| ABBOTT |
Arthur
Edward |
Corporal
7894938, 16th/5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps. Died
11th April 1943 in North Africa. Age 24. Born and resident Northamptonshire.
Son of William and Rita Abbott; husband of B. M. Abbott, of Wombwell,
Yorkshire. Commemorated on MEDJEZ-EL-BAB MEMORIAL, Tunisia. Face
2. |
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| AGER |
Robert
Percy |
Gunner
1658749, 632 Battery, 33 (19th County of London Regimentt) Searchlight
Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died 2nd March 1945 at home in England.
Age 29. Born and resident Northamptonshire. Son of Thomas H. Age
r and Olive Frances Age R, of Kettering; husband of Katherine E.
Ager, of Kettering. Buried in LONDON ROAD CEMETERY, KETTERING, Northamptonshire.
Row N.N. Grave 5. |
| ALDERMAN |
Henry
|
Private
4805278, 5th Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment. Died 21st August 1943
as a POW in the Far East. Age 27. Born and resident Northamptonshire.
Buried in CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY, Thailand. Grave 5. L. 2. |
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| BAGSHAW |
Dennis
George |
Sapper
2158441, 694 Artisan Works Company, Royal Engineers. Died 7th January
1943 at home. Born and resident Northamptonshire. Son of Frederick
and Mary A. Bagshaw; husband of Hilda M. Bagshaw, of Kettering.
Buried in LONDON ROAD CEMETERY, KETTERING, Northamptonshire. Row
O.O. Grave 8. |
| BAILEY |
E |
possibly
Ernest BAILEY, Private 5888552, 2nd Battalion, The Hertfordshire
Regiment, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Died 12th
May 1944 in Italy. Born and resident Northamptonshire. Buried in
CASSINO WAR CEMETERY,
Italy. Grave XII. E. 9. |
| BAILEY |
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possibly
Eric Rowland BAILEY, Private 7378653, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Died 29th May 1942 in the Middle East. Born and resident Northamptonshire.
Buried in KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA, Libya. Grave 11. C.
20. |
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| BARNWELL |
George
or Gordon Robert |
[Army
Roll lists as George and CWGC as Gordon] Bombardier 946925, 68 Medium
Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died 10th April 1942 in the Middle East.
Age 23. Born and resident Northamptonshire. Son of John Arthur and
Margaret Mabel Barnwell; husband of Jennie Barnwell. Buried in KNIGHTSBRIDGE
WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA, Libya. Grave 4. F. 12. |
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| BEDWELL |
William
|
Private
5886627, 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 28th
April 1944 in Italy. Age 22. Born and resident Northamptonshire.
Son of William and Ellen Bedwell, of Kettering, Northamptonshire;
husband of Freda Olive Louise Bedwell, of Kettering. Buried in BEACH
HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO, Italy. Grave II. H. 12. |
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| BELLAMY |
Arthur
Bertram |
Private
5892026, 2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. Died 8th July
1944 during th Western Europe Campaign. Age 20. Born and resident
Northamptonshire. Son of Bert and Ada Bellamy, of Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Buried in RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France. Grave II. C.
33. |
| BELLAMY |
Arthur
Walter |
Corporal
6407285, 5th Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment. Died 9th April 1943
in North Africa. Age 30. Born Northamptonshire, resident London
EC. Commemorated on MEDJEZ-EL-BAB MEMORIAL, Libya. Face 22. |
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| BERWICK |
Norman
[Murray] |
Driver
1893384, 551 Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers. Died 12th July
1941 in the Middle East. Age 24. Born and resident Northamptonshire.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Berwick, of Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Buried in TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY, Libya. Grave 4. J. 12. |
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| BLAND |
Dennis
[Albert] |
Private
14405513, 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 3rd
May 1944 in Italy. Age 21. Born and resident Northamptonshire. Son
of Henry William and Doris Verina Bland, of Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Buried in BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO, Italy. Grave II. B. 3. |
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possibly
Frederick BOSWORTH, Gunner 1626336, Royal Artillery. Died 13th March
1945 at home in the United Kingdom. Age 33. Born Northamptonshire,
resident Buckinghamshire. Buried in OLNEY CEMETERY, Olney, Buckinghamshire
Grave 171. |
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| BRIDGSTOCK |
Sidney
Arthur |
Private
14641006, 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 23rd
March 1945 during the Burma Campaign. Age 20. Born and resident
Northamptonshire. Son of Harry and Florence Bridgstock, of Kettering,
Northamptonshire. Buried in MADRAS WAR CEMETERY, CHENNAI, India.
Grave 8. D. 15. |
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| BROWN |
Douglas
William |
Fusilier
6983349, 1st Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Died 18th
April 1942 during the Burma Campaign. Age 21. Born and resident
Northamptonshire. Son of Harris William and Ethel Mary Brown, of
Kettering, Northamptonshire. Commemorated on RANGOON MEMORIAL, Myanmar.
Face 11. |
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Richard
William |
Sergeant
914347, 336 Battery, 135 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment,
Royal Artillery. Died 27th January 1942 in Malaysa during the Japanese
invasion of Malaya and Singapore. Age 27. Born and resident Northamptonshire.
Son of Albert George and Lottie Isobel Caswell; husband of Mary
Caswell, of Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Commemorated on SINGAPORE
MEMORIAL, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Column 35. |
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| PALMER |
Stanley
Arthur |
 Leading
Airman FX673631, H.M.S. Nightjar, Royal Navy. Died 12th May 1945.
Aged 20. Son of Arthur James Palmer and Edith Mary Palmer, of Kettering.
Buried in LONDON ROAD CEMETERY, KETTERING. Row NN. Grave 6.
Stan
Palmer, son of Arthur and Edith Palmer, lived in Shelley Road and
went to Kettering Central School where he was considered to be an
above average pupil. He joined The Royal Navy, the Fleet Air Arm
to be exact, and was based at HMS Nightjar, a shore based station
in near Elswick, Lancashire, on the Fylde coast. He was on anti-submarine
work and had been recommended for promotion to Petty officer. He
was killed in a flying accident over the Isle of Man on 12 May 1945,
flying in a Fairey Barracuda bomber. The crew of three, including
Stan, were all killed, 4 days after the war ended. He was 20 years
old. Stan is buried in Kettering’s London Road Cemetery. At
his funeral Bandmaster Munn spoke of Stanley's outstanding qualities,
concluding with an appeal addressed especially to the younger members
of the band - those at home as well as away - to endeavour to follow
in his footsteps, and by their enthusiasm in the cause of the Army
-"which Stanley dearly loved-to help make up for his loss.
The
following article is taken from the Salvation Army Kettering Citadel
Band monthly Bulletin for bandsmen serving in the military:
Alas,
our first Bulletin after the VE Issue on a note of sadness, and
it is with deepest regret that we report the death of Stanley Palmer
killed on Saturday May 12th 1945 in a flying accident. Stan had
passed for promotion to Petty Officer.
Mrs. A.E. Munn wrote: Somehow we had never thought of Stanley as
"being the first of our service lads to make the Supreme sacrifice,
We shall miss him very much, also his pleasing smile, but our loss
is his gain, we have no shadow of doubt about this. Stanley was
a good lad, true to his principles, and his letters to the Bandmaster
gave clear testimony to the fact that he was assuredly one of God's
children, quite ready for the Home-call, sudden though it was.
Mr. Russell, Headmaster Central School said: "Stanley was a
pupil of the Kettering Central School from 1936 to 1940. His career
at school proved that he possessed a first class brain. Had he been
spared, it is certain he would have gone far, a fact well evident
in his rapid progress in so short a time in the Fleet Air Arm. The
School mourns with his parents the loss of a fine Centralian".
His Fleet Air Arm mess-mates wrote to his parents: "I am writing
on behalf of the Telegraphist-Air-Gunners in this Mess, who offer
you both their deepes |
