Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery - Roll of Honour, 1939-47

MEPHAM, HERBERT LEONARD
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
11260255
Date of Death:
06/12/1944
Age:
43
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
148 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. 1. Grave 15.
Cemetery:
FULHAM PALACE ROAD CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Nelson and Emily Mepham; husband of Mary Mepham, of Chertsey, Surrey.

 

BADDOCK, LEONARD HARRY
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
871974
Date of Death:
07/04/1942
Age:
21
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
517 Coast Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. 2C. Row D. Jt. grave 1. Screen wall. Panel 1.
Cemetery:
FULHAM PALACE ROAD CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Mabel Baddock, husband of Doris Margaret Baddock, of Fulham

 

DAVIS, PETER HENRY
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
2076487
Date of Death:
10/07/1940
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
268 Bty., 67 (2/5th Bn. The East Surrey Regt.) Anti-Tank Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. 2C. Row F. Grave 21. Screen wall. Panel 1.
Cemetery:
FULHAM PALACE ROAD CEMETERY

 

HARMER, WILLIAM THOMAS
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
1597756
Date of Death:
10/08/1944
Age:
26
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
365 Bty., 83 Searchlight Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. 1. Grave 12.
Cemetery:
FULHAM PALACE ROAD CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Husband of Marguerite Harmer, of Skewen, Glamorgan.

 

PERRY, ALBERT PATRICK
Rank:
Lance Serjeant
Service No:
3186778
Date of Death:
17/05/1942
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
314 Bty., 29 Searchlight Regt.
Awards:
Mentioned in Despatches
Grave Reference:
Sec. 6C. Row K. Grave 4. Screen wall. Panel 3.
Cemetery:
FULHAM PALACE ROAD CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Foster-son of William and Violet Lee, of Fulham.

 

POCOCK, WILLIAM WALTER
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
1080952
Date of Death:
18/03/1946
Age:
32
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
176 Field Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. 2A. Row C. Grave 4. Screen wall. Panel 3.
Cemetery:
FULHAM PALACE ROAD CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of William and Helen Pocock, of Fulham; husband of Doris Minnie Pocock, of West Kensington.

 

REED, JOHN
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
1542562
Date of Death:
09/02/1946
Age:
31
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
Grave Reference:
Grave J.1.
Cemetery:
PLUMBLAND (ST. CUTHBERT) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Son of Robert and Mary H. Reed; husband of Joan Reed, of Parsonby.

 

FELL, HARRY
Rank:
Lance Serjeant
Service No:
1697577
Date of Death:
03/05/1941
Age:
30
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
204 Bty., 68 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. K. Ward 1. Grave 84.
Cemetery:
WIGTON CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Alfred and Hannah Fell, of Wigton; husband of Edith Fell, of Wigton.

 

ASBRIDGE, RICHARD
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
1145482
Date of Death:
23/05/1944
Age:
40
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
3 Field Regt.
Grave Reference:
XI. K. 14.
Cemetery:
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Richard and Sarah Ann Asbridge; husband of Edith Asbridge, of Wigton, Cumberland.

Remembered Wigton cemetery Cumbria.

His brother also died WW2.
ASBRIDGE, GEORGE WILLIAM
Rank:
Able Seaman
Service No:
C/JX 125195
Date of Death:
11/03/1943
Age:
34
Regiment/Service:
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Harvester
Panel Reference:
68, 2.
Memorial:
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Richard and Sarah Ann Asbridge; husband of Ruby Florence Asbridge, of Lichfield, Staffordshire.

 

PATTINSON, ROBERT WILLIAM
Rank:
Lance Bombardier
Service No:
1439049
Date of Death:
15/11/1942
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
2 Bty., 1 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Grave Reference:
3. C. 4.
Cemetery:
HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Thomas William and Grace Pattinson, of Waverton, Cumberland.

Remembered Wigton cemetery Cumbria

 

MILLER, JOHN
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
1514995
Date of Death:
09/05/1942
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
203 Bty. 51 Anti-Tank Regt.
Grave Reference:
4. C. 14.
Cemetery:
KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Miller, of Wigton, Cumberland.

Remembered Wigton cemetery Cumbria.

From Ancestry details on how he died.
Royal Artillery Gunner John Miller the son of Thomas Miller and Elizabeth nee Stokey, of Wigton Cumberland, was shot by a German guard for smoking a cigarette on 9th May 1942 at Prisoner of War Camp BAB 20 (From November 1944 became E 794 ) a camp that made up part of the massive Blechhammer Konzentration Lager / Arbeits Lager complex in Ober Silesia, Poland. BAB 20 was situated at Reigersfeld, Heydebreck. which was at Blechhammer South. After the war his body was exhumed along with others and reburied at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Rakowicki Cemetery in Kracow, Poland. Grave 4.C.14.

 

WILLIAMSON, PERCY
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
4535273
Date of Death:
14/01/1944
Age:
26
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
9 Field Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. H. Ward 6. Grave 2A.
Cemetery:
WIGTON CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of William Pattinson Williamson and Esther Williamson, of Wigton; husband of Betsy Williamson.

 

1439049 PATTISON Robert William L/Bdr enlisted in RA in 1938. He died as a result of an accident. His casualty card records the cause of death as fractured skull and meningitis.

 

HOWARD, BENJAMIN

Farm labourer, born 18 May 1903, Steyning, West Sussex, attested RA 27 August 1923 at Chichester, West Sussex

Rank: Gunner
Service No: 1425716
Date of Death: 27/08/1942 [Note: in UK as a result of accident]
Age: 39
Regiment: Royal Artillery 154 (The Leicestershire Yeomanry) Field Regt
Cemetery: BOTOLPHS (ST. BOTOLPH) CHURCHYARD
Son of Richard and Emily Howard, of Steyning; husband of Rose Howard, of Steyning

Casualty details
http://www.paoyeomanry.co.uk/PM/LYWW2RA154.htm

 

ELCOME, LESLIE GEORGE

Rank: Gunner
Service No: 14564984
Date of Death: 07/11/1947
Age: 42
Regiment: Royal Artillery 408 Bty., 53 (5th Bn. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Searchlight Regt
Grave Reference: Sec. G. Grave 55
Cemetery: Roffey Cemetery, Horsham, West Sussex 51.076755, -0.292470
Son of George and Catherine Elcome, of Roffey, Horsham; husband of Alice May Elcome, of Roffey, Horsham.

Casualty details

 

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ASLETT, ARTHUR CHARLES RICHARD
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
1776506
Date of Death:
Between 10/05/1941 and 11/05/1941
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
Grave Reference:
Sec. L.5. Jt. Grv. RN.57261. Screen wall. Panel 9.
Cemetery:
ABNEY PARK CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Arthur George and Emily Ada Aslett; husband of Mary Aslett, of Islington.

 

DANN, WILLIAM JAMES
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
895448
Date of Death:
15/10/1945
Age:
25
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
67 (2/5th Bn. The East Surrey Regt.) Anti-Tank Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. N.10. Grave RN.61659. Screen wall. Panel 9.
Cemetery:
ABNEY PARK CEMETERY

 

DRAIN, GEORGE
Rank:
Gunner
Service No:
1090899
Date of Death:
04/08/1945
Age:
35
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
80 Searchlight Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. N.9. Jt. Grv. RN.61515. Screen wall. Panel 10
Cemetery:
ABNEY PARK CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Charles and Susannah Drain; husband of Lily Drain, of Lower Clapton.

 

EMERSON, ALBERT EDWARD
Rank:
Serjeant
Service No:
6619418
Date of Death:
24/11/1944
Age:
34
Regiment/Service:
Royal Artillery
84 H.A.A. Regt.
Grave Reference:
Sec. N.8. Grave RN.60670. Screen wall. Panel 10.
Cemetery:
ABNEY PARK CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Albert Richard and Ellen Emerson; husband of Rose Lilian Emerson, of Stoke Newington.