The Lincolnshire Regiment

1018

Name: NEWSUM, GORDON HERBERT
Rank: Major
Service No: 85307
Date of Death: 17/11/1944
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: IV. G. 13.
Cemetery: NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Herbert Edward and Doris Irene Newsum; husband of Gertrude Bettine Newsum, of Strensall, Yorkshire.

Cause of death: Killed in action by an enemy shell during a reconnaisance.



From The War Diary.



From The History of the Tenth Foot.

 

1019

Name: HOPKINSON, WILLIAM LESLIE
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 14725247
Date of Death: 19/11/1944
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: V. A. 7.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Edward and Annie Hopkinson, of Ashover, Derbyshire.

Conscripted into General Service Corps. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1020

Name: HUMPHREYS, ARTHUR OLIVER
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 200299
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Unit: Attached 4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
Grave Reference: VIII. C. 9.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Arthur and Olive Edith Humphreys; husband of Jessie Eileen Humphreys, of Clapton, London.

Commissioned into The Sherwood Foresters 19 August 1941 (from The London Gazette)

Cause of death: Killed in action.

War Diary of 4 Lincolns.



From Findagrave

 

1021

Name: EATHERINGTON, JOHN HAROLD
Rank: Private
Service No: 4805171
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: VIII. B. 2.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Ada Gadick, of Old Basford, Nottingham.

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regiment 1939 (Pre WW2)

Cause of death: Killed in action.



From Findagrave

 

Remembered Lavendon War Memorial

 

1022

Name: HASSALL, ALBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 14730455
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 18
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: VIII. B. 4.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Emma Powell, of Longton, Staffordshire.

Conscripted into General Service Corps. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1023

Name: HEBDEN, VINCENT
Rank: Private
Service No: 14547655
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: VIII. C. 7.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of James William and Kate Hebden, of Ealand, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into General Service Corps. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1024

Name: MOUNTAIN, ERIC
Rank: Private
Service No: 4803847
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: V. A. 2.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Walter and Minnie Mountain, of Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regimental 1939

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1025

Name: NEW, FREDERICK
Rank: Private
Service No: 5509791
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: III. C. 1.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Frederick and Jane New, of Portsmouth; husband of Doris New, of Stamshaw, Portsmouth.

Enlisted in The Hampshire Regiment Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1026

Name: PLEDGER, STEPHEN
Rank: Private
Service No: 5954359
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: VIII. B. 5.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Sidney and Eva Pledger; husband of Edith Kathleen Pledger, of Great Gransden, Bedfordshire.

Enlisted in The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1027

Name: WILSON, THOMAS WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 4808666
Date of Death: 20/11/1944
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: VIII. B. 3.
Cemetery: VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Ethel McAlster, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of S. M. Wilson, of Grimsby.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regimental 17/26 July 1940 and posted to 7 Lincolns. 7 Lincolns were then converted to 102 LAA Regiment, 1 December 1941. Re-transferred to The Lincolns, 4th Battalion, 26 September 1944.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1028

Name: GRAINGER, WILLIAM ARTHUR
Rank: Private
Service No: 14630292
Date of Death: 21/11/1944
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. C. 13.
Cemetery: LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Victor and Sarah Louie Grainger, of Wolverhampton.

Conscripted into General Service Corps. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1029

Name: HOULDEN, JOHN WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 4808456
Date of Death: 21/11/1944
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. F. 11.
Cemetery: NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regimental 17/26 July 1940 and posted to 7 Lincolns. 7 Lincolns were then converted to 102 LAA Regiment, 1 December 1941. Re-transferred to The Lincolns, 4th Battalion, 26 September 1944.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1030

Name: COWLING, JACK
Rank: Private
Service No: 14519942
Date of Death: 03/12/1944
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: Sec. E. Grave 44.
Cemetery: SCUNTHORPE (CROSBY) CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Albert Edward and Edith Emily Cowling, of Scunthorpe; husband of Ivy Cowling, of Scunthorpe.

Conscripted into General Service Corps. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

(Wounded as a result of an accident in Sicily in 1943. Discharged Para 390 (XVI), (A soldier who has been found physically unfit by a medical board is discharged from Army service under King's Regulations, 1940, paragraph 390 (xvi) as "ceasing to fulfil Army physical requirements.").

 

1031

Name: MOUAT, ROBERT BRUCE
Rank: Private
Service No: 1495028
Date of Death: 06/12/1944
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. D. 15.
Cemetery: FAENZA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Andrew William and Margaret Mouat, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.

Conscripted into General Service Corps. Transferred into The Lincolnshire Regimental date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1032

Name: WATT, JOHN
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 3197589
Date of Death: 06/12/1944
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. D. 14.
Cemetery: FAENZA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of George Watt and Agnes Lindsay Watt, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire; husband of Betsy Thomson Egginton Watt, of Coatbridge.

Enlisted in The King's Own Scottish Borderers. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.
Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1033

Name: BATEMAN, HAROLD
Rank: Private
Service No: 5962325
Date of Death: 07/12/1944
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Panel Reference: Panel 5.
Memorial: CASSINO MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Henry and Lylia Bateman, of Leeds, Yorkshire.

Enlisted in The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1034

Name: GLADWIN, JAMES ALBERT GEORGE
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 6014729
Date of Death: 07/12/1944
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. G. 5.
Cemetery: FAENZA WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted in The Essex Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolnshire Regimental, date not known.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1035

Name: HORTON, PETER PASCOE WILLIAM FRANK
Rank: Private
Service No: 4805627
Date of Death: 07/12/1944
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: I. F. 13.
Cemetery: FAENZA WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regiment 1939 Pre WW2.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1036

Name: PONT, WILFRED
Rank: Private
Service No: 4803707
Date of Death: 07/12/1944
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. G. 7.
Cemetery: FAENZA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Cecil Alfred and Jane Ann Pont, of Bourne, Lincolnshire.

Enlisted in The Lincolnshire Regiment, June 1939.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.