The Lincolnshire Regiment

670

Name: FITCH, GEORGE WALTER
Rank: Private
Service No: 5341548
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 7.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of George Walter and Lucy Isabella Fitch, of Poplar, London.

Enlisted into The Royal Berkshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

671

Name: FUSSEY, ALAN
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4541686
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 19.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Robert Pickering Fussey and Ada Fussey, of Preston, Hull, Yorkshire; husband of Constance Fussey, of Preston.

Enlisted into The West Yorkshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action

 

672

Name: GILBERT, WILLIAM
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4799655
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: I. C. 28.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Husband of Lily Gilbert, of Bilston, Staffordshire.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 23/5/1930

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

673

Name: GOVANS, THOMAS WALTER
Rank: Private
Service No: 1568184
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 1.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Hugh and Susan Gorman Govans; husband of Mary Margaret Govans, of Marnock, Ayrshire.

Enlisted into The Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft) and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

674

Name: GRANTHAM, FREDERICK ALFRED ERNEST
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 14427549
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 18
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: V. H. 16.
Cemetery: ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX

Conscripted into General Service Corps 1942. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

675

Name: HALL, ARTHUR
Rank: Private
Service No: 14661068
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 5.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Bernard and Edith Hall, of Leeds, Yorkshire.

Conscripted into General Service Corps 1942. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

676

Name: HALL, WILLIAM SMITH
Rank: Private
Service No: 4798895
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 11.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Ernest Werren Hall and Mary Ann Hall, of West Kensington, London.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 21/3/1928

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

677

Name: HEARN, FRANK
Rank: Private
Service No: 5510535
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 16.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Joseph and Agnes Hearn, of Chesham, Buckinghamshire; husband of Phyllis Hetty Hearn, of Chesham.

Enlisted into The Hampshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.





Chesham War Memorial (Thanks from CL1)

 

678

Name: HUDSON, SIDNEY
Rank: Private
Service No: 977178
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. C. 25.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of George Donald and Charlotte Elizabeth Hudson, of Colby, Norfolk.

Enlisted into The Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft) and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

679

Name: HUNT, RONALD JAMES
Rank: Private
Service No: 14650737
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. C. 26.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Eliza Hunt, and stepson of Thomas Alfred Baker, of Islington, London.

Conscripted into General Service Corps 1942. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

680

Name: HUTCHINS, WILLIAM FRED
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II
Trade: C.S.M.
Service No: 5493527
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit:: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 15.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William Fred and Elizabeth Hutchins; husband of Constance Eileen Hutchins, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.

Enlisted into The Hampshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

681

Name: LEE, WALTER CHARLES
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 5341475
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 8.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Alfred and Hester Lee; husband of Lilian Victoria Maria Lee, of Acton, Middlesex.

Enlisted into The Royal Berkshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

682

Name: LORD, ALFRED WILLIAM
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 5341510
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: I. C. 33.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Alfred George and Violet Lord, of Stoke Newington, London.

Enlisted into The Royal Berkshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

683

Name: MAGSON, ALBERT REGINALD
Rank: Private
Service No: 14661095
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 20.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Gordon Henry and Eveline Lucy Magson, of Appleton-le-Street, Yorkshire.

Conscripted into General Service Corps 1942. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

684

Name: NEEDHAM, ERNEST
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4806310
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. C. 31.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John William and Ann Elizabeth Needham; husband of Florence Maud Needham, of Lincoln.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1940 (Pre WW2)

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

685

Name: PAULSON, WALTER
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 2567682
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 13, Column 2.
Memorial: BAYEUX MEMORIAL

Enlisted into The Royal Corps of Signals and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment 10/9/1932. Transferred to RAOC 20/9/1941. Transferred back to The Lincolns 17/12/1942.

Cause of death: Missing. Now reported missing, presumed died of wounds.

 

686

Name: PEBODY, ALAN GEORGE
Rank: Private
Service No: 5891406
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: XIV. A. 23.
Cemetery: BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Leonard G. and Henrietta B. Pebody, of Northampton.

Enlisted into The Northampshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

687

Name: QUINN, DOUGLAS
Rank: Private
Service No: 14209746
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: XXVI. A. 14.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

Conscripted into General Service Corps 1942. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Presumed killed in action.

 

688

Name: RIMES, FREDERICK ARTHUR
Rank: Private
Service No: 4800414
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. C. 35.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Martin and Netta Rimes; husband of Audrey Joyce Rimes, of Anerley, London.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1938

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

689

Name: RINGHAM, FRANK
Rank: Private
Service No: 4804509
Date of Death: 08/07/1944
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. B. 3.
Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John Thomas Ringham and Sarah Elizabeth Ringham, of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1939 (Pre WW2)

Cause of death: Killed in action.