20 April 2010

533671 Staff Sgt Robert Metherell, RAC

533671 Staff Sergeant Robert Metherell of the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 20th April 1940. He was 43 years old, the son of Robert and Jessie Metherell, and the husband of Dorothy Metherell, of Clifton, York. He is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery in Israel.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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