The Lincolnshire Regiment

998

Name: DAWSON, MAURICE EDWARD
Rank: Captain
Service No: 117926
Date of Death: 22/10/1944
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment attd. King's African Rifles
Panel Reference: Face 6.
Memorial: RANGOON MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Charles Boothby Dawson and Mabel Annie Dawson, of Louth, Lincolnshire.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE. LONDON GAZETTE,. 16. FEBRUARY, 1940
Commisioned into The Lincolnshire Regiment.

Cause of death: Missing, presumed killed in action in Burma.

Commemorated on The Louth War Memorial.

 

999

Name: FLANAGHAN, ANTHONY
Rank: Private
Service No: 4546944
Date of Death: 30/10/1944
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: Grave 2.
Cemetery: NIEUW GINNEKEN (ULVENEHOUT) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Additional Information: (Served as Frederick KELLY).

Enlisted into The West Yorkshire Regiment and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date known.

Cause of death: Missing and then reported killed in action in the Mastbos Woods close to Breda, Netherlands.





From the War Diary of 4 Lincolns.

 

1000

Name: GREEN, ERNEST
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4798639
Date of Death: 02/11/1944
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: Grave 1124.
Cemetery: WARSOP URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL CEMETERY

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 19/9/1927.

Captured in Norway 22/4/1940.
Repatriated to The UK 26/10/1943.
Discharged Para 390 (XVI) Kings Regulations 1940 - 8/3/1944.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1001


Name: PICK, TOM EDWARD CHRISTOPHER
Rank: Private
Service No: 4810069
Date of Death: 03/11/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: II. C. 6.
Cemetery: OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Tom Henry T. and Martha Pick, of Boston, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1940.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1002

Name: IVORY, ALFRED THOMAS
Rank: Private
Service No: 5390910
Date of Death: 05/11/1944
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: Row C. Grave 5.
Cemetery: ROOSENDAAL-EN-NISPEN ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Enlisted into The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and transferred into The Lincolnshire Regiment, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1003

Name: CHARSLEY, ARTHUR ROY
Rank: Private
Service No: 14618228
Date of Death: 06/11/1944
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 3.
Memorial: GROESBEEK MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Arthur and Florence Charsley, of Brixton, London.

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

Cause of death: Reported missing, now presumed killed in action.

 

1004

Name: SYSON, ALAN
Rank: Private
Service No: 14725298
Date of Death: 06/11/1944
Age: 18
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: Row C. Grave 4.
Cemetery: ROOSENDAAL-EN-NISPEN ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John William and Florence Beatrice Syson, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

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

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1005

Name: SMITH, SIDNEY JOHN WILFRED
Rank: Private
Service No: 1713276
Date of Death: 07/11/1944
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: V, A, 1.
Cemetery: CASERTA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Thomas James Smith and Norah Smith, or Liverpool.

Enlisted in The Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Died in Italy. Sick (Acute enteritus).

 

1006

Name: ANTHONY, IDRIS
Rank: Private
Service No: 13074161
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. C. 12.
Cemetery: SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Windsor and Sarah Gwen Anthony; husband of Margaret Annie Anthony, of Westerhope, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Enlisted in The Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1007

Name: BARDEN, WILLIAM HERBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 14404146
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. E. 9.
Cemetery: OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William George and Frances Gertrude Barden, of Northampton.

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

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1008

Name: JEFFREY, KENNETH
Rank: Private
Service No: 3866011
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. E. 8.
Cemetery: OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Edgar and Myrtle Jeffrey, of Waterfoot, Lancashire.

Enlisted in The Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1009

Name: PANTER, CECIL WILFRED
Rank: Private
Service No: 14215647
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. E. 7.
Cemetery: OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John and Ellen M. Panter, of Lavendon, Buckinghamshire.

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

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1010

Name: PREECE, DOUGLAS
Rank: Private
Service No: 3653303
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I, C, 12.
Cemetery: MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted in The The Prince of Wales' Volunteers Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1011

Name: SMITH, GEORGE HENRY
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4799957
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: III. A. 4.
Cemetery: MOOK WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regimental 26/1/1931.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1012

Name: STEPHENSON, JAY CICOTT
Rank: Private
Service No: BDA/18005072
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
Grave Reference: III. A. 3.
Cemetery: MOOK WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted in The Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1013

Name: WYATT, HERBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 1595968
Date of Death: 12/11/1944
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I, B, 12.
Cemetery: MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of James and Agnes Wyatt, of Thatto Heath, St. Helens, Lancashire.

Enlisted in The Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1014

Name: MESSAM, WILLIAM FREDERICK
Rank: Private
Service No: 1804094
Date of Death: 13/11/1944
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I, D, 13.
Cemetery: MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of F. W. and Lily Messam, of Hursley, Hampshire.

Enlisted in The Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1015

Name: BOCOCK, DENNIS
Rank: Private
Service No: 14638541
Date of Death: 14/11/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I, D, 12.
Cemetery: MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Charles Edward and Tiney Bocock, of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.

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

Cause of death: Killed in Action

 

1016

Name: WOMERSLEY, JOHN WALTER
Rank: Captain
Service No: 162355
Date of Death: 14/11/1944
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I, C, 13.
Cemetery: MELDOLA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter James Womersley, 1st Bt., P.C., and Lady Womersley, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire; husband of Betty Womersley, of Cleethorpes.

Commissioned into the Lincolns from OCTU as a 2nd Lieutenant– 21 December 1940.

Cause of death: Killed in action (Source – War Diary, 6 Lincolns)

(0200 hrs on the 15th November 1944) - It whilst leading his platoon onto CASETTA (Map Ref 368165) that Captain J.W. WOMERSLEY came under fire from enemy machine gun positions in the farm yard. Badly wounded, he urged his platoon into the attack. Unfortunately this brought more fire down on himself and he was killed soon after.

 

1017

Name: BUTLER, PERCY HORACE
Rank: Private
Service No: 6352950
Date of Death: 17/11/1944
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. G. 12.
Cemetery: NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted in The Royal West Kent Regiment Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.