The Lincolnshire Regiment

221

Name: STAMP, ROBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 4801073
Date of Death: 18/03/1943
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL

Enlisted the Lincolnshire Regiment 27/3/1934

Cause of Death: Reported missing, killed in action.

 

222

Name: WADE, ARTHUR
Rank: Private
Service No: 4801456
Date of Death: 18/03/1943
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Arthur and Katie Wade, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.

Enlisted the Lincolnshire Regiment 12/6/1935

Cause of Death: Reported missing and believed killed in action.

 

223

Name: WHITEHOUSE, HARRY
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 156237
Date of Death: 18/03/1943
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
Unit: attd. 1st Bn Lincolnshire Regiment
Panel Reference: Face 5.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Benjamin and Amelia Whitehouse; husband of Blanche Matilda Whitehouse, of Birkenhead.

Commissioned into The Kings Regiment 19/11/1940. Date of transfer to The Lincolnshire Regiment, not known.

Cause of death: Reported missing and believed killed in action.





From CWGC

 

From the Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 03 April 1943

 

Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian - Saturday 03 April 1943

 

224

Name: DEARLOVE, FRED
Rank: Private
Service No: 7888744
Date of Death: 19/03/1943
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 4. A. 10.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Charles Henry and Adelaide Dearlove, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Jennie Dearlove, of Holbeck, Leeds.

Originally enlisted in the Royal Tanks Regiment (date not known)

Cause of Death: Reported missing.

 

225

Name: WAUGH, JOHN ARTHUR PETER
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 114108
Date of Death: 21/03/1943
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn. attd. 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 12. H. 8.
Cemetery: MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Maj. Frederick Arthur Waugh and Zara Nathalie Waugh; husband of Barbara Cecilia Mary Waugh.

Cause of Death: Fatally wounded during a recce, as a result of shelling.

From 6 Lincolns War Diary. Recorded with the rank of Captain.



SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 4 JULY, 1941

The undermentioned 2nd Lts. to be Lts.ist July 1941: — Lincoln Regiment.

C. E. Withers (114117).
P. H. W. Clarke (112830).
J. A. P. Waugh (114108)

 

226

Name: PRICE, JOHN WILLIAM
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 4803099
Date of Death: 28/03/1943
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 2. A. 11.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted the Lincolnshire Regiment 1939 (Pre WW2)

Cause of Death: Died of Wounds

Nominal Roll page missing.

 

Major Charles Ferguson Hoey, VC
Canadian
KIA, February 16, 1944

Born,March 29, 1914
Duncan, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Unit: Lincolnshire Regiment, British Army
Buried:TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY, Rangoon, Burma

He’d previously earned the MM, or Military Medal, at Maungdaw, Burma [now Myanmar] in July 1943 for “his complete disregard for his personal safety".

His Victoria Cross cost him his life.
Charles Hoey’s VC, awarded him in May 1944, was awarded posthumously.

On February 16, 1944, “Major Hoey’s company formed a part of a force which was ordered to capture a position [near the Ngakyedauk Pass, Arakan] at all costs. After a night march through enemy-held territory, the force was met at the foot of the position by heavy machine-gun fire.

Hoey led the charge, firing from the hip

“Major Hoey personally led his company under heavy machine-gun fire and rifle fire right up to the objective. Although wounded at least twice in the leg and head, he seized a Bren gun from one of his men and firing from the hip, led his company on to the objective. In spite of his wounds the company had difficulty keeping up with him, and Major Hoey reached the enemy strong post first, where he killed all the occupants before being mortally wounded.

“Major Hoey’s outstanding gallantry and leadership, his total disregard of personal safety and his grim determination to reach the objective resulted in the capture of this vital position.”

Awarded his VC posthumously, Charles Hoey, 29, was the Cowichan Valley’s sole Victoria Cross holder of both world wars. He’s buried in the Taukkyan War Cemetery outside Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Burma (Myanmar). His Victoria Cross is on display at the Sabraon Barrack in Lincoln, England and the altar rail in the Lincoln Cathedral is in his memory and that of Capt. J. Brunt, VC, MC.

While serving with the Royal Canadian Scottish Regiment, RCIC, seven weeks after D-Day and just four months after Charles’s death, younger brother Lieut. Trevor Ferguson Hoey was killed in France. Both Hoeys are listed on the Duncan Cenotaph and on the Cenotaph at St. Peter’s Church, Quamichan.

Besides Charles Hoey, VC School, Charles is memorialized by a small downtown Duncan park where, each August, members of the Burma Star Association hold a memorial service after an earlier service at the Burma Star cairn in Cowichan River Provincial Park. This monument honours the so-called Forgotten Army, British soldiers whose war against the Japanese in Burma has been overshadowed by the European war.

 

Thanks canuck. I've got all of details and citations when I went to the National Archives at Kew a few years ago. He won the Military Cross, not the MM. I went to Lincoln to photograph the medal group, but the law of sod happened that day. It was closed.

His details will be posted in the coming year.

 

227

Name: BALDERSON, FRED
Rank: Private
Service No: 4809805
Date of Death: 30/03/1943
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 1. A. 18.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Minnie Balderson, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment between August to December 1940.

Cause of Death: Killed in Action.

 

228

Name: BASKER, FRANK
Rank: Private
Service No: 4808277
Date of Death: 30/03/1943
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 1. A. 9.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Frank and Gertrude Mary Basker; husband of Grace Edna Basker, of Waddington, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment between August to December 1940.

Cause of Death: Killed in Action.

 

229

Name: BROMPTON, ALFRED
Rank: Private
Service No: 4809832
Date of Death: 30/03/1943
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 1. A. 17.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of James and Edith Louise Brompton, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment between August to December 1940.

Cause of Death: Killed in Action.

 

230

Name: GIBSON, DAVID
Rank: Private
Service No: 4809408
Date of Death: 30/03/1943
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 1. A. 14.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of David and Elizabeth Gibson; husband of Irene Gibson, of Kidderminster, Worcestershire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment between August to December 1940.

Cause of Death: Killed in Action.

 

231

Name: METTAM, EDWARD ALBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 4809790
Date of Death: 30/03/1943
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 1. A. 23.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Annie Mettam, of Bassingham, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment between August to December 1940.

Cause of Death: Killed in Action.

 

232

Name: SUMMERS, EDWIN CECIL
Rank: Private
Service No: 7930475
Date of Death: 30/03/1943
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 1. A. 15.
Cemetery: TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Robert George and Elizabeth Jane Summers; husband of Lilian May Summers, of Kingswood, Bristol.

Enlisted into The Royal Armoured Corp. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known

Cause of Death: Killed in Action.

 

233

Name: JACKSON, GEORGE HENRY RAYMOND
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4801391
Date of Death: 31/03/1943
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 16.
Memorial: MEDJEZ-EL-BAB MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Harry and Ada Jackson; husband of Mildred Jackson, of Blackburn, Lancashire.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 29/4/1935.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

From the Worthing Herald - Friday 09 April 1943

 

234

Name: PERRY, JOHN WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 4804907
Date of Death: 04/04/1943
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Grave Reference: N.E. of church.
Cemetery: UPPER GORNAL (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Dorothy Perry, of Upper Gornal.

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regiment 1939/40

Cause of Death: Died as a result, training in the Airborne Forces



Commemorated in St. Peter's, Upper Gornal.

 

235

Name: DAVIES, OLIVER GEORGE
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4804804
Date of Death: 08/04/1943
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. D. 18.
Cemetery: BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA
Additional Information: Son of David William and Gladys Louisa Davies, of Barry Island, Glamorgan; husband of Ivy Maude Davies, of Barry Island.

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regiment 1939/40

Cause of Death: Died