Fulwood
Fulwood War Memorial lists 23 names from the Second World War
CHRIST CHURCH
ON THE WALL BY THE ENTRANCE Fulwood Sheffield South Yorkshire England OS Grid Ref.: SK 300 850 Denomination: Church of England |
PLAIN RECTANGULAR STONE TABLET WITH INCISED INSCRIPTION EACH NAME DIVIDED BY A CROSS
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(photograph courtesy of Keith Pitchforth)
IN MEMORY OF THOSE FROM/ THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
J F Peter Behn
Brian Blackhurst J Gordon Byrne Eric Chadwick J E D Corner Reginald Fox Ronald Goulden Brian G Green J O Hill Geoffrey Jonas William Jonas Anthony Marshall |
R A Marshall
Donald G McAlphine Derek Neill C P Nicholson R Pearson Austin Peat J Smith H Norman Stauber Edward Stringer J Terence Waterfall J Wincott |
Additional details
John Frederick Peter Behn - 1238972
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 405 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn. - Sergeant
6 October 1942, aged 21
Son of John Frederick and Lilian Mary Behn, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Halifax mk II W7703 LQ-Q, based at Topcliffe was returning from ops to Aachen on October 5/6, 1942. Though short of petrol, it made it as far as the south coast of England when the skipper, Hudema, decided to land at West Malling aerodrome. His first attempt failed and while making a second attempt, the aircraft stalled (ran out of fuel) and crashed at 0034 hrs at Wrotham, 5 miles ENE of Sevenoaks, Kent.
John Brian Blackhurst - 935833
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Leading Aircraftman
12 September 1944, aged 24
Son of John W. Blackhurst and Marion Blackhurst, Sheffield.
Ambon War Cemetery
Died as a Japanese PoW, died of heart failure caused by beriberi.
John Gordon Byrne - 112527
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Flying Officer
28 December 1942, aged 22
Son of Armel and Annie Byrne, of Fulwood, Sheffield; Husband of Beryl Jean Byrne, of Millhouses, Sheffield.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Vickers Wellington BK517 which took off for a 25 minute air test flight from Atherstone-on-Stour, a satellite field of 23 O.T.U. As the flight was described as a medical test flight, Nicholson and the other two non aircrew may have effectively been just passengers on board for the experience. For reasons unknown the bomber, which was piloted by an experienced pilot, J.G. Byrne, hit an elm tree, lost a wing crashed into a valley to the west of Bodicote church. The official aircraft accident form stated that the aircraft had flown into cloud without a wireless operator and had then crashed attempting to make landfall in bad weather.
Eric Chadwick - 157671
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 144 Sqdn. - Flying Officer
26 April 1945, aged 24
Son of Arthur and Bertha Chadwick, of Sheffield.
Runnymede Memorial
Serial number NV182 coded PL-E on an anti-shipping patrol. One of 20 aircraft up at 16:20 hours to Fede Fjord, three Beaufighters failed to return, two reported lost to flak during the attack and the third was shot down by enemy fighters which attempted to intercept the force after the attack. It was NV182 which was hot down by fighters at Flekkefjord/Brevigen Bay.
John Edward Donald Corner - 300253
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 16 Base Workshops - Lieutenant
19 September 1945, aged 24
Son of John Hill Robertson Corner and Elsie Kathleen Corner, of Fulwood, Sheffield. B.Sc., Mining Engineering.
Naples War Cemetery
Died after a few days' illness at Naples.
Albert Reginald Fox - 141853
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Pilot Officer
5 May 1943, aged 32
Son of John and Laura Fox, of Sheffield; Husband of Janet Fox, of Ecclesall, Sheffield.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Anson mk I serial number DG985 took off from Moreton-in-Marsh on a night navigation exercise. Encountered low cloud and at 02:20 crashed into thr side of a hill near Blockley, Gloucestershire, 3 miles west-north-west of the airfield killing all six on board.
Ronald Goulden - 1441222
Royal Artillery - 38 Bty., 13 Lt. A.A. Regt. - Gunner
15 May 1941, aged 19
Son of George Herbert and Elizabeth Goulden, of Sheffield.
Alamein Memorial
Died of wounds in North Africa
Bryan George Green - 1450549
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 514 Sqdn. - Flight Sergeant
2 May 1944
St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Lancaster mk II serial LL732 coded JI-H2 airborne from Waterbeach at 22:47 on a mission to Chambly to attack railway and stores depot. On the home leg, intercepted and shot down by a night fighter, crashing in a near vertical dive some 3km SW of Chaumont-en-Vexin (Oise) 25 km SW of Beauvais.
Joseph Osborne Hill - 2133082
Royal Engineers - 612 Field Sqn. - Sapper
8 September 1944, aged 33
Son of Joseph and Julia Hill, of Sheffield; Husband of Kathleen Hill, of Sheffield.
Brussels Town Cemetery
Wounded on 6 September 1944 and died 2 days later in Belgium
Geoffrey Alan Jonas - 1523237
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Sergeant
21 February 1944
Son of Robert Jonas, J.P., and Mary Elizabeth Jonas, of Fulwood, Sheffield, England.
Ottawa Memorial
Hudson mk V serial number AM729 failed to return from a training flight from Debert, Nova Scotia
Robert William Jonas - 106952
Royal Army Service Corps - Captain
20 June 1941, aged 30
Son of Robert and Mary Elizabeth Jonas; Husband of Edith Isabella Jonas, of Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in the aftermath of Operation Battleaxe in the area of Halfaya Pass.
Anthony Marshall
Not Yet Identified
Robert Anthony Marshall
Merchant Navy - Cadet
30 June 1945
Died as the result of an accident at sea, when he suffered fatal injuries from a fall from the Third Tweet Deck of his ship TSS City of Exeter to the floor of the Bottom Hold. He remained unconscious until he died on the third day after the accident, three hours out of Karachi, where he is buried. He was 19 years of age.
Donald Gordon McAlpine - 118079
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn. - Flight Lieutenant
30 December 1943, aged 29
Son of Henry Sanders McAlpine and Hilda Minnie McAlpine; Husband of Barbara Hetty McAlpine, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster mk I serial number DV375 coded VN-E airborne from Skellingthorpe at 16:35 for a raid on Berlin, on return ditched in the North Sea
Derek Arthur Neill - 293723
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 51st (The Leeds Rifles) - Lieutenant
26 October 1944, aged 21
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Neill, of Curry Rivel, Somerset.
Cesena War Cemetery
Died in Italy (Gothic Line)
Charles Peter Nicholson - 126242
Royal Artillery - 467 Bty., 92 Field Regt. - Captain
20 January 1944, aged 24
Son of Charles and Dorothy Isabel Nicholson, of Sheffield.
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy around the River Garigliano
Randal George Pearson - 1339699
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Sergeant
23 December 1942, aged 20
Son of Randal and Florence Pearson, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Kempston Cemetery
Killed when Blenheim L4872 (Mk IV) of 51 OTU (Cranfield) lost height and crashed at Wood End, Marston at 22.10hrs, following engine failure after take-off from Cranfield.
Austin Peat - 1620868
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 84 O.T.U. - Sergeant
27 January 1944, aged 20
Son of Joseph Cecil and Annie Peat, of Ringinglow.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Wellington III - X3392 - 84 O.T.U. The aircraft was on a training flight and took off from RAF Desborough, near Kettering. The aircraft caught fire and crashed burning to the ground near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire.
J Smith
Not Yet Identified
Norman Henry Stauber - 1456888
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 97 Sqdn. - Flight Sergeant
22 March 1945, aged 23
Son of Ernest Gustav and Mabel Stauber, of Sheffield.
Becklingen War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial PB521 coded OF-Q airborne from Coningsby 01:21 to bomb the Deutsche Erdolwerke Refinery in Hamburg's Harburg district. Crashed at 03.55 south of the Elbe at Feldmark Leeswig, Hamburg-Neuenfelde
Edward Stringer - P/JX 191393
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Egret - Signalman
27 August 1943, aged 22
Son of Oswald and May Stringer, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the sloop HMS Egret was sunk off the Atlantic coast of Spain. HMS Egret was the first Allied warship to be sunk by a guided missle. 30 nautical miles west of Vigo, Spain she was attacked by a squadron of Dornier aircraft, one of which carried and launched the Henschel Hs-293A guided bomb which hit sank Egret in position 42º10'N, 09º22'W, killing 194 of its crew.
John Terence Waterfall - 88022
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 107 Sqdn. - Flying Officer
24 September 1941, aged 28
Son of Arnold and Letitia Waterfall; Husband of Ethel Waterfall, of Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
Malta Memorial
Blenheim serial number Z9599 lost without trace on a shipping sortie from Luqa, Malta.
Gordon Louis Wincott - 1101847
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 107 Sqdn. - Sergeant
25 October 1941, aged 19
Son of Arthur Louis and Blanche Wincott, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Tripoli War Cemetery
Blenheim Z7704 left Malta on road patrol over what is now Libya bombed an Axis petrol dump & then crashed or was shot down.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 405 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn. - Sergeant
6 October 1942, aged 21
Son of John Frederick and Lilian Mary Behn, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Halifax mk II W7703 LQ-Q, based at Topcliffe was returning from ops to Aachen on October 5/6, 1942. Though short of petrol, it made it as far as the south coast of England when the skipper, Hudema, decided to land at West Malling aerodrome. His first attempt failed and while making a second attempt, the aircraft stalled (ran out of fuel) and crashed at 0034 hrs at Wrotham, 5 miles ENE of Sevenoaks, Kent.
John Brian Blackhurst - 935833
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Leading Aircraftman
12 September 1944, aged 24
Son of John W. Blackhurst and Marion Blackhurst, Sheffield.
Ambon War Cemetery
Died as a Japanese PoW, died of heart failure caused by beriberi.
John Gordon Byrne - 112527
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Flying Officer
28 December 1942, aged 22
Son of Armel and Annie Byrne, of Fulwood, Sheffield; Husband of Beryl Jean Byrne, of Millhouses, Sheffield.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Vickers Wellington BK517 which took off for a 25 minute air test flight from Atherstone-on-Stour, a satellite field of 23 O.T.U. As the flight was described as a medical test flight, Nicholson and the other two non aircrew may have effectively been just passengers on board for the experience. For reasons unknown the bomber, which was piloted by an experienced pilot, J.G. Byrne, hit an elm tree, lost a wing crashed into a valley to the west of Bodicote church. The official aircraft accident form stated that the aircraft had flown into cloud without a wireless operator and had then crashed attempting to make landfall in bad weather.
Eric Chadwick - 157671
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 144 Sqdn. - Flying Officer
26 April 1945, aged 24
Son of Arthur and Bertha Chadwick, of Sheffield.
Runnymede Memorial
Serial number NV182 coded PL-E on an anti-shipping patrol. One of 20 aircraft up at 16:20 hours to Fede Fjord, three Beaufighters failed to return, two reported lost to flak during the attack and the third was shot down by enemy fighters which attempted to intercept the force after the attack. It was NV182 which was hot down by fighters at Flekkefjord/Brevigen Bay.
John Edward Donald Corner - 300253
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 16 Base Workshops - Lieutenant
19 September 1945, aged 24
Son of John Hill Robertson Corner and Elsie Kathleen Corner, of Fulwood, Sheffield. B.Sc., Mining Engineering.
Naples War Cemetery
Died after a few days' illness at Naples.
Albert Reginald Fox - 141853
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Pilot Officer
5 May 1943, aged 32
Son of John and Laura Fox, of Sheffield; Husband of Janet Fox, of Ecclesall, Sheffield.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Anson mk I serial number DG985 took off from Moreton-in-Marsh on a night navigation exercise. Encountered low cloud and at 02:20 crashed into thr side of a hill near Blockley, Gloucestershire, 3 miles west-north-west of the airfield killing all six on board.
Ronald Goulden - 1441222
Royal Artillery - 38 Bty., 13 Lt. A.A. Regt. - Gunner
15 May 1941, aged 19
Son of George Herbert and Elizabeth Goulden, of Sheffield.
Alamein Memorial
Died of wounds in North Africa
Bryan George Green - 1450549
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 514 Sqdn. - Flight Sergeant
2 May 1944
St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Lancaster mk II serial LL732 coded JI-H2 airborne from Waterbeach at 22:47 on a mission to Chambly to attack railway and stores depot. On the home leg, intercepted and shot down by a night fighter, crashing in a near vertical dive some 3km SW of Chaumont-en-Vexin (Oise) 25 km SW of Beauvais.
Joseph Osborne Hill - 2133082
Royal Engineers - 612 Field Sqn. - Sapper
8 September 1944, aged 33
Son of Joseph and Julia Hill, of Sheffield; Husband of Kathleen Hill, of Sheffield.
Brussels Town Cemetery
Wounded on 6 September 1944 and died 2 days later in Belgium
Geoffrey Alan Jonas - 1523237
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Sergeant
21 February 1944
Son of Robert Jonas, J.P., and Mary Elizabeth Jonas, of Fulwood, Sheffield, England.
Ottawa Memorial
Hudson mk V serial number AM729 failed to return from a training flight from Debert, Nova Scotia
Robert William Jonas - 106952
Royal Army Service Corps - Captain
20 June 1941, aged 30
Son of Robert and Mary Elizabeth Jonas; Husband of Edith Isabella Jonas, of Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in the aftermath of Operation Battleaxe in the area of Halfaya Pass.
Anthony Marshall
Not Yet Identified
Robert Anthony Marshall
Merchant Navy - Cadet
30 June 1945
Died as the result of an accident at sea, when he suffered fatal injuries from a fall from the Third Tweet Deck of his ship TSS City of Exeter to the floor of the Bottom Hold. He remained unconscious until he died on the third day after the accident, three hours out of Karachi, where he is buried. He was 19 years of age.
Donald Gordon McAlpine - 118079
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn. - Flight Lieutenant
30 December 1943, aged 29
Son of Henry Sanders McAlpine and Hilda Minnie McAlpine; Husband of Barbara Hetty McAlpine, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster mk I serial number DV375 coded VN-E airborne from Skellingthorpe at 16:35 for a raid on Berlin, on return ditched in the North Sea
Derek Arthur Neill - 293723
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 51st (The Leeds Rifles) - Lieutenant
26 October 1944, aged 21
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Neill, of Curry Rivel, Somerset.
Cesena War Cemetery
Died in Italy (Gothic Line)
Charles Peter Nicholson - 126242
Royal Artillery - 467 Bty., 92 Field Regt. - Captain
20 January 1944, aged 24
Son of Charles and Dorothy Isabel Nicholson, of Sheffield.
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy around the River Garigliano
Randal George Pearson - 1339699
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Sergeant
23 December 1942, aged 20
Son of Randal and Florence Pearson, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Kempston Cemetery
Killed when Blenheim L4872 (Mk IV) of 51 OTU (Cranfield) lost height and crashed at Wood End, Marston at 22.10hrs, following engine failure after take-off from Cranfield.
Austin Peat - 1620868
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 84 O.T.U. - Sergeant
27 January 1944, aged 20
Son of Joseph Cecil and Annie Peat, of Ringinglow.
Fulwood (Christ Church) Churchyard
Wellington III - X3392 - 84 O.T.U. The aircraft was on a training flight and took off from RAF Desborough, near Kettering. The aircraft caught fire and crashed burning to the ground near Molesworth, Cambridgeshire.
J Smith
Not Yet Identified
Norman Henry Stauber - 1456888
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 97 Sqdn. - Flight Sergeant
22 March 1945, aged 23
Son of Ernest Gustav and Mabel Stauber, of Sheffield.
Becklingen War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial PB521 coded OF-Q airborne from Coningsby 01:21 to bomb the Deutsche Erdolwerke Refinery in Hamburg's Harburg district. Crashed at 03.55 south of the Elbe at Feldmark Leeswig, Hamburg-Neuenfelde
Edward Stringer - P/JX 191393
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Egret - Signalman
27 August 1943, aged 22
Son of Oswald and May Stringer, of Sheffield.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the sloop HMS Egret was sunk off the Atlantic coast of Spain. HMS Egret was the first Allied warship to be sunk by a guided missle. 30 nautical miles west of Vigo, Spain she was attacked by a squadron of Dornier aircraft, one of which carried and launched the Henschel Hs-293A guided bomb which hit sank Egret in position 42º10'N, 09º22'W, killing 194 of its crew.
John Terence Waterfall - 88022
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 107 Sqdn. - Flying Officer
24 September 1941, aged 28
Son of Arnold and Letitia Waterfall; Husband of Ethel Waterfall, of Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
Malta Memorial
Blenheim serial number Z9599 lost without trace on a shipping sortie from Luqa, Malta.
Gordon Louis Wincott - 1101847
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 107 Sqdn. - Sergeant
25 October 1941, aged 19
Son of Arthur Louis and Blanche Wincott, of Fulwood, Sheffield.
Tripoli War Cemetery
Blenheim Z7704 left Malta on road patrol over what is now Libya bombed an Axis petrol dump & then crashed or was shot down.
Information about the memorial includes that given on the IWM War Memorials Register - © IWM (WMA-27753)