Showing posts with label Gloucestershire Regiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gloucestershire Regiment. Show all posts

9 November 2010

41786 Pte George A Finnimore, 8th Bn, Gloucs Regt

41786 Private George Albert Finnimore of the 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment died on the 9th November 1940. He was 43 years old, the son of William and Esther Finnimore and the husband of Winifred May Finnimore of Knowle, Bristol. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records his number as D/41786. He is buried in Bristol's Arnos Vale Cemetery.

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

13 May 2010

5183651 Pte Charles Vance, 5th Bn, Gloucs Regt

5183651 Private Charles Vance of the 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, died in France on the 13th May 1940. He was the son of Charles Henry and Henrietta Vance of Gloucester. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial. Charles was 20 years old at the time of his death.

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