1119547 Gnr Frank Lee, RA

1119547 Gunner Frank Lee of the 10th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, died on the 29th September 1942, aged 36. He was the son of Thomas Edward and Florence Lee of Morley, Yorkshire, and the husband of Marion Lee, of Morley. He is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in what is now called Chennai, India.

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
Image courtesy of Madras Heritage

154157 Capt Frank A S Austen, RAMC

154157 Captain Frank Alex Stuart Austen, a qualified doctor serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps, died on the 5th November 1944. He was 34 years old, the son of Frank and Etheldreda Sophia Austen of Marlborough, Wiltshire. He is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in India.

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

357061 2nd Lt Eric Jones, RE

357061 Second Lieutenant Eric Jones of the Royal Engineers, died on the 22nd September 1945. At the time of his death he was serving with Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners. He was 19 years old, the son of William Arthur and Lilian Jones of Mayfield, Staffordshire. He is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in India.

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

7942036 Cpl Samuel Foxon, RAC

7942036 Corporal Samuel Nevil Foxon of the 26th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, died in India on the 10th June 1943. He was 32 years old, the son of Samuel and Rhoda Louisa Foxon of Leicester, and the husband of Hilda Foxon, of Humberstone, Leicestershire. He is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in Chennai.

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

3244348 Rfm John McFall, 1st Bn Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

3244348 Rifleman John McFall of the 1st Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), died on the 9th November 1940 in India. He was 25 years old.

John was born in Antrim but living in Glasgow when he enlisted. He is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in Chennai. This from the the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"MADRAS WAR CEMETERY was created to receive Second World War graves from many civil and cantonment cemeteries in the south and east of India where their permanent maintenance could not be assured. The cemetery contains 856 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. The MADRAS 1914-1918 MEMORIAL is situated at the rear of the cemetery. It bears the names of more than 1,000 servicemen who died during the First World War who lie in many civil and cantonment cemeteries in various parts of India where it is not possible to maintain their graves in perpetuity."

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

246610 Captain Joseph Cochrane, Royal Engineers

246610 Captain Joseph Cochrane of the Royal Engineers, died on the 26th September 1945. He was 43 years old and was, says the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), the son of Walter and Esther Cochrane and the husband of H M (Wyn) Cochrane, of Bromley, Kent.

The UK Army Roll of Honour for 1939-45 records that Joseph was born in Staffordshire but living in Kent when he enlisted. He died in India and is buried in the Madras War Cemetery in what is today, Chennai.

The CWGC has this to say about the cemetery:

"MADRAS WAR CEMETERY was created to receive Second World War graves from many civil and cantonment cemeteries in the south and east of India where their permanent maintenance could not be assured. The cemetery contains 856 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. The MADRAS 1914-1918 MEMORIAL is situated at the rear of the cemetery. It bears the names of more than 1,000 servicemen who died during the First World War who lie in many civil and cantonment cemeteries in various parts of India where it is not possible to maintain their graves in perpetuity."

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