Showing posts with label DLI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DLI. Show all posts

24 September 2010

2391183 Pte Herbert A Lefever, 16th Bn, DLI

2391183 Pte Herbert Anthony Lefever, of the 16th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, died in the fighting around Monte Cassino in Italy on the 23rd September 1943. He was born in east London and was living in London when he enlisted. He has no known grave and is one of over four thousand men commemorated on the Cassino Memorial.

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

25 May 2010

52363 Lt Edward Nutley, 2nd Bn, DLI

52363 Lieutenant Edward Nutley of the 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, died at Dunkirk on the 25th May 1940. He was 30 years old, the son of Edward and Mary Nutley, and the husband of Mary Caroline Nutley of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was a Bachelor of Science (Dunelm).

Lieutenant Nutley has no known grave and is one of 4506 names commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial in France.

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