The Tripoli War Cemetery contains the graves of 34 men from Royal Engineers, 1000 Docks Maintenance Company who died on 2 March 1943. Although there are a few other casualties in the cemetery on that day, they are general from differing units. What was the event that took so many lives from one unit. Thanks Martyn
Found this on a disc that Paul Reed gave me years ago. Hope it helps. Bomb hit the company billet during an air raid , they were still burying them on the 5th.
Thank you for this information. My great uncle was one of the men who sadly lost their lives that day. He was only 24 years old. We never knew as a family how he died until now.
Thank you for the War Diary report. I am researching all the names on the Second World war Memorial in my church, St. Mary the Virgin, Corringham, Essex, and Ralph Wilson, whose name is on the memorial. was killed at Tripoli on 2nd March 1943 in the air raid.
1 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168266/thomas-barclay/ WARRANT OFFICER CLASS II THOMAS BARCLAY Service Number: 2925275 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 40 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. G. 6. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Thomas and Jane Barclay, of Aberdeen; husband of Henrietta Barclay, of Aberdeen. Personal Inscription: IN LOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR HUSBAND & FATHER. EVER REMEMBERED AT ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND 2 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168298/edward-arthur-bird/ LANCE SERJEANT EDWARD ARTHUR BIRD Service Number: 125116 Regiment & Unit/Ship Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 38 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 8. B. 7. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of William and May Lois Bird; husband of Edith Grace Bird, of Muswell Hill, Middlesex. Personal Inscription: NOT JUST TO-DAY BUT EVERY DAY WE REMEMBER 3 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168349/harry-burrows/ SAPPER HARRY BURROWS Service Number: 1887808 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 31 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. B. 27. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Joseph Edward and Elizabeth Burrows, of Llanfair, Anglesey. Personal Inscription: HIS THOUGHTS WERE GOOD, HIS DEEDS WERE KIND, A LOVING MEMORY LEFT BEHIND 4 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168424/frederick-cottington/ SAPPER FREDERICK COTTINGTON Service Number: 1434579 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: Died 02 March 1943 Age 22 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. H. 4. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Sidney Thomas Cottington and Alice Louisa Cottington, of Mickleover, Derbyshire. Personal Inscription: HERE WE MEET TO PART AGAIN; IN HEAVEN WE PART NO MORE 5 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168431/james-cragg/ SAPPER JAMES CRAGG Service Number: 2001368 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. A. 1. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Samuel and Mary Ann Cragg, of Southport, Lancashire. Personal Inscription: WITHOUT FAREWELL HE FELL ASLEEP LEAVING JUST MEMORIES FOR US TO KEEP 6 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/f...-details/2168458/leonard-henry-george-dawton/ SAPPER LEONARD HENRY GEORGE DAWTON Service Number: 2005416 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. F. 15. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Henry John and Florence Ursula Dawton; husband of Doris Beatrice Dawton, of Bow, London. 7 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168466/james-devine/ SAPPER JAMES DEVINE Service Number: 2012485 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 26 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. D. 20. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Peter and Rose Devine, of Maryhill, Glasgow. Personal Inscription: HE IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH 8 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168470/john-joseph-diamond/ SAPPER JOHN JOSEPH DIAMOND Service Number: 2070340 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 31 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. G. 8. Location: Libya Additional Info: Husband of A. Diamond, of Hebburn, Co. Durham. Personal Inscription: PEACE, PERFECT PEACE, WITH LOVED ONES FAR AWAY? IN JESUS' KEEPING WE ARE SAFE, AND THEY 9 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168490/herbert-durbin/ LANCE SERJEANT HERBERT DURBIN Service Number: 4185412 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 37 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. C. 18. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Herbert and Mary Durbin; husband of Florence Ada Durbin, of Littlehampton, Sussex. Personal Inscription: AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM 10 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168518/philip-evans/ SAPPER PHILIP EVANS Service Number: 2012890 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: Died 02 March 1943 Age 27 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. E. 20. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Philip and Bessie Evans. Personal Inscription: REST IN PEACE 11 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168615/george-frank-haines/ SERJEANT GEORGE FRANK HAINES Service Number: 1887681 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 24 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. E. 16. Location: Libya 12 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168632/ernest-charles-hassell/ LANCE CORPORAL ERNEST CHARLES HASSELL Service Number: 1951576 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 34 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. B. 9. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Arthur Charles and Elsie May Hassell; husband of Annie Esther Kathleen Hassell, of East Ham, Essex. Personal Inscription: GOOD-NIGHT, BELOVED, NOT GOOD-BYE. YOUR WIFE ANN, ROY, ALAN, ROGER AND MOTHER 13 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168659/charles-richard-hinchley/ SAPPER CHARLES RICHARD HINCHLEY Service Number: 6013912 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. B. 13. Location: Libya 14 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168685/richard-hugh-hughes/ COMPANY QUARTERMASTER SERJEANT RICHARD HUGH HUGHES Service Number: 1985078 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 43 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. H. 14. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Robert Hugh and Mary Elizebeth Hughes; husband of Daphne Gladys May Hughes, of Bournemouth, Hampshire. Personal Inscription: THE LOVE OF YOU WILL LIVE WITH US ALWAYS. DAPHNE, ROBIN AND CAROL ANNE 15 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168687/charles-daniel-hulse/ SAPPER CHARLES DANIEL HULSE Service Number: 2018103 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 28 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. G. 12. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Frederick and Ethel Hulse, of Hull. Personal Inscription: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN HE WHO GIVETH HIS LIFE FOR HIS KING AND COUNTRY 16 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168689/leonard-john-humphrey/ SAPPER LEONARD JOHN HUMPHREY Service Number: 2081901 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. E. 15. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Charles and Dorothy Humphrey, of Battersea, London. Personal Inscription: IN OUR MEMORIES AND HEARTS YOU WILL LIVE WHILE WE LIVE. MOTHER AND MAURICE 17 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168705/ernest-wright-isherwood/ SAPPER ERNEST WRIGHT ISHERWOOD Service Number: 3655182 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 22 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. D. 18. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Ernest B. Isherwood and Alice Isherwood, of Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows. Lancashire. Personal Inscription: TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE CAME A SUDDEN END, HE DIED AS HE LIVED EVERYONE'S FRIEND 18 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/f...etails/2168788/leslie-arthur-thomas-lawrance/ SAPPER LESLIE ARTHUR THOMAS LAWRANCE Service Number: 1887633 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 24 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. D. 19. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Reginald James Lawrance and Ellen May Lawrance, of Moredon, Swindon, Wiltshire. Personal Inscription: WE LOVED HIM TOO DEARLY FOR HIS MEMORY TO FADE FROM OUR LIVES LIKE A DREAM 19 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/f...details/2168825/robert-frederick-henry-lowen/ LANCE SERJEANT ROBERT FREDERICK HENRY LOWEN Service Number: 1907294 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 25 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. D. 14. Location: Libya 20 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2168935/philip-aloysius-milsom/ SAPPER PHILIP ALOYSIUS MILSOM Service Number: 1898264 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 24 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. F. 9. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of John and Elizabeth Milsom, of Plumstead, London. Personal Inscription: IN MEMORY WE SEE HIM JUST THE SAME; AS LONG AS WE LIVE WE SHALL TREASURE HIS NAME 21 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169010/dennis-oldham/ SAPPER DENNIS OLDHAM Service Number: 2016552 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 6. A. 18. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of John William and Annie Jane Oldham; husband of Evelyn May Oldham, of Sebastopol, Monmouthshire. Personal Inscription: O FOR THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND AND THE SOUND OF A VOICE THAT IS STILL 22 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169110/reginald-richardson/ SERJEANT REGINALD RICHARDSON Service Number: 1874434 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. E. 10. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Ernest F. Richardson and Daisy I. E. Richardson, of Brightlingsea, Essex. Personal Inscription: IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE. "LIFE IS EVER LORD OF DEATH, AND LOVE CAN NEVER LOSE IT'S OWN" 23 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169111/leslie-taylor-riding/ SERJEANT LESLIE TAYLOR RIDING Service Number: 1883692 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 30 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. C. 14. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of James William and Clara Riding; husband of Alice Winifred Rosa Riding, of Gidea Park, Essex. Personal Inscription: HE LOVED 24 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169114/jesse-david-rimell/ SAPPER JESSE DAVID RIMELL Service Number: 1896954 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 22 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. G. 16. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Jesse Frank and Florence Rosina Rimell, of Alum Rock, Birmingham. Personal Inscription: WE'LL MEET AGAIN. SADLY MISSED. MOM, DAD AND ARTHUR 25 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/f...etails/2169234/william-robert-cecil-spalding/ SAPPER WILLIAM ROBERT CECIL SPALDING Service Number: 2019650 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. E. 5. Location: Libya 26 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169235/robert-spearman/ SERJEANT ROBERT SPEARMAN Service Number: 6008108 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 32 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. B. 25. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Frederick and Alice Spearman; husband of Violet Gladys Spearman, of Plumstead, London. Personal Inscription: HEARTS THAT WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, ARE THE ONES THAT WILL NEVER FORGET. R.I.P. 27 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169274/burnett-cargill-taylor/ WARRANT OFFICER CLASS I BURNETT CARGILL TAYLOR Service Number: 159767 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 30 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 8. B. 11. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of James and Margaret Esson Taylor; husband of Annie S. Taylor, of Forfar, Angus. Personal Inscription: IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAREST HUSBAND AND OUR DADDY "UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN" 28 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169276/james-ainley-taylor/ SAPPER JAMES AINLEY TAYLOR Service Number: 1905489 Regiment & Unit/Ship Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 25 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. G. 4. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of James and Gertrude Taylor, of Doncaster, Yorkshire. Personal Inscription: RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL IN PERFECT PEACE HE AWAITS US ALL 29 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169331/george-thomas-vagg/ SERJEANT GEORGE THOMAS VAGG Service Number: 1861651 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 40 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. D. 15. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Samuel and Sarah Ann Vagg; husband of Edna Vagg, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Personal Inscription: "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN" 30 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169350/leslie-warburton/ LANCE SERJEANT LESLIE WARBURTON Service Number: 1880297 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 23 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 6. A. 10. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Fred and Ruth Warburton, of Warrington, Lancashire. Personal Inscription: THE LORD HAS HIM IN HIS CARE WE HAVE HIM IN OUR THOUGHTS. TILL WE MEET AGAIN 31 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169359/james-wallace-waters/ LANCE CORPORAL JAMES WALLACE WATERS Service Number: 1887890 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 39 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. C. 15. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of James and Rose Waters; husband of Hilda A. Waters, of Romford, Essex. Personal Inscription: HE WAS BRAVE, HIS COURAGE NEVER FAILED. HE SACRIFICED ALL FOR THOSE HE LOVED 32 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169378/george-bruce-weston/ SAPPER GEORGE BRUCE WESTON Service Number: 2012919 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 26 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. C. 16. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of Thomas and Amy Eunice Weston, of Coventry. Personal Inscription: HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE 33 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169393/reginald-walter-wilkins/ SAPPER REGINALD WALTER WILKINS Service Number: 1498219 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 24 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 11. A. 26. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of John George and Emma Louisa Wilkins, of Bristol. Personal Inscription: SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS, THERE, BY HIS LOVE O'ERSHADED, SWEETLY MY SOUL SHALL REST 34 https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2169409/ralph-wilson/ SAPPER RALPH WILSON Service Number: 2011718 Regiment & Unit: 1000 Docks Maint. Coy., Royal Engineers Date of Death: 02 March 1943 Age 25 years old Buried or commemorated at TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. D. 16. Location: Libya Additional Info: Son of George and Elizabeth A. Wilson, of Laindon, Essex. Personal Inscription: YEARS ROLL ON BUT SWEET MEMORIES OF YOU, DEAR, STILL REMAIN. MUM, DAD AND SISTERS
2nd March 3rd March 4th March, funeral = 35 So possibly there is one more fatality, but not RE or perhaps unidentified RE commemorated on a memorial? There are other casualties for different regiments, on same date, also buried in same cemetery. 5th March, another funeral Even more confusing... simply 4 of the 13 referred to above? Or a further 4 found after the 13 already noted?