Royal Artillery/Royal Horse Artillery - Roll of Honour, 1939-47

FARNSWORTH, JAMES EDWARD
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 903403
Date of Death: 16/07/1943
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 88 Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 8. L. 64.
Cemetery: KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Elizabeth Farnsworth, and stepson of Thomas Henry Salisbury, of Bowerham, Lancaster.

 

FARRINGTON, PERCY WILLIAM
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 962506
Date of Death: 14/11/1942
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 420 Bty. 148 (The Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regt
Grave Reference: 2. G. 34.
Cemetery: KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Robert and Ethel May Farrington, of Cambridge.

 

FAULKNER, WILLIAM GARTON
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 1033539
Date of Death: 13/07/1943
Age: 45
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 85 Anti-Tank Regt.
Grave Reference: 2. F. 75.
Cemetery: KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William Garton Faulkner and of Sophia Faulkner (nee Poole).

 

Name: KEELING, MAURICE ALFRED
Initials: M A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 1 Airlanding Light Regt.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 25/09/1944
Service No: 14583984
Additional information: Son of Alfred and Julia J. Keeling, of Preston, Lancashire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 27. Row B. Grave 4.
Cemetery: RHENEN GENERAL CEMETERY

(Originally posted by PieterF. Photo missing from that post - Now re-posted)

 

Name: BOYD, JOSEPH ARTHUR
Initials: J A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 115 H.A.A. Regt.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 16/05/1945
Service No: 14264138
Additional information: Son of Joseph and Jane Ann Boyd, of Watcombe, Devon.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot G. Joint grave 19.
Cemetery: CASTRICUM PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD

(Originally posted by PieterF. Photo missing from that post - Now re-posted)

 

Name: MORGAN, WILLIAM MICHAEL
Initials: W M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 444 Bty., 133 L.A.A. Regt.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 11/05/1945
Service No: 240589
Additional information: Son of H. W. and Mary Nest Morgan, of Fforestfach, Swansea. B.A. (Oxon.).
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Allied Plot. Row 5. Grave 95.
Cemetery: THE HAGUE (WESTDUIN) GENERAL CEMETERY

(Originally posted by PieterF. Photo missing from that post - Now re-posted)

 

Name: KING, JOHN LEWIS
Initials: J L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Bombardier
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 133 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 17/05/1945
Service No: 5630010
Additional information: Son of Hilda King; husband of Gladys Ruth King, of Acton, Middlesex.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Allied Plot. Row 5. Grave 99.
Cemetery: THE HAGUE (WESTDUIN) GENERAL CEMETERY

(Originally posted by PieterF. Photo missing from that post - Now re-posted)

 

GRAY, FREDERICK SAMUEL
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 1540558
Date of Death: 28/01/1945
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery 45 Bty., 24 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Grave Reference: Grave 651C.
Cemetery: Wisborough Green (St. Peter Ad Vincula) Churchyard

Casualty details

 

PERRY, TERTULLUS
Rank: Battery Quartermaster Serjeant
Service No: 1046239
Date of Death: 01/02/1942
Age: 44
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Grave Reference: Grave D.43.
Cemetery: Shipley (St. Mary) Churchyard
Son of Benjamin John and Susan Perry; husband of Rose Frances Perry, of Dragon's Green.

Casualty details

 

WEDDELL, LEONARD
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 2057264
Date of Death: 09/02/1941
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery 303 Bty., 26 Searchlight Regt.
Grave Reference: North of Church. Grave 400.
Cemetery: Holmwood (St. Mary Magdalene) Churchyard

Casualty details

 

Inside St John the Baptist Church, Capel, Surrey



COLES, GUY ROGER
Rank: Captain
Service No: 146967
Date of Death: 05/09/1944
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery 155 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 8. A. 39.
Cemetery: KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Casualty details

and his brother

COLES, EDGAR RALPH
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 12/05/1915
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales' Own)
Panel Reference: Panel 3.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Additional Information:Son of Ernest Harry and Adela Caroline Coles, of "Arnolds," Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey.
Casualty details

 

Remembered Greenford Cemetery west London


Gunner WALTERS, FREDERICK ERNEST
Service Number 1077468

Died 22/11/1941

Aged 29

3 Regt.
Royal Horse Artillery

Son of Ernest Frederick and Alice Pudney Walters; husband of Ethel Minnie Walters, of Edgware, Middlesex.
Casualty

 

Gunner SONGHURST, HENRY ARTHUR
Service Number 2576397

Died 13/01/1945

Aged 24

321 Bty., 26 Searchlight Regt.
Royal Artillery

Son of William Alfred and Jane Songhurst; husband of Roseina Ellen Songhurst, of Crouch Hill, London.


INSCRIPTION
TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE

 

Lance Bombardier COOK, JOHN
Service Number 1058402

Died 03/06/1940

Aged 34

33 Field Regt.
Royal Artillery

Son of Henry and Alice Cook; husband of Bridget Delia Cook, of Church End, Finchley.

 

Serjeant HARRIS, KENNETH HOWARD
Service Number 1566332

Died 22/07/1944

Aged 29

444 Bty., 129 (M) H.A.A. Regt.
Royal Artillery

Son of Osmond and May Harris.

 

Gunner GORDON, ROBERT H.
Service Number 794567

Died 15/12/1939

Aged 29

12 Field Regt.
Royal Artillery

Son of Robert Harvie Gordon and Thomasina Gordon, husband of Violet Amelia Gordon, of Dollis Hill.


INSCRIPTION
SLEEP ON O NOBLE SOUL, O LOYAL HEART HOW WELL YOU PLAYED A SOLDIER'S PART

 

Bombardier CHALKER, WILLIAM HENRY
Service Number 978658

Died 18/10/1943

Aged 27

551 Coast Regt.
Royal Artillery

Son of William and Violet Chalker; husband of Esther Victoria Chalker. of Hornsey Rise, London.

 

Gunner BALZARETTI, PETER
Service Number 1626887

Died 10/05/1941

Aged 27

351 Bty. 112 H.A.A. Regt.
Royal Artillery

Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Balzaretti husband of Renee Balzaretti, of West Wimbledon. Surrey.

 

Whilst serving in the Royal Artillery

Private DRURY, HENRY
Service Number 1692304

Died 21/09/1944

Aged 33

Pioneer Corps

Husband of Emily Mercy Drury, of Kentish Town, London.

 

Not sure who to thank for these photo's - but thank you very very much for them.

Fred Gray was my great-grandfather. His daughter, Valerie Gray, married Peter Ashman & had only 1 Daughter - Dawn Ashman.

Dawn married Mohsen, to become Dawn Ash-Kashani - my mother.

Valerie, daughter of Fred, was only 4 when he died, and she missed him dearly until the day she passed away in 2015.

It is of real comfort to see his sacrifice immortalised so beautifully.

Again, thank you for these photo's and details.