WILLIAM R WHITE LOWESTOFT CARLTON COLVIILA BRN

LOOKING FOR CONFIRMATION FROM A FAMOUS D DAY LANDING SWORD BEACH PICTURE BLACK AND WHITE ON FRONT OF LANDING CRAFT STANDING UP TIN HAT ON WITH NETTING LOOKING TO OUR LEFT GRIMM FACED
CAPTION COMMANDOS ON BOARD A LANDING CRAFT ON THER APPROACH TO SWORD BEACH 6 JUNE 1944
UNDER WAR MUSEUM

DOING RESEARCH FOR A RELATION HAS NO INTRNET
WE THING HE SIGNED UP FOR 3 SUFFOLK OR SPECIAL UNIT
THANK FOR READING VIC HILL
WILLTRY UPLOAD A PHOTO

 

S. Hayward posted elsewhere today this guide to uploading photos:

 

VIC HIILL
NOT VERY GOOD AT UPLOAD BUT WILL TRY NOW
JUST TRIED SAY DOES NOT HAVE ALLOWED EXTENSION
WILL TRY AGIAN WITH A SMALLER PIC V H

 

Vic,

The system only accepts certain formats. Photos need to be saved as jpg normally.

 

WELCOME TO THE FORUM VIC

 

many thanks yes i did think that will try again

 

try again now William White AKA CHALKY
6 JUNE EST 9-30 SWORD BEACH

 

YES MANY Thanks i was bought up with pencil and paper vic can do most thinks on computer as my health is driven by apps and inf vic hill CHALKY WHITE BRN 1912/1914 GEAT PAL OF FREDERICK HARPER BN DEC 1920
WILLIAM WE THINK IS SUFFOLK REGIMENT OR SPECIAL OPS /Commando UNIT HE CARRIED P I A T AVANTI RIFLE ? AND WAS WOUNDED IN ARM AND BACK by a German Morter captured load of germans stayed in a medical unit outside CAEN THEY WHATCHED the Bombing and shelling of CAEN Came back to england lowestoft whent on to as a railway shunter died in stevenage 1986 trying to find out his regiment details will be displayed in our local village 80th ww2 VIC

 

YES INDEED CHALKY WILLAM WHITE 1912/14 ------- 1986 LOWESTOFT POSS BORN IN CARLTON COLVILLE SUFFOLK

 

MANY THANKS OWEN YES NO DOING A REPORT VIC

 

further To my searches it looks like he was BORN 15 SEP1914 and BAPTISM WAS I ST OCT 1914
AT ST MARGARETS CHURCH LOWESTOFT
MAY POSSIBLE BE IN THE 2 BATT SUFFOLKS IN INDIA WHEN WAR BROKE OUT IN BURMA VIC

 

looking still for Mr William r white may have joined up with the SUFFOLKS and it would seem that MR FREDERICK A HARPER SAPPER SERVICE NO 1888599 9 AUG 1945 IN MALAYA WO 304 /18 Great pal of WILLIAM CHALKY WHITE AS THEY TRAINED TOGETHER ALLSO when on the beaches he did carry a PIAT GUN GOT WOUNDED TO HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL VCI

 

Frederick Harper is on CWGC website. He died in Formosa on 9/8/1945 whilst being held as a POW by the Japanese. Formosa was a Japanese occupied island that had been part of China till 1895, it became Chinese again after the Japanese surrender.

It is possible like other non-UK POW he was cremated soon after his death. Scrowl to the bottom of the link about a US Army soldier: Cigoi, Sgt. Walter F. - Bataan Project 4

He was initially buried at Daichoku Military Cemetery and was reburied in Hong Kong 24/7/1947 which was then a British Colony. There are other POW shown as dying there. From: https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2221090/frederick-arthur-harper

Note Daichoku appears to be known by the Chinese name of near Taihoku; which is now in Taipei Province and the capital city of the Republic of China.

War Crimes trials were held in Hong Kong, between 17 November and 11 December 1947. I have not looked at these links.

Daichoku was the site of the main camp on Formosa (now often called Taiwan), with eight sub-camps and:

From: POW Research Network Japan | Researches | POW Camps outside Japan Proper

A little detail:

From: Never Forgotten :: The Story of the Taiwan POW Camps and the men who were intered in them.

Note the POW's liberation is details here:

From: Aberdeen Medals

 

very many thanks super facts vic

 

now on my better laptop as old one has a few letters not working
will now print off and take over the road to mr Roy Parker who is direct family line of HARPER as i think his sister Marr a Harper .

so all this information will very much
Appreciated for your time and great effort DAVID bfbo

still a lot of research have got to a section about the BILLETS of this unit may be in BEXHILL ON SEA BEFORE D DAY
POSS IN HOMES OF FOLK VERY INTERESTING WRITES UPS
still no clues on his reg no / SOLDIER NO
but onwards and upwards vic

 

The photo is actually a still of film footage shot by Sgt George Laws of the Army Film and Photographic Unit which shows men of 4 Commando embarked in LCAs of 500 Assault Flotilla. The man has been variously identified as a Canadian (by many Canadians who insist this footage shows Juno Beach – it definitely doesn't) and various other names offered without any evidence. As in the screenshot Owen posted, the Imperial War Museum did identify him as "Sergeant William James Cresswell ("Jim", born 24 May 1919) of the East Surrey Regiment" although that identification has been removed from the film information now. I'm unsure about the pencil identification on the photo dope sheet in Owen's post. As this is very definitely 4 Commando, presumably the East Surry Regiment was his original unit before joining the commandos. If indeed it is even him.
The full film can be viewed here: LANDINGS ON 'SWORD' BEACH, 6 JUNE 1944 (PART 4) [Allocated Title]

 

MANY thanks Stephen Fisher for you very interesting FILM have looked at and looking very hard to see if anybody had a PIAT NOT SURE WHY BUT SO many years have gone why o why has nobody got this Soldier has not been id before have one or 2 more men have been recognized like joe BURNETT man at the back left also
the Suffolk's Reg
were INVOLVED in moving of the beach to go forward to CAEN FRANCE
REF Film "" Bloody Square Mile """ which i looked at yesterday Vic
also he was in INDIA very early part of the WAR

 

THIS FILM HAS A NEW CLUE TO HOW A PIAT WORKD AS WE HAVE NOTICED SOLIDIERS IN FRANCE RUNNING ON THE STREETS
WITH WHAT LOOKS A TIN UNIT THEY HAVE 3 SECTION TO CARRY 3 PIAT GRENADES ??? OUR MAN CHALKY MUST HAVE BEEN PART OF A TEAM HE WAS CARRYING THE GUN WHICH LOOKS HEAVY AND AKWARD
REF BOOK BY MATTHEW MOSS PUBLISHED JAN 11 2022 SOME 115.000 WERE MADE CLASSED A SPIGOT MORTAR CALIBRE 82 MM
ANY COMMENTS WOULD BE WELCOME VIC