The Lincolnshire Regiment

1154

Name: SHARPE, HERBERT
Rank: Private
Service No: 4807554
Date of Death: 26/03/1945
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Plot L. Grave 226.
Cemetery: CALCUTTA (BHOWANIPORE) CEMETERY, KOLKATA
Additional Information: Son of George Bernard and Martha Hannah Sharpe; husband of Lily Sharpe, of New Basford, Nottingham.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment, July1940.

Cause of death: Died. Perforated Colon.

 

1155

Name: BROWNING, LEONARD BERTRAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 14689149
Date of Death: 30/03/1945
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 62. J. 16.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Originally enlisted into The General Services Corps. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1156

Name: CARROLL, EDGAR
Rank: Private
Service No: 14556850
Date of Death: 30/03/1945
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 62. J. 15.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Originally enlisted into The General Services Corps. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1157

Name: HOTCHIN, JOHN THORNTON
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 4541687
Date of Death: 30/03/1945
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 62. J. 12.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of John Robert and Ethel May Hotchin, of Sheffield; husband of Mary Hotchin, of Sheffield.

Originally enlisted into The West Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1158

Name: ROWLEY, LAWRENCE
Rank: Private
Service No: 4800790
Date of Death: 30/03/1945
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 62. J. 13.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment 1934.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1159

Name: SIMCOCK, HENLEY RAYMOND
Rank: Private
Service No: 14707955
Date of Death: 30/03/1945
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 62. J. 14.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Originally enlisted into The General Services Corps. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1160

Name: BOWDEN, HARRY CLARE
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 4807443
Date of Death: 02/04/1945
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: 2. D. 3.
Cemetery: JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Harry and Annie Rhoda Bowden, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment, July1940.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1161

Name: FULLER, HARRY ARTHUR
Rank: Private
Service No: 4808396
Date of Death: 02/04/1945
Age: 31
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: 6. A. 5.
Cemetery: JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

Conscripted into The Lincolnshire Regiment, July1940 and posted 7 Lincolns.
Converted to 102 LAA Regiment, 1 December 1941.
3 Troops (C, E & H) of 102 LAA Regiment were disbanded and posted to 38 RHU for retraining om 16 August 1944.
He joined 4 Lincolns on 26 September 1944.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1162

Name: JONES, JOHN GRANVILLE
Rank: Private
Service No: 7908858
Date of Death: 02/04/1945
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: 6. A. 6.
Cemetery: JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY

Originally enlisted into The Royal Armoured Corps, date not known.
Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.
Posted to The Green Howards 21 June 1944.
Rejoined the Lincolns, 4th Battalion, 10 December 1944.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1163

Name: WOODCOCK, GEORGE ALAN
Rank: Private
Service No: 14676987
Date of Death: 02/04/1945
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: 2. F. 2.
Cemetery: JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of George Henry and Sarah Woodcock, of Shelf, Yorkshire.

Originally enlisted into The General Services Corps. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1164

Name: DALTON, GEORGE
Rank: Private
Service No: 4800945
Date of Death: 05/04/1945
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 6. B. 10.
Cemetery: SAGE WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Charles Arthur and Betsy Dalton, of Little Steeping, Lincolnshire.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment,1 November 1933.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.

 

1165

Name: NEWBURY, THOMAS GRINDALL
Rank: Brigadier
Date of Death: 05/04/1945
Age: 49
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: and Commands and Staff General Staff
Awards: M C (LG 4 June 1917), Croix de Guerre (LG 15 April 1918)
Grave Reference: Plot 7. Row A. Grave 13.
Cemetery: LILLE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Lt.-Col. P. F. R. Newbury and of Mrs. L. H. J. Newbury (nee Turnbull); husband of Dorothea Newbury, of Fleet, Hampshire.

Cause of death: Died as a result of illness.

 

1166

Name: RAY, ARTHUR
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 5891279
Date of Death: 05/04/1945
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 12. K. 21.
Cemetery: RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Arthur and Maud Ray, of Morborne, Huntingdonshire.

Originally enlisted into The Northhamptonshire Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1167

Name: WISE, JAMES GORDON
Rank: Private
Service No: 14828949
Date of Death: 05/04/1945
Age: 18
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 12. J. 23.
Cemetery: RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Laurence Henry and Alice Wise, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

Originally enlisted into The General Services Corps. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1168

Name: MORRISSEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 7345621
Date of Death: 06/04/1945
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 12. K. 19.
Cemetery: RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

Originally enlisted into The Northhamptonshire Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1169

Name: PERRY, ALFRED GEORGE
Rank: Private
Service No: 6015104
Date of Death: 06/04/1945
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 12. K. 20.
Cemetery: RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Thomas James Perry and Alice Maud Perry, of Forest Gate, Essex.

Originally enlisted into The Essex Regiment. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1170

Name: GREEN, JOHN RONALD
Rank: Serjeant
Service No: 4799485
Date of Death: 09/04/1945
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: Row 30. Grave 1.
Cemetery: OLDENZAAL ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Joseph and Kate Green; husband of Kathleen Green, of Masbrough, Yorkshire.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment, 27 December 1929.

Cause of death: Killed in action

 

1171

Name: BOOTH, GEORGE WILLIAM
Rank: Private
Service No: 4802813
Date of Death: 11/04/1945
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: 3. K. 1.
Cemetery: BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of William and Margaret Maria Booth, of Middle Rasen, Lincolnshire.

Enlisted into The Lincolnshire Regiment, November 1938.

Cause of death: Killed in action.

 

1172

Name: BURNS, HAROLD VICTOR
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service No: 342462
Date of Death: 13/04/1945
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: 7. B. 5.
Cemetery: ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Harold Ward Burns and Florence Cecilia Burns, of West Hagley, Worcestershire.


SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 30 MARCH, 1945

Lincolnshire Regiment
5253777 Serjt. Harold Victor BURNS (342462)
(Formerly of the Worcestershire Regiment) is granted an Immediate Emergency Commission from the ranks in the rank of 2nd Lt., 6th Jan 1945.

Cause of death: Killed in action. 4 Lincolns were starting to advance on Arnhem, South East of the City, at Zevenaar.
(at the same time as 337 Battery of 102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns) were taking part in a Pepper Pot shelling of the the same approaches to the city)

 

1173

Name: CRAGG, SAMUEL SUMMERFIELD
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 3657861
Date of Death: 13/04/1945
Age: 28
Regiment/Service: Lincolnshire Regiment
Unit: 4th Bn.
Grave Reference: VI. A. 14.
Cemetery: GROESBEEK CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Robert and Elizabeth Cragg, of Warrington, Lancashire, England; husband of Hilda Mavis Cragg, of Great Sankey, Warrington.

Originally enlisted into The Prince of Wales' Volunteers. Transferred to The Lincolns, date not known.

Cause of death: Died of wounds.