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Hellesdon War Memorial WW11 - Harrell to Stone

Harrell, Clifford W.

 

HARRELL, CLIFFORD WILLIAM

Rank: Driver

Service No: T/227485

Date of Death: 21/11/1941

Age: 32

Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps

attd. 151 Lt. Field Amb Royal Army Medical Corps

Panel Reference Column 74.

Memorial ALAMEIN MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2769169/HARRELL...

 

The 151 Light Ambulance seems to have been regularly attached to the 2nd New Zealand Division during the desert campaign. Its likely Clifford was involved in Operation Crusader, which had begun on the 18th November.

 

New Zealand troops crossed the Libyan frontier into Cyrenaica. Operation Crusader was an overall success for the British, and New Zealand troops withdrew to Syria to recover. The Operation Crusader campaign was the most costly the New Zealand 2nd Division fought in the Second World War, with 879 men killed, and 1,700 wounded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Division_(New_Zealand)

 

On 11 November the New Zealand Division left Baggush to take up a battle position west of the Egypt–Libyan frontier. Advancing at night without lights in stages of 25–30 miles and unobserved by the enemy, the Division crossed the frontier about 50 miles south of the Mediterranean coast on 18 November. A field ambulance company was attached to each brigade group in readiness to form advanced dressing stations during the coming action.

The Division moved 14 miles to the north on the 19th and on 21 November was ordered to advance and carry out its part in the plan. Led by the Divisional Cavalry, the Division advanced northwards that night. The Divisional Cavalry captured Sidi Azeiz and established a position on the escarpment overlooking the Tobruk–Bardia road. Fifth Brigade, following immediately behind, occupied Sidi Azeiz and captured Capuzzo by dawn on the 22nd.

nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Medi-c7-5.html

 

 

Jarmy, Vernon I.

 

JARMY, VERNON ILLTYD

Rank: Leading Stores Assistant

Service No: C/MX 662812

Date of Death: 18/11/1945

Age: 26

Service: Royal Navy, H.M.S. Peregrine

Grave Reference

Cemetery SPROWSTON (SS. MARY AND MARGARET) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information:

Son of Thomas and Katherine Jane Jarmy; husband of Grace Phyllis Jarmy, of Norwich.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2764439/JARMY,%...

 

Sunday, 18 November 1945

 

Peregrine

JARMY, Vernon I, Ty/Leading Stores Assistant, C/MX 662812, DOWS

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1945-09SEP.htm

 

HMS Peregrine was the Navy’s air base at Ford on the Sussex coast.

 

The death of Vernon I Jarmy, aged 26, was recorded in the Norwich District in the October to December 1945 quarter.

 

Lansdale, Ernest

 

LANSDALE, ERNEST

Rank: Private

Service No: 5778215

Date of Death: Between 14/02/1942 and 15/02/1942

Age: 25

Regiment: Royal Norfolk Regiment, 6th Bn.

Panel Reference Column 51.

Memorial SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Additional Information:

Son of William Arthur Ernest and Laura Harriet Lansdale, of Norwich.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2136504/LANSDAL...

 

These were the last days of the defence of Singapore, with the actual surrender coming on the 15th. The troops were exposed to constant shelling and bombing, with little chance to assist the wounded or recover the fallen. There were also recorded instances of allied prisoners being executed as they fell into the hands of the Japanese.

 

Nabarro, Benjamin N.

 

NABARRO, BENJAMIN NUNES

Rank: Private

Service No: 14412854

Date of Death: 26/07/1944

Age: 19

Regiment: Essex Regiment, 1/4th Bn.

Grave Reference IV B. 20.

Cemetery AREZZO WAR CEMETERY

Additional Information:

Son of Maurice and May L. Nabarro, of Norwich.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2097696/NABARRO...

 

The 1st/4th Essex, as part of the 4th Indian Division were involved in the breakthrough after the fall of Arezzo and the advance to the Gothic Line in Central Italy.

 

Smith, George

 

440 Possible matches on the CWGC database.

 

Military Genealogy has a Soldier, George A, who was born Lincolnshire but resident Norfolk.

However, that is probably this Kings Lynn man

www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2321016/SMITH,%...

 

Stone, Kenneth W.

 

STONE, KENNETH WILLIAM

Rank: Warrant Officer

Trade: Flt. Engr.

Service No: 1604005

Date of Death: 01/02/1946

Age: 24

Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 12 Sqdn.

Grave Reference

Cemetery HELLESDON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information:

Son of William John and Daisy Agnes Lilian Stone, of Hellesdon.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2763904/STONE,%...

 

Kenneth is remembered on the nearby Hellesdon War Memorial.

 

The official casualty list no 600, published in Flight Magazine on the 29th August 1946, lists a Warrant Officer K W Stone as Killed on Active Service.

 

There is only one Kenneth Stone recorded as dieing in England and Wales in 1946 and he was aged under 1. There is however a William K, aged 24. His death was recorded in the Barrow-upon-Soar District of Leicestershire in the January to March 1946 quarter..

 

Other members of 12 Squadron recorded as dieing the same day.

 

Warrant Officer James Adams……………………Wireless Operator (Air)

Son of Lewis and Maggie Stephen Adams, of Turriff.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2458878/

Death recorded in the Barrow Upon Soar District. Aged 22

 

Flying Officer Michael Francis Blumer…………..Pilot

Aged 23. Son of Francis and Isabel Annie Blumer, of Blundellsands, Liverpool.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2416744/

Death recorded in the Barrow Upon Soar District. Aged 23

 

Flight Sergeant Kenneth Stanley Chessum………Air Bomber

Aged 32. Son of the Revd. Albert James Chessum and Margaret Chessum; husband of Eileen Mary Oliver Chessum, of Newport, Pembrokeshire. A.R.A.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2416747/

Aged 31. Recorded as Stanley K. Chessum. Death recorded in the Barrow Upon Soar District.

 

Flight Sergeant James Burden Forbes………………Air Gunner

Aged 33. Son of Alexander and Annie Smeaton Burden Forbes, of Perth; nephew of Catherine Burden, of Perth.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2457942/

Death recorded in the Barrow Upon Soar District. Aged 33

 

Flight Sergeant Sidney Caesar Low……………….Navigator.

Aged 21. Son of George Henry and Clara Evelyn Low, of Sheffield.

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2407763/

Death recorded in the Barrow Upon Soar District. Aged 21 (Sidney Low).

 

The loss of an Avro Lancaster Mk111, serial number NE140, of 12 Squadron is reported on several web-sites, resulting in the death of all 6 on board. The location of the crash however is given as Beeby, Lincolnshire. No crew names are listed.

 

12 Sq., RAF - control lost when flown into cloud and crashed at Beeby, Lincolnshire after aircraft broke up in the air.

www.planetrace.co.uk/1940_to_1949_17.html

aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=25335

 

Beeby however apparently falls within Leicestershire for the registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/barrow%20upon%20soa...

 

Given their ages I suspect these men had seen service in WW2 and were probably waiting to be demobilised, making this loss even sadder.

 

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