Monthly Archives: May 2020

VE Day – The Men and Women we lost….

Albert Joseph Caldwell, Chief Engine Room Artificer, H.M.S. Wivern – 6th October 1939 at sea

Donald Eastburn Waterman, Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery – 31st May 1940, Dunkirk

Richard Swaffer, Driver, Royal Army Service Corps – 1st June 1940, Dunkirk

Alfred James Wyatt, Leading Steward, H.M.S. Badger – 7th November 1941

Albert Chapman, Trooper, 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Own) Royal Armoured Corps – 29th May 1942, Libya

Sydney Stephen Dimond, Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve – 31st May 1942, Germany

Ronald Alfred Lakin, Signalman, Royal Corps of Signals – 14th November 1942, Egypt

David Ovenden, Serjeant, Dorsetshire Regiment – 30th July 1943, Sicily

Leslie John Victor Cotton, Pilot Officer (Air Gnr.), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve – 31st August 1943

Horace Arthur Wills, Gunner, Royal Artillery – 13th March 1944 at sea

Charles Louis Carpenter, Flight Sergeant (Air Gnr.), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve – 8th July 1944, Normandy

Victor Stephen Wright, Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve – 16th October 1944

Herbert George Gunner, Private, King’s Own Scottish Borderers – 5th November 1944, Netherlands

William Edward Heaton Barty, Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve – 6th December 1944

Horace Arthur Wills, Gunner, Royal Artillery – 16th December 1944, Israel

Harold Frederick William Humphries, Serjeant, South Lancashire Regiment – 6th January 1945, Netherlands

Frederick Albert Weekes, Trooper, Special Service Battalion, S.A. Forces – 21st April 1945, Italy

Frank Raymond Rogers – Gunner, Royal Artillery – 5th May 1945, Italy

Alice Turner – Civilian casualty – 6th February 1944

Daisy Wright – Civilian casualty – 23rd February 1944