Showing posts with label El Alia cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label El Alia cemetery. Show all posts

27 September 2010

13094834 Pte Mostyn H George, Pioneer Corps

13094834 Private Mostyn Harold George of the Pioneer Corps died in North Africa on the 27th September 1943. He was 40 years old, the son of George George and Susan Marian George (nee Howes), and the husband of Doris Lillian George, of West Croydon, Surrey. He is buried in the El Alia Cemetery in Algeria.

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

11 February 2010

318096 Sgt Thomas Tighe, 9th Bn, KOYLI

318096 Sergeant Thomas Tighe of the 9th (The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons) Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died on the 11th February 1944. He was 23 years old and the son of Brian Joseph and Emily Amelia Tighe of Goole, Yorkshire. He is buried in the El Alia cemetery in Algeria.

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