Malin Bridge - St Polycarps Church
Malin Bridge War Memorial at St Polycarps lists 35 names from WWII
ST POLYCARPS CHURCH
LEFT SIDE OF THE CHURCH AS YOU FACE THE ALTAR Sheffield Sheffield South Yorkshire England OS Grid Ref.: SK 350 870 Denomination: Church of England |
PLAIN POLISHED OAK BOARD SET INTO A FRAME
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Awaiting photo
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/ WE REMEMBER/ ALSO WITH HUMBLE/ THANKS THOSE FROM/ THIS PARISH/ WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR/ LIVES THAT WE MIGHT LIVE/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)/ THE PRICE OF VICTORY
Alfred Ambler
Wilfred Ambler Thomas Martin Atkinson Bernard Audoire John Bellamy Harold Biggin Alan Victor Booth Jack Briggs Dereck Burkinshaw Leonard Chambers Frederick Cook Thomas B Davies Arnold Deakin Earnest Eastwood Cyril Edwards William France Frederick Freeman Andrew Furniss |
Harry Furniss
Thomas A Gregory Peter John Hall Douglas Hides George William Hirst Sidney William Hutchinson Wallace Llewellyn Kellond Norman Hy Mangle Colin Mason James William McNee T Humphrey Mills John Oldfield Charles Swift Lewis Thackery Jack Toyne Kenneth Walton John Kenneth York |
Additional details
Alfred Ambler (14591026)
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) - 9th Bn.
3 March 1944, aged 22
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Wilfred Ambler (14278483)
Royal Artillery - 127 Field Regt.
14 August 1944, aged 21
Banneville-La-Campagne War Cemetery
Killed in action in Normandy near St Argnan de Carmesnil
Thomas Martin Atkinson (1266030)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 466 Sqdn.
26 June 1943
Runnymede Memorial
Wellington mk X serial HF544 coded HD-Q airborne at 23:40 from Leconfield on a mission to Gelsenkirken. Believed shot down by German night fighter pilot Maj. Helmut Lent of 4./NJG1 attacked near Urk. The Wellington crashed into the IJsselmeer.
Bernard Thomas Audoire (D/MX 122408)
Royal Navy - H.M.L.C.G. (M.) 102.
1 November 1944, aged 19
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Killed when Landing Craft Gun, Medium 102 was lost during the Walcheren landings, operation Infatuate, after being hit by coastal batteries.
John Bellamy (4345527)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
22 March 1943, aged 24
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
Died in Tunisia
Harold Biggin (14546659)
Royal Corps of Signals - 12 Air Form. Sigs.
23 April 1945, aged 21
Hanover War Cemetery
Killed in action in Germany near Lubbecke
Alan Victor Booth (P/JX 264848)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune
19 December 1941
Portsmouth 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.
Jack Briggs (2664465)
Coldstream Guards - 3rd Bn.
20 April 1944, aged 23
Sangro River War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Derek Burkinshaw (1680451)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 21 SFTS
28 August 1943, aged 19
Bulawayo (Athlone) Cemetery
Probably died in the crash of a Harvard training aircraft of No 21 Service Flying Training School at Kumalo, Bulawayo
Leonard Chambers (4757055)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn.
9 April 1943, aged 30
Bone War Cemetery, Annaba
Died in Algeria
Frederick Cook (4692071)
King's Own Scottish Borderers - 4th Bn.
5 April 1945, aged 26
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Killed in action in Garmany near Birgte
Thomas Benjamin Davies (1232082)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 211 Sqdn.
19 May 1945, aged 24
Singapore Memorial
Died as a Japanese PoW on the Sandakan death march after being held in: Java, Singapore, Borneo (Jesselton, Sandakan)
Arnold Deakin (863051)
Royal Artillery - 12 Coast Regt.
8 September 1942
Sai Wan War Cemetery
Diptheria whilst a POW
Ernest Eastwood (P/JX 268397)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III
13 September 1943, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
On 6th February 1943 torpedoed by German aircraft in 36.15N 00.15E on voyage Newport - Algiers. Towed to Oran and temporarily repaired at Gibraltar. On 13th September 1943 bombed and sunk off the coast of Spain by German aircraft in 41.31N 14.39W while in tow Gibraltar - Milford Haven.
Cyril Edwards (7599879)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
29 September 1943, aged 23
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
Died in Burma
William Edward France (1439592)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 630 Sqdn.
31 March 1944, aged 23
Durnbach War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number JB288 coded LH-H airborne from East Kirkby at 22:27 on an operation to Nuremburg, it was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Altendorf (more likely Hallerndorf). Of the crew, who were on their 16th operation, 4 were killed and 3 became PoWs.
George Frederick Freeman (14589652)
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) - 1st Bn.
11 May 1944, aged 26
Cassino War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Andrew Furniss (1062552)
Royal Engineers - 228 Field Coy.
8 July 1943, aged 37
Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery
Died in Tunisia after the cessation of hostilities in North Africa
Harry Furniss
not yet identified
Thomas A Gregory
not yet identified
Peter John Hall (1238235)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 145 Sqdn.
26 February 1943, aged 21
Sfax War Cemetery
Died in Tunisia
George William Hirst (868388)
Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt.
27 November 1944, aged 27
Singapore Memorial
Malaria and Beriberi at Labuan, Borneo
Sidney William Hutchinson (1624355)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 111 O.T.U.
9 April 1945, aged 21
Ottawa Memorial
possibly killed whilst flying in Mitchell II, FV946 of No 111 OTU, which came down in the sea off New Providence in the Bahamas
Douglas Hydes (1129625)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 61 Sqdn.
9 October 1943, aged 20
Hanover War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial DV239 coded QR-V took off from RAF Syerston at 23:05, detailed to bomb Hanover, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. In fact it had crashed at 01:24 onto the Burgfreide allotments bordering the Helmkestrasse at Hanover-Hamholz.
Wallace Llewelyn Kellond (2042923)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 21 Beach Recovery Sec.
1 November 1944, aged 24
Groesbeek Memorial
Died in Holland
Norman Harry Mangles (D/KX 102537)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Jaguar
26 March 1942
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean by U-652 whilst en route Alexandria - Tobruk
Colin Mason (1030919)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 939 Balloon Sqdn
11 August 1941
Sheffield (Wisewood) Cemetery
939 (Balloon) Sqn covered Sheffield. Mason, died as a result of a motorcyle accident while on duty, his death being registered in Sheffield
James William McNee (T/175483)
Royal Army Service Corps - 26 Tipper Coy.
27 October 1944, aged 30
Bayeux War Cemetery
Died from injuries sustained in accident in Normandy
Thomas Humphrey Mills (14627941)
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - 2nd Bn.
2 May 1944, aged 23
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
John Oldfield (4399527)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 7th Bn.
13 September 1944, aged 21
Leopoldsburg War Cemetery
Died of wounds in Belgium near Veldbeek.
Charles Swift (405669)
Royal Armoured Corps - Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons
28 October 1942, aged 29
El Alamein War Cemetery
Killed on the 6th day of the Second Battle of Alamein
Lewis Thackeray (4625741)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 2nd Bn.
9 May 1943, aged 31
Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata
Died in India
Jack Toyne (1433515)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 3 (C.) O.T.U.
17 September 1943, aged 22
Runnymede Memorial
Wellington serial number MP710 of 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit, took off at 20:10 from RAF Haverfordwest, Wales, on a non-operational night flying exercise. Following take off normal transmission signals were received from the aircraft from time to time. At 2340 hours a distress signal from the aircraft was picked up by D/F stations and a fix was transmitted. The aircraft was believed to have made a forced landing in the Irish sea. Subsequent searches were made with no trace of the missing aircraft or crew being found.
Kenneth Walton (D/JX 367235)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Orchis
21 August 1944, aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 21 August 1944 HMS Orchis was severely damaged by a mine, and beached off 'Juno' Beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer.
John Kenneth York (647004)
Royal Air Force - 254 Sqdn.
22 March 1941, aged 24
Haugesund (Rossebo) Var Frelsers Cemetery
Blenheim mk IV serial L9406 coded QY-D airborne from Sumbergh on a shipping strike off Norway. Hit by naval fire and crashed into the North Sea off Haugesand, Norway.
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) - 9th Bn.
3 March 1944, aged 22
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Wilfred Ambler (14278483)
Royal Artillery - 127 Field Regt.
14 August 1944, aged 21
Banneville-La-Campagne War Cemetery
Killed in action in Normandy near St Argnan de Carmesnil
Thomas Martin Atkinson (1266030)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 466 Sqdn.
26 June 1943
Runnymede Memorial
Wellington mk X serial HF544 coded HD-Q airborne at 23:40 from Leconfield on a mission to Gelsenkirken. Believed shot down by German night fighter pilot Maj. Helmut Lent of 4./NJG1 attacked near Urk. The Wellington crashed into the IJsselmeer.
Bernard Thomas Audoire (D/MX 122408)
Royal Navy - H.M.L.C.G. (M.) 102.
1 November 1944, aged 19
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Killed when Landing Craft Gun, Medium 102 was lost during the Walcheren landings, operation Infatuate, after being hit by coastal batteries.
John Bellamy (4345527)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
22 March 1943, aged 24
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
Died in Tunisia
Harold Biggin (14546659)
Royal Corps of Signals - 12 Air Form. Sigs.
23 April 1945, aged 21
Hanover War Cemetery
Killed in action in Germany near Lubbecke
Alan Victor Booth (P/JX 264848)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune
19 December 1941
Portsmouth 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.
Jack Briggs (2664465)
Coldstream Guards - 3rd Bn.
20 April 1944, aged 23
Sangro River War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Derek Burkinshaw (1680451)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 21 SFTS
28 August 1943, aged 19
Bulawayo (Athlone) Cemetery
Probably died in the crash of a Harvard training aircraft of No 21 Service Flying Training School at Kumalo, Bulawayo
Leonard Chambers (4757055)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn.
9 April 1943, aged 30
Bone War Cemetery, Annaba
Died in Algeria
Frederick Cook (4692071)
King's Own Scottish Borderers - 4th Bn.
5 April 1945, aged 26
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Killed in action in Garmany near Birgte
Thomas Benjamin Davies (1232082)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 211 Sqdn.
19 May 1945, aged 24
Singapore Memorial
Died as a Japanese PoW on the Sandakan death march after being held in: Java, Singapore, Borneo (Jesselton, Sandakan)
Arnold Deakin (863051)
Royal Artillery - 12 Coast Regt.
8 September 1942
Sai Wan War Cemetery
Diptheria whilst a POW
Ernest Eastwood (P/JX 268397)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III
13 September 1943, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
On 6th February 1943 torpedoed by German aircraft in 36.15N 00.15E on voyage Newport - Algiers. Towed to Oran and temporarily repaired at Gibraltar. On 13th September 1943 bombed and sunk off the coast of Spain by German aircraft in 41.31N 14.39W while in tow Gibraltar - Milford Haven.
Cyril Edwards (7599879)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
29 September 1943, aged 23
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
Died in Burma
William Edward France (1439592)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 630 Sqdn.
31 March 1944, aged 23
Durnbach War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number JB288 coded LH-H airborne from East Kirkby at 22:27 on an operation to Nuremburg, it was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Altendorf (more likely Hallerndorf). Of the crew, who were on their 16th operation, 4 were killed and 3 became PoWs.
George Frederick Freeman (14589652)
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) - 1st Bn.
11 May 1944, aged 26
Cassino War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Andrew Furniss (1062552)
Royal Engineers - 228 Field Coy.
8 July 1943, aged 37
Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery
Died in Tunisia after the cessation of hostilities in North Africa
Harry Furniss
not yet identified
Thomas A Gregory
not yet identified
Peter John Hall (1238235)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 145 Sqdn.
26 February 1943, aged 21
Sfax War Cemetery
Died in Tunisia
George William Hirst (868388)
Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt.
27 November 1944, aged 27
Singapore Memorial
Malaria and Beriberi at Labuan, Borneo
Sidney William Hutchinson (1624355)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 111 O.T.U.
9 April 1945, aged 21
Ottawa Memorial
possibly killed whilst flying in Mitchell II, FV946 of No 111 OTU, which came down in the sea off New Providence in the Bahamas
Douglas Hydes (1129625)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 61 Sqdn.
9 October 1943, aged 20
Hanover War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial DV239 coded QR-V took off from RAF Syerston at 23:05, detailed to bomb Hanover, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. In fact it had crashed at 01:24 onto the Burgfreide allotments bordering the Helmkestrasse at Hanover-Hamholz.
Wallace Llewelyn Kellond (2042923)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 21 Beach Recovery Sec.
1 November 1944, aged 24
Groesbeek Memorial
Died in Holland
Norman Harry Mangles (D/KX 102537)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Jaguar
26 March 1942
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean by U-652 whilst en route Alexandria - Tobruk
Colin Mason (1030919)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 939 Balloon Sqdn
11 August 1941
Sheffield (Wisewood) Cemetery
939 (Balloon) Sqn covered Sheffield. Mason, died as a result of a motorcyle accident while on duty, his death being registered in Sheffield
James William McNee (T/175483)
Royal Army Service Corps - 26 Tipper Coy.
27 October 1944, aged 30
Bayeux War Cemetery
Died from injuries sustained in accident in Normandy
Thomas Humphrey Mills (14627941)
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - 2nd Bn.
2 May 1944, aged 23
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
John Oldfield (4399527)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 7th Bn.
13 September 1944, aged 21
Leopoldsburg War Cemetery
Died of wounds in Belgium near Veldbeek.
Charles Swift (405669)
Royal Armoured Corps - Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons
28 October 1942, aged 29
El Alamein War Cemetery
Killed on the 6th day of the Second Battle of Alamein
Lewis Thackeray (4625741)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 2nd Bn.
9 May 1943, aged 31
Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata
Died in India
Jack Toyne (1433515)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 3 (C.) O.T.U.
17 September 1943, aged 22
Runnymede Memorial
Wellington serial number MP710 of 3 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit, took off at 20:10 from RAF Haverfordwest, Wales, on a non-operational night flying exercise. Following take off normal transmission signals were received from the aircraft from time to time. At 2340 hours a distress signal from the aircraft was picked up by D/F stations and a fix was transmitted. The aircraft was believed to have made a forced landing in the Irish sea. Subsequent searches were made with no trace of the missing aircraft or crew being found.
Kenneth Walton (D/JX 367235)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Orchis
21 August 1944, aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 21 August 1944 HMS Orchis was severely damaged by a mine, and beached off 'Juno' Beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer.
John Kenneth York (647004)
Royal Air Force - 254 Sqdn.
22 March 1941, aged 24
Haugesund (Rossebo) Var Frelsers Cemetery
Blenheim mk IV serial L9406 coded QY-D airborne from Sumbergh on a shipping strike off Norway. Hit by naval fire and crashed into the North Sea off Haugesand, Norway.
Information about the memorial includes that given on the IWM War Memorials Register - © IWM (WMA-27940)