The Wartimee Memories Project - The Lancastria

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Information. The Lancastria was a requisitioned Cunard cruise liner, she served as a troop ship during world war two. She was sunk off St Nazire on the 17th June 1940 whilst evacuatating troops from France. She received three direct hits and within 20 minutes, the 16,243-ton luxury liner sank, taking with her more than 4,000 victims. The news of her loss was not made public in Britain until 26th July, 1940. My brother Spr. Granville Raymond Lewis, 159 Railway Construction Corp. Royal Engineers survived the Lancastria. I recall he was picked up by a British destroyer and taken to Plymouth, where he was cleaned up, the oil removed etc. He was a member of The Survivors Association. Whilst recently investigating my Family Tree, my Mother told me her father was aboard HMS Lancastria. He was one of the very few survivors. His name was Frederick CASTLE. Does anyone have a list of survivors, or any other information that might help me? My grandfather was amongst those who lost their lives on the SS Lancastria. He was : Private William Winstanley, 2188605 46th Coy, Pioneer Corps (d.17/6/1940) Janice Horrocks I am doing my family history and it has led me to Francis Robert Farline who served in the 663rd Artisan Works Company sadly he was one of the many soldiers that died. This site is a credit to the service men of the world war. My Grandfather was on the Lancastria when it was sunk, but he survived. His name was Francis William Harrison and he was born on 23/02/1904. If you have any information on him I would be very interested. Thanks, Gaul Almond My Father, Pte C K Atkins, 73 Cpy AMPC, set sail on the Lancastria on the 17th June 1940. He was one of the lucky ones to be picked up, and spent some time in hospital being cleaned up. James Atkins I am currently researching my family history the name Murray. I am searching for a Thomas Murray who was in the Pioneer Corps. My mother has told me that he was on the Lancastria when it was hit by german aircraft on the 17th july 1940 . To bring my records up to date it would be nice to put his army number and rank next to his name on my family tree. We have tried other avenues to get this information but have drawn a blank. We know he was born on the 1st july 1900 which would have made him 40 years old. although my Grandmother was told that he was missing he later turned up alive and well and lived until 1969. Any information received would be gratefully appreciated. M. Murray LANCASTRIA SURVIVORS. Sadly on 17th june 1940 my Great Grandfather went down with the Lancastria leaving behind two daughters and a wife behind. I am trying on behalf of my great aunty (his daughter) to contact any one who knew of her father or would have any information or photographs of him that she will not have seen, or any last memories of him. His details are from "the commonwealth war graves commission" as follows: name: ALBERT EDWARD EVANS ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS PRIVATE 132843 son of:ALBERT EDWARD & MARY ELIZA EVANS husband of:EDITH MAUDE EVANS (WAKELIN) OF COVENTRY (uk) daughters: MARGURET ALMA EVANS & GERALDINE BRENDA BLACKWELL(EVANS) from:WALES lived in:BIRMINGHAM. I would love to find an old photograph of him for his daughter (80yrs old) MANY THANKS TRACY BLACKWELL Photographs If you have any Photographs you would like to share please get in touch. List of those who sailed on this Ship Sapper Henry John Adams 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper William George Adams 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Harold Alcock 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Colin Henry James Aldom 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Arthur Vernon Aldred 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. A Apetu Larty Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Harold Frederick Aplin 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Private C K Atkins. 73 Coy. AMPC. Read his story Pte. B Axcell Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Albert Sydney Baker 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Kenneth Lawrence Barnard 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper William Frederick Barron, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Frederick William Barton, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Hardy Bean, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Charles Edward Bird, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Lawrence William Bird, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Robert Blakely, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Fred Bradley. carpenter The Lancastria Sapper Lorraine Ernest Walter Brind, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Herbert Brown, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. S Brook Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Cpl Butcher 67th Pioneer Corps. Sapper Horace Frederick Cannel, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Frederick Castle. Read his story Sapper Charles Chalmers, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. H J Chapman Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper James Richard Colquitt, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Cpl. A Cope Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Frederick Copsey, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Arthur Cour, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Percy Cowin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Joseph Duffy, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Chief Engineer Dunbar. The Lancastria. Sapper Cyril Duquemin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. W H Easterbrook Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Albert Edward Evans. Royal Army Service Corps Sapper William Henry Evans, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Francis Robert Farline 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Read his story Sapper Albert William Filmer, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Stanley Lashwood Fitch, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper George Flemming, George 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Leonard Gibbs 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Francis Gerard Goudy, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Chief Officer. Harry Grattidge. The Lancastria. Read his story L/Sgt George Henry Gray, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L/Cpl Albert Greenhill, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Montague Raymond Griffin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper William Alfred Haigh, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Thomas George Hamper, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L/Cpl. F G Harrison Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Francis William Harrison Read his story Sapper Albert Hart, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L/Cpl Silvester Benjamin Hart, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper George Edward Hay, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Lieutenant R Haynes. AMPC 2nd Lt William Edward Hayward, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Charles Hennah, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Charles Heron, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Norman Harry Hiscock 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Walter Hirst. 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers. Read his story Sapper Albert Holliday, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Hood, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper John Eden Horton 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Thomas Howard, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) George Derrick "Dink" Hunt. RASC. Read his Story Sapper Henry Hunt, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Arthur Ingham, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Frederick Ernest Inkpen, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Henry Arthur Ireton, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. F Jackson Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Hugh Robert Johnston. Quartermaster of Lancastria Dvr Robert Johnson, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L/Cpl Kesson Pioneer Corps. Pte. P Khan Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper George Richard Kingsman, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. P Langford Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Sydney Lea, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Horace Lewis, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Spr. Granville Raymond Lewis. 159 Railway Construction Corp. Royal Engineers Read his Story Sapper Thomas Maguire, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte Benjamin Marshall. (d. 17.6.40) Sapper Harold Samuel Mayer, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. G A Melvin Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Pte. G Mills Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Archibald Burgess McIntyre, Archibald Burgess 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Douglas Herbert Michell, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper James Strachan Murray, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Thomas Murray. Pioneer Corps. Charles "Chick" Napier. 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers Tom O'Conner. Deck Boy The Lancastria Pte. W O'Neill Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Thomas Orme, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Frank Orton, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Private Page Pioneer Corps. Cpl. H Pattison, M.M. Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Cpl A Pemberton. Pioneer Corps Sapper Ralph Frederick Pond, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. H V Potton Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Albert Marshall Ramsay, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Frederick Charles Rastall, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Cpl Charles Reeve, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Geoffrey Richardson, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Pte. J Ridley Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Reginald Clifford Rowe, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) L.A.C Albert Edward Saunders Fitter 2A. 218 Sqdn RAF Capt C A Scott Pioneer Corps. Major Scott-Bowden. 53rd Company Auxiliary Pioneer Corps Sapper William John Shannon, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Captain Rudolph Sharp - Capt of the Lancastria Sapper Victor Shaw, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Ronald Arthur Silver, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper George Albert Silvey, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Hector Thomas Smith, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Albert Henry Staniland, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper James Sugrue, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Don Sutherland. The Lancastria Pte. T E Smith Pioneer Corps.(d.17.6.40) Sapper Julian Thomas, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sgt Thompson Pioneer Corps. Sapper Harold Thorpe, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Major A G W Tonkin. 669 POW Wkg 46 Coy. Sapper Harold Towell, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) 2nd Lt Frank Eardley Turner, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper George Frederick Turner, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sgt Walter Unsworth, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Sapper Eric Cecil Wilkin, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) Private William Winstanley, 2188605 46th Coy, Pioneer Corps (d.17/6/1940) Read his story Sapper Joseph Richard Wood, 663 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers (d.17.6.40) If you have any names to add to this list, or any recollections or photos of those listed, please get in touch. If you have a story which you would like to share, or a website dedicated to a ship or sailor, please get in touch. Add Your Story Links The Sinking of The Lancastria The HMT Lancastria Association Ships Index Website and ALL Material © Copyright MM-MMIXI - All Rights Reserved