Stocksbridge
Stocksbridge War Memorial has 107 names on it from WWI, and on two panels are 51 name casualties from the Second World War
ST MATHIAS CHURCH
Nanny Hill Stocksbridge Sheffield South Yorkshire England OS Grid Ref.: SK 270 980 |
STONE CLOCK TOWER WITH FACE ON EACH OF FOUR SIDES. METAL PLAQUES BEAR NAMES AND INSCRIPTION.
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TO THE HONOUR AND EVERLASTING MEMORY/ OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS AND NURSE/ OF THIS DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ FOR THEIR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914-1918 1914-1918/ (NAMES) 1939-1945/ (NAMES) PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC/ BY THE WOMENS SECTION/ OF THE BRITISH LEGION STOCKSBRIDGE/ 1934
Dick Atkinson
Leonard Barraclough Leslie Benson John W Brannan Frederick W Broad Richard A Button Edward Challis Leonard Charlesworth Charles H Cobbe Herbert Davies Frank Dawson George A England Norman Firth Kenneth Gregory Tom Hanwell Joseph W M Helliwell Leslie W Herbert Walter Hingley Lance W Hoyle Norman Jackson Ernest Jones Albert Kaye Vincent Lavery Ernest Lowe Barrington H Marshall Wilfred Martin |
Thomas H Mate
Victor H Mate Percy Milnes Michael Moran Dorothy Musk John E Oates Steven Osborne Jack Revitt Ernest Robinson Aubrey Rodgers Amos Roebuck Joe Rogerson Albert Rolfe Harry Rowley John A Sellars Alex Shaw Robert Shaw Marjorie Smith John R Stagg Mabel Turner Walter Wadsworth Frederick Wakelin Kenneth Walker Denis Walton William E Webb |
Stocksbridge Wesleyan Methodist
The Stocksbridge War Memorial plaques list 18 names from WWI and 8 names from WWII
STOCKSBRIDGE WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH
Manchester Rd Deepcar Sheffield South Yorkshire S36 England OS Grid Ref.: SK 270 980 Denomination: Methodist |
TWO LINKED PLAQUES ON SINGLE MOUNT ETCHED FIGURE OF A BUGLER LHS OF WW1 PLAQUE
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PRO PATRIA/ ERECTED BY THE CONGREGATION/ OF THIS CHURCH TO THE GLORY/ OF GOD AND IN PROUD MEMORY OF/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-18/ (NAMES)/ WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ ALSO IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/ FOR THE LIVES OF THOSE/ WHO WERE SPARED TO US/ ALSO IN PROUD MEMORY OF/ (NAMES)/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945
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Tom Hanwell
Norman Jackson
Albert Kaye
Victor Hugo Mate
Thomas Henry Mate
Albert Rolfe
Walter Wadsworth
William Everitt Webb
Norman Jackson
Albert Kaye
Victor Hugo Mate
Thomas Henry Mate
Albert Rolfe
Walter Wadsworth
William Everitt Webb
Stocksbridge Congregationalist
The Stocksbridge War Memorial plaques include the names of 10 WW1 dead and 3 from the Second World War
STOCKSBRIDGE URC
Stocksbridge Sheffield South Yorkshire England OS Grid Ref.: SK 270 980 Denomination: United Reformed |
TWO LINKED PLAQUES CROSS SURROUNDED BY LAUREL WREATH AND RIBBON
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IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THE MEMBERS OF/ THIS CONGREGATION WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR/ THEIR COUNTRY IN THE/ GREAT WAR/ 1914 - 1918/ (NAMES)/ AND/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE SECOND/ WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES)
Edward Challis
Aubrey Rodgers
Albert Sellars
Aubrey Rodgers
Albert Sellars
Additional details
Dick Atkinson (4745254)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 2nd Bn.
11 October 1941, aged 29
Khayat Beach War Cemetery
Died in the British Mandate of Palestine
Leonard Barraclough (1498638)
Royal Artillery - 456 Bty., 78 Field Regt.
27 November 1943, aged 25
Sangro River War Cemetery
KIA in Italy
Leslie Benson
not yet identified
John William Brannan (14394218)
Seaforth Highlanders - 6th Bn.
18 January 1944, aged 33
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Frederick William Broad (2655573)
Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn.
21 February 1943
Enfidaville War Cemetery
Killed in Tunisia
Richard Arthur Button (3041475)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 1 (O) AFU
6 March 1945, aged 19
Bolsterstone (St. Mary) Churchyard
Anson LV153 took off from RAF Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland, at 21:30 hours, to carry out a non operational night navigation exercise. The aircraft crashed into Legnacoppage Glen, Mullaghclogha Mountain, in the Sperrin Mountains just south of Londonderry, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, at 00:30 hours. Four of the crew were killed and one seriously injured.
Edward Challis (140914)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 214 Sqdn.
27 March 1943, aged 22
Hanover War Cemetery
Striling BF453 was airborne 19:40 on 27 Mar 1943 from Chedburgh to bomb a target in Berlin. The aircraft was shot down by flak and, at 22:22 on 27 Mar 1943, was seen to crash vertically near Finkenwerder into the bank of the Alte Südelbe, a small tidal creek of the Elbe river. Finkenwerder is situated 8 km SW of Hamburg and 4 km from the Hamburg docks. A German Luftwaffe unit was unable to recover the bodies from the mud, due to water and black oozing mud, so the hole was filled in. Map reference of crash site: Finkenwerder L.54/S. 4450. After the war, in March 1949, an MREU unit engaged a German scrap metal firm to recover the wreck and the identity tags of Sergeant Rae were found. Then, with the use of a mechanical floating grab, all the bodies of this crew were recovered for proper burial.
Leonard Charlesworth (P/J 115495)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Victory.
11 February 1942, aged 46
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
Died of illness. Death registered in Gosport, Hampshire
Charles Hugh Cobbe
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Repulse
10 December 1941, aged 34
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Repulse, along with HMS Prince of Wales, was sunk by Japanese aircraft while on a mission to try to prevent the landings in Malaya
Herbert Davies
not yet identified
Frank Samuel Dawson (1432917)
Royal Artillery - 28 Bty., 13 Lt. A.A. Regt.
16 May 1941, aged 24
Meanwhile, 38 Battery, under Major T. N. Boddy, armed with Italian 20 mm. guns, had manned the A.A. defences of Tobruk and Derna. In March the Battery was withdrawn to Sollum, one Troop being left for a time in Tobruk, and being twice sunk before it was successfully withdrawn by sea. (can find no ships sunk out of Tobruk that would account for him)
Alamein Memorial
Died of wounds due to enemy action. Died at 13 Light Field Ambulance in North Africa
George Arthur England (D/JX 183994)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Perseus
19 December 1941, aged 22
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Perseus struck a mine (Italian) on the starboard side forward and sunk 7 nautical miles north of Zante (Zakinthos) island, west coast of Greece in the Ionian Sea in position 37º54'N, 20º54'E. There was only 1 survivor and 60 dead.
Norman Firth (14557039)
Monmouthshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
4 September 1945, aged 20
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died in post war Germany
Kenneth Gregory (P/JX 417710)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Savage
3 December 1943
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost overboard
Tom Hanwell (P/K 64275)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Hood
24 May 1941
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic by Bismarck
Joseph William Helliwell (4756847)
Royal Armoured Corps - 150th (10th Bn. The York and Lancaster Regt.) Regt.
12 February 1945, aged 24
Penistone (Stottercliffe) Cemetery
Died in the UK, registered in Newton, Lancs
Leslie William Herbert (D/KX 138684)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Splendid
2 May 1943, aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Splendid was sunk on 21 April 1943 south of Isle of Capri, Italy by depth charges from the German destroyer ZG-3/Hermes. Five officers, including the Commanding Officer, and 25 ratings were picked up by the destroyer, 18 men were lost with the ship and their deaths were recorded as 2 May 1943 when the submarine was overdue and posted missing.
Walter Hingley (1021212)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 207 Sqdn.
8 December 1942, aged 20
Milan War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Lance William Hoyle (14533259)
York and Lancaster Regiment
21 January 1944, aged 19
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Norman Jackson (1434566)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
25 April 1944, aged 19
Durnbach War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number ND876 coded UN-Z was airborne from Skellingthorpe at 20:53 on a mission to Munich, over the target, at 01:54 hrs, they were hit by flak which broke the aircraft into two sections and crashed at München-Laim.
Ernest Jones
not yet identified
Albert Kaye (4748131)
Royal Artillery - 417 Coast Bty.
5 January 1943, aged 21
Benghazi War Cemetery
Died in Libya
Vincent Harry Lavery (P/KX155403)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. "Corncrake"
25 January 1943, aged 18
Killybegs Old Graveyard
HMS Corncrake, a minelayer of the fish class, foundered in the North Atlantic in heavy weather on 25 January 1943.
Ernest Lowe (D/SSX 16304)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Glorious
8 June 1940, aged 24
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was sunk in the Norwegian Sea. During the Norwegian Campaign HMS Glorious was almost fully employed in transporting RAF aircraft to Norway. During the withdrawl from Norway, HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers were caught by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with a full deck of Hurricanes and Gladiators, and unable to launch her aircraft she was sunk with great loss of life in position in position 68º30'N, 03º50'E. There were only 43 survivors.
Barrington Horsfield Marshall (159048)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 158 Sqdn.
22 October 1943, aged 22
Rotterdam (Crooswijk) General Cemetery
Halifax mk II serial LW259 coded NP-F airborne from Lissett at 17:20 on a mission to Kassel, crashed at Goudswaaed.
Wilfred Martin (2655296)
Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C. - 49th (West Riding) Regt.
4 October 1944
Leopoldsburg War Cemetery
Died in Belgium
Thomas Henry Mate (1050108)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 420 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn.
12 February 1942, aged 21
Runnymede Memorial
Lost when Handley Page Hampden P4400 PT-J was lost without trace on Operation Fuller. It was airborne at 13:37 from Waddington to counter the Channel Dash of two battleships and a heavy cruiser from the french port of Brest back to home port in Germany.
Victor Hugo Mate (1590753)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 550 Sqdn.
15 February 1944
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number JA934 coded BQ-H airborne from North Killingholme at 17:29 on a mission to Berlin. Possibly shot down by flak and crashed near Tribohm.
Percy Milnes (1007366)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 142 Sqdn.
27 July 1942, aged 25
Sage War Cemetery
Wellington mk IV serial Z1461 coded QT-F airborne from Grimsby at 22:57 on a mission to Hamburg. The aircraft was brought down at Waddewarden, 6 kilometres northeast of Jever at 02.17 hours on 27 July 1942.
Michael Moran (329073)
Royal Armoured Corps - 3rd King's Own Hussars
2 November 1942, aged 22
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died on the 11th day of the Second Battle of Alamein
Dorothy Edith Musk (86642)
Women's Royal Naval Service - H.M.S. Dryad
10 April 1946, aged 22
Bolsterstone (St. Mary) Churchyard
Died of Leukaemia in Sheffield, Royal Infirmary
John Edward Oates (10544023)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
18 November 1943, aged 22
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Died in Italy
Steven Osborne (4694838)
Lincolnshire Regiment - 6th Bn.
5 January 1944, aged 27
Cassino War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Jack Revitt (14808123)
East Lancashire Regiment - 1st Bn.
12 April 1945, aged 20
Becklingen War Cemetery
Died in Germany in the final month of the war in Europe
Ernest Robinson (842342)
Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt.
14 February 1944, aged 26
Chungkai War Cemetery
Avitaminosis as a PoW
Aubrey Rodgers (4351165)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
6 June 1944, aged 21
Hermanville War Cemetery
Killed on D-Day. His battalion were landed on the eastern most beach, Sword and came ashore in Queen Red sector. Believe to have been badly wouned by machine gun fire whilst disembarking from the landing craft, and died soon afterwards.
Amos Roebuck (2058870)
Royal Artillery - 43 (5th Bn. The Duke of Wellington's Regt. [West Riding]) Searchlight Regt.
21 July 1942, aged 32
Netherfield Congregational Chapelyard
Along with William Henry McBurney was a passenger on Halifax R9489 TL-T of 35 Squadron which crashed during a test flight. The aircraft had taken off from Linton-on-Ouse and was being given an air test, being put through a series of three steep turns at around 1200 feet, the first two turns were successfully carried to port and then starboard, during the third turn to port the aircraft was believed to have stalled and dived into the ground with control being lost. The aircraft crashed near Catterton, Tadcaster at 12.04hrs and all nine in the aircraft were killed. The crash investigation believed that rudder overbalance trouble was probably the cause for the control being lost, this was a common cause of early Halifax accidents until the rudder was modified. It is believed that McBurney and Roebuck were stationed close to the airfield.
Joseph Rogerson (952920)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 153 MU
28 May 1943, aged 28
Ambon War Cemetery
Died as a Japanese PoW
Albert Rolfe (1628516)
Royal Artillery - 516 Bty., 59 Searchlight Regt.
8 February 1943, aged 33
Bolsterstone (St. Mary) Churchyard
Died while dispatch riding in Scotland
Harry Rowley (14082211)
Royal Artillery - 501 Bty., 145 H.A.A. Regt.
3 June 1946, aged 18
Sheffield (Tinsley Park) Cemetery
Died in the UK
John Albert Sellars (1000577)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 148 Sqdn.
19 January 1942, aged 24
Alamein Memorial
Lost when Vickers Wellington mk II W5584 was lost on a mission to bomb Salamis, Greece. Believed to have been shot down and crashed into the sea 2 miles off Elevsis.
Alex Shaw
not yet identified
Robert Shaw (C/JX 317227)
Royal Navy - H.M. Rescue Tug Barwick.
29 May 1943, aged 29
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
Died after an explosion on the vessel. Died at 64th General Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt.
Marjorie Smith (260546)
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - -
12 February 1944
Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial
Died when troop ship SS Khedive Ismail sunk in the Indian Ocean by the Japanese submarine I-27.
John Robert Stagg (1802261)
Royal Artillery - 297 Bty., 95 Lt. A.A. Regt.
21 January 1943, aged 22
Thurgoland Cemetery
Died in the base hospital, Larbert, Scotland
Beatrice Hetty Mabel Turner (2054945)
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
25 August 1943, aged 27
Wortley (St Leonard) Churchyard Extension
LACW Turner, LACW Robertson, ACW Finch and ACW 1 Poll were crossing the railway line at Rednal, Birmingham at 23.00 hrs. behind a passenger train to return to their unit at 61 OTU, RAF and walked into an express goods train. Both Robertson and Turner were killed instantly, Finch and Poll were seriously injured.
Walter Wadsworth (4745510)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 2nd Bn.
30 May 1941, aged 26
Alexandria (Chatby) Military And War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Egypt, possibly of wounds sustained in Crete
Frederick Wakelin (4547682)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 6th Bn.
27 June 1944, aged 23
Hottot-Les-Bagues War Cemetery
Killed in Normandy on D-Day +21
Kenneth Walker (D/SKX 1282)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Charybdis
23 October 1943, aged 21
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Charybdis was sunk off north coast of Brittany, France by 2 torpedoes from the German torpedo boats T-23 and T-27. 464 men died and 107 survived.
Denis Walton (D/JX 364501)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Orchis
21 August 1944, aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 21 August 1944 HMS Orchis is severely damaged by a mine, and beached off 'Juno' Beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer.
William Everitt Webb (P/KX 140245)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Stevenstone
30 November 1944, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Detonated mine during patrol with HM Frigate STAYNER off Ostend. Major damage was sustained to forward structure abreast 4in magazine causing some flooding. Forward 4in mounting disabled. Ship took on list and fire broke out due to fuel and coolant leakages. There were 32 casualties including 14 killed.
York and Lancaster Regiment - 2nd Bn.
11 October 1941, aged 29
Khayat Beach War Cemetery
Died in the British Mandate of Palestine
Leonard Barraclough (1498638)
Royal Artillery - 456 Bty., 78 Field Regt.
27 November 1943, aged 25
Sangro River War Cemetery
KIA in Italy
Leslie Benson
not yet identified
John William Brannan (14394218)
Seaforth Highlanders - 6th Bn.
18 January 1944, aged 33
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Frederick William Broad (2655573)
Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn.
21 February 1943
Enfidaville War Cemetery
Killed in Tunisia
Richard Arthur Button (3041475)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 1 (O) AFU
6 March 1945, aged 19
Bolsterstone (St. Mary) Churchyard
Anson LV153 took off from RAF Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland, at 21:30 hours, to carry out a non operational night navigation exercise. The aircraft crashed into Legnacoppage Glen, Mullaghclogha Mountain, in the Sperrin Mountains just south of Londonderry, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, at 00:30 hours. Four of the crew were killed and one seriously injured.
Edward Challis (140914)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 214 Sqdn.
27 March 1943, aged 22
Hanover War Cemetery
Striling BF453 was airborne 19:40 on 27 Mar 1943 from Chedburgh to bomb a target in Berlin. The aircraft was shot down by flak and, at 22:22 on 27 Mar 1943, was seen to crash vertically near Finkenwerder into the bank of the Alte Südelbe, a small tidal creek of the Elbe river. Finkenwerder is situated 8 km SW of Hamburg and 4 km from the Hamburg docks. A German Luftwaffe unit was unable to recover the bodies from the mud, due to water and black oozing mud, so the hole was filled in. Map reference of crash site: Finkenwerder L.54/S. 4450. After the war, in March 1949, an MREU unit engaged a German scrap metal firm to recover the wreck and the identity tags of Sergeant Rae were found. Then, with the use of a mechanical floating grab, all the bodies of this crew were recovered for proper burial.
Leonard Charlesworth (P/J 115495)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Victory.
11 February 1942, aged 46
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
Died of illness. Death registered in Gosport, Hampshire
Charles Hugh Cobbe
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Repulse
10 December 1941, aged 34
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Repulse, along with HMS Prince of Wales, was sunk by Japanese aircraft while on a mission to try to prevent the landings in Malaya
Herbert Davies
not yet identified
Frank Samuel Dawson (1432917)
Royal Artillery - 28 Bty., 13 Lt. A.A. Regt.
16 May 1941, aged 24
Meanwhile, 38 Battery, under Major T. N. Boddy, armed with Italian 20 mm. guns, had manned the A.A. defences of Tobruk and Derna. In March the Battery was withdrawn to Sollum, one Troop being left for a time in Tobruk, and being twice sunk before it was successfully withdrawn by sea. (can find no ships sunk out of Tobruk that would account for him)
Alamein Memorial
Died of wounds due to enemy action. Died at 13 Light Field Ambulance in North Africa
George Arthur England (D/JX 183994)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Perseus
19 December 1941, aged 22
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Perseus struck a mine (Italian) on the starboard side forward and sunk 7 nautical miles north of Zante (Zakinthos) island, west coast of Greece in the Ionian Sea in position 37º54'N, 20º54'E. There was only 1 survivor and 60 dead.
Norman Firth (14557039)
Monmouthshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
4 September 1945, aged 20
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died in post war Germany
Kenneth Gregory (P/JX 417710)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Savage
3 December 1943
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost overboard
Tom Hanwell (P/K 64275)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Hood
24 May 1941
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic by Bismarck
Joseph William Helliwell (4756847)
Royal Armoured Corps - 150th (10th Bn. The York and Lancaster Regt.) Regt.
12 February 1945, aged 24
Penistone (Stottercliffe) Cemetery
Died in the UK, registered in Newton, Lancs
Leslie William Herbert (D/KX 138684)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Splendid
2 May 1943, aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Splendid was sunk on 21 April 1943 south of Isle of Capri, Italy by depth charges from the German destroyer ZG-3/Hermes. Five officers, including the Commanding Officer, and 25 ratings were picked up by the destroyer, 18 men were lost with the ship and their deaths were recorded as 2 May 1943 when the submarine was overdue and posted missing.
Walter Hingley (1021212)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 207 Sqdn.
8 December 1942, aged 20
Milan War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Lance William Hoyle (14533259)
York and Lancaster Regiment
21 January 1944, aged 19
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Norman Jackson (1434566)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
25 April 1944, aged 19
Durnbach War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number ND876 coded UN-Z was airborne from Skellingthorpe at 20:53 on a mission to Munich, over the target, at 01:54 hrs, they were hit by flak which broke the aircraft into two sections and crashed at München-Laim.
Ernest Jones
not yet identified
Albert Kaye (4748131)
Royal Artillery - 417 Coast Bty.
5 January 1943, aged 21
Benghazi War Cemetery
Died in Libya
Vincent Harry Lavery (P/KX155403)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. "Corncrake"
25 January 1943, aged 18
Killybegs Old Graveyard
HMS Corncrake, a minelayer of the fish class, foundered in the North Atlantic in heavy weather on 25 January 1943.
Ernest Lowe (D/SSX 16304)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Glorious
8 June 1940, aged 24
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious was sunk in the Norwegian Sea. During the Norwegian Campaign HMS Glorious was almost fully employed in transporting RAF aircraft to Norway. During the withdrawl from Norway, HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers were caught by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau with a full deck of Hurricanes and Gladiators, and unable to launch her aircraft she was sunk with great loss of life in position in position 68º30'N, 03º50'E. There were only 43 survivors.
Barrington Horsfield Marshall (159048)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 158 Sqdn.
22 October 1943, aged 22
Rotterdam (Crooswijk) General Cemetery
Halifax mk II serial LW259 coded NP-F airborne from Lissett at 17:20 on a mission to Kassel, crashed at Goudswaaed.
Wilfred Martin (2655296)
Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C. - 49th (West Riding) Regt.
4 October 1944
Leopoldsburg War Cemetery
Died in Belgium
Thomas Henry Mate (1050108)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 420 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn.
12 February 1942, aged 21
Runnymede Memorial
Lost when Handley Page Hampden P4400 PT-J was lost without trace on Operation Fuller. It was airborne at 13:37 from Waddington to counter the Channel Dash of two battleships and a heavy cruiser from the french port of Brest back to home port in Germany.
Victor Hugo Mate (1590753)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 550 Sqdn.
15 February 1944
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number JA934 coded BQ-H airborne from North Killingholme at 17:29 on a mission to Berlin. Possibly shot down by flak and crashed near Tribohm.
Percy Milnes (1007366)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 142 Sqdn.
27 July 1942, aged 25
Sage War Cemetery
Wellington mk IV serial Z1461 coded QT-F airborne from Grimsby at 22:57 on a mission to Hamburg. The aircraft was brought down at Waddewarden, 6 kilometres northeast of Jever at 02.17 hours on 27 July 1942.
Michael Moran (329073)
Royal Armoured Corps - 3rd King's Own Hussars
2 November 1942, aged 22
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died on the 11th day of the Second Battle of Alamein
Dorothy Edith Musk (86642)
Women's Royal Naval Service - H.M.S. Dryad
10 April 1946, aged 22
Bolsterstone (St. Mary) Churchyard
Died of Leukaemia in Sheffield, Royal Infirmary
John Edward Oates (10544023)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
18 November 1943, aged 22
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Died in Italy
Steven Osborne (4694838)
Lincolnshire Regiment - 6th Bn.
5 January 1944, aged 27
Cassino War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Jack Revitt (14808123)
East Lancashire Regiment - 1st Bn.
12 April 1945, aged 20
Becklingen War Cemetery
Died in Germany in the final month of the war in Europe
Ernest Robinson (842342)
Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt.
14 February 1944, aged 26
Chungkai War Cemetery
Avitaminosis as a PoW
Aubrey Rodgers (4351165)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
6 June 1944, aged 21
Hermanville War Cemetery
Killed on D-Day. His battalion were landed on the eastern most beach, Sword and came ashore in Queen Red sector. Believe to have been badly wouned by machine gun fire whilst disembarking from the landing craft, and died soon afterwards.
Amos Roebuck (2058870)
Royal Artillery - 43 (5th Bn. The Duke of Wellington's Regt. [West Riding]) Searchlight Regt.
21 July 1942, aged 32
Netherfield Congregational Chapelyard
Along with William Henry McBurney was a passenger on Halifax R9489 TL-T of 35 Squadron which crashed during a test flight. The aircraft had taken off from Linton-on-Ouse and was being given an air test, being put through a series of three steep turns at around 1200 feet, the first two turns were successfully carried to port and then starboard, during the third turn to port the aircraft was believed to have stalled and dived into the ground with control being lost. The aircraft crashed near Catterton, Tadcaster at 12.04hrs and all nine in the aircraft were killed. The crash investigation believed that rudder overbalance trouble was probably the cause for the control being lost, this was a common cause of early Halifax accidents until the rudder was modified. It is believed that McBurney and Roebuck were stationed close to the airfield.
Joseph Rogerson (952920)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 153 MU
28 May 1943, aged 28
Ambon War Cemetery
Died as a Japanese PoW
Albert Rolfe (1628516)
Royal Artillery - 516 Bty., 59 Searchlight Regt.
8 February 1943, aged 33
Bolsterstone (St. Mary) Churchyard
Died while dispatch riding in Scotland
Harry Rowley (14082211)
Royal Artillery - 501 Bty., 145 H.A.A. Regt.
3 June 1946, aged 18
Sheffield (Tinsley Park) Cemetery
Died in the UK
John Albert Sellars (1000577)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 148 Sqdn.
19 January 1942, aged 24
Alamein Memorial
Lost when Vickers Wellington mk II W5584 was lost on a mission to bomb Salamis, Greece. Believed to have been shot down and crashed into the sea 2 miles off Elevsis.
Alex Shaw
not yet identified
Robert Shaw (C/JX 317227)
Royal Navy - H.M. Rescue Tug Barwick.
29 May 1943, aged 29
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
Died after an explosion on the vessel. Died at 64th General Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt.
Marjorie Smith (260546)
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service - -
12 February 1944
Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial
Died when troop ship SS Khedive Ismail sunk in the Indian Ocean by the Japanese submarine I-27.
John Robert Stagg (1802261)
Royal Artillery - 297 Bty., 95 Lt. A.A. Regt.
21 January 1943, aged 22
Thurgoland Cemetery
Died in the base hospital, Larbert, Scotland
Beatrice Hetty Mabel Turner (2054945)
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
25 August 1943, aged 27
Wortley (St Leonard) Churchyard Extension
LACW Turner, LACW Robertson, ACW Finch and ACW 1 Poll were crossing the railway line at Rednal, Birmingham at 23.00 hrs. behind a passenger train to return to their unit at 61 OTU, RAF and walked into an express goods train. Both Robertson and Turner were killed instantly, Finch and Poll were seriously injured.
Walter Wadsworth (4745510)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 2nd Bn.
30 May 1941, aged 26
Alexandria (Chatby) Military And War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Egypt, possibly of wounds sustained in Crete
Frederick Wakelin (4547682)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 6th Bn.
27 June 1944, aged 23
Hottot-Les-Bagues War Cemetery
Killed in Normandy on D-Day +21
Kenneth Walker (D/SKX 1282)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Charybdis
23 October 1943, aged 21
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Charybdis was sunk off north coast of Brittany, France by 2 torpedoes from the German torpedo boats T-23 and T-27. 464 men died and 107 survived.
Denis Walton (D/JX 364501)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Orchis
21 August 1944, aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 21 August 1944 HMS Orchis is severely damaged by a mine, and beached off 'Juno' Beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer.
William Everitt Webb (P/KX 140245)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Stevenstone
30 November 1944, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Detonated mine during patrol with HM Frigate STAYNER off Ostend. Major damage was sustained to forward structure abreast 4in magazine causing some flooding. Forward 4in mounting disabled. Ship took on list and fire broke out due to fuel and coolant leakages. There were 32 casualties including 14 killed.
Information about the memorial includes that given on the IWM War Memorials Register -
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© IWM (WMA-27979) (Clock)
© IWM (WMA-27744) (Methodist)
© IWM (WMA-27794) (Congregationalist)