War on Land - Allied: British and Commonwealth

ATS

Sergeant Margaret Halliwell
Sergeant Margaret Halliwell served in the ATS as a telephonist both in the UK and as part of SHAEF in France and Germany.

Army

Private Arthur Barraclough
Arthur Barraclough was captured in Sicily 1943, and was a POW in Italy and Austria.

Captain John Cloudsley-Thompson
John Cloudsley-Thompson was a tank commander with the 4^th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) with extensive experience in North Africa and Italy.

Guardsman William Dexter
A Coldstream Guardsman, Bill was captured in Greece and worked on farms in Austria as a POW.

Lieutenant Desmond F. Earley, Essex Regiment
Lieutenant Desmond Earley of the Essex Regiment served as a member of the second Chindit force in 1944 when the Japanese were making their final assault on India from their position in Burma.

Sir Denis Forman Kt OBE
Sir Denis Forman Kt OBE was a Major in the 6^th Royal West Kents during the Italian campaign, where he, and Lionel Wigram, had the opportunity to test the battle theories they had devised. They fought alongside the Partisans and Forman lost a lower leg during fighting at Monte Cassino.

Private Ronald Hopper
Ron Hopper joined the RASC on 1st September 1939, sent to join the BEF four months later. He was evacuated from Dunkirk and later served in Cyprus, Palestine, Iraq and North Africa where he was captured by the Afrika Corps. There followed periods as a POW in Italy and Germany when light relief was provided from the arduous work in a mining camp by his involvement with 'The Moles' entertainment group.

Gunner Maurice Naylor, CBE
Gunner Maurice Naylor witnessed the fall of Singapore and spent years of captivity in Japanese POW camps in Thailand.

Corporal Peter Peel
Wounded and captured while serving with the 2^nd Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment in Crete, Peter began his POW life working in a quarry in Silesia but managed to be re-allocated a job as a teacher and designer, painter and actor in the repertory theatre.

Signalman Harry Read
Signalman Harry Read was among the 6^th Airborne Division and landed in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

Major John Smale
Major John Smale joined No 3 Commando after returning from Dunkirk. He served on the raids on Guernsey and the Lofoten Islands but was captured at Dieppe. At Eichstatt Prisoner of War Camp, he joined the escape committee and worked as a tunneller.

Cpl Geoff Steer 1/4^th KOYLI
Geoff trained for D-Day, was taken prisoner in Holland and endured forced labour and the long march.

Captain Denis Swinney
Denis Swinney was a Captain with the Royal Engineers who served as part of the British Expeditionary Force in France and then in North Africa where he was taken Prisoner and held in Italy and Germany.

Staff Sergeant Leonard Wright
Len Wright was a Glider Pilot who took part in the D-Day landings, Arnhem and the crossing of the Rhine.

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