The Lincolnshire Regiment

509

Name: SULLIVAN, DENNIS PATRICK
Rank: Private
Service No: 4806456
Date of Death: 07/04/1944
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Coll. grave 4. K. 1-5.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1939.

Cause of Death:

 

510

Name: VAUGHAN-POWELL, GEOFFREY RHYS
Rank: Captain
Service No: 165677
Date of Death: 07/04/1944
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)
Unit: attd. 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
Grave Reference: Coll. grave 11. K. 1-17.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Rhys and Mabel Vaughan-Powell, of Kensington, London.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

511

Name: WIGGINS, ARTHUR
Rank: Private
Service No: 4753702
Date of Death: 07/04/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Coll. grave 11. K. 1-17.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William and Edith Wiggins, of Hyde Park, Leeds, Yorkshire. His brother Alan also died on service.

Enlisted into The York & Lancaster Regiment, date not known. Transferred into The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of Death: Died of wounds.

 

512

Name: YOUNGMAN, WALTER GEORGE
Rank: Private
Service No: 4750829
Date of Death: 07/04/1944
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Coll. grave 4. K. 1-5.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Walter and Amy Youngman; husband of Patricia Victoria Youngman, of Eltham, London.

Enlisted into The York & Lancaster Regiment, date not known. Transferred into The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

513

Name: KILBURN, EDWIN
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 4742820
Date of Death: 08/04/1944
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Coll. grave 11. K. 1-17.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Herbert and Anne Kilburn; husband of May Kilburn, of Castleford, Yorkshire.

Enlisted into The York & Lancaster Regiment, date not known. Transferred into The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

514

Name: ALLDIS, FREDERICK HENRY
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 5950968
Date of Death: 26/04/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: 10. L. 3.
Cemetery: BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Frederick Leonard and Ellen Jessie Alldis, of Mile End, London.

Enlisted into The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, date not know.

Cause of Death: Died whilst a POW. Captured in 1940 (Belgium-France).

Photo from Smudger Jnr

 

515

Name: WELSH, LESLIE
Rank: Private
Service No: 4802979
Date of Death: 02/05/1944
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Herbert Ashlin Welsh and Florence Minnie Welsh, of Lincoln.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 6/3/1939.

Cause of Death: Died of wounds.

 

516

Name: BROWN, THOMAS HENRY
Rank: Private
Service No: 4801601
Date of Death: 03/05/1944
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Grave Reference: Sec. E. Grave 249.
Cemetery: SCUNTHORPE (CROSBY) CEMETERY

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 11/3/1936.

Cause of Death: Died of Malaria. (He was serving in 2nd Battalion, Lincolns, UK)



From Findagrave.

 

517

Name: DICKINSON, EDWIN ERNEST
Rank: Private
Service No: 4622121
Date of Death: 04/05/1944
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Harry and Eliza Dickinson; husband of Marjorie Noreen Dickinson, of York.

Enlisted into The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (The West Riding), date not know.

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

 

518

Name: JACKSON, GEORGE EDWARD
Rank: Private
Service No: 3133387
Date of Death: 04/05/1944
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of John and Lucy Jackson; husband of Lilian Elizabeth Jackson, of Battersea, London.

Enlisted into The Royal Scots Fusiliers, transferred to The South Staff and then to The Lincolns, date not know.

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

 

519

Name: MALIN, ALFRED THOMAS
Rank: Private
Service No: 4928776
Date of Death: 04/05/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Husband of Beatrice M. Malin, of Weoley Castle, Birmingham.

Enlisted into South Staffordshire Regiment and then to The Lincolns, date not know.

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





From the Lincolns Missing men files.

 

520

Name: STRONG, STANLEY
Rank: Private
Service No: 4922463
Date of Death: 04/05/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL

Enlisted into The South Staffordshire Regiment and then to The Lincolns, date not know.

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

 

521

Name: WILLIAMS, WILLIAM
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 4757737
Date of Death: 04/05/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Albert and Margaret Williams, of Balby, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Enlisted into The York & Lancaster Regiment, date not known. Transferred into The Lincolns, date not known.

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



Newspaper clipping from Forum Member Shin Gebis

 

522

Name: BEEKEN, ERNEST HARRY
Rank: Private
Service No: 4806088
Date of Death: 05/05/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regiment 1039 (Pre WW2)

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

 

523

Name: BORG, FELIX
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 5827382
Date of Death: 05/05/1944
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: 11. D. 8.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted into The Suffolk Regiment, date not known. Transferred into The Lincolns, date not known.


Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

524

Name: COWLES, HAROLD
Rank: Private
Service No: 5827861
Date of Death: 05/05/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: 12. C. 20.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted into The Suffolk Regiment, date not known. Transferred into The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

525

Name: GOODWIN, RICHARD VINCENT
Rank: Private
Service No: 14556901
Date of Death: 05/05/1944
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: 3. G. 8.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Richard and Patience Goodwin, of Stafford.

Conscripted into General Service Corps 1942 and transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

526

Name: GREGORY, WILLIAM EDWARD
Rank: Private
Service No: 4983988
Date of Death: 05/05/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: 7A. E. 27.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Anthony and Mary Jane Gregory; husband of Ada Gladys Gregory, of Cossall, Nottinghamshire.

Enlisted into The Sherwood Foresters, date not known. Transferred into The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

527

Name: JAMES, FRANK HENRY
Rank: Private
Service No: 14588502
Date of Death: 05/05/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. James, of Worcester.

Conscripted into General Service Corps 1942 and transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.

 

528

Name: LEDGER, HERBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 4804837
Date of Death: 05/05/1944
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: 7A. D. 12.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Joseph Frank Ledger, and of Annie Ledger, of Bilton, Hull, Yorkshire.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1938/39.

Cause of Death: Killed in action.