Non Regiment Specific Commonwealth War Grave Photos for Reference

TURNER, GEORGE
Rank:
Driver
Service No:
T/14857152
Date of Death:
01/10/1947
Age:
21
Regiment/Service:
Royal Army Service Corps
Grave Reference:
Grave 3746.
Cemetery:
KINGTON CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of George and Theodora Turner, of Kington.

 

DOUGLAS, HARRY
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Service No:
3605650
Date of Death:
11/11/1941
Regiment/Service:
Border Regiment
7th Bn.
Grave Reference:
Grave 395.
Cemetery:
ASPATRIA (ST. KENTIGERN) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Husband of L. Douglas, of Aspatria

 

ALLAN, JONATHAN HOLLIDAY
Rank:
Private
Service No:
4859205
Date of Death:
28/11/1943
Age:
22
Regiment/Service:
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
5th Bn.
Grave Reference:
XVII. E. 22.
Cemetery:
SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Isaac Allan, and of Annie J. Allan, of Aspatria, Cumberland.

Remembered Aspatria (St.Kentigern] Churchyard

 

SHEPHERD, JOSEPH STUBBS
Rank:
Private
Service No:
3455012
Date of Death:
14/04/1945
Age:
28
Regiment/Service:
Seaforth Highlanders
7th Bn.
Grave Reference:
2A. C. 1.
Cemetery:
HAMBURG CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of William and Mary Shepherd; husband of Joan Shepherd, of North Acton, Middlesex.

Remembered Wigton cemetery Cumbria.

 

STORDY, ERNEST
Rank:
Corporal
Service No:
7624580
Date of Death:
01/03/1946
Age:
30
Regiment/Service:
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Grave Reference:
Sec. Z. Ward 1. Grave 35.
Cemetery:
WIGTON CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Joseph and Dinah Stordy, of Wigton.


His father is also buried in Wigton and he also served in the RAOC dying in WW1.

STORDY, JOSEPH
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Service No:
O/9895
Date of Death:
27/03/1921
Age:
41
Regiment/Service:
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Depot
Grave Reference:
1. S. "C." 79.
Cemetery:
WIGTON CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Joseph and Margaret Stordy, of Wigton; husband of Dinah Stordy, of 5, Tenters, Wigton.

 

HANEY, FRANK
Rank:
Private
Service No:
3600336
Date of Death:
04/12/1941
Age:
30
Regiment/Service:
Border Regiment
4th Bn.
Grave Reference:
7. L. 12.
Cemetery:
TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of John and Margaret Haney, of Wigton, Cumberland.

Remembered Wigton cemetery Cumbria.

 

hello Rob it was me
regards
Clive

 

Hi Clive,

FG Hayes was my mothers father, my parents said they knew little of what happened to him or where he was originally buried. So I spent quite a while researching where he was stationed etc, and ended up in Thailand where Tasao was and indeed the cemetery area he was first in before he was exhumed and lost, he now has no known grave.

Now I've seen the photos you've taken I'm amazed my mother or grandmother never said he was mentioned on a grave 20 minutes up the road from Hertford where I'm from! So I best get my backside to the cemetery to find the said grave.

I'm assuming that there was no direct link that you took the photos, was it just because it mentioned a fallen soldier?

Thanks

Rob

 

Hello Rob

No link mate I always scan/ look at the private headstones just in case a casualty is remembered on them.
Hayes-Frederic-Gerald
regards
Clive

 

Hi Clive,

You've found a part of my family history that would have been lost otherwise, much appreciated mate. Now I just have identity where he's actually buried in Thailand.

Cheers

Rob

 

hello Rob
Its likely his grave was never marked or lost so it will be a tall order to chase it down.

Re his commemoration on the Singapore Memorial
Within Kranji War Cemetery stands the SINGAPORE MEMORIAL, bearing the names of over 24,000 casualties of the Commonwealth land and air forces who have no known grave. Many of these have no known date of death and are accorded within our records the date or period from when they were known to be missing or captured
The SINGAPORE (UNMAINTAINABLE GRAVES) MEMORIAL, which stands at the western end of the Singapore Memorial, commemorates more than 250 casualties who died in campaigns in Singapore and Malaya, whose known graves in civil cemeteries could not be assured maintenance and on religious grounds could not be moved to a war cemetery.Cemetery Details

might be worth introducing yourself here other members will be able to add info User Introductions

regards
Clive

 

Hi Clive,

Yes it won't be easy, the death railway museum in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, suggest I should try to push the MOD to find out, but I think it's highly unlikely they will bother. But according to the museum it is quite unusual for them to have lost a lieutenant colonel?

The people that were either side of his original grave in Tasao are next to each other in the cemetery in Kanchanaburi. So I would assume that he is in an unknown grave there somewhere, but who knows.

Kranji is on my list of places to visit.

Cheers

Rob

 

And here's a picture of him.

 

good show Rob make sure you keep us updated

it might be an idea to start a thread in the war grave photos using the Hatfield grave and his picture to see what else members can add


regards
Clive

 

REEVES, JOHN THOMAS
Rank:
Private
Service No:
6348798
Date of Death:
23/10/1941
Age:
26
Regiment/Service:
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
4th Bn.
Grave Reference:
Grave 2592.
Cemetery:
WALTHAMSTOW (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Son of John and Phoebe Reeves, of Walthamstow; husband of Dorothy May Reeves, of Walthamstow.

 

WILSON, WILLIAM VICTOR
Rank:
Rifleman
Service No:
6915414
Date of Death:
10/06/1940
Age:
20
Regiment/Service:
Rifle Brigade
9th (1st Bn. The Tower Hamlets Rifles) Bn.
Grave Reference:
Cemetery:
WALTHAMSTOW (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
Additional Information:
Son of William and Beatrice Kate Wilson, of Walthamstow.

 

Remembered St Peter Bournemouth


NORMAN, GEORGE SHELLEY CLIFTON
Rank:
Captain
Service No:
138184
Date of Death:
18/07/1944
Age:
26
Regiment/Service:
Hampshire Regiment
70th Bn. attd. 1/6th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
Grave Reference:
IV. B. 14.
Cemetery:
FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL
Additional Information:
Son of George and Rosanna Norman.

 

Remembered St Peter Bournemouth

HARRIS, RICHARD EDWARD
Rank:
Major
Service No:
109037
Date of Death:
04/10/1944
Age:
30
Regiment/Service:
Dorsetshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Grave Reference:
13. A. 5.
Cemetery:
ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Richard and Ethel Elizabeth Harris; husband of Joan Margaret Harris, of Ferndown, Dorsetshire. B.A. (Cantab.).

 

Private JOHNSON, FRANK LIONEL
Service Number S/2589153

Died 15/09/1944

Aged 32

Royal Army Service Corps

Son of Ernest William and Nellie Johnson, of Perivale, Greenford.


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