Coldstream Guards: Roll of Honour - Alphabetical

Name: PUGH, PHILLIP CHARLES
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 11/08/1944
Service No: 2666371
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXVI. D. 2.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: ROBERTS, WILLIAM
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 26/07/1944
Service No: 2660231
Additional information: Son of John H. and Ann Roberts, of Cuddington, Northwich, Cheshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. M. 6.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: SURR, JOSEPH MARDSEN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 06/08/1944
Service No: 2660384
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXV. E. 20.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: TAYLOR, CHARLES ALFRED JAMES
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 06/08/1944
Service No: 2660899
Additional information: Son of Alfred Walter and Minnie Taylor; husband of Ivy Taylor, of Battersea, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXV. E. 23.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: VAUGHAN, WILLIAM
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 07/08/1944
Service No: 2660707
Additional information: Son of Edward and Sarah Elizabeth Vaughan; husband of Evelyn Vaughan, of Bromborough, Cheshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXVI. D. 6.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: WALKEY, FREDERICK JOHN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 38
Date of Death: 11/08/1944
Service No: 2664751
Additional information: Son of Albert and Edith Walkey; husband of Doris G. M. Walkey, of Bridport, Dorsetshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXVI. E. 11.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: WATSON, JOHN VERDUN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 5th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 19/07/1944
Service No: 2660577
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. F. 2.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: WYATT, ERIC
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Guardsman
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 09/08/1944
Service No: 2665083
Additional information: Son of Charles and Ruth Wyatt, of Kenley, Surrey.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. J. 4.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

 

429 Link ENGLAND E 2655191 1ST BN 02/06/1940 COLDSTREAM GUARDS
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I was sent this panel photo by Andy (Drew5233) and noticed the CG.

Name: ENGLAND, ERNEST
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 02/06/1940
Service No: 2655191
Additional information: Son of Eli and Annie England, of Leeds; husband of Cecilia England, of Leeds. Alternative Commemoration - buried in Leeds General Cemetery.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Screen Wall.
Cemetery: LEEDS (LAWNS WOOD) CEMETERY

 

Name: NICHOLLS, ARTHUR FREDERICK CRANE
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Brigadier
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Secondary Regiment: Special Operations Executive
Secondary Unit Text: attd.
Age: 33
Date of Death: 11/02/1944
Awards: G C, E R D
Additional information: Son of Joseph Crane Nicholls, and of Josephine Crane Nicholls (nee Campbell); husband of Dorothy Ann Violet Nicholls (nee Schuster), of Swinbrook, Oxfordshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: TIRANA PARK MEMORIAL CEMETERY

Citation: The following details are given in the London Gazette of 1st March 1946 : "Awarded the George Cross for most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner." Brigadier Nicholls parachuted into Albania in October 1943 as General Staff Officer to the Allied Military Mission which organised resistance activities. The Mission was attacked and broken up by the Germans in December and from then on Brigadier Nicholls lived as a fugitive in the open mountains in freezing weather. He continued leading the remnants of the Mission but was suffering from frostbite so severely that he ordered an inexperienced man to amputate both his legs without anaesthetic. He was pulled over the mountains lying upon his greatcoat by two members of his party. He was determined to reach a British Mission to make his report upon which the course of the war in Albania would depend. He succeeded in this but had gone beyond the limits of endurance and died from gangrene and heart failure.

Photo from Findagrave

 

McEVOY, JOHN DENNIS
Rank:Serjeant
Service No:2659053
Date of Death:16/09/1943
Age:22
Regiment/Service:Coldstream Guards
3rd Bn.
Grave ReferenceI. C. 46.
Cemetery SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Patrick and Fannie McEvoy, of Beckermet, Cumberland

Also remembered Beckermet (St.Bridget) Churchyard.

 

the following is typed as per the newspaper reports.

northern daily mail
west hartlepool

24 august 1944
WOUNDED
mrs dixon, 23 haswell avenue, west hartlepool, has received official intimation that her son, guardsman joseph winston malham dixon, has been wounded. guardsman dixon, who is just over 18 years of age, has been in the army about six months. before joining up he was employed at the butcher's department of the oxford street co-operative stores.

23 january 1945
REPORTED KILLED
mrs dixon, 22 haswell avenue, west hartlepool, has received official intimation that her son, guardsman joe dixon, of the coldstream guards, was killed in action on august 11, 1944. before volunteering he was employed at the belle vue butchering department of the hartlepools co-operative society. he was a pupil at st cuthbert's school. guardsman dixon was 18 years and 9 months old.

11 august 1945
IN MEMORIAM - ROLL OF HONOUR
dixon

treasured memories of our beloved son, joseph, of the coldstream guards, who was killed in action, august 11, 1944, in north west europe. always remembered by mam and dad, uncle bob.

 

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My father was in 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, Guards Armoured Division and landed in France on D-Day +5, 11 June!!

 

RICHMOND, ALBERT CHARLES

Rank: Drummer
Service No: 2662384
Date of Death: 18/06/1944
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Grave Reference: Sec. R. Grave 450.
Cemetery: DROYLSDEN CEMETERY

Additional Information: Son of Thomas George and Rachael Richmond, of Droylsden; husband of Elsie Richmond, of Droylsden.

 

DALTON, GEORGE

Rank: Guardsman
Service No: 2653569
Date of Death: 20/01/1945
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards - 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: Sec. X. Grave 913.
Cemetery: MANCHESTER (GORTON) CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Thomas and Hilda Dalton; husband of Margaret Jane Dalton, of Longsight, Manchester.

 

Remembered - Philips Park Cemetery, Manchester (Sec. I. Non-conformist. Grave 1126)

ALLCOCK, ALEX GODFREY

Rank: Guardsman
Service No: 2660894
Date of Death: 06/12/1943
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards - 3rd Bn.
Grave Reference: VII. D. 12.
Cemetery: CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

Additional Information:
Son of Isaac Allcock (M.B.E), and Mary Hannah Allcock (nee Gregory) of 54 Moss Lane, Swinton, Salford. Husband of Edith Allcock (nee Davis), of Wardley, Swinton, Lancashire.

Father Isaac Allcock served in WW1 as Private 88235, Machine Gun Corps (Information supplied by Manchester&Salford Family History Forum).

 

Photos from the War Museum at Overloon. Relating to the death of Guardsmen 2665937 Robert Silman and 2666077 Gordon Wright.
2665937 Guardsman Robert Edward SILMAN, 4 Bn Coldstream Guards: KIA 14/10/1944
Churchill Mark IV blown up on a mine at Overloon. 2 killed, 3 wounded:-









Extract of a letter from 1993 by one of the survivors, Guardsman Robert Dare:-