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

Discussion in 'The Women of WW2' started by englandphil, Jul 14, 2009.

  1. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    Second Officer ARCKLESS, IRENE
    Died 03/01/1943
    Air Transport Auxiliary
    Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Arckless, of Carlisle.

    Buried at CARLISLE (STANWIX) CEMETERY

    Location: Cumberland, United Kingdom
    Number of casualties: 24

    Cemetery/memorial reference: Ward 2. Sec. A. Grave 31.
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  2. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Hi Sharonem,
    I hope I have not missed something here however I place the photo of Molly May just in case.

    This is the photo of the grave of Molly May Coveney at Streatham Cemetery, London.
    Cemetery location is:
    Garratt Lane, mid way between Upper and Lower Tooting. It contains scattered burials and those whose graves are not marked by headstones are recorded on a Screen Wall Memorial at the junctions of Blocks F, L, G and M.
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    Last edited: Dec 28, 2018
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  3. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    See previous post!
     
  4. CL1

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

    Aircraftwoman 1st ClassLAWRENCE, JEAN
    Service Number 2041172

    Died 06/11/1943

    Women's Auxiliary Air Force
    Casualty


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  5. Billy McGee

    Billy McGee Senior Member

    The lady in the photo is Maud Elizabeth Steane, a Canadian from Toronto. She was a qualified Radio Operator, but was refused entry into the Canadian Merchant Navy during the war, so she took a job on the Norwegian Merchant ship. Viggo Hansteen. Just ten weeks after joining her first ship, while at Naples Maud Steane was murdered, shot dead by one of her ship’s crewmembers, who then turned the gun on himself. She is buried with full war grave status in the Allied War Cemetery at Florence, Italy. She was just 28 years old.
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  6. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

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  7. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    Leading Aircraftwoman ARMSTRONG, JEAN
    Service Number 431850
    Died 03/02/1943
    Aged 20
    Women's Auxiliary Air Force
    Daughter of Clarence Wesley Armstrong and Mary Esther Armstrong, of Penrith.
    Buried at PENRITH CEMETERY
    Location: Cumberland, United Kingdom
    Cemetery/memorial reference: Sec. Pink. Row F. Grave 406.
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  8. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Casualty

    UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
    Name: Jean Armstrong
    Death Date: 3 Feb 1943
    Cemetery: Beacon Edge Cemetery
    Burial or Cremation Place: Penrith, Eden District, Cumbria, England
    Has Bio?: Y
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126231357

    Maybe her death certificate
    England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
    Name: Jean Armstrong
    Death Age: 20
    Birth Date: abt 1923
    Registration Date: Mar 1943
    Registration district: Border
    Inferred County: Cumberland
    Volume: 10b
    Page: 671

    TD
     
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  9. CL1

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

    Nurse MARMION, M
    Service Number 2/Res.M/813

    Died 25/01/1919

    Aged 37

    Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
    Buried at KENSAL GREEN (ST. MARY'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

    Location: London, United Kingdom
    Number of casualties: 420

    Cemetery/memorial reference: 9626.

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  10. CL1

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

    Sister LAMB, ADELINE
    Died 29/12/1941

    Aged 54

    Reserve.
    Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service

    Daughter of Charles and Georgina Lamb.


    INSCRIPTION
    LOVED BY ALL
    Buried at SWANAGE (GODLINGSTON) CEMETERY

    Location: Dorset, United Kingdom
    Number of casualties: 11

    Cemetery/memorial reference: Plot A. Cons. Grave 790.

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  11. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    Private COLLINS, ETHEL VERA
    Service Number W/123625
    Died 02/11/1944
    Aged 35
    Auxiliary Territorial Service
    Daughter of Arthur and Ethel Collins, of Barcombe.
    Casualty

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  12. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    That is a really sad ending for a brave woman.
     
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  13. CL1

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

    Private BROGAN, EILEEN AGNES MARY
    Service Number W/187438

    Died 04/12/1945

    Aged 25

    Auxiliary Territorial Service

    Daughter of John and Janet Irene Brogan, of Deptford.
    Buried at BROCKLEY CEMETERY

    Location: London, United Kingdom
    Number of casualties: 198

    Cemetery/memorial reference: Sec. D. Grave 1039. (R.C. ground).

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  14. amberdog45

    amberdog45 Senior Member

    Any chance somebody can download these 2 news articles? Tricky sent me the one in the Aberdeen paper last year, but I've deleted by mistake. I think the other article describing her funeral must have been added since I tried researching her.

    Results for '"jean lawrence"' | Between 1st Nov 1943 and 30th Nov 1943 | British Newspaper Archive
     
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  15. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    PM sent re newspapers.
     
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  16. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Huh - I was going to give that post a 'like' but now :mad:

    TD
     
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  17. amberdog45

    amberdog45 Senior Member



    You needing anything looked at the AK Bell Library in Perth for that WW1 relative of yours when I go in February?
     
  18. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    VAD Nurse, HEATHER DIANA BARNES
    Died 10/09/1940, Aged 20, Civilian War Dead
    Daughter of W. G. Barnes, M.A., and G. M. K. Barnes, of Rhododendron Bank, Colgate, Lower Beeding. Injured 9 September 1940, at First Aid Post, Village Hall, Colgate; died at Horsham Hospital. Posthumous Commendation from H.M. the King for brave conduct in Civil Defence. Posthumous award of Red Cross Gallantry Certificate and Girl Guides' Bronze Cross.
    Casualty
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    St John's Church, Coolhurst
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    Also killed:

    CONSTABLE, RICHARD JOHN
    Casualty
    CAMPBELL, JOHN IAN
    Casualty
    DOICK, WILLIAM
    Casualty
    HOCKEN, GERTRUDE ANNE
    Casualty

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  19. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    W/242963 Pte REATA GIBSON Auxiliary Territorial Service
    Died 04 September 1946 Age 21 years old
    Plot C. Row 9. Grave 26. SELSEY (ST. PETER) CHURCH CEMETERY [St Wilfrid’s Chapel, Church Norton, West Sussex 50.754902, -0.765163]
    Daughter of Thomas Edward and Mary Elizabeth Gibson.
    "LIGHTEN MINE EYES, THAT I SLEEP NOT IN DEATH"
    Casualty Details | CWGC
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  20. CL1

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

    AIRCRAFTWOMAN 2ND CLASS PHYLLIS ANNE BURNHAM
    Service Number: 894543
    Regiment & Unit/Ship
    Women's Auxiliary Air Force

    Date of Death
    Died 09 November 1941


    Age 21 years old

    Buried or commemorated at
    TOTTENHAM CEMETERY

    Grave 7.

    United Kingdom


    • Country of Service United Kingdom
    • Additional Info Daughter of Richard and Ellen Burnham, of Hornsey.
    • Personal Inscription FAREWELL, DEAR BABE TO BOTH OUR HEARTS SO DEAR, OFT SHALL WE BATHE THY MEMORY WITH A TEAR


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