Service Women's War Grave Photos for reference (previously titled FAO Tonym)

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  1. PaulC

    PaulC IFCP Volunteer

    Nora Stanley, Southport Visiter 21 & 21 September 1944
     

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  2. PaulC

    PaulC IFCP Volunteer

    Rachel Scott, Southport Visiter 28 August 1945
    Jean Rutherford, Southport Visiter 12 June 1945

    Some additional info relating to Rachel Scott...

    Her father, Dr Gerald Claude Scott, died at Southport on 30 November 1943; his was also a private funeral, location not stated. He was born in Edinburgh but seems to have been in the Southport area since at least the early 1900s. He served in the navy during WW1.

    Her brother was Sub-Lieutenant Douglas Murray Scott, RNVR, HMS Grebe, who was killed in the Middle East on 18 March 1942.
     

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  3. Tonym

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    Paul

    Most welcome indeed. Jusr received Rachel Scott's D,C, details from my daughter so will be sending for a copy to ascertain how she died. Most grateful.

    Tony
     
  4. PaulC

    PaulC IFCP Volunteer

    Good news, I have located Rachel Scott's grave! She is buried at Birkdale Cemetery in Southport, I went out there this morning to get a photo...
     

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  5. Tonym

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    Paul

    Well done! The whole family together. Her brother, Sub.Lieut. Douglas Murray, RNVR, was apparantly killed in an air crash. No response on 'World Naval Ships' as to the circumstances.

    Tony
     
  6. PaulC

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  7. Tonym

    Tonym WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Thanks Paul

    Carlyle, Hunter, Fletcher & Stafford were all victims of the Khedive Ismail sinking and are on Panel 93 of which I do not have a copy

    Carr is on Panel 31 also of which I do not have a copy

    Loomes will eventually be on the Addendum Panel

    I only have panels 33 to 38 I believe posted by Clive (CL1)

    Tony
     
  8. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    HOLLIDAY, ELIZABETH

    Rank:

    Member

    Service No:

    864

    Date of Death:

    13/03/1919

    Age:

    23

    Regiment/Service:

    Women's Royal Air Force



    73rd Wing

    Grave Reference

    41. 11967.

    Cemetery

    READING CEMETERY

    Additional Information:
    Daughter of C. H. Holliday, of 21, Valentia Rd., Oxford Rd., Reading.
     

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  9. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    CLARK, ELLEN

    Rank:

    Member

    Service No:

    19194

    Date of Death:

    31/10/1918

    Age:

    35

    Regiment/Service:

    Women's Royal Air Force



    No. 3 Stores Depot Park

    Grave Reference

    26. 15098.

    Cemetery

    READING CEMETERY

    Additional Information:
    Daughter of Mrs. Clark, of 9, Mount Pleasant Grove, Reading.
     

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    SPARKES, MARY FLORENCE ALICE

    Rank:

    Member

    Service No:

    901

    Date of Death:

    06/11/1918

    Age:

    37

    Regiment/Service:

    Women's Royal Air Force

    Grave Reference

    55. 14973.

    Cemetery

    READING CEMETERY

    Additional Information:
    Daughter of Henry Sparkes, of Purnbrook, Portsmouth.
     

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  12. PaulC

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    I took the following pics at the Runnymede Memorial last Sunday, 14 women named on panels 243, 277, 278 and 291, though I believe graves have since been located for Walker and Duffield.
     

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  13. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    EVANS, WINIFRED MAY Rank: Aircraftwoman 1st Class Service No: 2143847 Date of Death: Between 08/11/1944 and 09/11/1944 Regiment/Service: Women's Auxiliary Air Force Grave Reference Sec. B. Grave 19. Cemetery WILLESDEN NEW CEMETERY

    [SIZE=11.818181991577148px]Winifred May Evans - Aircraftwoman 1st Class - Women's Auxiliary Air Force - 8th-9th November 1944 - I wondered why her date of death was vague and it turns out that radio operator Winifred Evans of the Harlesden WAAF was raped and murdered in Beccles on that night. Her murderer was hanged[/SIZE]
















    Remember. Aircraftwoman 1st Class Winifred May EVANS. Signal Section. RAF Beccles. Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. Murdered on the 9th November 1944 aged 30.
    On the 8th November 1944 ACW1 Winifred Evans, a Radio Operator at RAF Beccles, had attended a Base Dance and had left early, with Corporal Margaret Johns, in order to prepare for duty in the camp Signals Office. Whilst Winifred set off for duty Margaret Johns had then gone to the WAAFs’ toilets, where she had been shocked to find a drunken airman. She asked what he was doing there, and he said he was lost and asked if he were in Number One Camp. She told him he wasn’t, took him outside, and pointed him in the direction Winifred had taken a few minutes earlier.
    In the early hours of the morning Winifred’s battered and raped body was found in a ditch close to the camp. She had been asphyxiated after being forced face-down in mud. The police learned that an airman had entered camp shortly after 1 a.m. and had later been seen cleaning his uniform. He was Arthur Heys, a 37-year-old Leading Aircraftsman. He confirmed that he had encountered Corporal Johns early that morning but denied any involvement in Winifred Evans’s murder.
    Wondering why it had taken him an hour to get from the WAAF camp to his own billet, the police took his uniform away for examination. This revealed the presence of brick-dust, and there was brick rubble in the ditch where Winifred’s body had been discovered. Moreover, hair on Heys’s tunic matched samples taken from Winifred. But when his wife was visited at her home in Colne, Lancashire, her hair was also found to match the samples found on her husband’s tunic. Nevertheless, Heys was charged with Winifred Evans’s murder, and before his trial his commanding officer received an anonymous letter. It purported to be from Winifred’s killer, and it said that an innocent man was being held in jail. It also described Heys as having been drunk and lost at the time in question, facts known only by Heys, Corporal Johns and the police. This convinced the investigators that the letter was indeed from Winifred’s killer: Arthur Heys himself. Tried and convicted, he went to the gallows at Norwich Prison on the 13th March 1945. His name does not appear in the records of the CWGC as he was discharged from the RAF on the day before his execution. Winifred is buried in the Willesden New Cemetery, London. http://scarletboy44.tumblr.com/page/5?route=%2Fpage%2F%3Apage
    the above information with thanks to Kyle
     

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  14. Mr Jinks

    Mr Jinks Bit of a Cad

    As per post 303 some have been posted before but these may be better images? Also a Polish girl murdered by her husband.
    MORGAN, IRENE BRENDA Rank: Sister Service No: 208813 Date of Death: 14/12/1941 Age: 27 Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Grave Reference 1. B. 38. Cemetery STANLEY MILITARY CEMETERY Additional Information:
    Daughter of Kenneth Dyson Morgan and Marjorie Morgan, of Horsforth, Yorkshire

    WESTAWAY, NORAH KATHLEEN Rank: Matron Date of Death: 14/03/1946 Age: 51 Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Awards: A R R C Grave Reference I. G. 15. Cemetery SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY Additional Information:
    Daughter of Engr. Rear-Admiral Albert Ernest Luscomb Westaway and Sarah Ann Westaway.

    BOWYER, DORIS Rank: Sister Service No: 348732 Date of Death: 01/05/1946 Regiment/Service: Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Grave Reference I. G. 14. Cemetery SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY

    Anastazja Kulinska
    Newark-on-Trent
    Nottinghamshire, England
    Plot: War Graves Plot Section F Grave 323A.




    Kyle
     

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  17. Mr Jinks

    Mr Jinks Bit of a Cad

    W/85106
    Annie Bough
    Atherton Cemetery
    9th January 1942


    Kyle
     

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  18. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    NORMAN, SYLVIA

    Rank:

    Private

    Service No:

    W/317275

    Date of Death:

    25/08/1947

    Age:

    21

    Regiment/Service:

    Auxiliary Territorial Service

    Grave Reference

    Panel 9.

    Cemetery

    MORTLAKE CREMATORIUM

    Additional Information:
    Daughter of Arthur Owen and Lottie Lucretia Clacy, of Oxford; wife of Raymond Stanley Norman.
     

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    STRONG, MARJORY IDA RUTH

    Rank:

    Corporal

    Service No:

    W/166540

    Date of Death:

    26/08/1942

    Age:

    30

    Regiment/Service:

    Auxiliary Territorial Service

    Grave Reference

    Panel 12.

    Cemetery

    MORTLAKE CREMATORIUM

    Additional Information:
    Daughter of Reuben George and Elizabeth Emily Strong, of Hillingdon, Middlesex.
     

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    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    MURRAY, ALICE

    Rank:

    Volunteer

    Service No:

    W/8311.

    Date of Death:

    14/10/1940

    Regiment/Service:

    Auxiliary Territorial Service

    Grave Reference

    Sec. C.G. Row K. Grave 24.

    Cemetery

    NORTH SHEEN CEMETERY
     

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