7 August 2015

Remembering 7th August 1945


Remembering the following men and women who lost their lives seventy years ago today on the 7th August 1945.

His Majesty's Forces - Great Britain

DN/24678 Private Adani Baskolo, King's African Rifles
1700399 Gunner Arthur Attewell, Royal Artillery aged 35
14755540 Private Arthur Bottomley, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry aged 19
198723 Pilot Officer Colin Rex Branch, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 23
1556489 Serjeant William Clifford Braybrook, Royal Artillery aged 43
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Kenneth Victor Breed, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve aged 19
1372824 Leading Aircraftman David Alexander Fraser Bruce, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 33
1086737 Gunner Sidney Harry Buckley, Royal Artillery aged 26
14631090 Private Donald Sidney Camp, Hampshire Regiment aged 20
1131197 Leading Aircraftman John Carter, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 24
198111 Pilot Officer Charles Richard Chancellor, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 21
D/K 1465 Chief Stoker Philip Henry Chapple, Royal Navy aged 55
1881620 Sergeant Terence William Clarke, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 38
14302672 Signalman Donald Stuart Clelland, Royal Corps of Signals aged 21
1322196 Warrant Officer Douglas Richard Cook, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 21
1902918 Aircraftman 2nd Class John Cronin, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 20
14716579 Gunner Stanley George Dezell, Royal Artillery aged 21
1606328 Private William Dobson, Royal Sussex Regiment aged 36
M/7645 Private Filomen Abel, East African Army Medical Corps
1277913 Leading Aircraftman William Finch, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 38
GC/25283 Private A K Fynn, West African Army Service Corps, R.W.A.F.F.
14450923 Private John William Gough, Monmouthshire Regiment
863362 Gunner Edward M. Greene, Royal Artillery
4973230 Gunner William Hallam, Royal Artillery 28
14992173 Private Frank Hammersley, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) aged 20
14871151 Private Robert George A. Hart, South Staffordshire Regiment aged 22
2035224 Lance Serjeant Frederick Maurice Head, Royal Artillery
14715413 Private Ernest Jackson, Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) aged 19
14382816 Gunner James Johnson, Royal Artillery aged 23
7264858 Corporal David S. Jones, Royal Army Medical Corps aged 30
FAA/FX. 575500 Leading Airman Neville Mallin Jones, Royal Navy aged 20
46057 Private Kigure Isaka, East African Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
1801143 Flight Sergeant John Frederick Kirk, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 23
5110808 Driver Wilfred Lewis, Royal Corps of Signals aged 22
LT/JX 335890 Seaman Ernest Longden, Royal Naval Patrol Service aged 22
AS/7602 Private Ramosonko Makhaola, African Pioneer Corps (H.C.T.) aged
Sub-Lieutenant (A) John Derek Marshall, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve aged 21
1508478 Corporal John Meredith, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged
39 958784 Gunner James Molyneux, Royal Artillery aged
3010802 Sergeant George Mccann, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 20
270441 Major John Kenneth Mcgarrity, South Staffordshire Regiment aged 30
6980625 Fusilier Charles Mcgilloway, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
979660 Gunner Thomas Stanley Clarke Mckee, Royal Artillery aged 28
LT/JX 258479 Telegraphist John Hamilton Mcnair, Royal Naval Patrol Service aged 32
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Owen Burgess Norwood, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve aged 24
7658315 Serjeant John Patton, Royal Army Pay Corps aged 50
172785 Flying Officer Norman Sidney Phillips, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 24
1149494 Leading Aircraftman Ronald Preston, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 37
1171738 Sergeant William Alfred Ralph, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 27
3645201 Private Samuel Reid, Pioneer Corps aged 43
14675465 Corporal Harold Scott, Monmouthshire Regiment aged 20
4345478 Private Vernon Smith, Royal Army Service Corps aged 26
1605243 Flight Sergeant Alan Brian Southwick, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 22
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Phillip Levi Steele, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1031809 Corporal Thomas Frederick Sweeney, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 32
819824 Bombardier John Tate, Royal Artillery aged 28
1153572 Aircraftman 1st Class Percy Taylor, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 25
5496933 Private Leonard Alfred Llewellyn Thomas, Leicestershire Regiment
893690 Gunner Stanley Trenell, Royal Artillery aged 29
184312 Major Jacques Theodore Paul Marie Vaillant De Guelis, General List aged 38
7397964 Private Albert Edward Walton, Pioneer Corps aged 43
3178274 Private Thomas Wemyss, King's Own Scottish Borderers aged 43
1722781 Bombardier Sidney Westerby, Royal Artillery aged 38
2206001 Flight Sergeant John Evan Wilkinson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve aged 23
Midshipman (A) Gilbert James Woodfield, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve aged 19
6476146 Lance Corporal Walter John Wright, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) aged 34
7888364 Corporal Richard Wilfred Yearsley, Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. aged 25
136252 Major Thomas Forbes Young, Royal Engineers
DT/1903 Lance Corporal Yusufu Odina, King's African Rifles
183869 Captain Zvi Zwilling, Royal Army Medical Corps

British Civilian War Dead 

Edith Gertrude Hogan, Civilian War Dead aged 73
E W H Jacques
Civilian Matthew Trotter, Civilian War Dead aged 51