New CWGC Additions - WW2

Here I will list those new additions by CWGC to the Debt of Honour for WW2 personnel since the beginning of 2009

Field Marshal Sir Cyril John DEVERELL GCB KBE DSO
869 General Staff
Died 12.05.47 Age 72
Commemoration: Bournemouth Crematorium, Hants, UK

Added 24th June 2009 - submitted by Terry Denham of the IFCP

Chief Officer Robert HAY
S.S. Crusader, Merchant Navy
Died 26.11.41 Age 32
Commemoration: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK

Added 13th October 2009

Ldg/Aircraftman Dominick CAREW
6239 Royal Australian Air Force
Died 06.09.40
Commemorated: Mount Thompson Crematorium, Qld, Australia

Added 27th November 2009

 

Good work, Chris.

 

Ldg/Aircraftman Dominick CAREW
6239 Royal Australian Air Force
Died 06.09.40
Commemorated: Mount Thompson Crematorium, Qld, Australia

Added 27th November 2009



This error was picked up by Dave Barlow who has taken many photos and conducted much research on RAAF members.

Well done Dave.

 

Spidge

over at IFCP we had wondered who was responsible for having him submitted

Chris

 

Hopefully we will have 5 Royal Artillery men added in the future. Found by Verrieres in Sunderland (Bishopwearmouth) Cemetery and not listed on CWGC. All 5 have CWGC headstones.

 

Spidge

over at IFCP we had wondered who was responsible for having him submitted

Chris

Hi Chris,

Dave found this one (Carew) had been discharged and died on the same day.

For your info there is also another pending.

RAAF CHEMICAL RESEARCH UNIT
> 76056 LAC HAROLD F. FOWLER

Cheers

Geoff

 

Thanks Spidge - it's good to see a result from my submission, although it was more good luck than good management. I actually came across the memorial plaque for LAC Carew while looking for other commemorations. If there hadn't been a RAAF reference on his plaque I would have walked past it (mind you, it looks like the RAAF badge that was attached has gone "missing").

I wondered why he wasn't on the RAAF WW2 spreadsheet and when I looked him up on the DVA nominal roll it stated that he had been discharged (on the same day he died). As he appeared on the AWM Roll of Honour it was easy to get the nominal roll corrected and from there the OAWG came on board pretty quickly (and then the CWGC).

I wish it was as simple for the other two submissions we have on the go with the CWGC. For Mitchell they have given me a promise to look into his case and get back with a decision. With Duckworth I've got no idea what is happening except the CWGC and the OAWG seem to think the other mob is doing something.

Regarding the death of ex-LAC Fowler, I don't know if I'm getting anywhere with that one at all. I think the ball is back in my court and I’m running out of shots. Like Carew, I came across his name by accident. In a Brisbane cemetery is the Fowler family plot and on it are memorial plaques for two of their sons that died during WW2.

The older brother was KIA over Germany and is fully commemorated by the CWGC, however, the younger brother doesn’t show up on their database. According to the DVA nominal roll he was discharged 12FEB45 and the grave marker shows he died on 31MAR45. I spoke to the National Archives and I was informed that he was discharged for “personal reasons”. I can’t work out what personal reasons would allow a fit young bloke to leave the service during a world war. Especially one who was working for the RAAF CHEMICAL RESEARCH UNIT – a relatively secret unit that when it wasn’t busy storing dangerous munitions was busily trying to destroy their surplus holdings. I have spoken to a researcher who has written books on Australian military chemical warfare trials and he has no record of this member.

I then struggled to find a cause of death until I was able to get some help from the local Births, Deaths and Marriage bureau. They supplied me with his death registration number - 1945/1001A, which sounded weird to me and to them – but a few dollars later I had a copy of his death certificate. Apparently the strange looking death registration number is due to the fact that his body was never found.

He went missing while surfing (!) off Miami Beach, Southport Queensland (now pretty much known as Surfer’s Paradise) on the 31st of March 1945. An inquest into his death was closed on 31May1946 at Southport by the coroner. I intend to get to the state archives and get a copy of the inquest report. I have read on microfilm both the Brisbane and Southport newspapers for the week either side of his disappearance and there is no mention of the occurrence. They do mention that a couple of people had to be rescued from the water the same week, but no story about anyone going missing.

The newspapers at the time of the inquest findings don’t carry any information either.

I suppose my only shot is to prove that he was discharged due to (physical or mental) health problems and that his death was due to complications caused by his poor health.

Anyhoo, that is where I’m up to........

 

Dave

thanks very much for the info; best of luck with your efforts

Chris

 

CLARK, Wilfred Francis Darwin
Representative 123
Australian Red Cross Society
Died 14.05.43 Age 51
Commemoration: Sydney Memorial, NSW, Australia

PARKER, Hubert France
Radio Officer
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Died 15.02.42
Commemoration: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK

No further info available as these 2 cases did not come from IFCP

May They Rest In Peace

 

- BIRNIE-SCOTT, Arthur William
16/01/1945
Died at Buchenwald Internment Camp
- BODEN, Albert
10/10/1944
Died at Buchenwald Internment Camp
- BUSSELL, Charles
Between 10/08/1944 & 15/08/1944
Died at Buchenwald Internment Camp
- CULLEY, Juliette Mathilde
Between 01/08/1944 & 31/08/1944
Died at Ravensbruck
- GORE, Lilian Evelyn
Between 01/01/1945 & 31/01/1945
Died at Ravensbruck
- GOULD, Louisa
13/02/1945
Died at Ravensbruck
- JONES, Edward Albert
Between 01/03/1945 & 30/04/1945
Died in Fallersleben Camp, near Brunswick
- JONES, Mrs R.
Between 01/12/1944 & 31/12/1944
Died at Ravensbruck
- LEYSOHN, Charles
Between 01/11/1944 & 30/11/1944
Died at Buchenwald Internment Camp
- MESSIAH, Joseph
03/03/1945
Died at Buchenwald Internment Camp
- MOHALENG, George
Between 01/08/1944 & 31/12/1945
Died in salt mines near Buchenwald
- NICOLLE, John Whitley
Between 03/09/1939 & 31/12/1947
Died at Dortmund
- O'SUGHRUE, Lucien Henry
Between 01/09/1944 & 31/12/1944
Died in salt mines near Buchenwald
- PAINTER, Clarence Claude
Between 03/09/1939 & 31/12/1947
Died at Breslau
- PAINTER, Peter Edward
Between 03/09/1939 & 31/12/1947
Died at Breslau
- PERKINS, Martin
Between 03/09/1939 & 31/12/1947
Died at Buchenwald Internment Camp
- RIVE, Gaspard
Between 01/11/1944 & 30/11/1944
Died at Buchenwald Internment Camp
- RUSTON, Robert
28/01/1945
Died at Dachau
- TAPERELL, Michael
Between 03/09/1939 & 31/12/1947
Died at Hamburg
- YOUNG, Mary
Between 01/02/1945 & 28/02/1945
Died at Ravensbruck


All of these names where added to the CWGC Civilian ROH today. All cases where submitted by IFCP with myself as the finding volunteer.

May They Rest In Peace

 

All the people above are additions to the Civilian ROH

 

Nicolle, the Painters & Louisa Gould are. The rest I found whilst searching for proof of the Channel Islanders deaths. Just goes to show that looking for one thing will enable you to find another

 

- COHU, Canon Clifford John
20.09.44 Age 60
Died at Spergau, Germany

Added today to the CWGC Civilian Roll of Honour. Submitted by IFCP with myself as the finding volunteer.

May He Rest In Peace

 

Gladys Bessie BENBROOK
WW2 Civilian War Dead
Died 14.10.40 Age 42
Reporting Authority: Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough

Third Radio Officer Lionel Aubrey BERNSTEIN
Merchant Navy
Died 07.07.45 Age 20
Buried: Abadan Cemetery, Iran

Asst Steward Stanley Gordon BLANE
Merchant Navy, SS Rotorna
Died 23.04.45
Buried: Acton Cemetery, Middx, UK

These new names have been added to CWGC today

May They Rest In Peace

 

Adolphus Felix PEARSON
Died 11.04.41 Age 46
Injured at Thames Haven Oil Wharf 09.04.41
Reporting Authority: Thurrock, Urban District


Added to CWGC yesterday

May He Rest In Peace

 

Vivian Gordon BOWDEN
WW2 Civilian War Dead
Died 17.02.42
Reporting Authority: MALAYA


Added to the CWGC Civilian ROH today

Rest In Peace

 

January 2010 new addition to the Runnymede Memorial database :-

Radio Officer PARKER Hubert France
British Overseas Airways Corporation
15 February 1942

His name has not been added to the memorial yet. I presume it will appear on the addenda panels 291 or 292.

Mark

 

CWGC added the following casualty to the WW2 Civilian War Dead Roll today.

Edith Emily WEBB
Died 04.07.40 Age 41
Reporting Authority: Ipswich County Borough

Rest In Peace

 

Pte Fred JONES
14652773 Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Died 28.07.46 Age 33
Commemoration: Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, UK

WO.II Stanley Downing JONES
4535336 Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Died 22.09.47 Age 32
Commemoration: Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, UK

These new names were added to the CWGC Debt of Honour today.

They were submitted by IFCP with the finding volunteer being Diane Shakespeare

May They Rest In Peace