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

Name: SMITH, CLIFFORD JAMES
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 1644835
Date of Death: 18/08/1945
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 627 Regt.
Grave Reference: 59. C. 9.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Charles Benson Smith and Elizabeth Smith, of Timsbury, Somerset.

 

Name: SMITH, GEORGE
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 5961948
Date of Death: 21/02/1945
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 1 Heavy Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 48. B. 4.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Caroline Smith, of Bethnal Green, London.

 

Name: SPAFFORD, PETER MCDOWELL
Rank: Captain
Service No: 249021
Date of Death: 12/02/1945
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 190 Field Regt.
Awards: M C
Grave Reference: 53. E. 10.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Brigadier Percy Lionel Spafford, O.B.E., and Evelyn May Spafford, of Shinfield. Berkshire.

His MC citation:-

 

Name: SPARLING, BERNARD
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 979386
Date of Death: 24/02/1945
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 1 Heavy Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 48. B. 10.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of George and Mary Sparling; husband of Elizabeth Sparling, of Harrogate, Yorkshire.

 

Name: SPEARE, MAURICE PERCIVAL EDWIN
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 14377845
Date of Death: 09/03/1945
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 55 (The West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 54. E. 16.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Percival Edwin and Ethel Speare, of Hartley, Plymouth.

 

Name: SPILSTED, ERNEST JOHN
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 1081650
Date of Death: 14/02/1945
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 94 (The Dorset and Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Regt
Grave Reference: 54. H. 5.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Alfred Thomas Ernest and Edith Spilsted; husband of Ivy Margaret Spilsted, of West Norwood, London.

 

Name: SPROSTON, FRANK
Rank: Bombardier
Service No: 902643
Date of Death: 24/03/1945
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 4 Airlanding Anti-Tank Bty.
Grave Reference: 42. C. 2.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Margaret Maud Rigby, of Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire.

 

Name: STEPHENS, JOHN JARVIS
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 1156554
Date of Death: 24/03/1945
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 3 Airlanding Anti-Tank Bty.
Grave Reference: 32. E. 3.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

 

Remembered Croxley Green War Memorial

 

Name: STEVENSON, PETER
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 875113
Date of Death: 13/03/1945
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 84 Medium Regt.
Grave Reference: 45. F. 6.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: STOTT, ERNEST
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 14393845
Date of Death: 24/03/1945
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 7 Medium Regt.
Grave Reference: 53. D. 14.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William and Mary Stott, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire; husband of Edith Stott, of Ashton-under-Lyne.

 

Name: SWALWELL, WILLIAM THOMAS
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 833035
Date of Death: 12/05/1941
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 27 Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 59. K. 3.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William and Sarah Swalwell; husband of Pauline Lily Gwendoline Swalwell, of Colchester, Essex.

 

Name: TASKER, BENJAMIN
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 959913
Date of Death: 22/03/1945
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 3 Mountain Regt.
Grave Reference: 45. E. 7.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Frederick William and Amelia Tasker, of Leeds. Yorkshire.

 

Name: TAWN, RICHARD
Rank: Bombardier
Service No: 14508801
Date of Death: 25/03/1945
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 53 (The Worcestershire Yeomanry) Airlanding Lt. Regt.
Grave Reference: 42. A. 4.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Norman and Evelyn Tawn, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.

 

Name: TAYLOR, JOHN STEPHEN
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 932623
Date of Death: 01/03/1945
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 94 (The Dorset and Hampshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 47. A. 2.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Arthur and Ivy Winifred Taylor, of Barnsley, Yorkshire.

 

Name: TAYLOR, WALTER
Rank: Bombardier
Service No: 4928352
Date of Death: 05/04/1945
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 54 (The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt.
Grave Reference: 47. A. 10.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: THOMAS, ARTHUR REGINALD
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 14320807
Date of Death: 24/03/1945
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 3 Airlanding Anti-Tank Bty.
Grave Reference: 38. B. 10.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

 

Name: THOMPSON, NORMAN PARKER
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 975712
Date of Death: 24/02/1945
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 112 (The West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 47. A. 1.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Ashley Parker Thompson and Ida Thompson; husband of Jean Elizabeth Thompson, of North Ormesby, Yorkshire.

 

Name: THURSTING, EDWARD JOHN
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 14766268
Date of Death: 24/03/1945
Age: 18
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 4 Airlanding Anti-Tank Bty.
Grave Reference: 39. A. 3.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Francis E. and Olive M. Thursting, of Stretford, Lancashire. His brother Francis Alan also died on service.

 

Name: UNWIN, PERCY
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 14351005
Date of Death: 24/03/1945
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit: 86 (The Hertfordshire Yeo.) Field Regt.
Grave Reference: 53. D. 18.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY