RANVILLE CHURCHYARD June 5th 1944 casualty - how did he die?

Bombadier Hall's Headstone.

 

This is really interesting, dbf!!!

So, Deacon is in UK because he either died there (he never crossed the channel) or, he was wounded across the channel and brought back. Hall is in France which definitely means that he died there.
Therefore, if Deacon and Hall were together all the time, that "flying shell fragment" incident happened across the channel and was the reason why both eventually died. Hall died there but Deacon was wounded and brought back to UK.
On the other hand, if they were not together, Deacon's death was caused by a different incident. If Deacon never crossed the channel, he died a lot earlier on the 5th. If he crossed the channel, he got wounded (in a similar incident or not) and brought back to UK where he died.

 

Perico,

The answer to how Lt. Terry Deacon died would be covered in the book written by his wife Audrey Deacon (née Hawkins) titled "Diary of a Wren 1940-1945: War Years in the Women's Royal Naval Service".

"Many families lost loved ones during this period but you will not fail to be moved by the author’s account of how she watched her husband and childhood sweetheart - a Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Airborne Division - slowly sink into the abyss of death."

Her papers are also available at the IWM:

Private Papers of Mrs A D Deacon MBE

Regards ...

 

Does anyone have any upto date information, it would be great to find out what really happened to our uncle, especially for the older members of the family.

 

This is everyone who was killed on D-Day buried in Ranville Churchyard his death may be connected to Gnr. Bicknell who was Royal Artillery attached to H.Q. 6th Airborne Division.

Hall was a qualified paratrooper so either landed by parachute or glider "Keen, intelligent, hard worker-very good show"

 

Thankyou for your reply, I guess we’re no further forward, is there any definate way to find out what mission is was on etc, now we have freedom of information act

 

My current theory with regard Bdr Henry Hall is that he was probably with the FOO party attached to 8 Para with no evidence found so far that he arrived and died on June 5th. See page 19 for thoughts on the Henry Hall mystery in my "FOO & FOB Detachments D-Day" PDF. Page 5 also contains info on the 8th Parachute Battalion No.2 FOO Detachment.

Regards ...

 

Bit late to this one but the casualty lists state that 271185 Lieut T Deacon was initially reported 'Dangerously ill' 3.6.44, the theatre is 'Home'. The list is dated 5.6.44.

Details here: