https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10 Please leave a story about anyone you wish to remember on the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day who gave or risked their life for their country. en-us 2018-11-07 14:43:07 UTC 2025-06-29 04:22:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/331382272/d0839e5b7cd43341e5cefade3fbe732b/YSD_Logo.jpg tates3 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301712583 Grandad Tom was an RAF Sergeant and survived WW2 as a Lancaster Bomber Wireless Operator and Rear Gunner, despite being attacked on their missions to locations such as Düsseldorf and Oberhausen.
His RAF Flight Log has details of events such as:

• a burst port tyre on landing from a night operation in Bochum on 4th November 1944 and unfortunately running over Fido!
• returning on three engines following an operation in Leipzig on 10th April 1945;
• ferrying ex prisoners of war from Brussels and Juvincourt-et-Damary to Westcott, Wing and Oakley throughout May 1945.

]]> 2018-11-07 18:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301712583 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301777935 Remembering John Owen (Ffion Naylor’s great grandmother’s 1st husband) who was a flight lieutenant for the RAF in WW2. He was killed in action in 1940 aged 25. Sadly he never got to meet his son John who was born 4 months after his death.]]> 2018-11-07 20:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301777935 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301798939 Herbert Pryce Williams was born and raised in Pentre Broughton, he signed up on February 3 1915 and served in the 17th Battalion of the RWF. He was killed in action on 23rd December 1916, two days before he was due to come home on 10 days leave. He was 23 years old. He is buried at Artillery Wood Cemetery, Belgium and remembered on the Pentre Broughton Memorial Gates. His grave inscription reads ‘Peace Perfect Peace’.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/101468/williams,-/]]> 2018-11-07 21:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301798939 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301804860 Grandad Joseph joined the 17th Battalion of the RWF with his brother Herbert. He fought alongside him on the World War I battlefields of France and Belgium, returning home after the Armistice. 
Great Grandad Morris served as a driver, infantry man and machine gunner in France during World War I. He was hospitalised for a time when a shell exploded, causing horses to bolt and fracturing his arm. He returned home to his wife and children following the Armistice. ]]> 2018-11-07 21:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301804860 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301817986 Sam’s namesake Samuel Richardson served with the Royal Pioneer Corps and was sadly killed in action in Boulogne, France when Sam’s great grandad Tommy was just 8 years old. Great Grandad Tommy was very proud of the sacrifice his father made for him and us and visited his father’s grave in France with Sam’s dad Andrew in 2009 & his name is proudly shown on the Cenotaph stone in Radcliffe, Lancashire.]]> 2018-11-07 21:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/301817986 tates3 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/302045688 Great Uncle George was a motorbike messenger during WW2. Unfortunately he was killed in France or Belgium and is buried in one of the British war graves.  His name is displayed on the cenotaph in Llandudno.]]> 2018-11-08 13:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/302045688 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/302359636 This is Lucie Martland’s great great grandad Arthur from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The birth surname on his side was Lloyd, but after signing up in WW1 as a horseman it was written down wrongly as Lord on his papers and the family kept the name! He served in the Royal Horse Artillary and survived the war. They adopted Lucie’s Great Grandad George Lord as a baby. Lucie’s Great Uncle was named after him and Lucie’s brother is named Charles Arthur with the family names.]]> 2018-11-08 22:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/302359636 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/303421575 Frederick was a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery. He volunteered in October 1914 and was sent to the Western Front. There he took part in several important engagements including those at Neuve Chapelle, Arras and Cambral. He was part of a mobile troop that rode horses and pulled the gun carriages and fired them. He also served through the retreat and Advance of 1918 where he was severely gassed and invalided home. He was demobilised in March 1919, holding the 1914-15 Star and the General Service and Victory Medals.

]]> 2018-11-12 18:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/303421575 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/303429337 Grandad Eric was in the RAF 1939-1945 Second World War. He was a Warrant Officer and spent some of his time as a rear gunner on a Lancaster Bomber. He was in 550 Squadron and his plane, F for Freddie was quite famous as one of the few "ton up" Lancs, i.e. it flew over 100 missions. The motto of the plane was "Press On Regardless".
Eric went on to marry Lillian and had two sons, Raymond and Jeffrey (who is Grace’s mum’s dad.)
Eric is the man smiling behind in the cockpit of the plane.]]> 2018-11-12 19:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/303429337 tates3 https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/303453773 Grandad Henry (known as Harry) was a Corporal in the Royal Artillery based in India. He also survived WW2 in his role as a gunner. Miss Tate's Dad has still got the empty shell case of one of the shells that he fired from a large artillery gun.]]> 2018-11-12 19:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tates3/x5jt7mpjq10/wish/303453773