Index A
The information here displays the name, service number and memorial page they are listed on, which can be accessed via the home page.
Abrahams, Herbert - D/JX 135969 - Laughton / Thurcroft, St Simon St Jude
Abson, Geoffrey - 7935170 - Kimberworth, St Thomas Church
Abson, Jack Lacy - 950317 - Clifton, St James Church
Adcock, Malcolm Kenneth - PLY/X 110602 - Dinnington
Addis, William - 7013071 - Rawmarsh & Parkgate
Adshead, Edwin - 5051902 - Dinnington
Adwick, Percy Gerald - PLY/15676 - Rawmarsh & Parkgate
Airey, Clifford Donald - FAA/FX. 86811 - Swinton
Aldam, Wilfred - 1710995 - Rawmarsh & Parkgate
Allcroft, Frank - 4747404 - Laughton / Thurcroft, St Simon St Jude
Allock, Harry - D/SSX25649 - Aston, All Saints Church
Allott, Robert - 1436806 - Parkgate, Ashwood Rd WMC
Almond, Roy William - 1379251 - Brinsworth & Canklow
Ankers, George Cyril - 581136 - Brampton Bierlow, Christ Church
Antcliffe, Stanley - 14719343 - Maltby
Applegate, Alan Ashby - 1425580 - Kimberworth, St Thomas Church / Kimberworth Road URC
Appley, Samuel - 536308 - South Anston
Archer, Wilfred - 7264819 - Laughton / Thurcroft, St Simon St Jude
Ash, Bertram - 944309 - Dinnington
Ashforth, Levi Albert - 1606690 - Maltby
Ashley, Harry Bradley - P/JX 144693 - Wath / Wath, All Saints
Ashton, John Edwin - 1864141 - Wales
Aspinall, Albert - 323499 - Maltby
Astle, James - P/MX 615168 - Rotherham Grammer School, Moorgate
Attwood, Harry - 7677985 - Kimberworth, St Thomas Church
Aubrey, Robert John - 6108419 - Rotherham Grammer School, Moorgate
Ayres, Leonard - 1505092 - Clifton, St James Church / Robert Jenkins Ltd, Masbrough / Rotherham Grammer School, Moorgate
Abson, Geoffrey - 7935170 - Kimberworth, St Thomas Church
Abson, Jack Lacy - 950317 - Clifton, St James Church
Adcock, Malcolm Kenneth - PLY/X 110602 - Dinnington
Addis, William - 7013071 - Rawmarsh & Parkgate
Adshead, Edwin - 5051902 - Dinnington
Adwick, Percy Gerald - PLY/15676 - Rawmarsh & Parkgate
Airey, Clifford Donald - FAA/FX. 86811 - Swinton
Aldam, Wilfred - 1710995 - Rawmarsh & Parkgate
Allcroft, Frank - 4747404 - Laughton / Thurcroft, St Simon St Jude
Allock, Harry - D/SSX25649 - Aston, All Saints Church
Allott, Robert - 1436806 - Parkgate, Ashwood Rd WMC
Almond, Roy William - 1379251 - Brinsworth & Canklow
Ankers, George Cyril - 581136 - Brampton Bierlow, Christ Church
Antcliffe, Stanley - 14719343 - Maltby
Applegate, Alan Ashby - 1425580 - Kimberworth, St Thomas Church / Kimberworth Road URC
Appley, Samuel - 536308 - South Anston
Archer, Wilfred - 7264819 - Laughton / Thurcroft, St Simon St Jude
Ash, Bertram - 944309 - Dinnington
Ashforth, Levi Albert - 1606690 - Maltby
Ashley, Harry Bradley - P/JX 144693 - Wath / Wath, All Saints
Ashton, John Edwin - 1864141 - Wales
Aspinall, Albert - 323499 - Maltby
Astle, James - P/MX 615168 - Rotherham Grammer School, Moorgate
Attwood, Harry - 7677985 - Kimberworth, St Thomas Church
Aubrey, Robert John - 6108419 - Rotherham Grammer School, Moorgate
Ayres, Leonard - 1505092 - Clifton, St James Church / Robert Jenkins Ltd, Masbrough / Rotherham Grammer School, Moorgate
Additional Casualties
Charles Sidney Abbott (180919)
Lieutenant - Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (sec Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry) - 9th Bn.
6 September 1944, aged 26
Born in Doncaster in Q1 1918
Commissioned Royal Regiment of Artillery 12/4/41 and transferred to The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment on 6/6/44)
Lived Shepherd Lane, Thurnscoe
Son of Sidney and Gertrude Abbott; husband of Cicely Abbott, of South Tottenham, Middlesex. B.A
Married in Don Valley in Q4 1941
Cassino Memorial
Killed in action in Italy, around the town of Croce during the battle for Coriano Ridge
Lieutenant - Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (sec Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry) - 9th Bn.
6 September 1944, aged 26
Born in Doncaster in Q1 1918
Commissioned Royal Regiment of Artillery 12/4/41 and transferred to The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment on 6/6/44)
Lived Shepherd Lane, Thurnscoe
Son of Sidney and Gertrude Abbott; husband of Cicely Abbott, of South Tottenham, Middlesex. B.A
Married in Don Valley in Q4 1941
Cassino Memorial
Killed in action in Italy, around the town of Croce during the battle for Coriano Ridge
William Ackroyd (3060746)
Serjeant - 22nd Dragoons R.A.C./Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C. - 52nd Regt.
24 April 1945, aged 28
Born in Doncaster in Q2 1916
Lived 20 Church St, Conisborough
Son of William Ackroyd and Edith Ackroyd (formerly Milnes) of Conisbrough,Doncaster.
Married in Don Valley in Q4 1939
Becklingen War Cemetery
Killed in Action in Germany on the push towards Bremen
Serjeant - 22nd Dragoons R.A.C./Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C. - 52nd Regt.
24 April 1945, aged 28
Born in Doncaster in Q2 1916
Lived 20 Church St, Conisborough
Son of William Ackroyd and Edith Ackroyd (formerly Milnes) of Conisbrough,Doncaster.
Married in Don Valley in Q4 1939
Becklingen War Cemetery
Killed in Action in Germany on the push towards Bremen
George Harry Adams (866466)
Serjeant - Royal Artillery - 71 Field Regt
18 September 1943, aged 25
Born in Rotherham on 12/9/1918
Son of David and Nellie Adams; husband of Diana Adams, of Mundford, Norfolk.
Married in Sheffield in Q4 1941
Salerno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Serjeant - Royal Artillery - 71 Field Regt
18 September 1943, aged 25
Born in Rotherham on 12/9/1918
Son of David and Nellie Adams; husband of Diana Adams, of Mundford, Norfolk.
Married in Sheffield in Q4 1941
Salerno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Jack Ainsworth (3058976)
Trooper - Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C - 43rd (2/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regt.) Regt.
24 June 1944, aged 26
Born in Rotherham in Q1 1919
Lived in East Herringthorpe
Son of Thomas and Mabel Ainsworth; husband of Nellie Ainsworth, of East Herringthorpe, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Married in Rotherham in Q2 1941
Bayeux Memorial
On 18 June 1944 HQ, A and C squadrons of the 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment embarked at West India Docks, London, aboard the MV Derrycunihy (T72). She joined a convoy off Southend-on-Sea and arrived off Sword Beach on the evening of 20 June. High seas and enemy shelling prevented unloading for three days and it was decided to move T72 to Juno Beach for disembarkation. As the ship started engines at 07:40 on the morning of 24
June it detonated an acoustic or 'Oyster' mine dropped by one of the nightly Luftwaffe raiders. The mine exploded under the keel, splitting the ship in two, and the after part, packed with sleeping men of 43 Recce, sank rapidly. Worse still, a 3-tonner ammunition lorry caught fire, and oil floating on the water was set alight.
Trooper - Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C - 43rd (2/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regt.) Regt.
24 June 1944, aged 26
Born in Rotherham in Q1 1919
Lived in East Herringthorpe
Son of Thomas and Mabel Ainsworth; husband of Nellie Ainsworth, of East Herringthorpe, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Married in Rotherham in Q2 1941
Bayeux Memorial
On 18 June 1944 HQ, A and C squadrons of the 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment embarked at West India Docks, London, aboard the MV Derrycunihy (T72). She joined a convoy off Southend-on-Sea and arrived off Sword Beach on the evening of 20 June. High seas and enemy shelling prevented unloading for three days and it was decided to move T72 to Juno Beach for disembarkation. As the ship started engines at 07:40 on the morning of 24
June it detonated an acoustic or 'Oyster' mine dropped by one of the nightly Luftwaffe raiders. The mine exploded under the keel, splitting the ship in two, and the after part, packed with sleeping men of 43 Recce, sank rapidly. Worse still, a 3-tonner ammunition lorry caught fire, and oil floating on the water was set alight.
Joseph Shaw Aiston (5384617)
Private - Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry - 1st Bn. 26 May 1940, aged 31 Born in Sunderland in Q3 1909 Son of William and Hetty Aiston; husband of Eva M. Aiston, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Married in Rotherham - Q3 1930 Dunkirk Memorial Died with the BEF in France/Belgium 1939/40 Campaign |
Maxwell Lionel Amesbury (527475)
Flight Sergeant (Pilot) - Royal Air Force - No 51 O.T.U. 11 November 1943, aged 25 Born in Axbridge in Q1 1918 Son of Ernest and Mary Ann Amesbury, of Weston-super-Mare; husband of Noreen Amesbury. Married in Sheffield in Q4 1943 Weston-Super-Mare Cemetery Was one of two pilots on board of Bristol Beaufighter R2252 which collided with another aircraft, Havilland Dominie X7368 of the same unit. The Beaufighter went into a steep dive and crashed at the beginning of the runway in use at Cranfield, and caught fire on impact with the ground, killing the three on board. |
A Court of Inquiry Report vividly describes the events:
“At about 14.49 hrs. on the 11th November 1943 Dominie X7368, piloted by F/Lt Fitzrandolph was returning to Cranfield from Hucknall and was making a normal approach from the East on runway 26, having received permission to land by R/T. Beaufighter R2252 piloted by F/Lt M.W. Kinmonth arrived from Twinwoods at about the same time. The Beaufighter, which was not in R/T communication with Flying Control at Cranfield, had been sent round again about 2 minutes previously by a red signal cartridge from the Airfield Controller for cutting in on another Beaufighters approach in a dangerous manner. After completing a tight circuit, the Beaufighter R2252 turned towards the runway with undercarriage and flaps down in a steep banking turn, cutting in on the Dominie, which was now in a straight approach. The Airfield Controller, seeing that both aircraft were approaching to land, shone his red Aldis lamp at the Beaufighter to indicate that he should go round again. This warning was either ignored or not seen by the Beaufighter pilot. A dangerous situation had now arisen, and the Airfield Controller fired a red signal cartridge towards the Beaufighter; at the same time the Flying Control Officer gave R/T instructions to the Dominie to go round again. This instruction was not acknowledged. The Dominie opened up and started to make height in a gentle turning climb to port. The Beaufighter opened up also, but by reason of its attitude continued in a steep banking turn, and the two aircraft collided at a height of about 100’, just outside the perimeter of the airfield. The Dominie hit the underside of the Beaufighter with its starboard wing. The Dominie disintegrated and caught fire, crashing in flames on the edge of the airfield. The Beaufighter went into a steep dive, and crashed at the beginning of the runway in use, and caught fire on impact with the ground. All occupants of both aircraft were killed instantly with the exception of 2nd Lt. Peters of the USAAF who died a few minutes later on the way to sick quarters.” Both aircraft crashed just within the barbed wire perimeter of the airfield next to Merchant Lane, Cranfield, at the end of a now disused runway locally called ‘The Policeman’s Runway’ (due to the proximity of the Police House). Tragically eight people had died. Unusually the Beaufighter was carrying two other people on the short trip from Twinwoods - a passenger WAAF Cpl Jose Cecilia Hayes, 22, of Paddington, London, and Flt Sgt (Pilot) Lionel Maxwell Amesbury, 25, of Weston-super-Mare. Its pilot, Flt Lt Michael William Kinmonth, 21, of Mount Meirian, Co Dublin, Irish Republic, was a holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). In the Dominie were five airmen - pilot Flt Lt Archibald Menzies Fitzrandolph, 47, and passengers Flt Lt Ian Haper Courtney and Sgt. Eric Povey, 22, of the RAF, and Americans 2nd Lt. M Schenker and 2nd Lt. J K Peters. |
Joseph Edward Armishaw (648415)
Leading Aircraftman - Royal Air Force - 76 Sqdn. 6 July 1941, aged 23 Born in British Columbia, Canada in 1917 Son of Joseph and Margaret Alice Armishaw, of Barnston Island, British Columbia, Canada. Moorthorpe Cemetery Died on Active Service in Richmond, North Yorkshire |
John Edward Armitage (1548659)
Sergeant (Air Bomber/Nav.) - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 21 O.T.U. 11 February 1944, aged 23 Born in Doncaster in Q1 1921 Lived 8 Pickhills Ave, Goldthorpe Son of Thomas Liddall Armitage and Constance Marion Armitage, of Goldthorpe, Yorkshire. Oxford (Botley) Cemetery Wellington X3215 aircraft took off from Moreton in Marsh at 19:41 on a bullseye training flight, it is believed that an engine failed on take off and the aircraft crashed into a tree on Black Downs about 3 miles NNW of the airfield. |
George Ashurst (187809)
Pilot Officer - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 5 January 1945, aged 30 Born in Wigan in Q4 1914 Brother of William Ashurst Lived 1 Ellershaw Lane, Conisbrough/ The Wood house, Edlington Son of William and Margaret Ashurst, of Thornhill, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. Richmond War Cemetery De Havilland DH84 Dragon A34-65 of 2 Aircraft Depot Richmond (2 AD) RAAF encountered engine problems and attempted to make a forced landing at about 12:15 hours on 5 January 1945 during a travel flight. Whilst attempting to reach a small clearing it stalled and spun into the ground at Plumpton Road, Mt. Druitt, New South Wales. Previously Ashurst had been with a Spitfire squadron. Sgt Ashurst, whilst returning from an escort of Blenheim bombers to their target of Lille Power Station on 27 August 1941, ditched his Spitfire V (R7273) when he ran out of fuel. He bailed out, striking his aircraft and breaking his thigh as he did, but was later rescued. |
William Ashurst (1439160)
Sergeant (Pilot) - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 625 Sqdn. 15 February 1944, aged 21 Born in Doncaster in Q3 1922 Brother of George Ashurst Lived 1 Ellershaw Lane, Conisbrough Son of William and Margaret Ashurst, of Thornhill, Rotherham, Yorkshire. Aabenraa Cemetery Lancaster aircraft R5702 lost on an operation to Berlin, Germany from Kelstern airfield. It crashed in Denmark. |
Lancaster R5702 belonged to RAF 625 Sqn Bomber Command and was coded CF-Y. T/o 17:25 Kelstern. OP: Berlin. When outbound over the Jylland peninsula at 5200 metres Lancaster R5702 was attacked by a German night fighter piloted by Oberleutnant Gerhardt Raht of 4./NJG 3 and at 20:03 it crashed near Avne north east of Haderslev. After having dropped its bombload while trying to escape the fighter it exploded in the air at low altitude.
The pilot Sgt William Ashurst had just given the order to bail out and Airbomber F/O Harry Proskurniak RCAF who fruitless had tried to open the forward escape hatch was blown out of the fuselage. He came to while hanging in his parachute. Seconds later he landed in his socks not far from the village of Sillerup, his boots having come off when the chute deployed. At 05:30 hours in the morning CB constable Freddy Kroul met him on the main road and took him to Sillerupgaard farm where Proskurniak was treated with breakfast and a bath while his clothes was dried. With the Wehrmacht swarming all over the area it was not possibly to help Proskurniak to escape and with his acceptance the Haderslev police was called. They in turn informed the Wehrmacht about his whereabouts and at 09:30 twelve privates and an officer came to Sillerupgaard farm to pick Proskurniak up. He was taken to Haderslev and from there to Dulag Luft in Oberursel. After questioning he was sent to Stalag Luft III Sagan. The rest of the crew all died. Two bodies were found in the front of the fuselage while one man was found in the fuselage. Two bodies were found 50 metres away while the sixth body was found 600 metres from the crashsite near Avne. The bodies were left lying in the field until 19 February when they were picked up by the Wehrmacht and taken to Aabenraa where they were laid to rest in the cemetery on 25 February 1944. They were Pilot W. Ashurst, Op Sgt Robert A. Campbell, Air Gnr. F/Sgt Stanley W. Downes, Navigator W/o Edward T. Edwards, Air Gnr. Sgt Cecil F. Lewis and Flt. Engr. Sgt Harold R. Reardon. |
John Leonard Atha (1436421)
Sergeant (Nav.) - Royal Air Force - 158 Sqdn. 27 May 1943, aged 27 Born in Hunslet in Q4 1915 Lived 24 Grenville St, Normanton Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Atha, of Normanton, Yorkshire. Raalte General Cemetery Handley Page Halifax mk II aircraft HR775 coded NP-V lost on an operation to Essen, Germany from Lissett airfield, Yorkshire |
Halifax HR775
Airborne 22:53 27May43 from Lissett. Shot down by a night-fighter (Lt Hans-Heinz Augenstein, 111./NJG1), crashing 01:37 between Nieuw Heeton and Okkenbroek (Overijssel) 3 km S of Raalte, Holland. All are buried in Raalte General Cemetery. Sgt W.H.Wyatt RCAF KIA Sgt W.J.Erdbeer KIA Sgt J.L.Atha KIA Sgt R.A.Tilbury KIA Sgt G.Henderson KIA Sgt R.R.Mantha RCAF KIA Sgt J.Simmons KIA |
George William Atkin (P/KX 84056)
Leading Stoker - Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Grampus
24 June 1940, aged 27
Date of Birth 21 February 1913
Birth reg'd in Rotherham in Q1 1913
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
On 16 June 1940, Grampus was laying mines in the Syracuse and Augusta, Sicily area. She was seen by the Italian Spica-class torpedo boat Circe, which was on anti-submarine patrol with Clio, Calliope, and Polluce. Within a very short time, Grampus was destroyed. Wreckage came to the surface along with air bubbles and oil. Polluce was credited with the kill.
Leading Stoker - Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Grampus
24 June 1940, aged 27
Date of Birth 21 February 1913
Birth reg'd in Rotherham in Q1 1913
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
On 16 June 1940, Grampus was laying mines in the Syracuse and Augusta, Sicily area. She was seen by the Italian Spica-class torpedo boat Circe, which was on anti-submarine patrol with Clio, Calliope, and Polluce. Within a very short time, Grampus was destroyed. Wreckage came to the surface along with air bubbles and oil. Polluce was credited with the kill.
Arthur Austin (6852107)
Rifleman - King's Royal Rifle Corps 20 September 1944, aged 28 Born in Rotherham on 12 April 1916 Father killed in WW1. Arthur was previously employed as a miner. Son of James W. and Ethel Austin; husband of Lily Austin, of Redhill, Surrey. Married in Mansfield on 23 December 1935 - 2 Sons 1 Daughter Coriano Ridge War Cemetery A report on his death stated: 'Arthur Austin was an outstandingly good driver and a very cheerful and much liked soldier. Because he was so good at his job the company commander borrowed him for a reconnaissance mission and tragically the small armoured vehicle he was driving took a direct hit. James Cunningham (Major), the company Commander was wounded'. |
Arthur Aird (1609816)
Seaforth Highlanders - 7th Bn. 22 February 1945, aged 23 Died in Germany Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Roy Arthur Airey (951960) Royal Air Force 7 February 1944, aged 25 Died in Rotherham Kimberworth (St Thomas) Churchyard John Edward Alderson (5391994) Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry - 70th Bn. 1 January 1943, aged 19 Died in the UK Aylesbury Cemetery Donald Alexander Allen (2381828) Royal Signals - XXXIII. Corps Sigs. 26 May 1945, aged 24 DoW in Burma Rangoon War Cemetery Frederick Allen (4684022) Royal Artillery - 159 Bty., 53 Lt. A.A. Regt. 13 August 1940, aged 37 Died in Derby Royal Infirmary Conisbrough (Denaby Main) Cemetery Vincent Allington (6296530) The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - 6th (H.D.) Bn. 6 December 1940, aged 42 Died in Kent Dearne (Thurnscoe) Cemetery Clifford Allinson (4539768) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn. 12 June 1944, aged 25 Died of wounds in Burma Imphal War Cemetery Harold ("Hank") Allott (984286) King's Shropshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regt. 17 October 1944, aged 29 Died in Holland Hotton War Cemetery |
Kenneth Anthony (PLY/X3773)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Repulse Royal Marines 1 June 1943, aged 22 Died of illness whilst a PoW of the Japanese Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Ernest Appleyard (7955294) Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C - 43rd (2/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regt.) Regt. 24 June 1944, aged 20 Died when steamship Derrycunihy was sunk in the Channel Bayeux Memorial Joseph Edward Armishaw (648415) Royal Air Force - 76 Sqdn. 6 July 1941, aged 23 Died in Richmond, North Yorkshire Moorthorpe Cemetery John Edward Armitage (1548659) Royal Air Force - 21 O.T.U. 11 February 1944, aged 23 Wellington aircraft crashed on take off for a training flight Oxford (Botley) Cemetery George Ashurst (187809) Royal Air Force 5 January 1945, aged 21 Transport aircraft crashed in Australia Richmond War Cemetery Jack Athron (14580742) The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) - 1/6th Bn. 10 September 1944, aged 19 KIA in Belgium Adegem Canadian War Cemetery Thomas Atkins (4742633) Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 1/5th Bn. 8 June 1940, aged 32 Died in Northern France Incheville Communal Cemetery Adam Atkinson (5503295) Hampshire Regiment - 5th Bn. 9 September 1943, aged 26 KIA on the first day of the Salerno landings in Italy Salerno War Cemetery Leslie Atkinson (4857919) Leicestershire Regiment - 1st Bn. 14 December 1941, aged 24 Died in the Japanese advance on Singapore Singapore Memorial |