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

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

4453331 Pte Cecil J Larter MM, DLI

4453331 Private Cecil J Larter MM, of the 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, died on the 20th May 1943. He was 20 years old, the son of Mrs A M Male of Hinckley, Leicestershire. Cecil Larter was born in Norwich and living in Leicester when he enlisted. He is buried in the Tripoli War Cemetery in Libya.

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

109567 2nd Lt Robert C Meikle, 1st Bn, DLI

109567 Second Lieutenant Robert Coulson Meikle of the 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, died on the 16th May 1941. He was 24 years old, a chartered accountant by profession, and the son of Archie Miller Meikle and Emily Meikle of Monkseaton, Northumberland. He is buried in the Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery in Egypt.

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

4470213 L/Cpl Kenneth Byrom, 16th Bn, DLI

4470213 L/Cpl Kenneth Byrom of the 16th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, died on the 1st March 1943. He was 22 yewars old and the son of Ernest and Alice Ann Byrom of Blackburn, Lancashire. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Face 28 of the Mejdez-el-Bab Memorial in Tunisia.

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

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."

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

4037174 Sergeant Charles Eggington Pennock, 9th Bn, Durham Light Infantry

4037174 Charles Eggington Pennock of the 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry died on this day, 3rd September, 1942. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his age as 25 and holds the additional information that he was the son of Pte. Frank Pennock, Yorkshire Regt. (died on active service, 15th November, 1947) and Ethel Pennock, and the husband of Joan Lomas Pennock of Tideswell, Derbyshire.

The 1939-1945 UK Roll of Honour (which omits his middle name) notes that he was born in Sheffield and living in Derbyshire at the time of his enlistment.

Charles Pennock is buried in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt; grave reference: 3.F.6. The War Graves Photographic Project holds 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
Hadra image courtesy of the WW1 Cemeteries website.