5674325 Private Hedley James Bowerman of the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, died on the 25th August 1940. He was 20 years old, the son of of James and Elizabeth Bowerman, of Wellington, Somerset. He is buried in Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery in Poland and was almost certainly a prisoner of war who had been captured earlier that year.
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
Remembering the men and women of the British Commonwealth who lost their lives during the Second World War 1939-1945. Please feel free to contact me and suggest a name for inclusion on this WW2 remembrance blog.
Showing posts with label Ox and Bucks Light Infantry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ox and Bucks Light Infantry. Show all posts
25 August 2010
20 August 2010
1796696 Pte Francis L Bathe, 1st Bn, Ox and Bucks LI
1796696 Pte Francis L Bathe, 1st Battalion, Ox and Bucks LI died on the 19th August 1944. He was 23 years old, the son of Henry Claude and Alice Rose Emily Bathe, and the husband of Margaret Mary Bathe, of Kentish Town, London. He is buried in Banneville La Campagne War Cemetery 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
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
25 March 2010
228367 Capt Clive Moncrieff, 2nd Airborne Bn
228367 Captain Clive Moncrieff was attached to the 2nd Airborne Battalion when he died in Euroope on the 25th March 1944. He was 23 years old, the son of Alan and Lilian Moncrieff of Wadhurst in Sussex. He'd originally joined the Leicestershire Regiment, transferred to the Ox and Bucks and was then attache dto the 2nd Airborne. He died in the fighting in Germany and is buried in the Reichswald Forest 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
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
29 September 2009
14706556 Pte Kenneth Ings, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry
Nineteen year old 14706556 Private Kenneth Ings of the 1st Battalion, Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry died on the 30th September 1944. He was the son of William Bertie and Elsie May Ings, of Snelston, Derbyshire. He is buried in Valkenswaard War Cemetery in the Netherlands; grave reference II.C.20.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, "Valkenswaard was the first village to be liberated on the main line of the British advance into Holland in September 1944. The cemetery, which lies in a pinewood, contains over 220 graves, almost all of them are those of men who fell in the fighting in the woods around Valkenswaard during that month. All the men buried here belonged to the forces of the United Kingdom."
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
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, "Valkenswaard was the first village to be liberated on the main line of the British advance into Holland in September 1944. The cemetery, which lies in a pinewood, contains over 220 graves, almost all of them are those of men who fell in the fighting in the woods around Valkenswaard during that month. All the men buried here belonged to the forces of the United Kingdom."
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
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