2695025 Dmr Roland F Dunn, 2nd Bn, Scots Guards

2695025 Drummer Roland Frederick Dunn of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards died on the 22nd April 1941. He was the son of Frederick Hunter Dunn and Ada Lucy Dunn (nee Feild) of Walworth, London and is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.  Roland's birth was registered in Wandsworth, south London, in the June quarter of 1920 and he was therefore just short of his 21st birthday when he died.

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

Sources:

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

7374015 Pte Kenneth Laycock, RAMC

 
Today marks the seventieth death anniversary of 7374015 Private Kenneth Laycock of the Royal Army Medical Corps.  He was born in Bradford and was living there when he enlisted.  The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was serving with the 197th Field Ambulance at the time of his death and that he is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial.  The Army Roll of Honour notes that he died whilst serving in Malaya.
 
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
Image of the Singapore Memorial from the 152 (Hyderabad) F Squadron website