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

DRIVER EDWARD LIDDLE

366 Battery, 140 (5th London) Field Rgt RA 1940

Injured at Dunkirk

Alperton Cemetery, Wembley, London

 

GUNNER WILLIAM JOHN EVANS
Service Number: 1726241
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Artillery

392 Bty., 117 H.A.A. Regt.

Date of Death
Died 18 November 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at
NAZEING (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

N. E. of church.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Richard and Anne Jane Evans; husband of Violet Ellen Evans, of Nazeing.
• Personal InscriptionSO DEAR AND SO TERRIBLY MISSED. MAY YE BE WORTHY OF HIS AND OUR GREAT SACRIFICE

 

GUNNER WILLIAM HENRY MORRIS
Service Number: 730697
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Artillery

86 (The Hertfordshire Yeo.) Field Regt.

Date of Death
Died 26 March 1940

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at
HERTFORD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

Plot 4th Quarter. Row 10. Grave 10.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of William George and Esther Elisabeth Morris, of Hertford; husband of Elsie Florence Morris.

 

PRIVATE FRANK CUTLER CHURCHER
Service Number: 6145252
Regiment & Unit/Ship
East Surrey Regiment

4th Bn.

Date of Death
Died 15 September 1945

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at
FULHAM PALACE ROAD CEMETERY

Sec. 1. Grave 25.

United Kingdom

• Secondary Unit, Regimentattd. 88 Lt. A.A. Regt. Royal Artillery
• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Frank and Millie Churcher, of Fulham.
• Personal InscriptionGONE FROM US BUT NOT FORGOTTEN NEVER SHALL THY MEMORY FADE. MUM AND DAD

 

GUNNER RICHARD HAROLD SPOONER
Service Number: 1759625
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Artillery

Date of Death
Died 09 April 1941

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at
WALTHAMSTOW (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Grave 2567.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Mrs. A. Spooner; husband of Lilian Eva Spooner, of Walthamstow.
• Personal InscriptionTIME AND YEARS MAY PASS AWAY BUT LOVE AND MEMORIES ALWAYS STAY. LOVE, LIL

 

LIEUTENANT KENNETH ROBERT HIPKIN
Service Number: 217143
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Artillery

408 Bty., 53 (5th Bn. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Searchlight Regt.

Date of Death
Died 07 October 1943

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at
WALTHAMSTOW (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Grave 2716.

United Kingdom

• Secondary Unit, Regimentattd. 604 Sqdn. Royal Air Force
• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Robert and Rosetta Phoebe Hipkin, of Walthamstow; husband of Molly Rose Hipkin, of South Woodford. F.A.I.
• Personal InscriptionBRAVE HEART! GOD BLESS THEE, WHERESOE'ER IN GOD'S GREAT UNIVERSE THOU ART TODAY

 

BOMBARDIER WILLIAM GEORGE HARVEY
Service Number: 962403
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Artillery

524 Indep. Bty.

Date of Death
Died 26 November 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at
WALTHAMSTOW (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Grave 2682.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Charles and Lilian Edith Harvey, of Walthamstow.
• Personal InscriptionA GOOD SON, A GOOD BROTHER A GOOD SOLDIER: NEVER SHALL HIS MEMORY FADE R.I.P.

 

On the afternoon of 7th October 1943 the crew of this 604 Squadron Beaufighter V8557 took off from Scorton airfield to perform a flight test . An Army passenger Lt Kenneth Robert Hipkin was on board to gain flight experience. At 14.45hrs the aircraft stalled while attempting to make a steep turn at low level there was not enough height left to recover control of the aircraft and it crashed near Killerby Home Farm, south of Catterick airfield killing
Pilot - F/Lt Ole Bechgaard RAFVR (107285), aged 31.(Buried Catterick Cemetery, North Yorkshire)Navigator - F/O Edward James Jefferies RAFVR (129733), aged 30 ( Buried Marlborough Cemetery, Ilfracombe, Devon) and Passenger - Lt Kenneth Robert Hipkin RA (217143), aged 31, of Walthamstow. ( Buried Walthamstow Churchyard, London.)

Accident Bristol Beaufighter Mk IVF V8557, 07 Oct 1943

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