Royal Navy War Grave Photos for Reference

CHIEF STOKER ALFRED HENRY BLYTH
Service Number: C/308328
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Pembroke.

Date of Death
Died 08 May 1944

Age 56 years old

Buried or commemorated at
TOTTENHAM CEMETERY

North Sec. Grave 7526.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Henry and Elizabeth Blyth, of Tottenham; husband of Gertrude Annie Blyth, of Tottenham.
• Personal InscriptionNOT JUST TODAY BUT EVERY DAY IN SILENCE I'LL REMEMBER. SADLY MISSED

 

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
Name: Alfred Henry Blyth
Death Date: 8 May 1944
Death Place: London, England
Probate Date: 6 Jul 1944
Probate Registry: Llandudno

 

ABLE SEAMAN STANLEY EDWARD BARKER
Service Number: C/JX 140663
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.M.T.B. 46.

Date of Death
Died 19 September 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at
TOTTENHAM CEMETERY

North Sec. Grave 6946.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of John and Annie Barker, of Tottenham.

 

ABLE SEAMAN SAMUEL SHEPHARD
Service Number: D/JX284953
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.M.G. 332.

Date of Death
Died 31 July 1942

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at
TOTTENHAM CEMETERY

North Sec. Grave 7069.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of George and Mary Shephard; husband of Elsie May Shephard, of Tottenham.
• Personal InscriptionTO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE

 

LEADING STOKER JOHN LESLIE LEWIS
Service Number: C/KX93786
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Hornet.

Date of Death
Died 09 May 1942

Buried or commemorated at
TOTTENHAM CEMETERY

North Sec. Grave 7107.

United Kingdom
Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom

 

UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960
Name: Stanley Edward Barker
Event: Death
Birth Date: 26 Sep 1917
Birth Place: Edmonton, London
Death Date: 14 Sep 1942
Death Age: 24



Name: Samuel Shephard
Event: Death
Birth Date: 4 Feb 1907
Birth Place: Hackney, London
Death Date: 31 Jul 1942
Death Age: 35



Name: John Leslie Lewis
Event: Death
Birth Date: 13 Jan 1920
Birth Place: Tottenham, London, Middx.
Death Date: 9 May 1942
Death Age: 22

 

ABLE SEAMAN ROBERT CHARLES LINDSEY RUFF
Service Number: P/JX172285
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Victory

Date of Death
Died 10 March 1941

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at
REDDITCH (ABBEY ROAD) CEMETERY

Plot 1. Row X. Grave 8.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Herbert Lindsey Ruff and Elizabeth Adelaide (Lysbeth) Ruff, of Redditch.
• Personal InscriptionALSO LYSBETH, HIS MOTHER DIED 14TH MAY 1941

 

BOY 1ST CLASS CYRIL ALFRED HENRY LEACH
Service Number: P/JX16322
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Barham

Date of Death
Died 25 March 1943

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at
REDDITCH (ABBEY ROAD) CEMETERY

Plot 4. Row A.K. Grave 34.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of John and Lillian Leach, of Redditch.

 

ABLE SEAMAN HERBERT THOMAS CARTER
Service Number: P/JX282765
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Vernon.

Date of Death
Died 05 September 1944

Buried or commemorated at
WEST HAM CEMETERY

Plot S.W. Grave B.24.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of George John and Susannah Carter; husband of May Alexandra Carter, of Custom House.
• Personal InscriptionFOR KING AND COUNTRY. AT REST

 

In Ocklynge Cemetery, Eastbourne.

A BELOVED MOTHER
ANNIE SYLVESTER SAULL
DIED FEBRUARY 13TH 1949 IN HER 74TH YEAR
ALSO IN MEMORY OF A GALLANT SON
RONALD HENRY. LIEUT. R.N.V.R
KILLED SERVING HIS COUNTRY
MAY 12TH 1945. AGED 32
MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES OCT 1944
POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED
GEORGE CROSS AND BAR 1945 BURIED IN HOLLAND​

 

Lieutenant D Kirkland RNVR and Lieutenant R H Saull RNVR, both HMS Odyssey carrying out bomb and mine-disposal work in Holland 1944/45, were killed at Rotterdam on 12 May 1945. At the time, they are believed to have been serving with NP 1747. Lieutenant-Commander G H Goodman, HMS Vernon, killed on 31 May 1945 near Den Haag, may also have been serving with NP 1747, but this has not been confirmed. They are commemorated in the Dutch EOD Museum at Soesterberg - with thanks to retired Dutch EOD Captain Antoon Meijers. Credit: Naval History site: Naval Party, Royal Navy, 1942-1991 by Ben Warlow

Regards
Hugh

 

STOKER 1ST CLASSWALLACE EDGAR REES
Service Number: D/K14927
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Paris.

Date of Death
Died 20 July 1944

Age 55 years old

Buried or commemorated at
KINGSLAND (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD

S.E. of church.

United Kingdom

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Husband of Charlotte Mary Rees, of Ivington.

 

P/JX 217628 Ordinary Seaman ALFRED HARRIS
Royal Navy
Died 17 April 1941
Age 21 years old
Buried or commemorated at CLOPHILL (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD AND EXTENSION
Son of Herbert and Sarah Ann Harris, of Clophill.


Lovely sentiment at the foot of his grave. Although according to the grave he had been serving on the minesweeper HMS Elgin, he was ashore when killed in a serious air raid on Portsmouth.

Old St. Mary Church gained some ghoulish notoriety in the 1960s: St Mary's Church, Clophill - Wikipedia

 

P/J 93246 Leading Telegraphist ERIC ARTHUR SMITH
Royal Navy
Died 30 November 1943
Age 40 years old
Buried or commemorated at FLITWICK CHURCH BURIAL GROUND
Son of Arthur and Rebecca Smith, of Flitwick.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2705966/eric-arthur-smith/



Eric had signed-up as Boy, 2nd class at 15, just weeks before the armistice in 1918.

Although his headstone records his ship as HMS Hood he obviously did not meet the same fate met by most of his shipmates – he had in fact been invalided from her in October 1940 with pulmonary tuberculosis. As a Leading Telegraphist on Vice-Admiral Somerville’s flagship he would nevertheless have had a ringside view of the building tensions at Mers el-Kébir on that fateful day.

Name Smith, Eric Arthur Official Number: J93246 Place of Birth: Ampthill,... | The National Archives
Name: Eric Arthur Smith . Official Number: J. 93246 . Date of Birth: 28 January 1903... | The National Archives

 

New headstone. This had taken a few years since I reported it


PETTY OFFICER ALBERT SIDNEY BUTTON
Service Number: C/JX 128618
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Rowley.

Date of Death
Died 13 April 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at
WATFORD CEMETERY

Sec. E. Uncons. Row 1. Grave 104A.

United Kingdom

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Son of Albert Sidney and Florence Button, of Watford; husband of Peggy H. Button, of Oxhey, Watford.
• Personal Inscription "THY WILL BE DONE"

 

New headstone
AIR FITTER (E)OWEN WALTER HENRY SOLE
Service Number: FX/98201
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy

H.M.S. Dipper

Date of Death
Died 16 June 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at
WATFORD CEMETERY

Sec. D. Cons. Row 2. Grave 749.

United Kingdom

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Son of Walter Henry and Florence B. Sole, of Watford.
• Personal Inscription "IN GOD'S KEEPING" THE SWEETEST OF MEMORIES WILL EVER REMAIN