flight of No. 421 Flight, specialising in low-level fighter reconnaissance work over the Channel. Following a spell as a Chief Flying Instructor with…
…Captain and was nicknamed “VC Sahib.” In 1964 a medical examination revealed that a large black boil on his leg was, in fact, his body finally ejecting the bullet he had taken that day twenty years earlier. He was given the position of Aide De Camp (ADC) to the President…
…June 1944 transported to Japan in Singapore Maru to Iruka Branch Camp, Nagasaki 4B (Capt. Thornhill commander). The camp was liberated September 1945. Survived.’ (Source: Roll of Honour) The excellent Children Of (& family and friends) of the Far East Prisoners of War (COFEPOW) website continues to tell this underheard…
…the CORPS of ROYAL ENGINEERS, here mainly as a TRANSPORTATION SPECIALIST, firstly for his (& two others, Captain Andrew CROFT and Lt Malcolm MUNTHE, nephew of Axel) Pre-NORWEGIAN CAMPAIGN clandestine INTELLIGENCE gathering on the PORTS and RAILWAYS SYSTEMS in Jan 1940 NORWAY and SWEDEN, crossing over to FINLAND and only…
…pale and skinny kid and his mum thought he would fail the medical, but of course he didn’t.” While working as a trainee pharmacist in Leeds, Lacey learnt to fly with the RAF Volunteer Reserve at weekends and became an instructor at the Yorkshire Flying School in Yeadon in 1938….
…to AUSTRIA. ROYAL IRISH INNISKILLINGS #171 Stanley S PAVILLARD Doctor Stanley S PAVILLARD MBE MC Medical Officer and author of The Bamboo Doctor. Volunteered 1940, in civilian post in Penang, transferred to Singapore, captured 15Feb42. Accompanied 650 prisoners to Burma-Thailand Railway jungle camps. Saved many lives at KAMBURI in SIAM…
…Auxiliary Territorial Service. Margaret Blyth’s brother was Air Marshall Sir John Humphrey Edwardes-Jones, KCB, CBE, DFC, AFC, a senior Royal Air Force commander who conducted early testing of the Spitfire and during The Battle of Britain was a squadron commander. It was through his work as Aide-de-Camp to Sir John…
…known friends who did not survive, indirectly symbolizes their service also at BASTOGNE and in the Battle of the BULGE. Trained at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and via the Tower at Fort Benning with five successful aircraft jumps to qualify for the paratrooper’s wings, In June, 1943 their unit became…
…offs, the civilians were installing special tanks. We flew down on the aircraft we were to use and as volunteers we were selected by Doolittle and Jack Hilger. We were temporarily assigned to ehe Navy – that has never happened since. The navigator got us right in and of course…
…6342 Injured shortly thereafter, he returned to Britain and to Gosport, where he was posted to the School of Special Flying, No.40 Squadron. This was a training course set up by Robert Smith-Barry, using new methods of instruction. It was later to be known as the “Gosport System” and would…
…to return to flying, and was appointed to No 43. “He had an awesome charisma; some sort of special aura seemed to surround him. He was the epitome of leadership, he was a born leader.” After the Battle of Britain, Dalton-Morgan’s primary task was to train new pilots for service…
…for her WW2 service with the ROYAL SIGNALS, ATS, & all, the many teams, mainly of WOMEN, In the WAR OFFICE “Y” GROUP on SIGNALS INTERCEPTION work. She remembers well their Chief calling only a few of them together one day to congratulate them & saying that one of their…
…originally brought up in Las Palmas and in Singapore was Medical Officer to the “Vultures”, the STRAITS SETTLEMENTS VOLUNT£ER FORCE. His book, “The Bamboo Doctor”, describes some of the savagery of the Japanese Imperial Army and the atrocious conditions experienced at the FALL of SINGAPORE, the railroad and march northwards,…
…biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Auxiliary Fire Service, Canadian Airfield Construction RAF Dunsfold, Royal Army Medical Corps, D-Day’s American Lsts & Field Hospitals….
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. From Tver in KALININ; SOVIET ARMY MEDICAL…
…DSM, born in Ramsgate 14 Feb 1919, volunteered in Jun 1939, then a cinema operator, and began his RN training in Nov 1939 (at HMS Royal Arthur, the Butlin’s Camp at Skegness – two to a chalet and six weeks of rifle drill and training). With his “hostilities only” service…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. Volunteer for Special Operations Executive, and widow…
…up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. (son of Viscount Jellicoe: JUTLAND 31 May 1916) Representing COLDSTREAM GUARDS and in memory of Sir David STIRLING, 1 SAS, and the early SPECIAL BOAT SERVICE…
Alan Pollock’s Rough Notes: A work in progress – the fuller biographies will emerge in due course: please sign up to the Newsletter (bottom of the page) and we’ll let you know when we’ve done more justice in writing up our extraordinary signatories. COASTWATCHER”, by special request from SURVIVING BRITISH…
…later RASC & Roval SUSSEX, for GREECE & its loyal FIGHTING SPIRIT and STEADFAST ENDURANCE in OCCUPIED CRETE & its ISLANDS, especially with the terrible reprisals; here also for the SPECIAL BOAT SERVICE OPERATIONS in the AEGEAN, several of which he carried out with and here signs commemoratively for that…
…of No. 39 SQN BLENHEIMS and MARYLANDS, before special training to join the newly formed No.3232 SERVICING COMMANDO UNIT in the MIDDLE EAST, MALTA SICILY & ITALY, where, as first SCU in, they landed at REGGIO 4 Sep 1943 at 0715hrs, soon to service SPITFIRES & USAAF WARHAWKS at SALERNO…