Airborne Forces-Headstones

PRIVATE HENRY KENNETH AMOR
Service Number: 14409784
Regiment & Unit/Ship
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

7th Bn.

Date of Death
Died 09 April 1946

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at
WEST HAM CEMETERY

Grave B.144.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Frederick Arthur and Edith Blanche Amor, of Stratford.
• Personal InscriptionFOR OUR TOMORROW HE GAVE TODAY THE GREATEST OF GIFTS, HIS UNFINISHED LIFE.

 

First Page updated with outstanding cemeteries/churchyards for Airborne chaps. These are the last required and I am very grateful to all those who have helped me 'collect' them over the nearly 13 years since I first posted!

A Happy New Year to all

Andy

 

Not many of the original CWGC commemorations who had headstones either CWGC or private survive in this cemetery

PRIVATE THOMAS JAMES FOX
Service Number: 14880449
Regiment & Unit/Ship
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

5th Bn.

Date of Death
Died 01 December 1947

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at
CITY OF LONDON AND TOWER HAMLETS CEMETERY

Screen Wall. Sec. R. Grave 5266.

United Kingdom

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Son of Thomas Joseph and Elizabeth Fox, of Stepney.

 

Remembered Sidbury church Devon
PRIVATE ERIC LLOYD LOCKYER
Service Number: 5620801
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Devonshire Regiment

12th (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death
Died 29 August 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at
FATOUVILLE-GRESTAIN (CARBEC) CHURCHYARD
France

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Lockyer, of Sidford, Devon.
• Personal Inscription GOD BE WITH YOU UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

 

LCpl Victor Suggit at Sysonby, near Melton Mowbray:



https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2719361/victor-suggit/
and listed on the District panel at Egerton Lodge:
EGERTON LODGE WAR MEMORIAL GARDEN

Afternote:
Formerly of 6 Section, 2 Platoon, R Company, 1 Parachute Regiment:

 

Outstanding list updated; Thanks to all who have assisted over the years with this. Kind Regards, Andy

 

Hi Andy, I can help you with photos of Habbaniya headstones. Just give me the names of the two men you are interested in and I can send you the images. I only completed a full database of all 290 Habbaniya headstones two weeks ago and have already been inundated with requests. Have a look at my website https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com/habbaniya-cemetery-restoration . I also have images of the remaining headstones (74 of the 300 burials) at the Ma'Asker al Raschid RAF Cemetery in Baghdad (formerly the Hinaidi RAF Peace cemetery).

 

Hi Steve
I note that you have already kindly done so, via Findagrave, I will when back from a couple of days away check to see I have not missed anything. Kind Regards, Andy

 

Steve welcome to the forum
Excellent work well done
Could you start a thread here please to give a wider view to your great project.
War Cemeteries & War Memorial Research

Thank you

 

LOWE, ERIC HERBERT

Rank:
Staff Serjeant
Service No:
1827673
Date of Death:
04/05/1944
Age:
23
Regiment/Service:
The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C.

2nd
Grave Reference
Plot R. Row F. Grave 2.
Cemetery
ABBOTS LANGLEY (ST. LAWRENCE) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Son of Herbert Ernest and Violet Lowe; husband of Eileen Joyce Lowe, of Neasden, Middlesex.

 

Remembered Whitehaven cemetery

SERJEANT JOHN ALLAN
Service Number: 3598633
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Border Regiment

1st (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death
Died 22 September 1944

Buried or commemorated at
ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

16. A. 4.

Netherlands

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Awards Distinguished Service Cross
• Additional Info Husband of Florence Ruth Allan, of Whitehaven.
• Personal Inscription OUR LOSS IS HEAVENS GAIN YOUR LOVING WIFE FLORENCE CHILDREN BILLY AND MARIE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

 

PRIVATE-JOHN PERCY GERRARD
Service Number: 14589882
Regiment & Unit/Ship
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

9th Bn.

Date of Death
Died 23 April 1947

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at
HITHER GREEN CEMETERY

Sec. G.G. Grave 9.

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Husband of Irene Ellen Florence Gerrard. of Bethnal Green.
• Personal Inscription LOVED IN LIFE, TREASURED IN DEATH, A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY IS ALL I HAVE LEFT

 

PRIVATE ARTHUR WILLIAM NOTLEY
Service Number: 6204578
Regiment & Unit/Ship
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

8th Bn.

Date of Death
Died 18 June 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at
ENFIELD (LAVENDER HILL) CEMETERY

Sec. C. Cons. Grave 6907.

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Son of Arthur Willie and Mabel Evelyn Notley, of Enfield.
• Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

 

PRIVATE MICHAEL CHARLES CHURCHILL
Service Number: 2763132
Regiment & Unit/Ship
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

8th Bn.

Date of Death
Died 30 June 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at
BROCKLEY CEMETERY

Screen Wall. Sec. F. Grave 630. (R.C. Ground).
Country of Service United Kingdom

 

Remembered Stevenage Old Town War Memorial
PRIVATE EDWARD VICTOR HEMMINGS
Service Number: 14804334
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

2nd (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death
Died 01 May 1945

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at
BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY

11. E. 17.

Germany

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Son of Albert Victor and Bertha Hemmings, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
• Personal Inscription GONE FROM OUR HOME BUT EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS

 

GLIDER PILOT REGIMENT (GPR)
A VIRTUAL CEMETERY CREATED BY ANDY BAKER

Glider Pilot Regiment (GPR) - Find a Grave Virtual Cemetery

 

PRIVATE THOMAS GORDON LONSDALE
Service Number: 4347814
The Parachute Regiment, AAC.
12th Battalion (Yorkshire)

Date of Death
06 June 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried
Ranville, France
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2343190/thomas-gordon-lonsdale/

Remembered on the anniversary of his death on the Hull Good Old Days historical site, from which these photos are used. Listed with 116 other fallen on the Hull Grammar School Roll of Honour: