1818777 Gnr Brinley James, Royal Artillery

1818777 Gunner Brinley James of 48 Battery, 21st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 31st December 1944. He was 39 years old, the son of Son of John and Diana James, and the husband of Sarah Irene James, of Trebanos, Glamorgan. Brinley was born in Glamorgan and enlisted there. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Singapore War Memorial in Kranji War Cemetery.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

224427 2nd Lt James Julian Paul Goodyear, Royal Corps of Signals

224427 Second Lieutenant James Julian Paul Goodyear of the 23rd Mountain Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, died on the 30th December 1942. He was the 22-year-old son of Frederick and Mary Goodyear of Fawley in Hampshire and he is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery in Myanmar (Burma).

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6202338 Cpl James Lusham, 1st Bn, Middlesex Regt

6202338 Corporal James Lusham of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, died on the 29th December 1941 in Hong Kong. He was 25 years old, the son of Albert and Mary Lusham of Deptford in south London. He is buried in the Sai Wan War Cemetery. This from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"The island of Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 following a brief but intense period of fighting. Most of those buried in this cemetery were killed at this time, or died later as internees or prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation. The remains of those who died as prisoners in Formosa (now Taiwan) were brought to Hong Kong for burial at Sai Wan in 1946. There are now 1,505 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Sai Wan War Cemetery. 444 of the burials are unidentified. There are special memorials to 16 Second World War casualties buried in Kowloon (Ho Man Tin) No 3 Muslim Cemetery, whose graves were lost. There are also 77 war graves of other nationalities from this period, the majority of them Dutch and 7 non-world war graves that the Commission maintains on behalf of the MoD. The cemetery contains special memorials to 12 First World War casualties buried in Kowloon (Ta Sek Ku) Mohammedan Cemetery, whose graves have since been lost. At the entrance to the cemetery stands the SAI WAN MEMORIAL bearing the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died in the Battle of Hong Kong or subsequently in captivity and who have no known grave. Additional panels to the memorial form the SAI WAN CREMATION MEMORIAL, bearing the names of 144 Second World War casualties whose remains were cremated in accordance with their faith, and the SAI WAN (CHINA) MEMORIAL, commemorating 72 casualties of both wars whose graves in mainland China could not be maintained. Both the cemetery and memorial were designed by Colin St Clair Oakes."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7021691 Craftsman Daniel Dinnen, REME

7021691 Craftsman Daniel Dinnen of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, died on the 28th December 1943. He was born in Eire and living in London when he enlisted. I have been unable to locate this man on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission roll of honour website.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)

258592 Lt Owen Charles Bamford, RASC

258592 Lieutenant Owen Charles Bamford of the Royal Army Service Corps, died on the 27th December 1944. He was the son of James Thomas Bamford and Martha Alice Bamford, of Bournemouth, Hampshire, and the husband of Gladys May Dorothy Bamford, of Branksome Park, Bournemouth. He is buried in the Heliopolis War Cemetery in Egypt.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

5621163 Pte Harold Ralph Rainbow, 9th Bn, Devonshire Regt

5621163 Private Harold Ralph Rainbow of the 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, died on the 26th December 1939. He was the son of Montague and Mable Rainbow of Ilfracombe, Devon; and he is buried in the town's Marlborough Road cemetery. Harold was just 19 years old when he died.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

3864587 Cpl Maurice Cadden, 2nd Bn, Cheshire Regt

3864587 Corporal Maurice Cadden of the 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment was one of 62 British Army personnel to die on Christmas Day 1944. He was 24 years old, the son of Joseph and Elsie Cadden of Bury in Lancashire. Maurice is buried in Leopoldsburg War Cemetery in Belgium.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6021326 Pte Robert Carrigan, 5th Bn, Essex Regt

6021326 Private Robert Carrigan of the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, died on the 24th December 1943. He was 27 years old and is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery in Italy.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

5341912 Pte Joseph Fordonsky, South Staffordshire Regt

5341912 Private Joseph Fordonsky of the 16th (Home Defence) Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, died at home in England on the 23rd December 1940. He was born in East London and he is buried in the Jewish Cemetery at Marlow Road, East Ham.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6458965 CSM Douglas Johnston, 2nd Bn, Royal Fusiliers

6458965 Warrant Officer Second Class (CSM) Douglas Johnston of the 2nd Battalinn, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt), died in France on the 22nd December 1939. He was 24 years old, the son of Henry Steer Johnston and Elizabeth A. Johnston, of Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. He is buried in Croix Communal Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

T/113023 Dvr Terence Brannigan, RASC

T/113023 Driver Terence Brannigan of the Royal Army Service Corps, died in England on the 21st December 1940. He was the son of Daniel and Jane Brannigan, of Fenham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and he is buried in the city's West Road cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1036679 Sgt James Bell MM, Royal Artillery

Dundee-born 1036679 Sergeant James Bell MM of the Royal Artillery, died on the 20th December 1941. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that at the time of his death he was 45 years old and serving with the 102nd (The Northumberland Hussars) Light A.A./Anti-Tank Regiment. Sergeant Bell, a Military Medal recipient, was also the husband of Ethel Bell of Chilham in Kent. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2654827 L/Sgt Martin Warrior, 3rd Bn, Coldstream Guards

2654827 Lance-Sergeant Martin Warrior of the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, died in Italy on the 19th December 1943. He was 30 years old and the husband of Constance May Warrior form Middlesborough. The UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-45 gives Martin Warrior's rank as Guardsman and notes that he was born in and enlisted in Middlesborough. He is buried in Minturno War Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

T/291509 Dvr Cecil William Chilmaid, RASC

32-year-old T/291509 Driver Cecil William Chilmaid of the Royal Army Service Corps, died on the 18th December 1942. He was the son of William and Kate Chilmaid of Rochester in Kent, and the husband of Edith Chilmaid of Rochester. Cecil died on active service in North Africa and he is buried in the ironically named Bone War Cemetery in Annaba, Algeria.

This from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"Allied troops made a series of landings on the Algerian coast in early November 1942. From there, they swept east into Tunisia, where the North African campaign came to an end in May 1943 with the surrender of the Axis forces. Bone was occupied by Allied forces on 12 November 1942 and became important as a supply port, and for its airfield. The 70th General Hospital was there during the early months of 1943. Bone War Cemetery contains 868 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. There are also 14 non-war burials, mostly of merchant seamen whose deaths were not due to war service. The cemetery also contains one First World War burial which was transferred here from Bone Communal Cemetery."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6148563 Pte Richard George Griffin, 70th Bn, East Surrey Regt

6148563 Private Richard George Griffin of the 70th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, died in east London on the 17th December 1941. A native of Eire, Richard was 20 years old, the son of George William Griffin MC and of Kathleen Mary Griffin, of Lewisham, south London. He is buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Leytonstone, London.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2614260 Gnr Albert Victor Kirk, Royal Artillery

Ipswich born, 2614260 Gunner Albert Victor Kirk of the 7th Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 16th December 1943. He was 28 years old, the son of Francis George and Gertrude Eva Kirk of Brantham in Suffolk. Albert died as a prisoner of war of the Japanese and is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6285786 L/Cpl Ernest Thomas Ellender, 1st Bn, The Buffs

6285786 Lance-Corporal Ernest Thomas Ellender of the 1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), died in the fighting in North Africa on the 15th December 1941. He was 24 years old and the son of Maurice and Lydia Ellender of Eastry in Kent. Ernest has no known grave and is one of nearly 12,000 men commemorated on the Alamein Memorial at the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery in Egypt.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

5835520 Pte Charles Dennis Luff, 5th Bn, Royal West Kent Regt

5835520 Private Charles Dennis Luff of the 5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died on the 14th December 1943. He was 34 years old and the son of Charles and Annie Maria Luff of Bedford. He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery in Italy.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2972926 Pte Allan Gow, 1st Bn, A&S Highlanders

2972926 Private Allan Gow of the 1st Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, died on the 13th December 1942. He was 38 years old and is buried in Benghazi War Cemetery in Libya. Allan Dow was born in Arbroath but was living in Stirling at the time of his enlistment.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

14427877 Pte Robert James Ashcroft, 1st Bn, Lincolnshire Regt

14427877 Private Robert James Ashcroft of the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, died on the 12th December 1944. He was 18 years old, the son of Samuel Thomas Ashcroft and Elizebeth Ashcroft of Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire.

Robert Ashcroft is buried in Arnhem's Osterbeek War Cemetery.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

11517530 Pte Leonard Charles Hedge, RAMC

11517530 Private Leonard Charles Hedge of the Royal Army Medical Corps, died on the 11th December 1944. He was 34 years old, the son of Clement Charles and Harriet Hedge, and the husband of Nellie Elizabeth Hedge of Ealing in Middlesex. Leonard is buried in Turnhout Communal Cemetery in Belgium.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1456257 BSM John Bevington Moth, Royal Artillery

1456257 Battery Sergeant Major John Bevington Moth of the 21st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 10th December 1942. He was 38 years old, the son of Harry Francis and Margaret Moth, and the husband of Edith Charlotte Moth of New Malden in Surrey.

John Moth died as a prisoner of war in Japan and is one of 284 men commemorated on the Yokohama Cremation Memorial in that country.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6457845 Fusilier Christopher Henry Frederick Riley, 1st Bn, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt)

6457845 Fusilier Christopher Henry Frederick Riley of the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), died on the 9th December 1940. He was 25 years old, the son of Christopher James Riley and Barbara Ann Riley of Thetford, Norfolk. Christopher was born in east London and was living there when he enlisted. He is buried in the Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery in Egypt.

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Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

794202 Gnr William Edward Pointon, Royal Artillery

794202 Gunner William Edward Pointon of 10 Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 8th December 1944. He was 34 years old, the son of Charles and Hannah Pointon of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, and the husband of Annie Pointon, of Tunstall. He is buried in Mierlo War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

964193 Gnr Harry Ellis Dilley, Royal Artillery

964193 Gunner Harry Ellis Dilley of the 118th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 7th December 1943. He was 25 years old, the husband of Vera Charlotte Dilley of Peckham, south London. He is buried in Chungkai War Cemetery in Thailand and therefore almost certainly died in hospital as a prisoner of the Japanese.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

W/184647 Pte Irene Edith Minter, Auxiliary Territorial Service

W/184647 Private Irene Edith Minter of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, died on the 6th December 1942. She was born in East London and is buried in Chingford Mount Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

3596849 Sgt John Joseph Clemenston, 4th Bn, Border Regt

3596849 Sergeant John Joseph Clemenston of the 4th Battalion, Border Regiment, died on the 5th December 1941. He was 26 years old; the Son of Frederick and Edith Clementson of Penrith, Cumberland, and the husband of Linda Clementson, of Penrith. He is buried in Tobruk War Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7047855 Cpl Arthur Thomas Aston, 1st Bn, Royal Irish Fusiliers

7047855 Corporal Arthur Thomas Aston of the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, died on the 4th December 1943. He was 23 years old and the son of Thomas Lawrence Aston and Hilda Jane Aston of Foleshill, Warwickshire. He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery in Italy.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2967616 Pte Robert Dempsey, 2nd Bn, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

2967616 Private Robert Dempsey of the 2nd Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders was a career soldier who died on the 3rd December 1939; that is, seventy years ago today. He was born in Antrim and living in Ross and Cromarty when he enlisted. At the time of his death he was 40 years old. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the son of Robert and Margaret Dempsey of Ballymena, County Antrim in Northern Ireland.

Robert Dempsey is buried in Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore. There was a military camp at Kranji before Britain went to war in 1939, and presumably Robert was stationed in that area and died as a result of sickness or accident. Kranji (and Singapore) would later fall to the Japanese in February 1942.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

207940 Capt David Middleton, Royal Artillery

207940 Captain David Middleton of the 16th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 2nd December 1944. He was 44 years old, the son of William and Marion Middleton, and the husband of Elizabeth W Middleton, of Airdrie, Lanarkshire. David was born in Motherwell and living in Airdrie when he enlisted. He is buried in Heverlee War Cemetery in Belgium.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

879921 Gnr Walter James Yeomans, Royal Artillery

879921 Gunner Walter James Yeomans of 222 Battery, 68th HAA Regiment, Royal Artillery died in England on the 1st December 1940. He was born and bred in Derby and was 21 years old when he died. He is buried in Derby's Nottingham Road Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7372284 Pte Kenneth James Foulds, RAMC

7372284 Private Kenneth James Foulds of the 14th Lt Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, died on the 30th November 1943. He was the on of James and Margaret Jane Foulds of Newtown Linford in Leicestershire. He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery in Italy.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

876392 Gnr Edward Dean, Royal Artillery

876392 Gunner Edward Dean of 10 Battery, 7th Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 29th November 1940 whilst serving on the island of Malta. He was 20 years old and the Son of Sydney Thomas Dean and Ellen Dean of Farington in Lancashire. Edward was born in Preston and living in Preston when he enlisted. He is buried in Malta's Pembroke Military Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7911042 Tpr Wilfred Orton, 8th Bn, Royal Tank Regt

7911042 Trooper Wilfred Orton of the 8th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 8th November 1941. He was born in west London and was living in Surrey when he enlisted. At the time of his death he was 21 years old and, as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission informs us, the son of Frank Edward and Winifred May Orton, of Cowden, Kent. He is buried in Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma in Libya.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1714916 Gnr Christopher Gingell, Royal Artillery

1714916 Gunner Christopher Gingell of 13 Battery, 6th HAA Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 27th November 1942. He was 31 years old, the son of Sidney George and Hannah Rose Gingell of Badminton in Gloucestershire.

Christopher was born in Bristol and was living in Bristol when he enlisted. He is commemorated on the Yokohama Cremation Memorial in Japan which "takes the form of a beautifully designed shrine which houses an urn containing the ashes of 335 soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Commonwealth, the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands who died as prisoners of war in Japan. Their names (save for 51 who were not identified) are inscribed on the walls of the shrine." [Commonwealth War Graves Commission].

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

954871 L/Bdr William Mossman, Royal Artillery

954871 Lance-Bombardier William Mossman of the Royal Artillery was 24 years old when he died on the 26th November 1943. He was the son of George and Louisa Mary Mossman of Bayswater, London. He is buried in Kohima War Cemetery in India.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

4856259 Cpl Jesse Caldwell, 2nd Bn, Leicestershire Regt

I was travelling yesterday and had no access to the internet, hence I was unable to update this blog for the 25th.

4856259 Corporal Jesse Caldwell of the 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regt, died on the 25th November 1941. He was the son of Jesse Reuben and Lucie Caldwell and he was from Leicester, although born in Bolton. He is buried in Tobruk War Cemetery.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

5337200 L/Cpl Robert Henry Lodge, 4th Bn, Wiltshire Regt

5337200 Lance-Corporal Robert Henry Lodge of the 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regt, died on the 24th November 1944. He was 25 years old and had been born in Berkshire. He had originally joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment but obviously transferred to the Wiltshire Regiment later on.

Robert Lodge has no known grave and is commemorated on panel five of the Groesbeek Memorial in the Netherlands. This from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"Allied forces entered the Netherlands on 12 September 1944. Airborne operations later that month established a bridgehead at Nijmegen and in the following months, coastal areas and ports were cleared and secured, but it was not until the German initiated offensive in the Ardennes had been repulsed that the drive into Germany could begin. Most of those buried in GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY were Canadians, many of whom died in the Battle of the Rhineland, when the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division took part in the drive southwards from Nijmegen to clear the territory between the Maas and the Rhine in February and March 1945. Others buried here died earlier or later in the southern part of the Netherlands and in the Rhineland. The cemetery contains 2,610 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, and nine war graves of other nationalities. Within the cemetery stands the GROESBEEK MEMORIAL, which commemorates by name more than 1,000 members of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaign in north-west Europe between the time of crossing the Seine at the end of August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe, and whose graves are not known."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1679193 Gnr Ronald Charles Lindridge, Royal Artillery

1679193 Gunner Ronald Charles Lindridge of the 4th Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery, died at sea on the 23rd November 1942. He was 29 years old, the son of Charles J and Dorothy Lindridge of Maidstone, Kent, and the husband of Nelly Lindridge of Maidstone. He is coomemorated on the Naval Memorial at Plymouth.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1570518 Gnr Herbert Smith, Royal Artillery

1570518 Gunner Herbert Smith of the Royal Artillery died on the 22nd November 1940. He was the son of Anna R Day of Longham in Norfolk and he is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Gressenhall.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

4967329 Sgt Stanley Thomas Jephcote, 1/5th Sherwood Foresters

4967329 Sergeant Stanley Thomas Jephcote of the 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters died on the 21st November 1943. He was the son of Thomas Stanley and Edith Jephcote (nee Paul), and the husband of Mary Ellen Jephcote.

Stanley Jephcote died as a prisoner of the Japanese and is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Malaysia. The following information comes from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar). Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre. The Japanese aimed at completing the railway in 14 months and work began in October 1942. The line, 424 kilometres long, was completed by December 1943. The graves of those who died during the construction and maintenance of the Burma-Siam railway (except for the Americans, whose remains were repatriated) were transferred from camp burial grounds and isolated sites along the railway into three cemeteries at Chungkai and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar. KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY is only a short distance from the site of the former 'Kanburi', the prisoner of war base camp through which most of the prisoners passed on their way to other camps. It was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it all graves along the southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke. Some 300 men who died (most from a Cholera epidemic in May/June 1943) at Nieke camp were cremated and their ashes now lie in two graves in the cemetery. The names of these men are inscribed on panels in the shelter pavilion. There are now 5,084 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. There are also 1,896 Dutch war graves. Within the entrance building to the cemetery will be found the KANCHANABURI MEMORIAL, recording the names of 11 men of the army of undivided India buried in Muslim cemeteries in Thailand, where their graves could not be maintained. The cemetery was designed by Colin St Clair Oakes."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7887122 Cpl Allan Sharman, Royal Tank Regt, Royal Armoured Corps

7887122 Corporal Allan Sharman of the Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 20th November 1942. He was born in Sunderland and living in Durham when he enlisted. Apart from that though, I know nothing further about this man.

Allan Sharman is buried in Knightsbridge War Cemetery in Acroma, Libya. The following information comes from the Commonwealth war Graves Commission:

"The defence against Rommel's drive across Cyrenaica towards Suez consisted of a number of irregularly spaced strong points or 'boxes' linked by deep minefields. Those nearest the Axis forces were held by infantry, while those further back served as reserve static positions and as bases from which the armour could operate. The chief 'box', known as Knightsbridge, was round a junction of tracks about 20 kilometres west of Tobruk and 16 kilometres south of Acroma, commanding all the tracks by which supplies came up to the front. The Eighth Army's advance fuelling stations and airfields were at Acroma, El Adem, El Duda, Sidi Rezegh and Gambut, while by February 1941, Gazala aerodrome, taken from the Italians early in the campaign, housed two Commonwealth squadrons. Knightsbridge was thus a key position, and the pivot on which the armour manoeuvred during the heavy fighting which commenced in late May 1942. Fierce actions were fought at all these places, and a battlefield cemetery was created at each for the burial of the dead. The graves of many of those who gave their lives during the campaign in Libya were later gathered into Knightsbridge War Cemetery from the battlefield burial grounds and from scattered desert sites. The men who fought and died with them, but have no known grave, are commemorated on The Alamein Memorial which stands in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. There are now 3,651 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in Knightsbridge War Cemetery. 993 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate a number of casualties known or believed to be buried among them."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7674422 Pte Albert Edgar Luesby, Royal Army Pay Corps

7674422 Private Albert Edgar Luesby of the Royal Army Pay Corps died on the 19th November 1940. He was 24 years old, the son of Thomas and Harriet Luesby of Lincoln, and the husband of Edith Luesby of Lincoln. He died in the UK and is buried at Lincoln (Newport) cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

71081 Lt Col Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes VC, MC; Royal Armoured Corps

71081 Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Charles Taker Keyes VC, MC of the Royal Armoured Corps was killed in action on the 18th November 1941. He was a highly decorated senior officer who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on the night of 17th/18th November 1941.

There is plenty of information about Lt Col Keyes on the web, including this page on Wikipedia. At the time of his death he was serving with the The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), Royal Armoured Corps. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was "awarded Croix de Guerre. Son of Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M:G., D.S.O., A.D.C., 1st Baron Keyes, and of Lady Keyes (nee Bowlby), of Buckingham." The citation for his VC which appeared in the London Gazette of 19th June 1942 reads as follows:

"Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes commanded a detachment of a force which landed some 250 miles behind the enemy lines, in North Africa, to attack Headquarters Base installations and communications. Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes deliberately selected the command of the party detailed to attack the residence and Headquarters of the General Officer commanding the German Forces in North Africa. This attack meant almost certain death for those who took part in it. The disposition of his detachment left him only one officer and a N.C.O. with whom to break into General Rommel's residence. On the night 17/18 November, 1941, he boldly led his party to the front door and demanded entrance. It was unfortunately necessary to shoot the sentry; the noise aroused the house, so that speed became of the first importance. Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes instinctively took the lead and emptied his revolver with great success into the first room. He then entered the second room but was mortally wounded almost immediately. By his fearless disregard of the dangers which he ran and of which he was fully aware, and by his magnificent leadership and outstanding gallantry Lieutenant Colonel Keyes set an example of supreme self-sacrifice and devotion to duty."

Lt Col Keyes is buried In Benghazi War Cemetery in Libya.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2181482 L/Cpl William James McConville, Royal Engineers

2181482 L/Cpl William James McConville of the Royal Engineers was an early Second World War casualty. He died in France on the 17th November 1939.

William was born in Liverpool and was living there when he enlisted, presumably before war against Germany was declared. He is buried in St Marie Cemetery, Le Havre.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

4751781 Pte Walter Vernon Stoyles, 7th Bn, York & Lancaster Regt

Bradford born 4751781 Private Walter Vernon Stoyles of the 7th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, died on the 16th November 1942. He was 26 years old, the son of George H and Florry Stoyles, and the husband of Florence May Stoyles of Girlington, Bradford in Yorkshire. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Rangoon War Memorial in Taukkyan War Cemetery. The memorial bears the names of nearly 27,000 men of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaigns in Burma (now Myanmar) and who have no known grave.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6913196 Rfm Joseph Frederick Minta, 2nd Bn, Rifle Brigade

6913196 Rifleman Joseph Frederick Minta of the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, died on 15th November 1942. He was 28 years old and the son of Elizabeth Jackson of Walworth, London. He is buried in Tobruk War Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

11256979 Pte Reginald James Dunnett, 1/4th Bn, Hampshire Regt

11256979 Private Reginald James Dunnett of the 1/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment died on the 14th November 1944. He was 20 years old, the son of Sydney and Alice Maud Mary Dunnett of Wickham Market, Suffolk. He is buried in Meldola War Cemetery in Italy.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

888564 Gnr Harold Edward Snape, Royal Artillery

888564 Gunner Harold Edward Snape of 44 Battery, 13th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery died on the 13th November 1941. He was 20 years old and was the son of Harold Edward and Edith Snape of Stoke-on-Trent. He is buried in Stoke-on-Trent's Hartshill cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

5574970 Pte Alfred George Frederick Cops, 6th Bn, South Wales Borderers

5574970 Private Alfred George Frederick Cops of the 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers died on the 12th November 1944. He was 28 years old, the son of Frederick and Clara Cops and the husband of Mary Patricia Cops of Newton Abbot, Devon.

Alfred was born in Essex and was living in North West London when he enlisted. He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery in Myanmar (Burma). The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has this to say about Taukkyan:

"TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY is the largest of the three war cemeteries in Burma (now Myanmar). It was begun in 1951 for the reception of graves from four battlefield cemeteries at Akyab, Mandalay, Meiktila and Sahmaw which were difficult to access and could not be maintained. The last was an original 'Chindit' cemetery containing many of those who died in the battle for Myitkyina. The graves have been grouped together at Taukkyan to preserve the individuality of these battlefield cemeteries Burials were also transferred from civil and cantonment cemeteries, and from a number of isolated jungle and roadside sites. Because of prolonged post-war unrest, considerable delay occurred before the Army Graves Service were able to complete their work, and in the meantime many such graves had disappeared. However, when the task was resumed, several hundred more graves were retrieved from scattered positions throughout the country and brought together here. The cemetery now contains 6,374 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 867 of them unidentified. In the 1950s, the graves of 52 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War were brought into the cemetery from the following cemeteries where permanent maintenance was not possible: Henzada (1); Meiktila Cantonment (8); Thayetmyo New (5); Thamakan (4); Mandalay Military (12) and Maymyo Cantonment (22). Taukkyan War Cemetery also contains: The RANGOON MEMORIAL, which bears the names of almost 27,000 men of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaigns in Burma and who have no known grave. The TAUKKYAN CREMATION MEMORIAL commemorating more than 1,000 Second World War casualties whose remains were cremated in accordance with their faith. The TAUKKYAN MEMORIAL which commemorates 45 servicemen of both wars who died and were buried elsewhere in Burma but whose graves could not be maintained."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

13802477 Pte Antonio Guittierrez, Pioneer Corps

Spaniard 13802477 Private Antonio Guittierrez of the Pioneer Corps, died on the 11th November 1943. He is buried in Bodmin Cemetery in Cornwall.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1468212 Gnr Robert Hounslea, Royal Artillery

1468212 Gunner Robert Hounslea of the 32nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery died on the 10th November 1942. He was 23 years old and the son of John and Sophia Hounslea, of Liverpool. He is buried in Bari War Cemetery in Italy.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

3244348 Rfm John McFall, 1st Bn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

3244348 Rifleman John McFall of the 1st Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), died on the 9th November 1940 in India. He was 25 years old.

John was born in Antrim but living in Glasgow when he enlisted. He is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in Chennai. This from the the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"MADRAS WAR CEMETERY was created to receive Second World War graves from many civil and cantonment cemeteries in the south and east of India where their permanent maintenance could not be assured. The cemetery contains 856 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. The MADRAS 1914-1918 MEMORIAL is situated at the rear of the cemetery. It bears the names of more than 1,000 servicemen who died during the First World War who lie in many civil and cantonment cemeteries in various parts of India where it is not possible to maintain their graves in perpetuity."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1786370 Pte Ralph Schneiderman, 1/6th Bn, East Surrey Regt

1786370 Private Ralph Schneiderman of the 1/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, died in Italy on the 8th November 1944. He was born in east London and was living there when he enlisted. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the son of Jacob and Rebecca Schneiderman of Stepney, London.

Schneiderman is an uncommon name, in England at least, and yet there are three Schneiderman deaths recorded on CWGC. Nineteen year old Lazarus Schneiderman died at Ypres in 1917 and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was the son of Mark and Millie Schneiderman, of 1 Hobson Place, Pelham Street, London. Kitty Schneiderman, a civilian, died in October 1940, presumably during the Blitz. She is recorded as a "Russian National; of 151 Heathfield Road, Hitchen, Hertfordshire. Wife of Louis Schneiderman. Died at Eaglet Place." She is buried in Stepney Metropolitan Borough Cemetery.

Eaglet Place no longer appears to exist and so I don't know in which part of London (presumably) Kitty Schneiderman died. Similarly, there is no Pelham Street in Stepney, although the street does exist in other parts of London. Nevertheless, I suggest that the three Schneiderman CWGC casualties are related and that Ralph Schneiderman, who was 24 years old when he died, was also of Russian extraction (even though the name sounds German).

Ralph Schneiderman is buried with 144 other men at Meldola War Cemetery in Italy. The cemetery, "was originally a battlefield cemetery of the 46th Division, into which a few burials were concentrated; they all date from the last week of October and the month of November 1944. Meldola itself was taken on 30 October, and in the ensuing month the 46th and 4th Divisions advanced to the Lamone River." (CWGC).

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6016373 Sgt Percy Harold Fidgett, 2/5th Bn, Essex Regt

6016373 Sergeant Percy Harold Fidgett of the 2/5th Battalion, the Essex Regiment, died on the 7th November 1941. He is buried in the Suez War memorial Cemetery in Egypt. This from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"Suez was an important hospital centre during the First World War with two Indian general hospitals, two stationary hospitals and casualty clearing stations based there at various times. Initially, burials took place in a special plot in the Protestant cemetery but the War Memorial Cemetery was established nearby in 1918 and these graves were transferred there, together with some from other burial grounds. Later, the adjoining Arabian Indian Cemetery was also absorbed into it. The Second World War burials were from the large garrison based in and around Suez. There are now 513 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War and 377 from the Second World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. A few, known to have been buried here or elsewhere but whose graves could not be located, are commemorated by special memorial. The cemetery also contains war graves of other nationalities and non war graves. The graves of those in the original Arabian Indian Cemetery are not marked by headstones, their names are recorded on Screen Wall panels in front of the burials."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6008980 Pte Percival Frederick Charles Mapes, 1st Bn, Essex Regiment

6008980 Private Percival Frederick Charles Mapes of the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment, died on the 6th November 1940. He was the son of Frederick Charles and Elizabeth Sarah Mapes of Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, and was 26 years old when he died. He is buried in the Keren War Cemetery in Eritrea. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has this to say about the cemetery:

"Keren was the last Italian stronghold in Eritrea and the scene of the most decisive battle of the war in East Africa in February and March 1941. Guarding the entrance from the western plains to the Eritrean plateau, the only road passing through a deep gorge with precipitous and well fortified mountains on either side, Keren formed a perfect defensive position. On these heights the Italians concentrated some 23,000 riflemen, together with a large number of well sited guns and mortars. A preliminary assault by United Kingdom and Indian troops was repulsed after a week of bitter fighting, although they gained and held a valuable position on Cameron's Ridge, on the left of the road. The final battle began a month later. After ten days of gruelling combat the Commonwealth troops succeeded in forcing their way through the seemingly impregnable defences on the ridge and finally through the 200 metre long road block which the Italians had blasted at the narrowest point in the pass. Keren was taken on 27 March. The defeated Italian force retreated in some disarray to Asmara, which fell to Commonwealth forces on 1 April, and the Italian surrender was taken at the port of Massawa on 8 April. KEREN WAR CEMETERY contains 440 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 35 of them unidentified. The KEREN CREMATION MEMORIAL stands within the cemetery and commemorates 285 Sikh and Hindu soldiers from India and Pakistan killed on the Keren battlefield during the Second World War, whose remains were cremated in accordance with their faith. Three East African soldiers are also commemorated on the memorial."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1724163 Gnr Robert Henry Dundas, Royal Artillery

1724163 Gunner Robert Henry Dundas of the Royal Artillery died on the 5th November 1944. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that he was serving with the 105th Battery, 40th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment.

Robert Dundas was born in Motherwell and Wishaw District and he died in the Netherlands. He is buried in Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2822422 Pte Nathaniel Rhind, 5th Bn, Reconnaissance Corps, Royal Armoured Corps

2822422 Private Nathaniel Rhind of the 5th Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 4th November 1941 aged 33. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the son of Nathaniel and Annie Simpson Rhind and the husband of Isabella More Rhind of Elgin.

The UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-45 records that Nathaniel was born in Moray and living there when he enlisted. He originally joined the Seaforth Highlanders and was, according to the RoH, serving with the "Tower Hamlets Rifles (Recce)" at the time of his death.

Nathaniel presumably died at home as he is buried in Elgin New Cemetery on Moray.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6017768 Pte Leslie Douglas Neirynck, 5th Bn, Sherwood Foresters

6017768 Private Leslie Douglas Neirynck of the 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters died on the 3rd November 1943. He was the son of Eugene and Bertha Neirynck, of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, and his Brother Victor Charles Edward also died on service.

Leslie is buried in Minturno War Cemetery in Italy. His brother Victor died at home on 8th May 1940 and is buried in Southend-on-Sea (North Road) Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

4444371 Pte John Christopher Stout, 11th Bn, Durham Light Infantry

4444371 Pte John Stout of the 11th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry died on the 2nd November 1940. He was born in Durham and enlisted there, and therefore the DLI must have been a natural choice for him.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) notes that he was the on of John Christopher and Mary Stout and the husband of Sarah Ann Stout, of Durham. He is buried in Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery in Poland. This from the CWGC:

"The Second World War burials at Malbork are mostly of men who died while prisoners of war in the nearby camps. Stalag XXB was a camp of some size at Malbork itself, Stalag lA was situated at Stablack, between Malbork and Gdansk, Stalag 2A at Starogard, a few kilometres south of Stablack, and Stalag XXA, at Torun (Thorn), about 120 kilometres south of Malbork. When hostilities had ceased, the graves service of the British Army of the Rhine moved the graves from the local burial grounds to this war cemetery, together with other Commonwealth graves in outlying places in the area where their permanent maintenance could not be assured. The largest number came from Torun, and the next largest from burial grounds in Malbork itself and Gdansk. MALBORK COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY contains 232 Second World War burials. There are also 13 First World War burials which were moved from Gdansk (Danzig) Garrison Cemetery in 1960. The cemetery also contains the MALBORK MEMORIAL, commemorating 39 First World War casualties buried in Heilsberg Prisoners of War Cemetery (changed in 1953 to Lidsbark War Cemetery) where their graves could no longer be maintained."

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

948401 WO Cl II George Walter Douglas Silvia, RA

948401 Warrant Officer Class II George Walter Douglas Silvia of the 23rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery died on the 1st November 1943. He was a Military Medal holder and was 24 years old when he died. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that he was the son of Harold and Emily Silvia of Clapham, London. He is buried in Minturno War Cemetery in Italy.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2567599 L/Sgt Frederick Charles William Holliday, 9th Bn, Cameronians

2567599 L/Sgt Frederick Charles William Holliday of the 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) died on the 31st October 1944. He was the son of Albert and B. J. Holliday and the husband of Louisa Lillian Holliday. He is buried in Mierlo War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

176904 2nd Lt Frank Smales, South Lancashire Regiment

176904 Second Lieutenant Frank Smales of the South Lancashire Regiment died on the 30th October 1941 in England. He was the son of Wallace Stanley and Violet Gertrude Smales, and the husband of Beatrice Smales of Bollington, Macclesfield in Cheshire.

Born in Manchester, Frank Smales is buried in Ormskirk (Saints Peter and Paul) Churchyard.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

995320 Gnr Eric Knagg, Royal Artillery

995320 Gunner Eric Knagg of the 76th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 29th October 1943 in Tunisia. He is buried in the Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery which is 60km west of Tunis.

Eric was a Mancunian, born in Manchester and, according to the UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-45, was still living there when he enlisted. He was 27 years old when he died and was the son of Bertha Knagg and the husband of Dorothy Knagg, of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6402919 L/Cpl Stanley Britt, 4th Bn, Royal Sussex Regt

25 year old 6402919 Lance-Corporal Stanley Britt of the 4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment died on the 28th October 1942 in North Africa. He was the son of Eli and Annie Britt of Cross-in-Hand in Sussex and he died inthe fighting around El Alamein in Egypt. He is buried in the El Alamein War Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6150324 Pte William Frederick Limb, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers

6150324 Private William Frederick Limb of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers died on this day - 27th October - in 1944. He was, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the "son of Henry Edward and Mildred Limb of Herne Hill and the husband of G. Limb."

William Limb was born in the Republic of Ireland but was living in south east London when he enlisted. The UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-45 notes his rank as Craftsman.

William died in the UK and is commemorated in West Norwood Cemetery where, presumably, he was cremated.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

14332581 Pte Alan Edward Sentance, 1st Bn, Leicestershire Regiment

14332581 Private Alan Edward Sentance of the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment died on the 26th October 1944. He was 20 years old and the son of Albert and Ellen Jane Sentance of Kirton, Lincolnshire. He is buried in Dordrecht Military Cemetery in the Netherlands.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2363470 Dvr Alfred George Bailes, Royal Corps of Signals

2363470 Driver Alfred George Bailes of Royal Corps of Signals died on the 25th October 1941. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website notes that he was serving with the 1st Line of Communications Signals and that he was the Son of Lilian Bailes of Newcastle-on-Tyne and the husband of Margaret Coulson Bailes of Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was 21 years old when he died.

Alfred Bailes is buried in the Byker and Heaton Cemetery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

S/113951 Pte Eric Dixon Cressey, RASC

7020831 Pte David Gillender, 7th Bn, Black Watch

According to the UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-45, 7020831 Pte David Gillender of the 7th Battalion, The Black Watch died on the 23rd October 1942. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is less certain and records only that he died between the 23rd and 24th October 1942.

David was the son of Robert and Jane Gillender of Belfast, Northern Ireland and he died in the fighting around El Alamein. He is buried in the El Alamein War Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

137343 Captain John Maurice Macfarlane Yeo, Royal Armoured Corps

137343 Captain John Maurice Macfarlane Yeo of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) died on the 22nd October 1944. He was 28 years old and the son of Lt-Col Moritz Rodwell Yeo and Flora Irma Yeo of Bridport, Dorset. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) notes his regiment as 147th (10th Battalion, The Hampshire Regt) Regiment.

John Yeo is buried in Geel War Cemetery in Belgium. The CWGC website states that:

"In the early part of September 1944, Geel was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting encountered by Commonwealth troops since they had left Normandy. The 50th (Northumbrian) Division and the 15th Scottish Division were both involved here in the forcing of crossings of the Albert Canal and the Meuse-Escaut Canal, necessary for the advance into Holland. Some of the casualties they suffered were originally buried in a meadow near the centre of the commune, and some in the St. Dymphna civil cemetery; these graves were later moved into Geel War Cemetery. The cemetery contains 400 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, six of them unidentified."

The War Graves Photographic Project has a photo of Captain Yeo's last resting place.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

14618128 Pte Stanley Lenard Maurice Parsley, 2nd Bn, Essex Regt

14618128 Private Stanley Lenard Maurice Parsley of the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment died on the 21st October 1944. He was 23 years old and the son of Thomas Walter and Florence Maud Parsley of Waltham Abbey, Essex.

Stanley Parsley is buried in Brussels Town Cemetery. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that, "Most of the Second World War casualties buried in the town cemetery died on lines of communication duties after the liberation of Brussels at the beginning of September 1944, but a few date from the brief period that the BEF spent in Belgium in May 1940."

The War Graves Photographic Project has a photo of Stanley's grave.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

13027335 Cpl James William Oddy, Pioneer Corps

13027335 Corporal James William Oddy of the Pioneer Corps died on the 20th October 1943 whilst serving near Haifa in Palestine. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website had this to say about Khayat Beach War Cemetery where James is buried:

"Haifa was of great strategic importance during the Second World War because of its deep water harbour and airfield. It was also the terminus of the railway line from Egypt and of the Kirkuk-Haifa oil pipeline. Haifa became one of the main supply bases and arms depots serving the Middle East forces and a large naval depot was established at Haifa Bay. The cemetery was prepared in 1941 for the burial of service war dead in northern Palestine (now Israel) but graves were also brought in from Haifa (Sharon) British Civil Cemetery, from Mafrog Cemetery in the former Trans-Jordan and from Dafna Cemetery in Syria. Among the Merchant Navy seamen buried in the cemetery are those who lost their lives when the SS 'Zealand' was torpedoed off the coast of Palestine on 28 June 1942. The cemetery now contains 691 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, and 91 war graves of other nationalities. Among the 95 non-war burials in the cemetery are some of men of the Merchant Navy who died during the war, but whose deaths were not due to war service. However, the majority of the non-war graves are of soldiers who died during disturbances preceding the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948."

James Oddy was born in Leeds and living in Leeds when he enlisted. He was 40 years old at the time of his death. The War Graves Photographic project has a photo of his grave.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

2336729 Signalman Robert Fotheringham, Royal Corps of Signals

2336729 Signalman Robert Fotheringham of the Royal Corps of Signals was 25 years old when he died. He gave up his life 67 years ago today - 19th October 1942 and lies in a corner of a Foreign Field in Kranji War Cemetery in Malaysia.

At the time of his death - according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Robert was attached to the 11th Indian Division, Signals. He was a Glaswegian, the son of Alexander and Janet Fotheringham, of Glasgow. The War Graves Photographic Project has a photo of his last resting place.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

64535 Major Anthony Fleming Coombe, Royal Engineers

64535 Major Anthony Fleming Coombe of the Royal Engineers was attached to the East African Engineers when he died on the 18th October 1941. He was 26 years old, the son of Thomas Bernard and Mary Frances Coombe and the husband of Jocelyn Anne (Anna) Coombe of Nairobi, Kenya. He was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in Adidas Ababa War Cemetery in Ethiopia.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

14610297 Fusilier Ernest Edwin Merrifield, 11th Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

14610297 Fusilier Ernest Edwin Merrifield of the 11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers died on the 17th October 1944 in Italy. He was the 19 year old son of Leonard Edwin and Lilian Elizabeth Merrifield of Newton Abbot, Devon.

Ernest Merrifield is one of 1139 Commonwealth burials in Faenza War Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

5050430 Trooper Harold John Nickells, Royal Armoured Corps

5050430 Trooper Harold John Nickells of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) died on the 16th October 1944. He was 23 years old and from Staffordshire. He had originally joined the North Staffordshire Regiment but later transferred to the RAC and was serving with C Squadron, 49th Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps when he was killed. He was the son of Frederick Nickells and Ada Annie Nickells of Bonehill, Staffordshire and he is buried in Leopoldsburg War Cemetery in Belgium.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1467129 Gunner Harry Kenny, Royal Artillery

1467129 Gunner Harry Kenny of 296 Battery, 66th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 15th October 1942. He was 34 years old.

Harry was born in Leeds and living in Leeds when he enlisted. He is buried in Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery.

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Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2977189 Sgt John Tonner, 1st Bn, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

William and Elsie Tonner of Bridgeton, Glasgow lost three sons in the Second World War. I was unaware of this when I randomly selected John Tonner's name from the 19 service personnel who died on the 14th October 1941 but there it is, in black and white, on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) site:

2977189 Sgt John Tonner, 1st Bn, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, "son of William and Elsie Tonner of Bridgeton, Glasgow; husband of Annie Tonner. His brothers, William and James Davidson Tonner, also died on service."

John Tonner was born in Glasgow and was still living there when he enlisted. He was 29 years old when he died and is buried in Asmara War Cemetery in Eritrea. CWGC reports:

"The Italian stronghold of Keren was taken by Commonwealth forces at the end of March 1941 and the retreating Italian force pursued to Asmara, which was occupied on 1 April. Asmara War Cemetery contains the graves of those killed in the latter stages of the East African campaign, or who died subsequently at the garrison stationed at Asmara. The cemetery contains 273 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 14 of them unidentified. There are also six war graves of other nationalities and five non-war burials."

2338238 Driver William Tonner of the Royal Corps of Signals was the first of the Tonner brothers to be killed. He was 23 years old when he died. He has no known grave and is one of 4506 men commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial. His date of death is also uncertain; CWGC states that he died between "between 27/05/1940 and 02/06/1940."

FX95018 Air Mechanic Second Class James Davidson Tonner, the youngest of the three brothers, died on 21st April 1942. He was twenty years old and was serving aboard HMS Medina. He is buried in Glasgow (Riddrie Park) Cemetery.

Thus in three consecutive years, William and Elsie Tonner lost three sons. I have no idea whether there were other Tonner brothers who served and survived, but in any event, the family certainly paid a heavy price.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6202775 Pte Ernest Charles Grafton, 1st Bn, Middlesex Regt

6202775 Private Ernest Charles Grafton of the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regt died on the 13th October 1942. He was 24 years old and the son of Wallis Henry and Elizabeth Grafton of Morden, south London.

Ernest is buried in Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan which, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission states, "was constructed by the Australian War Graves Group after the Second World War and contains the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who died in Japan as prisoners of war or with the occupying forces after the war."

Ernest is one of 1675 men buried at Yokohama.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

229117 Lt Reginald Loungueville, Coldstream Guards

Twenty-one year old 229117 Lieutenant Reginald Loungueville of the Coldstream Guards had already been mentioned in dispatches when he died on the 12th October 1944. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Longueville, D.S.O., M.C. (also of the Coldstream Guards and also mentioned in dispatches during WW1) and Gertrude Beatrice Longueville, of Forthampton, Gloucestershire.

Reginald was born in Shropshire but living in Gloucestershire when he enlisted. He is buried in Overloon War Cemetery in the Netherlands. The Commonwealth war Graves Commission states that:

"There was severe fighting in the vicinity of Overloon in October-November 1944, when the Germans were being cleared out of the region south and west of the Maas in preparation for the final attack on the Rhineland. Most of the burials in Overloon War Cemetery are of men who died during these months. The cemetery contains 280 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, and one Dutch war grave."

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7362755 Pte Idris G Lewis, Royal Army Medical Corps

Twenty-five year old 7362755 Private Idris G Lewis of the Royal Army Medical Corps died on this day - 11th October - 1944. He transferred to the RAMC some time after enlisting and he was serving with A Company, 132nd Field Ambulance when he died.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that Idris was the Son of Lewis and Margaret Anne Lewis of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire. He is buried in Faenza War Cemetery in Italy.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2061694 Cpl Lionel Holmes, Royal Engineers

2061694 Cpl Lionel Holmes of the Royal Engineers died on 10th October 1940. He was the son of Charles William and Kathleen E Holmes and the husband of Eileen Mabel Holmes of South Harrow, Middlesex. He was born in Kent and was 35 years old when he died. He is buried in Fort Pitt Military Cemetery in Chatham.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6289064 Pte Wilfred Dawes, 5th Bn, The Buffs

6289064 Private Wilfred Dawes of the 5th Battalion, The Buffs, died on the 9th October 1943. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Dawes of Liphook, Hampshire and is buried in Sangro River War Cemetery in Italy.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

14754652 Fusilier Reginald Francombe, 6th Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers

14754652 Private Reginald Francombe of the 6th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers died on the 8th October 1945. He was born and lived in north London and is buried in Edmonton cemetery. The War Graves Photographic Project has a photo of his grave.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

974503 Gunner Stanley Lenard Endersby, Royal Horse Artillery

974503 Gunner Stanley Lenard Endersby of the Royal Horse Artillery died on the 7th October 1944. He is buried in Johannesburg (West Park) Cemetery which in turn, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website, suggests that he was possibly a casualty from the Middle East who died of wounds in a Johannesburg hospital. This from CWGC:

"During the Second World War, there was a large military wing in the Johannesburg General Hospital and military hospitals at Baragwanath and Cottesloe. The Baragwanath hospital handled a large number of casualties sent from the Middle East. [The cemetery] contains 617 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War."

Stanley's middle name is spelt Lenard by the CWGC although this could be an error, (CWGC also spells his parents' surname as Endersly). He was born in Bedfordshire and was 24 years old when he died. He was the son of Albert William and Elsie May Endersby of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

CWGC gives the additional information that he was serving with 3 Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, whilst the War Graves Photographic Project which holds a photo of Gunner Endersby's last resting place notes that he was serving with "3 Anti-Tank Regt. Royal Artillery" at the time of his death.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

2041383 Sapper Leslie John Fisher, Royal Engineers

2041383 Sapper Leslie John Fisher of the Royal Engineers, died in Egypt on 6th October 1940. He was 20 years old and had been born in Bedford. He is buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery. The War Graves Photographic Project has a photo of his grave.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The War Graves Photographic Project

1622924 Gunner Laurence Alfred Weeks, Royal Artillery

1622924 Gunner Laurence Alfred Weeks of 459 Battery, 70 Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery died on the 5th October 1940. He was 26 years old and the son of Alfred Frank and Adeline Laura Amelia Weeks, of Plumstead, south London. He was born in India and is buried in Plumstead Cemetery.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6285686 L/Cpl Maurice D Sheppard, 1st Bn, The Buffs

6285686 L/Cpl Maurice D Sheppard of the 1st Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) is buried in Prague War Cemetery in the Czech Republic. He died on 4th October 1942.

The UK Army Roll of Honour notes that he was born in Rotherham and living in Kent when he enlisted. It also states that the theatre of war he was serving in when killed was North Africa. This is clearly incorrect.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that Maurice Sheppard was 26 years old and the son of George Clement Sheppard and Sarah Sheppard, of Elvington, Dover.

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


Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6924531 Rfm Arthur A Gowers, Rifle Brigade

The UK Army Roll of Honour notes that 6924531 Rifleman Arthur A Gowers of the London Rifle Brigade died on the 3rd October 1944. I can find no reference for this man on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database and therefore the only additional details I have for him at this point in time is that he was born in Essex and living in East London when he enlisted.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)

13081433 Pte Gerald Victor Roy Slattery, Pioneer Corps

13081433 Private Gerald Victor Roy Slattery of the Pioneer Corps died on 2nd October 1943. He was born in Devon and living in Plymouth when he enlisted.

Gerald is buried in Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, plot 1. row B. joint grave 4.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2722006 Guardsman Charles Henry John Marler, 3rd Bn, Irish Guards

2722006 Guardsman Charles Henry John Marler of the 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards, died on 1st October 1944. He was born in Norwich and living in Great Yarmouth when he enlisted.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that he was 24 years old, the son of S. J. and Nellie Marler and the husband of Elsie Doris Marler, of Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex.

Charles Marler is buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery in the Netherlands; grave reference 18.C.2.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

14706556 Pte Kenneth Ings, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry

Nineteen year old 14706556 Private Kenneth Ings of the 1st Battalion, Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry died on the 30th September 1944. He was the son of William Bertie and Elsie May Ings, of Snelston, Derbyshire. He is buried in Valkenswaard War Cemetery in the Netherlands; grave reference II.C.20.

According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, "Valkenswaard was the first village to be liberated on the main line of the British advance into Holland in September 1944. The cemetery, which lies in a pinewood, contains over 220 graves, almost all of them are those of men who fell in the fighting in the woods around Valkenswaard during that month. All the men buried here belonged to the forces of the United Kingdom."

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission