7886135 Tpr Louis R Gliddon, RTR

7886135 Trooper Louis Richard Gliddon of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 13th September 1939. He was 21 years old, the son of George and Frances Gliddon, of Underwood, Plympton. He is buried in Plympton's St Mary's Churchyard.

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

7884205 Sgt Arthur A McFegan, RAC

7884205 Serjeant Arthur Ainsley McFegan of the 44th (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 17th July 1942. He was 28 years old, the son of Robert and Helen McFegan, and the husband of Kathleen Phyllis McFegan of Chase Cross, Romford, Essex. He is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.

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

7888181 Tpr Charles Maggs MM, 2nd Royal Tank Regt

7888181 Trooper Charles Henry James Maggs of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 24th January 1941 in Africa. He was 25 years old, the son of Charles Henry and Laura Louisa Maggs and the husband of Evelyn Mary Maud Maggs of Wenhaston, Suffolk.

Charles Maggs, who was the holder of the Military Medal, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.

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

7915428 Tpr Walter Henry Milner, Royal Armoured Corps

7915428 Trooper Walter Henry Milner of the Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 9th January 1942. He was the son of Mr and Mrs H Milner, of Hackney in London and he is buried in Pietermaritzburg's Fort Napier Cemetery in South Africa. He was 22 years old when he died.

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

7911042 Tpr Wilfred Orton, 8th Bn, Royal Tank Regt

7911042 Trooper Wilfred Orton of the 8th Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 8th November 1941. He was born in west London and was living in Surrey when he enlisted. At the time of his death he was 21 years old and, as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission informs us, the son of Frank Edward and Winifred May Orton, of Cowden, Kent. He is buried in Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma in Libya.

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

7887122 Cpl Allan Sharman, Royal Tank Regt, Royal Armoured Corps

7887122 Corporal Allan Sharman of the Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 20th November 1942. He was born in Sunderland and living in Durham when he enlisted. Apart from that though, I know nothing further about this man.

Allan Sharman is buried in Knightsbridge War Cemetery in Acroma, Libya. The following information comes from the Commonwealth war Graves Commission:

"The defence against Rommel's drive across Cyrenaica towards Suez consisted of a number of irregularly spaced strong points or 'boxes' linked by deep minefields. Those nearest the Axis forces were held by infantry, while those further back served as reserve static positions and as bases from which the armour could operate. The chief 'box', known as Knightsbridge, was round a junction of tracks about 20 kilometres west of Tobruk and 16 kilometres south of Acroma, commanding all the tracks by which supplies came up to the front. The Eighth Army's advance fuelling stations and airfields were at Acroma, El Adem, El Duda, Sidi Rezegh and Gambut, while by February 1941, Gazala aerodrome, taken from the Italians early in the campaign, housed two Commonwealth squadrons. Knightsbridge was thus a key position, and the pivot on which the armour manoeuvred during the heavy fighting which commenced in late May 1942. Fierce actions were fought at all these places, and a battlefield cemetery was created at each for the burial of the dead. The graves of many of those who gave their lives during the campaign in Libya were later gathered into Knightsbridge War Cemetery from the battlefield burial grounds and from scattered desert sites. The men who fought and died with them, but have no known grave, are commemorated on The Alamein Memorial which stands in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. There are now 3,651 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in Knightsbridge War Cemetery. 993 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate a number of casualties known or believed to be buried among them."

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

7942787 Trooper Maurice Beadle, Royal Tank Regiment

37 year olf 7942787 Trooper Maurice Beadle of the 8th Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, died on 19th September 1944 whilst serving in Italy. He is buried in Ancona War Cemetery; grave ref II.L.10.

Maurice was born in Londonderry but living in Middlesex when he enlisted. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the "son of Henry John Beadle, formerly R.Q.M.S., The Middlesex Regiment, and Amy Matilda Beadle; husband of Ivy Lillian Beadle."

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