Roll of Honour — Second World War 1939–45
Where known, the campaign or circumstances are mentioned.
Those who died between the outbreak of war and the end of 1941.
In 1939
Pe Tsun Yen, an engineer in the Chinese Army
Jan 1940
Pilot Officer David Maynard, R.A.F., 222 Squadron, flying a Blenheim from RAF Duxford. Aged 24
Apr 1940
Lieutenant John Esam, 8th Battalion Sherwood Forresters (Notts and Derbys Regiment), Lillehammer, Norway. Aged 26
May 1940
Second Lieutenant Eric Hughes-Narborough, Royal Army Service Corps (Ammunition Company), Dunkirk. Aged 22
Captain Cyril Pugh, M.B.E., Royal Engineers (Chemical Warfare Group). Dunkirk. Aged 27
Lieutenant Richard Olive, 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Dunkirk. Aged 32
Lieutenant Trevor Rouse, Royal Engineers, Field Company. At sea off Dunkirk. Aged 23
June 1940
Captain Basil Dove, Royal Army Service Corps (3 Field Bakery). At sea off Dunkirk. Aged 30
July 1940
Pilot Officer Gordon Mitchell, Auxiliary Air Force, 609 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying a Spitfire, off Portland in the early days of the Battle of Britain. Aged 29
Aug 1940
Second Engineer David Harris, Merchant Navy, on board SS Harpalyce torpedoed off the Hebrides. Aged 26
Nov 1940
Second Lieutenant William Bagott, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, died whilst on active service in Slough Emergency Hospital. Aged 22
Able Seaman Stafford Malins, R.N., H.M.S. President III, on board SS Kohinur torpedoed 250 miles south of Freetown, South Atlantic. Aged 29
May 1941
Lieutenant Evan Hughes, RNVR, on board the cruiser HMS Gloucester, sunk off Crete. Aged 27
Surgeon Lieutenant James Fielding, R.N., on board the battle cruiser HMS Hood, sunk in the North Atlantic. Aged 30
Ordinary Seaman Thomas Nichols, RN, also on board HMS Hood. Aged 21
June 1941
Pilot Officer Robert Burleigh, RAF, 603 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying a Spitfire from RAF Hornchurch over Boulogne. Aged 28
Aug 1941
Pilot Officer Duncan Hobson, RAFVR, on board SS Aguila when it was torpedoed in a convoy off S W Ireland. Aged 27
Captain Ronald Bentley, 2nd Battalion Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment). Madras, India. Aged 49
Sept 1941
Flight Sergeant Ralph Plaistowe, RAFVR, 83 Squadron, Bomber Command, piloting a Hampden on a raid to Cologne. Aged 29
Oct 1941
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Buttemer, Royal Artillery, 281 Battery Heavy Anti-Aircraft. Ismailia, Egypt. Aged 20
Nov 1941
Flight Lieutenant (Dr) Harold Mellows, RAFVR, 115 Squadron, Bomber Command, flying a Wellington on exercise from RAF Marham. Aged 31.
Flight Lieutenant Walker Blackden, RAFVR, 224 Squadron, Coastal Command, flying a Hudson off Norway from RAF Limavady, N Ireland. Aged 31
Second Lieutenant Alan Chapman, 2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Aged 21
Dec 1941
Pilot Officer George Eaton, RAFVR, 256 Night Fighter Squadron, killed when a Dominie aircraft on a Delivery Flight crashed in a storm near Ellesmere. Aged 20.
Those who died in 1942
Jan 1942
Ordinary Seaman Frederick Good, RN, on board the destroyer HMS Matabele sunk off Murmansk. Aged 19
Sub-Lieutenant (A) John Sidford, RNVR, Fleet Air Arm, on board SS Lady Hawkins off the cost of North Carolina. Aged 24
Second Lieutenant James Harrington, Royal Engineers (Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners). Singapore. Aged 34
Feb 1942
Pilot Officer George Martin, RAFVR, 137 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying a Whirlwind off Belgium during the ‘Channel Dash’. Aged 22
Major Alfred Stephen, 2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (Suffolk Regiment). Singapore. Aged 40
Second Lieutenant Clive Carver, 3rd Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles. Rangoon, Burma. Aged 26
Mar 1942
Lieutenant John Kennett, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Singapore. Aged 22
Second Lieutenant David Spittle, Royal Corps of Signals. Bralos, Greece. Aged 22
Apr 1942
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Robert Streatfeild, RNVR. 827 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, on air operations from the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable in the Indian Ocean. Aged 21
Aircraftman 2nd Class Arthur Bryan-Brown, RAFVR, fell ill whilst on active service and died in hospital in St Albans. Aged 19
June 1942
Second Lieutenant Oliver Woods, 12th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, died after an emergency operation in hospital in Bath. Aged 22
Lieutenant Gerald Kenyon, RNVR, on board the minesweeper HMS Gossamer, sunk by bombers in the Kola Inlet, Russia. Aged 23
Pilot Officer Adam Salaman, RAFVR, died in Andover. Aged 26.
July 1942
Tunku Bahauddin, a Malay civilian, died in Birmingham of injuries sustained in an air raid. Aged 21
Aug 1942
Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Cox, RAFVR, 201 Squadron, Coastal Command, flying a Sunderland from RAF Castle Archdale, Northern Ireland. Aged 26
Pilot Officer Kenneth Pierpoint, RAFVR, 605 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying a Havoc light bomber from RAF Ford. Aged 20.
Pilot Officer Dennis Pollock, RAFVR, 1435 Squadron flying a Spitfire from Luqa, Malta – El Alamein campaign. Aged 21
Oct 1942
Private James Howard-Clarke, 1/6th Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey). El Alamein, Egypt. Aged 22
Lieutenant John Lawrance, Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment), attached Royal Berkshire Regiment. El Alamein. Aged 21
Nov 1942
Sub-Lieutenant Dennis Barnard, RNVR, on board the escort carrier HMS Avenger (formerly the liner Rio Hudson) sunk off Gibraltar returning from Operation Torch. Aged 22.
Pilot Officer John Taylor, RAFVR, 16 Squadron, flying a Mustang on reconnaissance from RAF Weston Zoyland. Aged 21.
Those who died in 1943
Jan 1943
Sergeant Munro McKenzie, RAFVR, 9 Squadron, Bomber Command, in a Lancaster flying from RAF Waddington over Zutphen, Holland. Aged 19
Pilot Officer James Robinson, RAFVR, Khayat Beach, Haifa, Israel. Aged 21
Pilot Officer Hugh Bell, RAFVR, navigator/wireless operator with 264 Squadron Fighter Command, flying in a Mosquito from RAF Colerne. Aged 21
Feb 1943
Peter Turner, Civilian, killed in an air raid on Exmouth. Aged 18
Lieutenant-Colonel Lancelot Grove, Royal Engineers. Killed in a plane crash in Newfoundland, Canada. Aged 37
Sub-Lieutenant (A) William Browne, RNVR, Fleet Air Arm on board the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious in an air accident in the Pacific. Aged 23
Mar 1943
Sub-Lieutenant (A) Trevor Horsey, RNVR, Fleet Air Arm. Died in an air accident flying a Swordfish on exercise from HMS Landrail at Inskip. Aged 21
May 1943
Major Alfred Wallace, MC, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Medjez-el-Bab, near Tunis. Aged 36
Lieutenant Godfrey Walker, 8th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (attached 7th Battalion Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Field Forces). Lafenwa, Ghana. Aged 22
June 1943
Flying Officer Michael Donaldson, RAFVR, 167 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying a Spitfire from RAF Digby, over Ghent, Belgium. Aged 21
Jul 1943
Sub-Lieutenant Michael Yeo, RN., on Board H.M. Motor Torpedo Boat 316, sunk off Sicily. Aged 23
Captain Maurice Cockin, Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps. Agira, Sicily. Aged 27
Aug 1943
Lieutenant Stephen Bonnett, Royal Artillery (54 Heavy Regiment), killed near Ulverston, Lancashire when a mine he was defusing exploded. Aged 27
Sept 1943
Lieutenant-Commander (E) Anthony Brown, R.N., on board the mine-laying cruiser HMS Abdiel, sunk off Taranto, Italy. Aged 40
Lieutenant John Hawkard, Royal Marines (No 41 Commando), at the Salerno landings, Italy. Aged 20
Ranald McDonald, Civilian, Assistant Manager of an import/export firm in Shanghai, at the Yangchow Internment Camp, China. Aged 62
Oct 1943
Sergeant Hugh Grundy, Schoolmaster, 2nd Selangor Battalion, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, Chungkai-Burma Railway prisoner-of-war camp. Aged 35
Nov 1943
Flight Lieutenant David Smyth, D.F.C., RAFVR, 614 Squadron, Bomber Command, flying a Blenheim from Borizzo, Sicily. Aged 28
Captain Richard Allen, 6th Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Sangro River, near Chieti, Italy. Aged 26
Sub-Lieutenant Lewis Jones, RNVR, on board HM Submarine Simoom, sunk in the Aegean. Aged 24
Dec 1943
Lieutenant-Commander John Cooper, RNVR, on board HM Trawler Rysa, sunk by a mine off Maddelena, Sardinia. Aged 31
Captain John Murdoch, Doctor, Royal Army Medical Corps. Kampala, Uganda. Aged 35
Lieutenant Kenneth Mackenzie, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. Naples, Italy. Aged 20
Wing Commander Patrick Hadow, RAF, 220 Squadron, Coastal Command, flying a Fortress from RAF Hagens, Azores. Aged 31
Those who died in 1944
Jan 1944
Lieutenant Randall Connop Price, 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, member of 12 Commando, fell ill whilst on active service and died in Wrexham Emergency Hospital. Aged 21
Captain Martin Hawkin, 10th Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment. Delhi, India. Aged 30
Lieutenant John Ashby, Royal Artillery, Royal North Devon Field Regiment. Caserta, Italy. Aged 20
Feb 1944
Lieutenant (E) Ian Adamson, RN, of the light cruiser HMS Uganda, of illness in Charleston Hospital, South Carolina. Aged 25
Captain Anthony Eyre, Royal Artillery (44LA Regiment). Rangoon, Burma. Aged 24
Captain John Handford, Royal Artillery, fell ill whilst on active service and died in Porth. Aged 51
Mar 1944
Lance-Corporal George Good, Intelligence Corps (91 Port Security Section, Liverpool), fell ill whilst on active service in Italy and died in Broadgreen Emergency Hospital, Liverpool. Aged 24
Squadron-Leader Peter Carpenter, RAF, 51 Squadron, Coastal Command, flying a Ventura from RAF Skilten on a meteorological flight. Aged 25
Apr 1944
Lieutenant John Black, 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. Anzio, Italy. Aged 27
Major William Towell, Royal Engineers (attached 68 Field Company Royal Indian Engineers). Imphal, Burma front. Aged 27
June 1944
Major John Jarmain, Royal Artillery (193 Battery, Anti-Tank Regiment). Rauville, Normandy Beaches. Aged 33
Jul 1944
Leading Aircraftman Ambrose Goddard, RAFVR. Metis Beach, Canada. Aged 19
Flying Officer Peter McIntosh, RAFVR, 207 Squadron, Bomber Command, flying a Lancaster returning from a raid over Donges, France, from RAF Spilsby. Aged 20.
Aug 1944
Lieutenant Gavin Galbraith, Royal Engineers (275 Field Company), Douvres, near Caen, Normandy. Aged 21
Captain Anthony Herbert, Royal Engineers, near Caen, Normandy. Aged 26
Sept 1944
Trooper Roger Rawlence, Royal Horse Guards, near Amiens, France. Aged 24
Lieutenant Donald Creaton, MC, 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. Croisette, France. Aged 23
Gunner Samuel Hetherington, Royal Artillery (86th Medium Regiment). near Leuven, Belgium. Aged 22
Captain John Henry, 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps. Arnhem, Holland. Aged 23
Flying Officer John Garvey, RAFVR, 48 Squadron, Transport Command flying a Dakota from RAF Down Ampney, Arnhem Campaign. Aged 21
Captain Kenneth Dimmer, South Staffs Regiment, attached 6th Battalion Green Howards. Arnhem, Holland. Aged 24
Oct 1944
Lieutenant Reginald Woods, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps. Hanover, Germany. Aged 25
Nov 1944
Sergeant Laurence Hyde, RAFVR, 70 Squadron, flying a Wellington from Cerignola, Italy. Aged 20
Dec 1944
Flying Officer Martin Bottomley, RAFVR, Navigator. Killed in a flying accident, Nicosia, Cyprus. Aged 22
Major Alfred Hesketh-Prichard, M.C., Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) attached to the Special Operations Executive. In Southern Austria, aged 28.
Flying Officer Henry Medrington, RAFVR, 57 Squardron, Bomber Command, flying a Lancaster over Munich from RAF East Kirkby. Aged 21
Those who died in 1945
Jan 1945
Lieutenant Eric Gardner, Royal Corps of Signals. Eindhoven, Holland. Aged 21
Lieutenant Brian Byrne, 2nd Battalion East Lancs Regiment. Near Rangoon, Burma. Aged 23
Feb 1945
Lieutenant Kenneth Jeavons, Royal Artillery (77 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment). Died of wounds, near Rangoon. Aged 24
Lieutenant Andrew Murdoch, Royal Engineers, attached Field Company Royal Indian Engineers. Near Rangoon. Aged 22
Acting Sub-Lieutenant Anthony Fahy, RNVR, on board the corvette HMS Bluebell torpedoed in the Arctic off Russia. Aged 19
Mar 1945
Lieutenant Peter Collins, M.C., Royal Marines (48 Commando) Bergen-op-Zoom, Holland. Aged 24
Lieutenant Maurice Hammond, Royal Engineers. Died of Malaria near Rangoon, Burma. Aged 21
Apr 1945
Flight Lieutenant Maurice Matthias, RAFVR, 112 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying a Mustang from Cervia, Italy, over Austria. Aged 28
Lieutenant William Hogg, Irish Guards, near Hanover, Germany. Aged 25
The memorial includes the names of 3 civilians whose exact date of death is unknown:-
John Sloan, thought to have died in air raid in 1940 aged about 27
Swee Cheng Liew, a Singaporean Civilian who died sometime during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, aged about 28
Eng Ann Tan a Singaporean civilian who died sometime during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, aged about 24
A number of men who died after the War either in accidents or of disease on active service or as a result of wounds are included in the Memorial:-
In 1945
Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Edwards, RAFVR. Jakarta, Indonesia, aged 22
Lieutenant John Sayers (Royal Engineers (attached 71st Field Company Indian Engineers). Killed by an Indonesian nationalist, Jakarta, Indonesia, aged 21.
In 1946
Lieutenant Geoffrey Hobson. Intelligence Corps, fell ill whilst on active service and died in the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Aged 26
Air Commodore Edward Hopkins, RAF. Aged 42
Sub-Lieutenant Napier Whitcroft, RN, Fleet Air Arm, flying a Spitfire in Northern Ireland. Aged 21
In 1947
Flying Officer John Herrington, RAFVR, 85 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying a Mosquito from RAF West Malling. Aged 23
Pilot Officer Kenneth Turner, RAFVR, 286 Squadron, RAF Regiment, killed in a flying accident. Munster, Germany. Aged 21
In 1948
Flying Officer Neville Cornwall, RAF, killed in a flying accident off Gozo, Malta. Aged 22
In 1949
The Reverend George Boddy, former Chaplain to the Forces, aged 56