Can you photograph your local war memorial? (UK)

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  1. Tony56

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    War Memorial in churchyard of St Peter, Cowfold, West Sussex
    50.990217, -0.273414

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    1914-1919
    Captain Caryl Lermitte Boxall
    Private Ernest Brooker
    Orderly Harry Elphick
    Lieutenant Commander George Basil Harrison
    Lieutenant Commander Thomas Edmund Harrison
    Lieutenant Colonel Edward William Hermon DSO
    Private Benjamin John Howard
    Private Harry Kensett
    Lieutenant St. John Arnold Lees
    Captain Robert Egerton Loder
    Lance Sergeant Edward Mears
    Private Alfred Ernest Tullett
    Private Edward Henry Packham
    Lieutenant Cosmo George Romilly
    Gunner Frank Rowell
    Sergeant Henry Sayers
    Lieutenant Douglas Collett Sykes MC
    Private Henry Sidney Ward
    Private William Powlett Ward
    2nd Lieutenant Harold Vivian Woodford
    Private Nelson Richard Woolven
    Private Walter Wren

    1939-1945
    LAC Ernest Harvey
    Marine Arthur King
     
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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    North Watford renewed
     

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Ludlow Shropshire renewed
     

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Hayes War Memorial,Middlesex
     

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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  8. Incredibledisc

    Incredibledisc Well-Known Member

    West Wemyss Memorial in Fife, Scotland. I was at a wedding in the church and couldn't resist the opportunity to add a new memorial to my collection! As well as the Great War memorial in the churchyard wall there was also a plaque inside with WW2 dead on it but I couldn't get a snap of it.

    [​IMG]West Wemyss memorials by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    [​IMG]West Wemyss memorials by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    [​IMG]West Wemyss memorials by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    [​IMG]West Wemyss memorials by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    Also spotted this headstone in the churchyard. Apparently missed another couple of CWGC registered headstones though.

    [​IMG]West Wemyss memorials by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    Just across the road was another memorial which was placed fairly recently to commemorate five locals who were killed trying to divert a rogue sea mine from hitting the village. The following info is copied from a post on the www.talkingscot.com webpage.

    Just before 11 am on a cold Thursday morning during the second winter of World War 2 an explosion rocked the Fife coastal village of West Wemyss, ending the lives of five men from the village; the youngest of them just 15 years old, the eldest a retired 69 year old miner.
    All five had bravely tethered a sea mine which had broken free from its moorings and was in danger of drifting towards the town, where most of the 700 or so inhabitants were unaware of the danger.
    Piecing together reports from the now elderly locals and the few facts in public records, a story emerges of bravery which has gone unnoticed for nigh on seventy years, a story which I hope will be told in the unveiling of a memorial at the east end of the village on the 23rd of January 2011.

    George Storrar, a 38 year old miner who had enlisted as a Special Constable with Fife Police, was alerted to the fact that an object had been seen floating near the Lady’s Rock, a prominent landmark a few hundred yards to the east of the village.
    Enlisting the help of Colin Smart, a 36 year old home Guard Volunteer, they headed off to have a look and found that the object was indeed a sea mine, floating free and a hazard to both friend and foe alike.
    The immediate danger lay in that it was drifting along the shore line and could easily come ashore close to the houses, so with ropes hastily collected from a nearby house by young Peter Graham, the pair began to attempt to throw a loop of rope over one of the protruding ‘horns’, and to tether it until an Ordnance team could be alerted to dispose of the danger. Had the mine drifted out to sea again the village would be safe but the shipping which used the local harbours at Methil and Kirkcaldy would be at risk, and from the very ordnance designed to protect them from enemy attack.
    58 year old James Anderson and retired miner David Laing were walking nearby and joined the others in their attempts to secure the semi submerged mine, and whatever happened thereafter will remain unknown as one of the spikes must have come in contact with the rocks and detonated the high explosive contained within the steel shell, sending out fragments of the outer casing which caught the five men in its blast.
    The mine was still ‘live’, despite the Geneva Convention ruling that all mines which broke free of their moorings should be so designed that they then become inert, but whether this one had dragged a length of its mooring cable with it or had been faulty may never be known.

    George Storrar, David Laing and Peter Graham died instantly. Peter was only 15 years old and lived only a few hundred yards away in Seaview Cottage.
    The blast shook the village, breaking windows in the town and flattening parts of the greenhouses and causing damage at Wemyss Castle, some 100 feet above the shoreline and 750 yards away. Windows in some of the Estate cottages were peppered by the debris and sand flung from the scene.
    Windows rattled in the nearby Dorothy school located at the top of the village, where Peter Graham’s 10 year old brother sat next to his friend Andrew Nicol; “The bang was tremendous, and we knew something serious had happened and within a few minutes someone came and called Peter’s brother away. We were only told that school would end early, and that we were to go straight home. We quickly learned what had happened though” remembers Andrew, who still lives in the village.

    The sound of the explosion could be heard and its effects felt in nearby East Wemyss where Dr Khambatta’s surgery and home were. He was soon on the scene and found that although three were dead, two had survived the blast but with terrible injuries.
    Mr Tod, architect and factor at Wemyss Castle and in charge of the local Home Guard troop, rushed to the scene. Being a Great War veteran he knew the sound of high explosives and knew what to expect but he was stunned by what he saw. His daughter Nancy described seeing him return home later that day and "pouring a stiff whisky and downing it, something we never saw him do. He was still shaking, and had obviously been shocked at the sight of the tragedy”

    Alison Bell (nee Coventry) was in school at East Wemyss, the next village, and remembers,
    “I was in East Wemyss school at the time, I was 12 years old and remember being in the sewing class, and we heard the mine explode from there. It was awful to think of the dead men, and young Peter Graham of course, and to think that Colin Smart left behind all those children……..but I suppose he had to put the thought of them aside when he considered what could have happened. Peter Graham had run home to fetch the rope they caught the mine with, and they had pulled it in to stop it drifting along the shore, and of course the ships were moored in the Forth too and it could have blown them out of the water if it had gone out again.
    Had the mine gone off nearer the village it would have been terrible, as the gas storage tanks were right at the sea front; two huge things right in front of our house. The mine would have set them off and would surely have flattened the town. None of the men were anything but sensible, so I suppose they must have realised the risks they were taking. Doctor Khambatta had one of the few cars to come into the village at the time, and he was there very quickly, but there was not much he would be able to do. Aye, they were brave men.”

    Colin Smart and James Anderson were rushed to the Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital in Buckhaven, but Anderson’s injuries were too severe and Dr Wilson declared his death at 2.15 that afternoon.
    Against the odds Colin Smart held on to life until the third of February, finally succumbing to terrible wounds in the early afternoon eleven days after the explosion.
    All five were West Wemyss residents, all were miners and all left family in the village to grieve; wives and sons and daughters, brothers and sisters and in Peter Graham’s case, a mother and father who would live each day so near to where their son died.

    Jim Pollock was a 15 year old living in the village, not far from Peter’s parents’ house; “I went to the funerals of all the victims, and Peter’s was especially difficult for me as we were so friendly. He was a braw laddie, and we were so proud to have been allowed to join the Home Guard unit and do what we could. Peter wanted to be a soldier, but........”
    Jim has never forgotten his West Wemyss upbringing, and though now 85 years old and living in Kennoway he visits family in the village once or twice a week and aye has his stroll along the shore, no doubt at times remembering happy times spent with his friend.
    The village and its inhabitants came to accept that this tragedy was ‘just what happened during wartime’ and over the years the story and the efforts of the five victims have been forgotten, save for a few of the older inhabitants, but this should not be so.

    The Memorial Plan …………..a remembrance.

    A memorial sculpture has been commissioned, created by well known Kirremuir artist and sculptor Bruce Walker.
    Denfind stone will be used to make an image of a mine with a stainless steel spike to represent each of the five victims, their names inscribed around polished steel. These will be set in a polished basalt hemisphere to represent the body of mine, and the whole set into the base, a huge block of whin, carved to represent the waves of the sea. A suitable epitaph will be inscribed across the waves, encouraging viewers to walk around the sculpture.

    Sited within the village, it will be set in a position to be seen by the many walkers using the Coastal Path, and the proposed design is a striking one and will be built by a known and respected artist and will not go unnoticed, and surely should encourage visitors to the area to see the Memorial. It should be a thing of beauty and in keeping with the village and its folk, but most of all it should keep alive the memory of five ordinary men who showed extraordinary courage in a time of war on the home front and whose tragic sacrifice was forgotten because of the same crisis.

    The unveiling ceremony will be held on January 23rd 2011 at 11am, seventy years to the hour since the explosion occurred, at West Wemyss. It is hoped that we will see a good turnout, and refreshments will be served after the unveiling in St Adrian’s Church Hall, to which all are invited.
    A church service will begin at 9.45 am, and again we would like to extend a welcome to all to hear Rev. Wilma Cairns say a few words.

    Should anyone reading this be related to any of the five men I'd like to get in touch. We have photographs of all except James Anderson, and I'd dearly like to get a copy of anything with James on it.

    [​IMG]West Wemyss sea mine memorial by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    [​IMG]West Wemyss sea mine memorial by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    [​IMG]West Wemyss sea mine memorial by Bill Robertson, on Flickr

    [​IMG]West Wemyss sea mine memorial by Bill Robertson, on Flickr
     
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    War memorial in churchyard of St Philip, Burwash Weald, East Sussex
    50.988895, 0.335107

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    1914-1918
    Sydney Baird
    Benjamin Baldock
    Frederick G Brignall
    Arthur Broom MM
    Albert Cornwell
    Percy H Cornwell
    Robert Dunbar
    William J Fieldwick
    Clement Ford
    James Fuller
    Francis W Greenaway
    Alban L Hicks
    Thomas W Hicks
    William Isted
    Herbert Keeley
    Albert L Kemp
    Charles H Kemp
    Jabez Kemp
    Lionel Maddison
    Charles D Moon
    Edward Nash MM
    Albert J Oliver
    Henry O’Neill MC
    George Pattenden
    James Pattenden
    John Pollentine
    Harry Relf
    Charles J Rowell
    Frederick W Southall
    Charles P Watson
    Alfred W White

    1939-1945
    J C L W Banks
    E Bruce
    C Clark
    A B Daw
    E Dixon
    R S Evans
    E J Hemsley
    S H Noakes
    C L Pettitt
    H R Rix
     
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    War memorial in the churchyard of The Assumption and St Nicolas, Etchingham, East Sussex
    51.009493, 0.441499

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    C Wallis
    H Wallis
    J W White
    H Stevens
    J H Sweatman
    A E Tester
    F G Lough
    H J Payne
    C Pennells
    C H Funnell
    A B Guest
    A H Hayward
    A H Chandler
    F Eastwood
    S W Ellis
     
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  15. Incredibledisc

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  16. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    Ross-on-Wye War Memorial.

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    BAINES, GODFREY JULIUS
    Rank: Leading Seaman
    Service No: P/JX 154089
    Date of Death: 24/05/1941
    Age: 19
    Regiment/Service: Royal NavyShip: H.M.S. Hood
    Panel Reference: Panel 46, Column 3.
    Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of William and Winifred Baines, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    BIRD, JOHN EDWARD HENRY
    Rank: Sergeant
    Trade: Navigator
    Service No: 1339867
    Date of Death: 18/10/1943
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Squadron: 101 Sqdn.
    Grave Reference: Coll. grave 16. K. 7-13.
    Cemetery: HANOVER WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Victor Edward and Dorothy Annie Bird, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    BRAWN, PETER HARRY
    Rank: Apprentice
    Date of Death: 06/06/1941
    Age: 17
    Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
    Ship: S.S. Tregarthen (London)
    Panel Reference: Panel 110.
    Memorial: TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Wallace Thomas Brawn and Elizabeth Mary Brawn, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    BRYANT, HENRY JOHN
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 4038325
    Date of Death: 22/03/1944
    Age: 24
    Regiment/Service: South Staffordshire Regiment
    Unit: 1st Bn.
    Grave Reference: 6. B. 13.
    Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Henry and Ellen Bryant, of Brampton, Herefordshire.

    CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN
    Rank: Lance Corporal
    Service No: 7897574
    Date of Death: 27/05/1942
    Age: 22
    Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps
    Unit: 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
    Grave Reference: Coll. grave 4. E. 16.
    Cemetery: KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
    Additional Information: Son of Frank J. Chamberlain and E. M. Chamberlain, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    COMLEY, FREDERICK CORINTH
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 6095174
    Date of Death: 16/08/1944
    Age: 28
    Regiment/Service: Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)
    Unit: 7th Bn.
    Grave Reference: III. E. 8.
    Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Comley; husband of Betty Yvonne Comley, of Great Barr, Birmingham.

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    COOKE, KENNETH BRYAN
    Rank: Sergeant
    Trade: Air Gunner
    Service No: 914765
    Date of Death: 27/04/1943
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Squadron: 420 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn
    Grave Reference: 23. C. 4.
    Cemetery: BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Edwin Charles and Isobel Sarah Cooke, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

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    COOKE, NORMAN ERIC
    Rank: Sergeant
    Service No: 779409
    Date of Death: 28/11/1941
    Age: 25
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Squadron: 11 Sqdn.
    Panel Reference: Column 242.
    Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Edwin Charles and Isabel Sarah Cooke, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    DAZELEY, GORDON NOEL
    Rank: Lance Corporal
    Service No: 4922102
    Date of Death: 08/05/1942
    Age: 23
    Regiment/Service: South Staffordshire Regiment
    Unit: 2nd (Airborne) Bn.
    Grave Reference: Row 60. Grave 10.
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
    Additional Information: Son of S. T. Dazeley and Alice J. Dazeley, of Ross-on-Wye.

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    DAVIES, ROLAND ERNEST
    Rank: Aircraftman 2nd Class
    Service No: 923165
    Date of Death: 05/07/1941
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Panel Reference: Panel 58.
    Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Richard Edwin Phipps Davies and Ida Emily Davies, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    DAVIS, SAMUEL GEORGE
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 4104034
    Date of Death: 28/02/1941
    Age: 33
    Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps
    Unit: 1st King's Dragoon Guards
    Grave Reference: 7. E. 6.
    Cemetery: BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of John Charles and Rose Elizabeth Davis, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire; husband of Rose Kate Agnes Davis, of Ross-on-Wye.

    DEAN, DOUGLAS ALFRED
    Rank: Sergeant
    Service No: 1180832
    Date of Death: 14/07/1941
    Age: 25
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Squadron: 504 Sqdn.
    Panel Reference: Panel 42.
    Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Albert James Dean and Rosina Margaret Jane Dean, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    DOWNING, IVOR
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 53926
    Date of Death: 07/02/1944
    Age: 31
    Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
    Unit: 1st Bn.
    Grave Reference: V. A. 34.
    Cemetery: SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Caroline Jane Downing; husband of Dorothy Edith Downing, of Monmouth.

    FRENCH, LAWRENCE CECIL
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 4104929
    Date of Death: 01/05/1944
    Age: 23
    Regiment/Service: The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
    Unit: 156th Bn.
    Grave Reference: Sec. W. Grave 4169.
    Cemetery: MELTON MOWBRAY (THORPE ROAD) CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of George and Lizzie French; husband of Dulcie Margaret French, of Rushden, Northamptonshire.

    COATES, PETER BUCKLE
    Rank: Flight Lieutenant
    Service No: 150302
    Date of Death: 28/02/1946
    Age: 22
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Grave Reference: Row 71. Grave 27.
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
    Additional Information: Son of William Bertie and Edith Annie Coates, of Ross-on-Wye.

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    GREEN, CHARLES SINCLAIR
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Date of Death: 01/08/1940
    Age: 27
    Regiment/Service: Royal NavyVessel: H.M. Submarine Narwhal
    Awards: D S C
    Panel Reference: Panel 36, Column 3.
    Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Maj. Llewellyn B. Green, D.S.O., and Dorothy Green; husband of Pamela Margaret Green, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    HMS Narwhal left the Humber on 22 July for a minelaying mission off Norway and failed to return. On the afternoon of 23rd July she should have passed through (German) grid square 4856, where an aircraft reported attacking a submarine. This was believed to be Porpoise by the Germans but as Narwhal did not report again, it was assumed this attack sank her.

    HARDY, JAMES EDWARD
    Rank: Lance Corporal
    Service No: 4040902
    Date of Death: 24/04/1943
    Age: 30
    Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
    Unit: 1st Bn.
    Grave Reference: V. E. 4.
    Cemetery: MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Edward Francis and Selena Hardy; husband of Edith Violet Hardy, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    HARPER, CUTHBERT ERNEST JAMES
    Rank: Driver
    Service No: 2370494
    Date of Death: 28/08/1941
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Corps of Signals
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

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    HERBERT, THOMAS WILLIAM
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 4104366
    Date of Death: 17/10/1944
    Age: 32
    Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
    Unit: 1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regt.
    Grave Reference: III. C. 3.
    Cemetery: HOTTON WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Thomas Henry and Annie Herbert, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire; husband of Kitty Dorothy Herbert, of Ross-on-Wye.

    HERBERT, JOHN HENRY
    Rank: Gunner
    Service No: 4809522
    Date of Death: 13/02/1944
    Age: 20
    Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
    Unit: 86 (5th Bn. The Devonshire Regt.) Anti-Tank Regt.
    Grave Reference: Row 70. Grave 1.
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
    Additional Information: Son of Thomas Henry and Annie Herbert, of Ross-on-Wye.

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    HIGGINS, THOMAS HENRY
    Rank: Aircraftman 1st Class
    Service No: 1279933
    Date of Death: 20/09/1944
    Age: 22
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Unit: 242 Sqdn.
    Panel Reference: Column 440.
    Memorial: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Birtie William Lewis Higgins and Alice Jane Higgins, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    HUSBANDS, CHARLES RICHARD
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 4104754
    Date of Death: 06/06/1944
    Age: 25
    Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
    Unit: 2nd Bn.
    Grave Reference: 1. A. 11.
    Cemetery: HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Mrs. B. Husbands, of Ross, Herefordshire.

    HUSBANDS, GEORGE JAMES
    Rank: Lance Corporal
    Service No: 4104469
    Date of Death: 15/08/1944
    Age: 29
    Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
    Unit: 1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regt.
    Grave Reference: XVII. B. 24.
    Cemetery: BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Husband of Alice Husbands, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    JOHNS, DENYS WILLIAM GORDON
    Rank: Leading Aircraftman
    Service No: 573409
    Date of Death: 28/07/1940
    Age: 18
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
    Grave Reference: Row 56. Grave 2.
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
    Additional Information: Son of John Charles and Mary Agnes Johns, of Ross-on-Wye.

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    KITCHENER, JACK (JOHN)
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 5184262
    Date of Death: 30/03/1942
    Age: 23
    Regiment/Service: Gloucestershire Regiment
    Unit: 1st Bn.
    Panel Reference: Face 12.
    Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Godfrey and Annie Kitchener, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    LARNER, JOHN CULLIS
    Rank: Ordinary Seaman
    Service No: P/JX 389468
    Date of Death: 07/01/1944
    Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
    Vessel: H.M.S. Tweed.
    Panel Reference: Panel 84, Column 1.
    Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

    HMS Tweed (Lt.Cdr. Robert Stevenson Miller, DSC, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic, south west of Ireland, in position 48º18'N, 21º19'W by the German submarine U-305. The survivors were rescued by HMS Nene. Hit by U-boat
    Sunk on 7 Jan 1944 by U-305 (Bahr).

    Panel photo by AndyBaldEagle

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    LLOYD, LESLIE CHARLES
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 14263338
    Date of Death: 22/06/1943
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps
    Unit: East Riding Yeomanry
    Grave Reference: Row 69. Grave 6.
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
    Additional Information: Son of Edward and Eva Lloyd, of Ross-on-Wye.

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    MORRIS, LIONEL GWYN
    Rank: Fusilier
    Service No: 5052232
    Date of Death: 28/02/1944
    Age: 24
    Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
    Unit: 8th Bn.
    Panel Reference: Panel 5.
    Memorial: CASSINO MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of John Thomas Morris and Lily Hannah Morris; husband of Cecilia Games Morris, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    MOSS, WILLIAM CHARLES
    Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Trade: Wireless Op./Air Gunner
    Service No: 1581876
    Date of Death: 19/09/1944
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Unit: 190 Sqdn.
    Grave Reference: VI. F. Joint grave 11-12.
    Cemetery: MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Arthur and Edith May Moss; husband of Caryl Joy Moss, of Potters Bar, Middlesex.

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    MURPHY, FRANK

    Rank: Fireman
    Date of Death: 27/07/1940
    Age: 32
    Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy
    Vessel: S.S. Polgrange
    Grave Reference: Sec. G. Uncons. Grave 17.
    Cemetery: BLYTH (COWPEN) CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of Francis and Mary Murphy; husband of Irene Murphy, of Hapton, Lancashire.

    NEWTH, CYRIL GEORGE
    Rank: Stoker 1st Class
    Service No: DK/64518
    Date of Death: 23/11/1943
    Age: 37
    Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
    Vessel: H.M.S. Quail
    Grave Reference: XIV. A. 15.
    Cemetery: BARI WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of William and Lucy Newth, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    H.M.S Quail struck a mine on 15/11/1943. Stoker 1st Class Newth Died of wounds on 23/11/1943.

    PHILLIPS, WILFRID HAROLD
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 4105154
    Date of Death: Between 01/12/1942 and 06/12/1942
    Age: 22
    Regiment/Service: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
    Unit: 1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regiment. and No. 1 Commando
    Panel Reference: Face 27.
    Memorial: MEDJEZ-EL-BAB MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Harold E. and Hariett Phillips, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    PHIPPS, ALBERT WALLACE
    Rank: Private
    Service No: 4037363
    Date of Death: 22/03/1942
    Age: 26
    Regiment/Service Durham Light Infantry
    Unit: 9th Bn.
    Grave Reference: 3. F. 23.
    Cemetery: KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA
    Additional Information: Son of Albert and Minnie Phipps, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    PREEDY, STANLEY
    Rank: Corporal
    Service No: 1254574
    Date of Death: 22/02/1944
    Age: 32
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Unit: 5012 Airfield Construction Sqdn
    Grave Reference: Row 69. Grave 12.
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
    Additional Information: Son of Albert and Henrietta Preedy, of Ross-on-Wye; husband of Peggy Patricia Preedy, of New Malden, Surrey.

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    RAYNOR, FREDERICK SOMERTON

    Royal Navy
    (Not found on CWGC)

    REEVES, CYRIL ALFRED
    Rank: Able Seaman
    Service No: P/SSX 27654
    Date of Death: 24/05/1941
    Regiment/Service:Royal Navy
    Vessel: H.M.S. Hood
    Panel Reference: Panel 49, Column 1.
    Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of James William and Annie Elizabeth Reeves, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    H.M.S. Hood was sunk by the German Battleship “Bismark” on 24/5/1941.

    REEVES, ERIC
    Rank: Convoy Ordinary Signalman
    Service No: C/JX 309954
    Date of Death: 26/11/1942
    Age: 18
    Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
    Vessel: S.S. Barberrys.
    Panel Reference: 59, 1.
    Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
    Additional Information:Son of James William and Annie Elizabeth Reeves, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    At 19.17 hours on 26 Nov 1942 the Barberrys (Master George Halket Squires), the ship of the convoy commodore in convoy SC-110, was torpedoed and sunk by U-663 northeast of St. John’s. The master, the commodore (Capt A.H. Young, RD, RNR), 20 crew members, four gunners and five naval staff members were lost. 18 crew members, three gunners and one naval staff member were picked up by USCGC Mohawk (WPG 78) and landed at St. John’s.

    SMITH, FREDERICK WILLIAM
    Rank: Lance Serjeant
    Service No: 4104622
    Date of Death:28/12/1943
    Age: 27
    Regiment/Service: Scots Guards
    Unit: 2nd Bn.
    Grave Reference: III. B. 9.
    Cemetery: NAPLES WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information:Son of Frederick and Margaret Smith, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    SNELL, ALBERT DENNIS SERPELL
    Rank: Flying Officer
    Service No: 130194
    Date of Death: 16/07/1943
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Unit: 50 Sqdn.
    Panel Reference: Panel 129.
    Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Arthur Snell, and of Frances M. Snell, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    SPRAKE, RONALD FARRANT
    Rank: Driver
    Service No: T/179713
    Date of Death: 25/05/1942
    Age: 28
    Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps
    Grave Reference: 1. D. 14.
    Cemetery: TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
    Additional Information: Son of William John and Alice Mary Sprake, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    THOMAS, LESLIE CHARMAN WILLIAMS
    Rank: Flying Officer
    Trade: Pilot
    Service No: 50626
    Date of Death: 15/03/1944
    Age: 23
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air ForceUnit: 256 Sqdn.
    Grave Reference: I. F. 3.
    Cemetery: CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
    Additional Information: Son of David Henry and Alice Ada Charman Thomas, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    WATKINS, WILLIAM GRAHAM
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 3968210
    Date of Death: 15/11/1944
    Age: 24
    Regiment/Service: Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.
    Unit: 53rd Regt.
    Grave Reference: Row 70. Grave 20.
    Cemetery: ROSS (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
    Additional Information: Son of William Trevor and Jane Watkins, of Ross-on-Wye.

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    WILLIAMS, DENNIS RUSSELL
    Rank: Air Mechanic 1st Class
    Service No: FAA/FX. 84125
    Date of Death: 27/03/1943
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
    Vessel: H.M.S. Dasher
    Panel Reference: Bay 4, Panel 5.
    Memorial: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Harold Hancock Williams and Ellen Williams, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

    WRIGHT, ANTHONY DENIS
    Rank: Sergeant
    Service No: 742730
    Date of Death: 04/01/1941
    Age: 22
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
    Unit: 51 Sqdn.
    Panel Reference: Panel 55.
    Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of Wallace Victor Wright, and of Anne Mabel Wright, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
     
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