Below is taken directly from the announcement on the IFCP Forum IFCP's main objective is to obtain official commemoration by CWGC of all 'non-com' Commonwealth service personnel who died during the two world wars. However, one of our subsidiary activities is also to ensure that all post 1947 UK servicemen/women are also granted their due commemoration on the Armed Forces Memorial and/or in the three Rolls of Honour maintained by the UK forces (see below names). AFM has just updated its database not only with the recent names sadly necessary but also with names previously omitted for various reasons. As these men have now been brought 'in from the cold', it seems only fitting to list them here. Four of the names were due to submissions by IFCP following research undertaken by Chris Harley and myself. These men are marked below by an asterisk. Major Peter Wilson AISTHORPE 327244 Royal Pioneer Corps Died 02.02.61 Age 37 WO2 Thomas Berry ASPINALL * 3854572 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Died 16.12.54 Age 40 Rfn George AZZOPARDI 147574429 Royal Ulster Rifles Died 11.08.47 Age 21 Sgt Roy Winchester BAILEY 7938895 17th/21st Lancers Died 20.04.54 Age 31 Sgt Thomas Henry BRADSHAW BEM 1095106 Royal Army Service Corps Died 01.05.55 Age 29 Gnr James Anthony CARTER 23052147 Royal Artillery Died 06.04.55 Age 19 Sgt James COLEMAN 23254890 Royal Army Service Corps Died 16.06.56 Age 46 Lt-Col James Durno CRUICKSHANK * 66478 Royal Army Medical Corps Died 22.10.55 Age 44 Major Gerald Roger FUNNELL 461428 Royal Corps of Signals Died 26.10.87 Age 48 Major Thomas GARNER 168271 Royal Army Service Corps Died 21.05.63 Age 55 Pte Samuel Ashley GREER 24289909 Ulster Defence Regiment Died 30.06.77 Age 41 Cpl Thomas KELLY 22784560 Royal Army Service Corps Died 06.10.59 Age 47 Gnr Svend KORUP 14195941 Royal Artillery Died 12.08.47 Age 26 Capt John Maurus LA FERLA 169199 Royal Army Medical Corps Died 05.12.46 Age 31 WO2 Albert LAMB 3384782 Army Catering Corps Died 09.09.57 Age 43 Pte William Hunter MURRAY 23915792 Parachute Regiment Died 12.04.65 Age 25 Sgt Albert POLLARD T/88845 Royal Army Service Corps Died 09.08.57 Age 44 Gdsm Donald ROBERTS 2627008 Grenadier Guards Died 02.03.47 Age 20 Capt Donald Edwin ROBERTS * 378696 Royal Artillery Died 29.08.49 Age 28 Pte Soren STEPHANSON 14196274 King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) Died 24.12.47 Age 23 Sgt Charles James TURL 5570857 Wiltshire Regiment Died 27.04.59 Age 38 WO2 Arthur Edward WARNER * 779140 North Staffordshire Regiment Died 18.08.51 Age 41 WO1 Harry WIGNALL 22292446 Royal Army Ordnance Corps Died 30.06.54 Age 38 Dvr William James WITT 22972090 Royal Army Service Corps Died 04.08.56 Age 20 NOT FORGOTTEN QUALIFICATION FOR INCLUSION Inclusion on the Armed Forces Memorial 1) All service personnel who died on duty from 01.01.48. 2) All service presonnel who died off-duty due to terrorism from 01.01.48. 3) All service personnel who died in the Palestine Campaign prior to 01.01.48 (This campaign was in progress prior to AFM's start date so all are included). 4) Former members of the Ulster Defence Regiment who died subsequently due to terrorism 5) Members of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and Merchant Navy who died in support of the military in a war zone from 01.01.48 Inclusion in the Rolls of Honour 1) All service personnel listed on AFM (not RFA or MN personnel) 2) All service personnel who died off duty from 01.01.48
Chrischarley Interesting name on that list of Azzopardi as Mike Azzopardi - 14377*** trained with me at Barnard Castle in '43 - went on to North Africa.....and was killed at the Gothic Line - sept. '44..came from Lancashire...wife and son left. Cheers
Tom just checked the Birth Records Rifleman Azzopardi would have only have been 17 when he died Chris
Chrischarley - just wondered if there had been some kind of relationahip with the two Azzopardi's as it is uncommon for British names - more Italian .. Cheers
Presume the young man from 1 Sqn RAF Regiment who just died in Cyprus will be joining this list? I think its great that you are doing this. Dee
MOD will be sorting the most recent of casualties. IFCP tends to get involved in some of the very older cases
Chrischarley Interesting name on that list of Azzopardi as Mike Azzopardi - 14377*** trained with me at Barnard Castle in '43 - went on to North Africa.....and was killed at the Gothic Line - sept. '44..came from Lancashire...wife and son left. Cheers In Memory of Trooper MICHAEL HENRY AZZOPARDI 14388635, 254th Tank Delivery Sqn., Royal Armoured Corps who died age 20 on 07 September 1944 Son of Michael Francis and Winifred Gladys Azzopardi; husband of Irene Azzopardi, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Remembered with honour CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY In Memory of Rifleman GEORGE AZZOPARDI 14757429, 1st Bn., Royal Ulster Rifles who died on 11 August 1947 Son of Andrea and Doris Azzopardi, of Tynemouth, Northumberland. Remembered with honour RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY
Chrischarley Interesting name on that list of Azzopardi as Mike Azzopardi - 14377*** trained with me at Barnard Castle in '43 - went on to North Africa.....and was killed at the Gothic Line - sept. '44..came from Lancashire...wife and son left. Cheers Hi Tom, I worked with a lot of Maltese in Australia with that name. Melbourne was a huge Maltese city post war and still is today. Azzopardi is a Jewish surname. It means a Jew coming from Spain. A Safardi. Most of the Azzopardi families in Malta originated in Toledano Spain, and those that did not leave Malta, after the 1492 expulsion of Jews Edict, converted to Christianity.A few of these families are known to have practised Judaism in secret, but they eventualy converted fully to Catholicism.
I have a picture of the headstonefor Azzopardi from Ramleh,thought I recognised the name! and didnt realise his age BUT its on me other 'puter!!! Andy
Spidge - Thank you for that information on the Azzopardi's - very interesting as Mike was a real character as all the girls in the Naafi at Streatlam camp knew him .... ! Got the shock of my life when I nearly fell over his headstone at Coriano Ridge - until then I didn't realise that he was married...! Took a picture of his grave while looking for my Troop and Tank Commanders...that was a sad day.....2000 graves Cheers
