Mcintyre Family History & Genealogy

My third great grand parents John and Barbara immigrated to Boone county, Illinois in the mid 1800s. they were both from Campbeltown Argyll Scotland

A photo of the wedding of Chalmer L McIntyre

A photo of Chalmer L McIntyre

A photo of Robert Francis Mcintyre. It was very busy at the briefing on Friday, October 2, 1942 at air base
RAF Lakenheath in the county of Suffolk in South East England.
After all, there was another night operation on the program. A bombing flight on the German city of Krefeld. The Short Stirling R9167 with call sign OJ-N of
149 Bomber Squadron would also be part of the fleet of planes that would make the crossing to the European mainland. Squadron leader and pilot Roy Greenslade commanded six NCO’s, each with their specific task.
Everyone being ready for departure, they chose the airspace at 7.06 pm in the evening.
First it was important to form the fleet of bombers. As many as 188 aircraft would eventually take part in the action. 95 Wellingtons, 39 Halifaxes, 31 Lancasters and 23 Stirlings. The Pathfinders (scouts) reported dense fog veils that night above the city of Krefeld when they made the crossing over the North Sea. As a result, the bombs fell on the outskirts of Krefeld and were not concentrated in the center. The Germans did not give the attack the qualification of "Grossangriff". Nevertheless, the loss percentage for the British was three percent. Of the seven aircraft that were lost, one ended up in Kronenberg in the south east of The Netherlands. It was the Short Stirling R9167 from Roy Greenslade and his crew.

In the beginning of 1941, the Germans set up combat posts in a line from Denmark over The Netherlands, south to Belgium and France of which three combat posts in The Netherlands in Nachtjagdraum 5. One of them was combat post 5B in Veulen, a small village near the Venray municipality. These combat posts would play a key role in the air war until the autumn of 1944. The German night fighters who were led from fighter post 5B in Veulen were from I / NJG-1 Nachtjagdgeschwader, which was stationed at Fliegerhorst Venlo, the largest German airfield outside Germany during the Second World War with an occupation of approximately 2000 troops.
The radar equipment that belonged to such combat posts stood as far as possible in the front field in a westerly direction. For Veulen this radar station was located about 3.5 km south of De Rips in Noord Brabant. Here a Frya detection radar and two Würzburg Riese tracking radar installations were installed. This combined radar station was called BAZI. The Germans often used animal names and BAZI is the abbreviation for Bazille (baccil).
As soon as the Allied bombers were detected by the radar station, this was passed on to the combat post in Veulen. The position of the own planes and the enemy planes was displayed on a so-called plot table and kept constantly up-to-date by means of red and green lights. (Red for the Allied aircraft and green for their own German aircraft.)
Through a short-wave connection, the Jägerleitoffizier passed on the position of the approaching aircraft to his night fighters in encoded messages.
The cumbersome bombers were an easy prey for the fast German
Messerschmitts who prefered to shoot these bombers from the bottom up with their board guns.

And so it happened, that Oberleutnant Flieger Hans Dieter Frank and marconist Gefreiter Erich Gotter were ordered in the evening of October 2, 1942, around 09:15 pm
to launch an attack on British bombers on their way to Krefeld in a flight of 188 aircraft. The Short Stirling R9167 - OJ-N, belonging to a group of three aircraft from 149 Squadron, received its first direct hits at 21.31 hours above the municipality of Horst. Just after that, the aircraft started to burn. In a last desperate attempt to stay in the air, the Short Stirling opened the bomb shutters, bringing the load of hundreds of phosphorus bombs down and falling in Swolgen and the municipality of Horst, fortunately without causing any significant damage. However, it did not help anymore. Over Horst, Oberleutnant Frank once again hit the plane hard and a moment later at 21.34 hours the burning bomber crashed in a plot of land of the Pijpers family in Kronenberg, shifted the road and stopped at the edge of the forest. There it has been burning for days. Local residents rushed to the burning wreck immediately and found the half-burned bodies of several crew members in the area and near the wreckage. A moment later it was discovered that one of the occupants of the aircraft was still alive. He layed heavily wounded in the field and pointed constantly to the ring on his left ring finger, which had already been swollen. One of the bystanders understood what the man meant and managed to get the ring off the finger. Just after that a patrol of the Feldgendarmerie (German Military Police) appeared and the people were pushed back. The unknown crew member died on the spot before he could be transported to the hospital in Venlo. After the war it was determined which aircraft had crashed that night in Kronenberg. They also found out the names of the crew members. The only one still alive after the crash of the Short Stirling turned out to be Sergeant Ernest.Leslie Moore, Air Gunner. The ring was sent to his parents shortly after the liberation.
All seven crew members were killed in the crash.

Crew Short Stirling R9167 (Code OJ-N)
149 Squadron A.F.C. R.A.F.


1 Squadron Leader Pilot: William Roy Greenslade, R.A.F. (DFC-AFC-MiD)
(Youngstown Alberta, Canada) Age 25.
Jonkerbos War Cemetery 20.D.3 Nijmegen – The Netherlands

2 Flight Sergeant Air Gunner: William Orange, R.A.F.
(Bedlington Morpeth-UK) Age 27.
Jonkerbos War Cemetery 20.D.8 Nijmegen – The Netherlands

3 Sergeant Flight Engineer: Marshal Kenneth Smith R.A.F.
(Cambridge-UK) Age 21.
Jonkerbos War Cemetery 20.D.6 Nijmegen – The Netherlands

4 Sergeant Wireless Op./Air Gunner: Frederick Leonard Hughes R.A.F.
(Shoreditch, London-UK) Age 21.
Jonkerbos War Cemetery 20.D.7 Nijmegen – The Netherlands

5 Sergeant Wireless Op./Air Gunner: Ernest Leslie Moore R.A.F.
(Leicester-UK) Age 20.
Jonkerbos War Cemetery 20.D.4 Nijmegen – The Netherlands

6 Sergeant Air Gunner: Benjamin Frederick Goldsmith R.A.F.
(Prestwick Lancashire-UK) Age 22.
Jonkerbos War Cemetery 20.D.5 Nijmegen – The Netherlands

7 Flight Sergeant Air Observer Robert Francis McIntyre R.C.A.F.
(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Age 25.
Jonkersbos War Cemetery 20.D.9 Nijmegen – The Netherlands

Lest we forget

A photo of Jean, Vonita, Iris & Valda Billinghurst- Jean, Vonita & Valda are the Daughters of Iris & Eric Billinghurst

A photo of Jean, Iris, Valda, Eric & Vonita Billinghurst, Family picture

A photo of Iris Isabell Billinghurst (nee Lockwood ) with husband with hat and Daughters, from left Jean, Valda & Vonita
other man at back on left with arm on Iris Is Mr. Strode friend of family who had lollie shop in Ascot vale, Victoria, Australia

A photo of Iris Isabell Billinghurst (Nee Lockwood) & Husband Eric Cyril Billinghurst & Daughter Vonitta Billinghurst known as Nita Mcintyre Her married name

A photo of Warren Lordly's Family Easter 1963: From L to R - Teresa McIntyre Lordly (Warren's wife); F - Jennifer Helen Lordly (adopted daughter); Lance Warren Lordly (adopted son); Warren Daniel Lordly; Emma Sprague Lordly (Warren's mother) Rupert Lancaster Lordly (Warren's father) Kings Park, Long Island, NY Easter
People in photo include: Teresa (McIntyre) Lordly, Teresa McIntyre Lordly, Warren Daniel Lordly, Jennifer Helen Lordly, Lance Warren Lordly, Emma (Sprague) Lordly, and Rupert Lancaster Lordly

A photo of Lisa M McIntyre

A photo of Lisa M McIntyre, with daughter Madeline A Maienza

Irene Fern Brobst was born 8 FEB 1919 in Auburn, Shawnee, Kansas, USA, and died 13 JUL 2000 in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, USA. She was buried in Old Stone Church Cemetery, Maple Hill, Wabaunsee, Kansas, USA. She was the daughter of Irvin Brobst and Alzoa McIntyre

Alma Marie McIntyre married Luther Thomas Killion in Nebraska in 1917. They had three sons, Clyde Dwain, Bernard, and Burnell Killion.
People in photo include: Alma Marie (McIntyre) Killion

Erdorn Wood, the 57 yr old fisherman, presenting a representative of President Roosevelt with a box of freshly caught fish (trout).

Here's the story: Mr Wood went to Mystery Pond, New Hampshire, swished 29 trout from their 75-foot depth and started to Washington and President Roosevelt with the catch. His newly constructed glass-bottomed boat drifted on the pond during a rain storm, while Wood, depending solely on fly-casting, hooked the Presidential meal. The trout measured from 9 to 16 inches.

Now that's a fish story!

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing, photographer

Dorothy Brownell and students who were on The Bell yearbook staff at San Jose High School. Pictured above (top, center, bottom) from left to right:
Hazel Feldman, Assistant Editor; Florence lee Oger, Assistant Editor; Dorothy Brownell, Editor-in-Chief; Francis McIntyre, Business Manager; and Oscar Ervin, Art Editor.
People in photo include: Francis McIntyre

A photo of Lou McIntyre with his mother, Juel...family friends of Joyce Benning Kroetch.
People in photo include: Lou McIntyre and Juel McIntyre

Rebecca (McConnell) McIntyre, wife of Samuel Robb McIntyre, with her children. Rebecca was the 1st wife of Samuel MacIntyre. A postcard, with original inscription "Wishing you a merry Xmas and a prosperous New Year. No need to tell you who they are". Later inscription "McIntyre Family taken 65 years ago". A genealogist's nightmare!

Jules McIntyre with son, Larry, age 7 mos. In front of their home in Bellingham, WA. 1930's

Benning family visiting the McIntyre family in Bellingham, WA 1944.
People in photo include: Larry McIntyre and Jule McIntyre

Jules McIntyre and Connie Benning while David McIntyre peaks over the bushes

Jules and Bill McIntyre's boys and Joyce Benning