ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY

Gunner HENRY TOCKER GOATE McKENZIE
Service Number: 1107062
Regiment & Unit/Ship 3 Regt. Royal Horse Artillery
Date of Death Died 08 August 1944
Age 30 years old
Awards Military Medal

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Private JAMES WALKER PATERSON
Service Number: 2990131
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of Death Died 06 August 1944
Age 30 years old

Additional Info Son of Robert and Margaret Paterson; husband of Margaret Paterson, of Maddiston, Stirlingshire.
Personal Inscription HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY HIS ABSENCE A SILENT GRIEF

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Signalman ROWLAND JOHN NEWELL
Service Number: 7537772
Regiment & Unit/Ship VIII Corps Sigs. Royal Corps of Signals
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 24 years old

Additional Info Son of Henry Rowland Newell and Eunice Hannah Newell, of King's Somborne, Hampshire.
Personal Inscription FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING

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Rifleman EDWARD MILLS
Service Number: 14380800
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Royal Ulster Rifles
Date of Death Died 19 July 1944
Age 19 years old

Additional Info Son of Thomas and Bertha Mills.
Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR SON AND BROTHER. REST IN PEACE

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Guardsman WILLIAM DAVID HECTOR REES
Service Number: 2735646
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Welsh Guards
Date of Death Died 03 August 1944
Age 24 years old

Additional Info Son of Hector and Edith Rees; husband of Marion Ada Rees, of Great Barr, Birmingham.
Personal Inscription HE LAUGHED AND SANG THROUGH YEARS OF WAR GOD GRANT HE MAY FOR EVERMORE

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Private DENNIS EDWIN SKINNER
Service Number: 14614091
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 20 years old

Additional Info Son of Joseph Eddie and Jane Eugenie Skinner, of Croydon, Surrey.
Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEE

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Guardsman ARTHUR FREDERICK SMITH
Service Number: 2623173
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards
Date of Death Died 11 August 1944
Age 22 years old

Additional Info Son of Frederick William and Ellen Doris Smith, of South Norwood, Surrey.
Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON. GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN. MUM AND DAD

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Lance Serjeant RAYMOND FREDERICK TUCKER
Service Number: 2735372
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Welsh Guards
Date of Death Died 11 August 1944
Age 25 years old

Additional Info Son of William Elliott Tucker and Annie Tucker; husband of Edna Rosina Tucker, of Romford, Essex.
Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THOM

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Guardsman CHARLES WILLIAM WAITE
Service Number: 2620364
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards
Date of Death Died 11 August 1944
Age 24 years old

Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Waite; husband of Mabel Waite, of Shenley, Hertfordshire.
Personal Inscription ALWAYS LOVED AND DEARLY REMEMBERED. EVERLOVING WIFE, MABEL

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Corporal HENRY JOSEPH HIGGINSON
Service Number: 3601829
Regiment & Unit/Ship 15th (Scottish) Regt. Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.
Date of Death Died 06 August 1944
Age 28 years old

Additional Info Son of Elizabeth Higginson, of Blackburn, Lancashire.
Personal Inscription AS THE SUN GOES DOWN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM

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Guardsman SIDNEY TOWERS
Service Number: 2659409
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
Date of Death Died 11 August 1944
Age 26 years old

Additional Info Son of Alexander and Clara Towers, of Blackburn, Lancashire; husband of Annie Towers, of Blackburn.
Personal Inscription IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND SIDNEY. HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. MAY HE REST IN PEACE

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Private ALFRED EDWARD MASSEY
Service Number: 5825724
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Suffolk Regiment
Date of Death Died 13 August 1944
Age 31 years old

Additional Info Son of Herbert and Caroline Massey; husband of Victoria Edmunds Massey, of Stonehouse, Plymouth.
Personal Inscription PEACE, PERFECT PEACE

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Private CLAUDE FREDERICK BATTLE
Service Number: 5829870
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Suffolk Regiment
Date of Death Died 13 August 1944
Age 25 years old

Additional Info Son of William and Ellen Agnes Battle, of Easton, Suffolk.
Personal Inscription IN MEMORY OF CLAUDE ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS

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This newspaper article, “The Man Who Watches Over a Battlefield,” tells the story of Mr Butt, a British veteran who settled in Normandy after the Second World War and dedicated his life to helping families visiting the graves of British soldiers. Living near the cemetery of St Charles de Percy, he shared his knowledge of the battlefield and of the men who fell there.

 

Hi Billy
Rifleman Mills was a ember of "B" Company and killed by shrapnel during the costly "Approach to Troarn" on 18th July where 2RUR suffered more than 100 casualties - see 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles in WW2: 18th-20th July 1944 - Approach to Troarn

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Thank you very much for sharing this information.

 

Serjeant ALFRED BLACKALL
Service Number: 5377678
Regiment & Unit/Ship 10th Bn. Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
Date of Death Died 06 August 1944
Age 36 years old

Additional Info Son of Thomas and Nancy Blackall; husband of Evelyn May Blackall, of North Leigh, Witney, Oxfordshire.

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Lance Corporal THOMAS VICTOR WALKER
Service Number: 1804115
Regiment & Unit/Ship 10th Bn. Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)
Date of Death Died 07 August 1944
Age 23 years old

Additional Info Son of Thomas Victor and Dorothy Walker, of Noke, Oxfordshire.
Personal Inscription THE SWEETEST OF MEMORIES ARE ALL WE HAVE LEFT OF A BELOVED SON AND ONE OF THE BEST

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Guardsman JOHN RIGG
Service Number: 2619981
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards
Date of Death Died 05 August 1944
Age 24 years old

Additional Info Son of James and Mary Ann Rigg, of Brierfield, Lancashire; husband of E. Rigg.
Personal Inscription SOME MAY FORGET YOU BUT WE WILL REMEMBER NO MATTER HOW LONG. MOTHER AND FATHER

 

Lance Corporal THOMAS TAYLOR
Service Number: 4036285
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regt. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Date of Death Died 30 July 1944
Age 24 years old

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