The Lincolnshire Regiment

418

Name: JONES, ERNEST WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 5960600
Date of Death: 24/01/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the Beds & Herts Regiment)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, E, 4.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Frederick and Catherine Jones, of Edgware, Middlesex.

Originally enlisted in The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, date not known. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regiment date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.



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419

Name: KENDALL, JACK
Rank: Private
Service No: 14510460
Date of Death: 24/01/1944
Age: 35
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the General Service Corps)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, E, 6.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Calvin and Lucy Kendall; husband of Frances Eileen Kendall.

Conscripted into The General Service Corps 1942.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.



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420

Name: RIPLEY, CHARLES EDWARD
Rank: Private
Service No: 4758664
Date of Death: 24/01/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the York & Lancs Regiment)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, E, 5.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Walter and Emily Ripley, of Bramley, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Originally enlisted in The York & Lancaster Regiment Regiment, date not known. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regiment date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

Nominal Roll entry not found.

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421

Name: STEPPINGS, REGINALD THOMAS
Rank: Private
Service No: 4809205
Date of Death: 24/01/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Grave Reference: Grave 76.
Cemetery: TOTTENHAM CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Elizabeth A. Steppings, of Wood Green.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1940/41

Cause of Death: A soldier who has been found physically unfit by a medical board is discharged from Army service under King's Regulations, 1940, paragraph 390 (xvi) as "ceasing to fulfil Army physical requirements." (Discharge date 12/2/1942. Died under 2 years later)



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422

Name: GEORGE, GEOFFREY CHARLES
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 105243
Date of Death: 27/01/1944
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: VII, E, 21.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Edward Charles and Nora Isa George, of Sanderstead, Surrey.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 17 NOVEMBER, 1939

Commissioned and posted to The Lincolnshire Regiment

George Geoffrey Ely BENNETT(105240).
Geoffrey David COLE (105241).
Jack North EBBUTT (105242).
Geoffrey Charles GEORGE (105243).

Posted to 6 Lincolns 15/6/1943

Cause of Death: Died of wounds.



From 6 Lincolns War Diary (Battle of Italy).

 

423

Name: HADWIN, COLIN DAVID
Rank: Private
Service No: 14216983
Date of Death: 27/01/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the General Service Corps)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: VIII, B, 21.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of R. S. Hadwin, and of Mildred Hadwin, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Conscripted into The General Service Corps 1942.

Cause of death: Killed in action.



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424

Name: LEITH-HAY-CLARK, DONALD MASSINGBERD
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Trade: Pilot
Service No: 95249
Date of Death: 27/01/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Secondary Unit: Seconded from Lincolnshire Regiment
Grave Reference: XVII. D. 18.
Cemetery: CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Maj. Norman Leith-Hay-Clark and Alice Theodora Leith-Hay-Clark, of South Kensington, London. His brother Richard Langton Leith-Hay-Clark also died on service.

Cause of death: He was killed in action whilst flying Spitfire No. ER-653 from its base at Lago, Italy, on a Tactical Reconnaissance Mission, when his aircraft was brought down by enemy fire on 27 January 1944.

Medals: 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence & War Medals.

Details: Donald Massingberd

Surname: Leith-Hay-Clark

Rank: Flight Lieutenant (Pilot)

Regiment: RAF

Age: 24

Death: Killed in action

Place of Death: Western Europe - Italy

Date of Death: 27/01/1944

Year of Entry: 1933

Comments: Son of Major N Leith-Hay-Clark, OR, and younger brother of RL Leith-Hay-Clark

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link: http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2609088
Previous Regiment
Lincolnshire Regiment

Burial or Cemetery: Italy > Cassino War Cemetery
Archives:Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives

Post School: Sandhurst

Prep School: Spyway, Swanage
Radlein Obituary:
March 5 1944. Recorded as missing
June 18 1944. Missing on 19th Sept., I942, and now presumed killed. Richard Langton Leith-Hay-Clark (Nugee's, B, 1930~1933). Pilot Officer, R.A.F.V.R. Also, killed in action on 27th Jan., 1944. Donald Massingberd Leith-Hay-Clark (Nugee's, B, 1933-36), Flight Lieut., RA.F. They were the sons of Major N. Leith-Hay-Clark, O.R. The elder one went to Cirencester Agricultural College in order to become a Land Agent. He joined the R.A.F.V.R and became an enthusiastic airman. He was at Radley not long before he was posted missing and it was good to see how all his keenness, and he always had much, was now for the service he had joined. The younger one went to Sandhurst and joined the Lincolnshire Regt. He was in India for the first two years of the war, out finding that was too dull he came home and was transferred to the R.A.F. Both these boys had a real spirit of enterprise, the stuff of which fighting men are made; they were the kind who would fight their machines to the end. Our very real sympathy goes to their parents in the loss of both their sons so soon after each other.

Service Number: 9524

Listed in The Lincolnshire Regiment Roll of Honour, held at Lincoln Cathedral.

 

425

Name: WELLESLEY, FRED
Rank: Private
Service No: 14280887
Date of Death: 27/01/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the General Service Corps)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: VIII, B, 20.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Percival John Wellesley, of Plumstead, London.

Conscripted into The General Service Corps 1942.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.



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426

Name: WRIGHT, DENNIS
Rank: Private
Service No: 4865208
Date of Death: 27/01/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the Leicestershire Regiment)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 4. E. 21.
Cemetery: DELY IBRAHIM WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Herbert and Sarah Ann Wright of Grimsbv, Lincolnshire.

Originally enlisted in The Leicestershire Regiment Regiment, date not known. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regiment date not known.

Cause of Death: Died as a result of an accident.

 

427

Name: DOWSE, WILLIAM
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4808182
Date of Death: 28/01/1944
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 5.
Memorial: CASSINO MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of William and Alice Dowse, of Metheringham, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1940.

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



Commemorated on the Metheringham War Memorial, Lincolnshire.

 

428

Name: BARNES, WILLIAM HENRY
Rank: Private
Service No: 4808280
Date of Death: 29/01/1944
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, G, 22.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Barnes; husband of Mary Eliza Barnes, of Ashby, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1940.

Cause of Death: Died. (No details)



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429

Name: LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4798597
Date of Death: 29/01/1944
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Awards: D C M
Grave Reference: V, G, 21.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

Originally enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regimeny 11/8/1927. Re-enlisted 15/11/1940.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.





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Awarded The D.C.M. LG 13/1/1943

See attached Citation.

 

430

Name: CURRELL, WILLIAM
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 6921851
Date of Death: 30/01/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the Rifle Brigade)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, G, 24.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William Thomas Currell and Florence Miriam Currell, of Earlsfield, London.

Originally enlisted in The Rifle Brigade Regiment, date not known. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regiment date not known.

Cause of Death: Died (No other details).



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431

Name: TURRELL, FRANK
Rank: Private
Service No: 5043590
Date of Death: 30/01/1944
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 12. A. 23.
Cemetery: EL ALIA CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of James Marsh Turrell and Jane Ann Turrell, of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.

Originally enlisted in The North Staffordshire Regiment T.A. Date not known. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regiment date not known.

Cause of Death: Died.

 

432

Name: PRIDDEY, ROBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 4038259
Date of Death: 06/02/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry)
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: 2. H. 7.
Cemetery: CHITTAGONG WAR CEMETERY

Cause of Death: Died ?

 

433

Name: CUMMINS, CHRISTOPHER
Rank: Private
Service No: 14415966
Date of Death: 07/02/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the General Service Corps)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 5.
Memorial: CASSINO MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Christopher Cummins, and of Treasa Cummins, of Crumlin, Dublin, Irish Republic.

Conscripted into The General Service Corps 1942.

Cause of Death: Reported missing, believed killed.

 

434

Name: BANKS, WALTER CEDRIC JOHN
Rank: Private
Service No: 6216381
Date of Death: 08/02/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the Middlesex Regiment)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 5.
Memorial: CASSINO MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of James Edward and Mabel Florence Banks, of Deptford, London.

Originally enlisted in The Middlesex Regiment. Date not known. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regiment date not known.

Cause of Death: Reported missing, believed killed.

 

435

Name: CLAYTON, JOSEPH
Rank: Private
Service No: 4806909
Date of Death: 08/02/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, L, 12.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regiment 1939.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.



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436

Name: FIRTH, WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 14623788
Date of Death: Between 08/02/1944 and 09/02/1944
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment (Formerly of the General Service Corps)
Unit: 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 5.
Memorial: CASSINO MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Husband of M. Firth, of Greengates, Yorkshire.

Conscripted into The General Service Corps 1942.

Cause of Death: Killed in action (between 8-9/2/1944)

 

437

Name: GALE, ROGER
Rank: Private
Service No: 14531713 (Formerly of the General Service Corps)
Date of Death: 08/02/1944
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: "H" Coy., 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, L, 11.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John Plowright Gale, and of Edith Merryweather Gale, of Leasingham, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The General Service Corps 1942.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.



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Commemorated on The Leasingham War Memorial