3445376 L/Cpl James Ratcliffe, 2nd Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

3445376 Lamce-Corporal James Ratcliffe of the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers died on the 11th December 1942. He was from Bury and he is buried in the Beja War Cemetery in Tunisia.

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

4692992 Fsr Edgar Bedford, Lancashire Fusiliers

Twenty-three year old 4692992 Fusilier Edgar Bedford of the 2nd Battalion,Lancashire Fusiliers died on the 28th October 2010. He was the son of John William and Nancy Bedford of West Ardsley, Tingley, Yorkshire. He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery in Italy.

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

122197 Lt Ian M Hall, Lancashire Fusiliers

122197 Lieutenant Ian Mervyn Hall of the Lancashire Fusiliers, died on the 23rd August 1942. He was 46 years old, the son of Robert and Isabel Gravers Hall, and the husband of Catherine Margaret McDiarmid Hall of St Andrews. He is buried in St Andrews Western Cemetery in Fifeshire.

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

3450560 Fsr Leonard Dawson, Lancashire Fusiliers

3450560 Fusilier Leonard Dawson of the 2/5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, died on the 25th July 1940. He is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial in Surrey.

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

3444059 Cpl Walter Haworth, 2nd Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

3444059 Corporal Walter Haworth of the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, died on the 22nd March 1940 in France. He was 30 years old, the son of James Alfred and Rose Haworth of Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester. He is buried in Choloy War 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

3442645 Sgt Joseph Hogan, 2nd Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

3442645 Sgt Joseph Hogan of the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers died on this day, 8th September, 1940. The UK, Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945 states that he was born in Wigan and living in Wigan when he enlisted. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission holds the information that he was 37 years old when he died and was the son of Thomas and Susan Hogan and the husband of Annie Hogan of Wigan, Lancashire.

Sergeant Hogan is buried in Brussels Town Cemetery, grave reference X.12.15. The Commonwealth War Graves has this to say about the cemetery:

"Brussels was in German hands from 20 August 1914 to the date of the Armistice. Plot X of the cemetery contains the graves of 54 Commonwealth casualties, 50 of which were prisoners of war whose bodies were brought back from Germany by the Canadian Corps in April 1919. The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany. Most of the Second World War casualties buried in the town cemetery died on lines of communication duties after the liberation of Brussels at the beginning of September 1944, but a few date from the brief period that the BEF spent in Belgium in May 1940. Brussels Town Cemetery contains 54 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and a further 590 from the Second World War, 4 of which are unidentified. There are also 35 Foreign National burials here."

The War Graves Photographic Project holds a photograph of Joseph Hogan's 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