War Memorial, Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh

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    WORLD WAR 2
    1939 - 1945
    ADAMS William John - Fus, R. Innis. Fus.
    BROOKE Basil J D - Lt. Grenadier Gds.
    BROOKE Henry Alan MC - Lt, R. Hussars
    BUTLER Cecil Howard - Fus, R. Irish Fus.
    CURRAN Hugh Joseph - Gnr, R. Artillery
    DOUGLAS James - Capt, R.A. Chaplains’
    LYNN Thomas Henry - Cpl, Gordons
    McCUSKER Joseph Henry - Pte, R.A.M.C.
    MACMANAWAY John G - Apptce, M. Navy
    MALONE Robert - CSM, Irish Guards
    MOANE Terence - Pte, Durham Lt. Inf.
    MONTGOMBERY Cecil R - Pilot Off, R.A.F.
     
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    Fusilier ADAMS, WILLIAM JOHN
    Service Number 6980667
    Died 27/01/1944
    Aged 23
    2nd Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
    Son of John Robert and Margaret Adams.
    INSCRIPTION: SIDE BY SIDE WE FOUGHT AND DIED AS NOBLE HEROES DO"
    SISTER LIZZIE
    Buried at MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Italy
    Cemetery/memorial reference: VI, E, 24.
     
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    Lieutenant BROOKE, BASIL JULIAN DAVID
    Service Number 200083
    Died 11/03/1943
    Aged 22
    6th Bn. Grenadier Guards
    Son of Capt. the Rt. Hon. Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, P.C., C.B.E., M.C., D.L., M.P., 5th Bt., Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and Lady Brooke (nee Sergison), of Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. His brother Henry Alan Brooke MC also fell.
    Buried at SFAX WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Tunisia
    Cemetery/memorial reference: VII. D. 8.


    British aristocracy losses in WW2

    Brooke, Basil Julian David : Winchester College at War
     

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    Lieutenant BROOKE, HENRY ALAN
    Service Number 259934
    Died 17/04/1945
    Aged 21
    "A" Sqn. 10th Royal Hussars
    Royal Armoured Corps
    Military Cross
    Son of Capt. the Rt. Hon. Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, P.C., C.B.E., M.C., 10th Royal Hussars, and of the Viscountess Brookeborough (nee Sergison), of Brookeborough, Northern Ireland. His brother Basil Julian David Brooke also fell.
    Buried at RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Italy
    Cemetery/memorial reference: I. C. 29.

    London Gazette:
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35922/supplement/1021/data.pdf
    The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts.: — ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS.
    23rd Jan. 1943: —
    Henry Alan BROOKE (259934).


    Recommendation for Award for Brooke, Henry Alan Rank: Lieutenant Service No:... | The National Archives
    Reference: WO 373/10/24
    Name Brooke, Henry Alan
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Service No: 259934
    Regiment: 10 Royal Hussars
    Theatre of Combat or Operation: Italy
    Award: Military Cross
    Date of announcement in London Gazette: 08 March 1945
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    Fusilier BUTLER, CECIL HOWARD
    Service Number 6975545
    Died 27/05/1940
    1st Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
    Buried at DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
    Location: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
    Cemetery/memorial reference: XVII. A. 15.
     
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    Gunner CURRAN, HUGH
    Service Number 1598838
    Died 04/01/1942
    Aged 22
    390 Bty., 27 Searchlight Regt., Royal Artillery
    Son of James and Fanny Curran, of Knock Macmanus, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
    INSCRIPTION: PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF HUGH R.I.P.
    Buried at ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
    Location: Egypt
    Cemetery/memorial reference: 1. A. 17.
     
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    Chaplain 4th Class DOUGLAS, THE REV. JAMES
    Service Number 244123
    Died 05/08/1944
    Aged 34
    Royal Army Chaplains' Department attd. 5th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment
    Mentioned in Despatches
    Son of John and Kathleen Douglas; husband of Annie Hildegarde Douglas, of Dunmurry, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
    INSCRIPTION: I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU PHILIPPIANS 1.3
    Buried at TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Calvados, France
    Cemetery/memorial reference: VII. C. 3.
     
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    Corporal LYNN, THOMAS ALEXANDER
    Service Number 3856376
    Died 23/08/1944
    Aged 25
    1st Bn. Gordon Highlanders
    Son of Samuel and Isabella Lynn, of Dundonald, Co. Down, Northern Ireland.
    Buried at ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Calvados, France
    Cemetery/memorial reference: V. F. 12.
     
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    Private MCCUSKER, JOSEPH
    Service Number 6975767
    Died 14/07/1944
    Aged 37
    211 Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps
    Son of Barney and Mary McCusker, of Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
    Buried at BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Calvados, France
    Cemetery/memorial reference: XVIII. D. 11.
     
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    Apprentice MACMANAWAY, JOHN GARDNER
    Died 30/10/1942
    Aged 19
    M.V. Silverwillow (London)
    Merchant Navy
    Commemorated at TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
    Location: London, United Kingdom
    Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 98.
     
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    Warrant Officer Class II (C.S.M.)
    MALONE, ROBERT
    Service Number 2716873
    Died 27/04/1943
    Aged 34
    1st Bn. Irish Guards
    Son of Henry and Elizabeth Mary Malone; husband of Jeannie Malone, of Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middlesex.
    INSCRIPTION: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND. MEMORIES LIVE ON
    Buried at MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Tunisia
    Cemetery/memorial reference: V. C. 17.

    • War Diary: 1st Battalion IRISH GUARDS, September 1939 - July 1944
    • 27 April 1943
    • Points 151 & 187
    • The Battalion was preparing to take part in a Brigade attack on the hills to the East of DJEBEL BOU AOUKAZ, our objectives being Points 212, 214, 181 and 128, Zero Hour 1900 hours, when the time was put forward by Division and the Zero Hour became 1600 hours.
    • 1530 Hours The Battalion began to move out of its positions, so as to reach the Start Line, the forward edge of Olive Grove, East of Point 187.
    • This movement was observed by enemy O.Ps. and from then until Point 212 was finally captured, the Battalion was subjected to continuous fire from shells, M.Gs, mortars, and, peculiarly unpleasant, six-barrel mortars.
    • The Battalion advanced, in broad daylight, across an open yellow cornfield and finally reached the Olive Grove.
    • This grove gave little shelter, and was in addition, a German registered mortar task.
    • Casualties up to date had been heavy, Captain J.B. FITZGERALD, Lieutenant J.G.A. PYM, and R.Q.M.S. PEILOW being killed, Captain I.H. POWELL-EDWARDS, Lieutenant C.A. LARKING, Lieutenant D.C.W. LLOYD-THOMAS, and Lieutenant D.C. ATTLEE being wounded.
    • Battalion H.Q. had been established on the forward edge of the Olive Grove - the Start Line - and from there the Commanding Officer kept control of the battle, as far as communications would allow.
    • 1900 Hours By now the Companies were very weak - the cornfield and olive groves are strewn with wounded men, and groups of walking wounded were making their way back to the R.A.P.
    • It was now obviously impossible to carry out the original plan.
    • Nos. 1 and 4 Companies were being held up in front of Point 212; Nos. 2 and 3 Companies, on their way to Point 128, had suffered heavy casualties, and had run into German Armoured Cars and tanks in the olive groves.
    • The Commanding Officer decided to concentrate on Point 212.
    • An artillery concentration was put down on this Point and on a farmhouse which was blocking the approach to it.
    • Captain O.S. CHESTERTON, though wounded, led No. 1 Company into the attack again; some 50 German infantry were seen to be leaving the hill in some haste.
    • Battalion H.Q., with what men it could collect, advanced to the top of Point 212.
    • Two enemy officers were taken prisoner.
    • Lieutenant C.D. KENNARD with 30 men of No. 3 Company then arrived, followed by Lieutenant T.C. KEIGWIN with 25 men of No. 2 Compay.
    • The force on the hill now amounted to 170 all ranks.
    • 1930 Hours It was getting dark, and the stretcher bearers were working hard, trying to collect all the wounded men and bring them to the line of the road, where they were collected by the ambulance.
    • The force established itself on Ponts 212 and 214 and the ridge connecting them, digging itself in as best as it could in the rocky ground, in preparation for a dawn counter-attack.
    • 2230 Hours Three carriers with rations, water and ammunition made their way to the Eastern foot of the hill, and a large carrying party brought up the supplies.
    • No sleep was had that night.


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    Private MOANE, TERANCE
    Service Number 6026808
    Died 05/07/1942
    Aged 27
    8th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
    Son of Michael and Bridget Moane, of Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
    Commemorated at ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
    Location: Egypt
    Cemetery/memorial reference: Column 69.
     
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    Pilot Officer (Pilot)
    MONTGOMERY, CECIL ROBERT
    Service Number 42421
    Died 14/08/1940
    Aged 26
    615 Sqdn. Royal Air Force
    Son of John and Mary Eleanor Montgomery, of Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
    INSCRIPTION: WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
    Buried at OYE-PLAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
    Location: Pas de Calais, France
    Cemetery/memorial reference: Row 1. Grave 19.
     
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    6026808 Pte `Terry` Moane aged 27 served with 8th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
    Son of Michael and Bridget Moane, of Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland he originally enlisted into The Essex Regiment. Captured when wounded on the 29th June 1942 in North Africa he is listed in the 8th DLI History as `Killed (not died) as a Prisoner of War` 5th July 1942 .

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    Kenley’s Few - Cecil Robert Montgomery

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    Major George Cecil Brooke, Border Regiment.

    On the 28th April he was killed at approximately 1.20 pm. when the enemy, who were in vastly superior numbers, now started to come in closer range under a heavy and accurate covering fire, and many casualties were among the officers-Major Brooke,Captain Head and Muriel and Lieutenant Taylor killed within a few hundred yards of one another.
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