Laughton - All Saints Churchyard, Church Street
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Herbert Abrahams (D/JX 135969)
Royal Navy - H.M.Sub. Tigris 10 March 1943, aged 28 Lost when submarine was sunk in the Mediterranean Plymouth Naval Memorial British Empire Medal. Frank Allcroft (4747404) Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn. 30 May 1940, aged 21 Died in France Dunkirk Memorial Wilfred Archer (7264819) Royal Army Medical Corps - 11 Field Ambulance 31 May - 2 June 1940, aged 20 Killed in France Dunkirk Memorial Ernest Barber (4692798) King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn. 10 June 1940, aged 21 Accident in Scotland Thurcroft Cemetery Donald Broddle (3065715) Royal Air Force 10 June 1945, aged 18 Died in hospital in Lancashire Laughton-en-le-Morthen (All Saints) Churchyard Arthur Frederick Henry Cherry (1108689) Royal Artillery 13 August 1946, aged 31 Died in UK Throapham (St John the Baptist) Churchyard Alec Frank Clayton Merchant Navy - SS Caleb Sprague 31 January 1944, aged 26 Lost when vessel sunk in the Channel Thurcroft Cemetery Basil Drake (581325) Royal Air Force - 42 Sqdn. 22 December 1940, aged 20 Beaufort aircraft lost in training Runnymede Memorial Frank William Archibald Evans (4913144) Worcestershire Regiment - 2nd Bn. 8 February 1945, aged 29 Died of wounds during the Burma Campaign Taukkyan War Cemetery Jesse Few (614026) Royal Air Force - 97 Sqdn. 24 November 1941, aged 21 Manchester aircraft crashed on a training flight Rotherham (Masbrough) Cemetery Percy Fox (4540501) West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn. 16 January 1944, aged 24 Died in Burma Rangoon War Cemetery Tom Gale (6299644) Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment - 1st Bn. 29 July 1944, aged 24 Killed in action in the Italian Campaign Florence War Cemetery George Ernest William Gallop Civilian War Dead 26 September 1940, aged 26 Killed in an air raid on Sheffield Reported by Sheffield Borough Council Horace William Green (D/KX 93946) Royal Navy - H.M.S. Drake 29 July 1944, aged 25 Accident whilst training in Devon Plymouth (West Mill) Cemetery Richard Hand (4861905) Leicestershire Regiment - 2/5th Bn. 2 March 1943, aged 27 Died in North Africa Beja War Cemetery James Harrison (C/JX 313457) Royal Navy - SS Roxby (H.M.S. President III) 7 November 1942, aged 20 Lost when vessel sunk in the Atlantic Chatham Naval Memorial |
Andrew Horsfield (D/KX 103875)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Edinburgh 1 May 1942, aged 22 Lost when vessel sunk in the Barents Sea Plymouth Naval Memorial George Clement Horsfield (7883328) Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 1st 4 November 1942, aged 27 Killed in action in the Middle East El Alamein War Cemetery George Johnson (7901738) Royal Armoured Corps - The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) 16 September 1944, aged 25 Died in Italy Coriano Ridge War Cemetery James Leslie Johnson (4542825) Royal Artillery - Maritime AA - Steamship Peleus 13 March 1944, aged 28 Lost when ship was sunk Portsmouth Naval Memorial Christopher Walter Kelly (1623691) Royal Air Force 16 August 1943, aged 20 Accident in Canada Goderich (Maitland) Cemetery John Thomas Kennedy (4748070) York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn. 16 October 1943, aged 23 Died in Italy Minturno War Cemetery William Melanchon Lowndes (7378649) Royal Army Medical Corps 6 July 1942, aged 26 Died in India Gauhati War Cemetery Samuel Marples (4913171) South Staffordshire Regiment - 2/6th Bn. 29 July 1944, aged 29 Died in Staffordshire Lichfield (St Michael) Churchyard George Pearson (13034621) Royal Engineers - 1048 Port Operating Coy 3 August 1944, aged 31 Killed in action during the Normandy Campaign La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres George Robinson (2667271) Coldstream Guards - 5th Bn. 21 April 1945, aged 20 Died of wounds in Germany, less than 3 weeks before VE Day Becklingen War Cemetery Wilfred Rushby (7368051) Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 340 Engr. Equipment Workshop 12 November 1944, aged 26 Died in Middle East Beirut War Cemetery Arnold Weldon (51330) Royal Air Force - 101 Sqdn. 2 - 3 December 1943, aged 32 Lancaster aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Rheinberg War Cemetery Distinguished Flying Medal Edward Wilde (1451051) Royal Air Force - 514 Sqdn. 23 April 1944, aged 23 Lancaster aircraft lost on a mission to Germany Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Also listed on Maltby GS and Thurcroft memorials George Woodcock (5383484) Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry - 1st Bn. 16 July 1944, aged 29 Killed in action during the Normandy Campaign Brouay War Cemetery Cyril Woodward (1047540) Royal Air Force - 757 Sqdn 21 October 1941, aged 18 Died on active service in Northern Ireland Laughton-en-le-Morthen (All Saints) Churchyard |