Endcliffe
Endcliffe Methodist
Endcliffe War Memorial lists the names of 8 dead from The Great War and 5 from WWII
ENDCLIFFE METHODIST CHURCH
Eccleshall Rd Endcliffe Sheffield South Yorkshire England OS Grid Ref.: SK 350 870 Denomination: Methodist |
ORNATE WOODEN BOARD WITH INSCRIPTION CARVED INTO THE BOARD AND NAMES ON TWO BRASS PLAQUES SET INTO THE BOARD, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER. TWO ANGELS CARVED AT THE TOP CORNERS OF THE BOARD. TRACERY CARVED ABOVE THE DEDICATORY INSCRIPTION AND FLANKING THE WW2 PLAQUE.
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS/ OF THE CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ (NAMES)/ SO HE PASSED OVER AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR HIM AND THE OTHER SIDE
Geoffrey J Bucknall
Douglas Hague
Douglas Harding
Ronald L Harding
Joseph Holgate
Douglas Hague
Douglas Harding
Ronald L Harding
Joseph Holgate
Endcliffe Park - Mi Amigo
Endcliffe Park Special War Memorial carries the names of 10 United States airmen
Endcliffe Park
Sheffield Sheffield South Yorkshire England OS Grid Ref.: SK 328 858 |
Rough stone of remembrance with two attached plaques. Lettering in low relief. Ten associated American Oak trees.
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ERECTED BY/ SHEFFIELD R.A.F. ASSOCIATION/ IN MEMORY OF/ THE TEN CREW OF U.S.A.A.F. BOMBER/ WHICH CRASHED IN THIS PARK/ 22-2-1944/ PER ARDUA AD ASTRA
John G Krieghauser
Lyle J Curtis John W Humphrey Melchor Hernandez Robert E Mayfield |
Harry W Estabrooks
Charles H Tuttle Maurice O Robbins Vito R Amrosio George M Williams |
St Augustine's Church
St Augustine's Church War Memorial lists 58 names from WWI and 24 names from WWII
ST AUGUSTINES CHURCH
Brocco Bank Endcliffe Sheffield South Yorkshire England OS Grid Ref.: SK 350 870 Denomination: Church of England |
FRAMED AND GLAZED
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ROLL OF HONOUR 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)/ R.I.P.
Addis C W C
Barker R Beech D F Bishop C Burch F Clarke C or V Dodge E J Duckenfield R Esplin J Ford A A Gale D Hall W L |
Hawley J C M
Haycock R Hodges H R Lockyear D Martin S Mayers L Middlemass C Nelson G F Vickery L R Wainwright K J White W Wright K |
Additional details
Cyril William Croft Addis (P/KX 121419)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Copra - Stoker 2nd Class
12 February 1944, aged 22
Son of C. W. and Evelyn Addis, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died when troop ship SS Khedive Ismail sunk in the Indian Ocean by the Japanese submarine I-27.
Raymond Barker (1238928)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 207 Sqdn. - Sergeant
4 May 1944, aged 22Son of Harry and Elsie M. Barker, of Sheffield.
Dontilly Communal Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number ND575 coded EM-M airborne from Spilsby at 21:51 on a mission to Mailly-le-Camp, crashed at Donnemarie Dontilly, Seine-et-Marne
Derek Fenton Beech (14838953)
Royal Corps of Signals - Lance Corporal
4 October 1947, aged 21
Son of Fenton Elliott Beech and Jane Beech, of Sheffield.
Ramleh War Cemetery
Died at a Military Hospital in Palestine of typhoid fever.
Conrad Bishop (P/MX 81924)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Airedale - Cook (S)
16 June 1942, aged 27
Son of Tom and Edith Bishop, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
HMS Airedale (Lt.Cdr. Archibald George Forman, DSC, RN) was bombed and heavily damaged by German Ju 87 (Stuka)
dive bombers about 90 nautical miles north-east of Derna, Libya in position 33º50'N, 23º50'E. Scuttled by HMS Aldenham and HMS Hurworth.
Geoffrey James Bucknall (1232279)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 51 Sqdn. - Sergeant
22 January 1944, aged 22
Son of George Arthur and Brenda Bucknall, of Sheffield.
Oldebroek General Cemetery
Halifax mk III serial number LV774 coded MH-B, airborne from Snaith at 20:04 on an operation to Magdeburg. Crashed on the Wehrmacht artillery range at Oldebroek (Gelderland) killing 6 of the 7 crew. Funeral service for those who dies were held on 25 January at Oldebroek General Cemetery.
Fred Burch (4539775)
Lancashire Fusiliers - 10th Bn. - Fusilier
3 February 1943, aged 24
Rangoon Memorial
Killed in action at West Hill, Burma during the 1st Arakan Campaign
C Or V Clarke
Not yet identified
The Rev Ernest J Dodge (56922)
Royal Army Chaplains' Department - Chaplain 3rd Class
23 June 1941, aged 38
Son of Henry and Emma Dodge; Husband of Ida Dodge, of Sheffield.
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in North Africa in the aftermath of Operation Battleaxe
Thomas Ronald Duckenfield (899280)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Private
22 November 1942, aged 25
Son of Percy Foster Duckenfield and Margaret Duckenfield, of Sheffield.
Sheffield (Abbey Lane) Cemetery
Died at Bracebridge Military Hospital; Buried on November 26, 1942 (Removed from Lincoln parish)
Jack Esplin (4746835)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn. - Private
23 March 1944, aged 24
Husband of Mary Esplin, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in the Italian Campaign at Anzio
Archibald Athron Ford (1237444)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 34 SFTS - Leading Aircraftman
15 May 1942, aged 20
Son of Frederick George and Eliza Ford, of Brincliffe, Sheffield, England.
Medicine Hat (Hillside) Cemetery
Airspeed Oxford Mk. I A.S.10 serial number AS696 No. 34 Service Flying Training School at Medicine Hat, Category A crash at 13:00 on 15 May 1942. Crashed and burned in farm field 16 miles south-west of Maple Creek, Alberta, while on a cross country navigation exercise. Both RAF student occupants killed, LAC G.W.M. Duncan and LAC A.A. Ford. No eye witnesses to crash, enquiry concluded either pilots attempted to descend below unforecasted clouds and struck ground, or aircraft iced up and descended until ground struck.
Douglas Gale (T/64438)
Royal Army Service Corps - Driver
25 September 1941, aged 24
Son of Herbert A. Gale and Elizabeth Gale, of Sheffield.
Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery
Died in Syria
Douglas Hague (D/JX 211743)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune - Signalman
19 December 1941, aged 21
Son of Harry and Gertrude Hague, of Sheffield.
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 19 December 1941, following the First Battle if the Syrte, Force "K", consisting of light cruisers HMS Neptune, Aurora, Penelope with destroyers Kandahar, Havock, Lance and Lively, sortied from Malta in the hope of intercepting the Italian convoy known to be heading for Tripoli. At a point 20 nautical miles E of Tripoli, Force "K" entered an Italian minefield, laid by Italian cruiser force in June 1941. At 0106 hrs Neptune, leading the British column, hit a mine and backed her engines but at 0116 another mine detonated under the stern, losing propellers and rudder and going dead in the water. This left the cruiser at the mercy of wind and water in sea state 5 (heavy whitecaps), Neptune hit another mine. A 4th mine detonated under the bridge of Neptune, 5 minutes later she capsized and sank in position 33º15'N, 13º30'E.
Walter Leslie Hall
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - H.M.L.C.A. 690. - Acting Sub Lieutenant
6 June 1944, aged 19
Son of Harry and Charlotte Hall, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Killed when vessel was lost on D-Day
John Douglas Harding (1479693)
Royal Artillery - 122 (5th Bn. The Royal Warwickshire Regt.) Lt. A.A. Regt. - Gunner
26 April 1941, aged 27
Son of Thomas Sowing Harding and Hannah Ewbank Harding; Husband of Isabella Harding, of Nether Edge, Sheffield.
Phaleron War Cemetery
KIA close to the Corinth Canal, Greece
Ronald Leon Harding (4747584)
York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn. - Corporal
7 September 1944, aged 25
Son of Thomas Sewing Harding and Hannah Ewbank Harding, of Sheffield; Husband of Winnie Harding, of Sheffield.
St. Desir War Cemetery
The Hallamshire War Diary shows two entries which seem to relate to our Ronald Harding. It states that on 31st August 1944 the Battalion remained in rest at Vieus Port. During the afternoon of that day Captain Cowell and Corporal Harding were travelling in a Jeep which struck a mine. Both were seriously wounded. The diary shows that “Ronald Leon Harding, aged 25, died on 7th September. At this time his family lived at Tom Lane in Sheffield.
John Charles Michael Hawley (42002)
Royal Air Force - 90 Sqdn. - Flying Officer
22 June 1941, aged 30
Dishforth Cemetery
Test Flying. Flying Fortress AN522. Base - West Raynham. Died when aircraft broke up at high altitude on a research flight
Ronald Haycock (2594782)
Royal Corps of Signals - First Army Sigs. - Driver
23 February 1943, aged 28
Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Harold Roy Hodges (14292780) (may not be this casualty - no link with Sheffield located)
General Service Corps - Private
7 October 1942, aged c24
Willesborough Cemetery
Death registered in Colchester
Joseph Holgate (T/209290)
Royal Army Service Corps - Driver
1 February 1943, aged 31
Son of Joseph and Polly Holgate, of Sheffield; Husband of Edyth Holgate, of Sheffield.
Labuan War Cemetery
Died as a PoW. Originally buried in C/E Cemetery, Kuching
Dennis Lockyear (300137)
Royal Artillery - 3 Field Regt. - Second Lieutenant
23 November 1943, aged 28
Son of Bertram Edwin and Louisa Mary Lockyear, of Hastings, Sussex.
Sangro River War Cemetery
Killed in action in Italy
Sydney Martin (1104290)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 207 Sqdn. - Sergeant
2 December 1943, aged 24
Son of George Herbert and Annie Martin, of Sheffield.
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Lancaster mk I serial number ED601 coded EM-N airborne from Spilsby at 16:37 for a raid on Berlin, crashed at Saalow, 6 km SW of Zossen.
Arthur Leslie Mayers (185925)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 40 Sqdn. - Pilot Officer
5 October 1944, aged 23
Malta Memorial
On the night of the 4th/5th October 1944, RAF Wellington bomber MF 845-‘A’ was shot down by a German ship on the banks of the Danube three miles south of Bratislava. The bomber plane, which had been based in Italy but given the task of laying mines in the river Danube to impede German shipping, fell partially into the river and partially onto the banks of the Danube. All six members of the Wellington bomber were killed.
Neville Craig Middlemass (580461)
Royal Air Force - 15 Sqdn. - Sergeant
12 May 1940, aged 26
Son of John and Doris Middlemass, of Sheffield.
Maastricht General Cemetery
Blenheim mk IV serial L8847 airborne at 07:50 from Alconbury to destroy the strategic bridges on the Albert Kanaal.
Damaged by flak at 09:16 and crashed at 09:50 at Borgharen (Limburg) between the River Maas and the Juliana Kanaal, 3 km N of Maastricht. It was one of seven aircraft lost from the squadron on this day.
George Frederick Nelson (1036427)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Filter Flight Kallang - Aircraftman 2nd Class
13 February 1942, aged 20
Son of William and Edith Nelson, of Sheffield.
Singapore Memorial
Died two days before Singapore was surrendered
Leslie Reginald Vickery
Merchant Navy - S.S. Clarissa Radcliffe (London) - Second Officer
9 March 1943, aged 34
Husband of Mildred Vickery, of Sheffield.
Tower Hill Memorial
SS Clarissa Radcliffe was on the route Pepel - New York (5 Mar) - Barrow with a cargo of 8450 tons of iron ore. At 15.40 hours on 18 March 1943 the Clarissa Radcliffe (Master Stuart Gordon Finnes), a straggler from convoy SC-122 since a heavy storm in approx. 42°N/62°W on 9 March, was hit by one torpedo from U-663 and sank immediately about 700 miles southwest of Cape Farewell. At 15.35 hours, the ship had been missed with a spread of three torpedoes because Schmid apparently overestimated her speed. There were no survivors: the master, 42 crew members and ten gunners were lost.
Kenneth John Wainwright
Royal Naval Reserve - H.M.S. Asturias - Sub-Lieutenant (E)
3 August 1943, aged 34
Son of John Alfred and Rosina Wainwright; Husband of Kathleen Violette Wainwright, of Endcliffe, Sheffield.
Belfast City Cemetery
Died in UK
Wredford White (14352421)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 5th Bn. - Private
27 November 1943, aged 32
Son of Walter and Alice White, of Sheffield; Husband of Dorothy White, of Sheffield.
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Keith Fielding Wright (999812)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 227 Sqdn. - Warrant Officer
11 February 1944, aged 26
Son of William and Dorothy Wright, of Sheffield; Husband of Margaret Pamela Wright, of Sheffield.
Phaleron War Cemetery
Beaufighter JL585 squadron code A was one of three aircraft to take of from Berka III at 9:55, they sighted two vessels in Spetsai harbour around mid-day. JL585 was believed hit by flak and the port engine caught fire causing it to ditch east of the harbour, pilot (Wright) was killed when the aircraft sank immediately although his navigator survived.
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Copra - Stoker 2nd Class
12 February 1944, aged 22
Son of C. W. and Evelyn Addis, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died when troop ship SS Khedive Ismail sunk in the Indian Ocean by the Japanese submarine I-27.
Raymond Barker (1238928)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 207 Sqdn. - Sergeant
4 May 1944, aged 22Son of Harry and Elsie M. Barker, of Sheffield.
Dontilly Communal Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number ND575 coded EM-M airborne from Spilsby at 21:51 on a mission to Mailly-le-Camp, crashed at Donnemarie Dontilly, Seine-et-Marne
Derek Fenton Beech (14838953)
Royal Corps of Signals - Lance Corporal
4 October 1947, aged 21
Son of Fenton Elliott Beech and Jane Beech, of Sheffield.
Ramleh War Cemetery
Died at a Military Hospital in Palestine of typhoid fever.
Conrad Bishop (P/MX 81924)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Airedale - Cook (S)
16 June 1942, aged 27
Son of Tom and Edith Bishop, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
HMS Airedale (Lt.Cdr. Archibald George Forman, DSC, RN) was bombed and heavily damaged by German Ju 87 (Stuka)
dive bombers about 90 nautical miles north-east of Derna, Libya in position 33º50'N, 23º50'E. Scuttled by HMS Aldenham and HMS Hurworth.
Geoffrey James Bucknall (1232279)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 51 Sqdn. - Sergeant
22 January 1944, aged 22
Son of George Arthur and Brenda Bucknall, of Sheffield.
Oldebroek General Cemetery
Halifax mk III serial number LV774 coded MH-B, airborne from Snaith at 20:04 on an operation to Magdeburg. Crashed on the Wehrmacht artillery range at Oldebroek (Gelderland) killing 6 of the 7 crew. Funeral service for those who dies were held on 25 January at Oldebroek General Cemetery.
Fred Burch (4539775)
Lancashire Fusiliers - 10th Bn. - Fusilier
3 February 1943, aged 24
Rangoon Memorial
Killed in action at West Hill, Burma during the 1st Arakan Campaign
C Or V Clarke
Not yet identified
The Rev Ernest J Dodge (56922)
Royal Army Chaplains' Department - Chaplain 3rd Class
23 June 1941, aged 38
Son of Henry and Emma Dodge; Husband of Ida Dodge, of Sheffield.
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in North Africa in the aftermath of Operation Battleaxe
Thomas Ronald Duckenfield (899280)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps - Private
22 November 1942, aged 25
Son of Percy Foster Duckenfield and Margaret Duckenfield, of Sheffield.
Sheffield (Abbey Lane) Cemetery
Died at Bracebridge Military Hospital; Buried on November 26, 1942 (Removed from Lincoln parish)
Jack Esplin (4746835)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn. - Private
23 March 1944, aged 24
Husband of Mary Esplin, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in the Italian Campaign at Anzio
Archibald Athron Ford (1237444)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 34 SFTS - Leading Aircraftman
15 May 1942, aged 20
Son of Frederick George and Eliza Ford, of Brincliffe, Sheffield, England.
Medicine Hat (Hillside) Cemetery
Airspeed Oxford Mk. I A.S.10 serial number AS696 No. 34 Service Flying Training School at Medicine Hat, Category A crash at 13:00 on 15 May 1942. Crashed and burned in farm field 16 miles south-west of Maple Creek, Alberta, while on a cross country navigation exercise. Both RAF student occupants killed, LAC G.W.M. Duncan and LAC A.A. Ford. No eye witnesses to crash, enquiry concluded either pilots attempted to descend below unforecasted clouds and struck ground, or aircraft iced up and descended until ground struck.
Douglas Gale (T/64438)
Royal Army Service Corps - Driver
25 September 1941, aged 24
Son of Herbert A. Gale and Elizabeth Gale, of Sheffield.
Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery
Died in Syria
Douglas Hague (D/JX 211743)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune - Signalman
19 December 1941, aged 21
Son of Harry and Gertrude Hague, of Sheffield.
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 19 December 1941, following the First Battle if the Syrte, Force "K", consisting of light cruisers HMS Neptune, Aurora, Penelope with destroyers Kandahar, Havock, Lance and Lively, sortied from Malta in the hope of intercepting the Italian convoy known to be heading for Tripoli. At a point 20 nautical miles E of Tripoli, Force "K" entered an Italian minefield, laid by Italian cruiser force in June 1941. At 0106 hrs Neptune, leading the British column, hit a mine and backed her engines but at 0116 another mine detonated under the stern, losing propellers and rudder and going dead in the water. This left the cruiser at the mercy of wind and water in sea state 5 (heavy whitecaps), Neptune hit another mine. A 4th mine detonated under the bridge of Neptune, 5 minutes later she capsized and sank in position 33º15'N, 13º30'E.
Walter Leslie Hall
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - H.M.L.C.A. 690. - Acting Sub Lieutenant
6 June 1944, aged 19
Son of Harry and Charlotte Hall, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Killed when vessel was lost on D-Day
John Douglas Harding (1479693)
Royal Artillery - 122 (5th Bn. The Royal Warwickshire Regt.) Lt. A.A. Regt. - Gunner
26 April 1941, aged 27
Son of Thomas Sowing Harding and Hannah Ewbank Harding; Husband of Isabella Harding, of Nether Edge, Sheffield.
Phaleron War Cemetery
KIA close to the Corinth Canal, Greece
Ronald Leon Harding (4747584)
York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn. - Corporal
7 September 1944, aged 25
Son of Thomas Sewing Harding and Hannah Ewbank Harding, of Sheffield; Husband of Winnie Harding, of Sheffield.
St. Desir War Cemetery
The Hallamshire War Diary shows two entries which seem to relate to our Ronald Harding. It states that on 31st August 1944 the Battalion remained in rest at Vieus Port. During the afternoon of that day Captain Cowell and Corporal Harding were travelling in a Jeep which struck a mine. Both were seriously wounded. The diary shows that “Ronald Leon Harding, aged 25, died on 7th September. At this time his family lived at Tom Lane in Sheffield.
John Charles Michael Hawley (42002)
Royal Air Force - 90 Sqdn. - Flying Officer
22 June 1941, aged 30
Dishforth Cemetery
Test Flying. Flying Fortress AN522. Base - West Raynham. Died when aircraft broke up at high altitude on a research flight
Ronald Haycock (2594782)
Royal Corps of Signals - First Army Sigs. - Driver
23 February 1943, aged 28
Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Harold Roy Hodges (14292780) (may not be this casualty - no link with Sheffield located)
General Service Corps - Private
7 October 1942, aged c24
Willesborough Cemetery
Death registered in Colchester
Joseph Holgate (T/209290)
Royal Army Service Corps - Driver
1 February 1943, aged 31
Son of Joseph and Polly Holgate, of Sheffield; Husband of Edyth Holgate, of Sheffield.
Labuan War Cemetery
Died as a PoW. Originally buried in C/E Cemetery, Kuching
Dennis Lockyear (300137)
Royal Artillery - 3 Field Regt. - Second Lieutenant
23 November 1943, aged 28
Son of Bertram Edwin and Louisa Mary Lockyear, of Hastings, Sussex.
Sangro River War Cemetery
Killed in action in Italy
Sydney Martin (1104290)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 207 Sqdn. - Sergeant
2 December 1943, aged 24
Son of George Herbert and Annie Martin, of Sheffield.
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Lancaster mk I serial number ED601 coded EM-N airborne from Spilsby at 16:37 for a raid on Berlin, crashed at Saalow, 6 km SW of Zossen.
Arthur Leslie Mayers (185925)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 40 Sqdn. - Pilot Officer
5 October 1944, aged 23
Malta Memorial
On the night of the 4th/5th October 1944, RAF Wellington bomber MF 845-‘A’ was shot down by a German ship on the banks of the Danube three miles south of Bratislava. The bomber plane, which had been based in Italy but given the task of laying mines in the river Danube to impede German shipping, fell partially into the river and partially onto the banks of the Danube. All six members of the Wellington bomber were killed.
Neville Craig Middlemass (580461)
Royal Air Force - 15 Sqdn. - Sergeant
12 May 1940, aged 26
Son of John and Doris Middlemass, of Sheffield.
Maastricht General Cemetery
Blenheim mk IV serial L8847 airborne at 07:50 from Alconbury to destroy the strategic bridges on the Albert Kanaal.
Damaged by flak at 09:16 and crashed at 09:50 at Borgharen (Limburg) between the River Maas and the Juliana Kanaal, 3 km N of Maastricht. It was one of seven aircraft lost from the squadron on this day.
George Frederick Nelson (1036427)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Filter Flight Kallang - Aircraftman 2nd Class
13 February 1942, aged 20
Son of William and Edith Nelson, of Sheffield.
Singapore Memorial
Died two days before Singapore was surrendered
Leslie Reginald Vickery
Merchant Navy - S.S. Clarissa Radcliffe (London) - Second Officer
9 March 1943, aged 34
Husband of Mildred Vickery, of Sheffield.
Tower Hill Memorial
SS Clarissa Radcliffe was on the route Pepel - New York (5 Mar) - Barrow with a cargo of 8450 tons of iron ore. At 15.40 hours on 18 March 1943 the Clarissa Radcliffe (Master Stuart Gordon Finnes), a straggler from convoy SC-122 since a heavy storm in approx. 42°N/62°W on 9 March, was hit by one torpedo from U-663 and sank immediately about 700 miles southwest of Cape Farewell. At 15.35 hours, the ship had been missed with a spread of three torpedoes because Schmid apparently overestimated her speed. There were no survivors: the master, 42 crew members and ten gunners were lost.
Kenneth John Wainwright
Royal Naval Reserve - H.M.S. Asturias - Sub-Lieutenant (E)
3 August 1943, aged 34
Son of John Alfred and Rosina Wainwright; Husband of Kathleen Violette Wainwright, of Endcliffe, Sheffield.
Belfast City Cemetery
Died in UK
Wredford White (14352421)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 5th Bn. - Private
27 November 1943, aged 32
Son of Walter and Alice White, of Sheffield; Husband of Dorothy White, of Sheffield.
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Keith Fielding Wright (999812)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 227 Sqdn. - Warrant Officer
11 February 1944, aged 26
Son of William and Dorothy Wright, of Sheffield; Husband of Margaret Pamela Wright, of Sheffield.
Phaleron War Cemetery
Beaufighter JL585 squadron code A was one of three aircraft to take of from Berka III at 9:55, they sighted two vessels in Spetsai harbour around mid-day. JL585 was believed hit by flak and the port engine caught fire causing it to ditch east of the harbour, pilot (Wright) was killed when the aircraft sank immediately although his navigator survived.
Information about the memorial includes that given on the IWM War Memorials Register -
© IWM (WMA-27693) (Methodist)
© IWM (WMA-27509) (Mi Amigo)
© IWM (WMA-27963) (St Augustine's)
© IWM (WMA-27693) (Methodist)
© IWM (WMA-27509) (Mi Amigo)
© IWM (WMA-27963) (St Augustine's)