Remembrance Day - November 11

[Wendi]

Thanks sunnylady for reminding us of those who died without a uniform.    I hope you have found them on CWGC website.  May they RIP

Wendi

[sunnylady2005]

Yes Wendi - in fact it was the CWG site that gave me the first solid detail of my father's siblings and mother, and the date.  Not surprisingly it was not something my father (who was the only one left as he was in the army by then, and his father lived elsewhere) talked about.  And this is the first year I have been able to commemorate them by date and so close to Remembrance day itself, which was always observed in our house - well now I know why it had perhaps extra special significance for him. 

[Zelley]

Hello Zelley,
Thank you for letting me know the Leicestershire Regt. were known as The Green Tigers.
All these pieces of info help with research.
Regards
Foz           

D S WEBB is one of about 9000 members of
the Royal Leicestershire Regiment lost in WW I and WW II.

A BBC site section re Leicester Around Leicester the names are available including
D S WEBB

[Zelley]

In memory of Rachel Williams (nee Lord), my grandmother,  my uncles Anthony (13) and David (9), and aunt Rosemary (10) who died by "enemy action" 7 Nov 1940 in their house in Hendon, London

Thanks for including civilians.

I would like to remember:
John GOODWIN, Martha Matilda GOODWIN,
Lilian Primrose SELLEY and William SELLEY
- they died March 20, 1941
at 116 New North Road, Shoreditch, London.
William lived at Bridport Road.

[bitty_matriarch]

Commonwealth War Graves found in Honfleur, Normandy:

Flight Lt. I.D. JEREMY DFC. Air Gunner Royal Air Force  15th September 1941 Age 30
5735137 L.Cpl T. MONTAGUE The Devonshire Regiment Airborne 25th August 1944 Age 21
14618205 Private K.A. AMIS The Devonshire Regiment Airborne 25th August 1944 Age 19
Pilot Officer V.A. Rendell Air Gunner Royal Air Force 19th September 1940 Age 28
5624058 Corporal L. SMITH The Devonshire Regiment Airborne 25 August 1944 Age 26
Ply/X. 104549 Marine A. LAIGHT RM. H.M.S. "Copra" 17 August 1944       
H. MCDONNELL Able Seaman S.S."Sarnia"  31 January 1940 Age 23
779475 T.E. HILL Royal Artillery 25 March 1940 Age 31

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/CWG_Honfleur/index.htm

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Pilot Officer Tim HARGREAVES  Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 28 September 1943 Age 22
whose CWGC grave is at Upwell in the Baptist Chapel Churchyard, Upwell, Cambs.
The chapel has recently been converted to a dwelling after all the headstones were
bulldozed to rubble.  Tim's headstone was removed by the CWGC and no-one knows when/if
it is going to be replaced.
Tim's mother, District Nurse Hargreaves, delivered my brother.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Church&Chapel/Clearance/index.html


Ann

[Zelley]

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Pilot Officer Tim HARGREAVES  Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 28 September 1943 Age 22
whose CWGC grave is at Upwell in the Baptist Chapel Churchyard, Upwell, Cambs.
The chapel has recently been converted to a dwelling after all the headstones were
bulldozed to rubble.  Tim's headstone was removed by the CWGC and no-one knows when/if
it is going to be replaced.
Tim's mother, District Nurse Hargreaves, delivered my brother.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Church&Chapel/Clearance/index.html
Ann

Thanks for your input.  So sad to hear about  headstones being bulldozed.  Any idea  of the names of those that had their headstones turned to dust.

[bitty_matriarch]

The Fenland Family History Society recorded all the MI's before the chapel was sold for development - about 2 years ago.  I also have photographs of the many family graves that belonged to my father's grandmother's family.

There is still a lot of ill feeling in Upwell about the way the Baptist authorities handled this sale as it was such a large Non-Conformist graveyard.  As no covenants protecting the headstones were placed in the sale documents, the developer had free reign to demolish - which he did - without much  consultation with the Parish Council.

Ann

[Zelley]

The Fenland Family History Society recorded all the MI's before the chapel was sold for development - about 2 years ago.  I also have photographs of the many family graves that belonged to my father's grandmother's family.
Ann

Thanks !

[Iban Kepala]

In memory of my Uncle John -
' 7603525 Pte. John Daly, R.A.O.C. died Italy, 4 Dec 1943, at rest in Naple War cemetery.
George.