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OLD
WARDEN - St Leonard's Church - WW2 Memorial
World War 2 - Detailed
List of Men
Compiled and copyright © 2001 Lynda Smith
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Photograph
Copyright © Lynda Smith 2001
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WORLD
WAR 2 BRASS PLAQUE IN CHURCH
(Brass
Plaque giving Name, Rank and Regiment)
TO
THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD AND EVERLOVING MEMORY
OF THOSE OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE WAR 1939-1945
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BARRY
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John
Anthony
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Lieutenant
307939. 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. Died Thursday 3 August
1944. Commemorated on Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, Calvados,
France. Ref. IV.E.8
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JOLLY
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Arthur
William
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Driver
T/70462. Royal Army Service Corps. Died Thursday 30 May 1940.
Age 25. Son of Harry & Annie Jolly; husband of Joan Rosa Jolly
of Biggleswade. Commemorated on Oostende New Communal Cemetery,
Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. Plot 9. Row 3. Grave
13.
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PARSONS
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Henry
Thomas
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Able
Seaman C/JX157701. HMS Gloucester R.N. Died Thursday 22 May 1941.
Age 26. Son of Mr. Mrs. F. Parsons of Old Warden, Bedfordshire. Commemorated on
Chatham Naval memorial, Kent. Ref. 43,2.
Special
note: HMS Gloucester was a Light Class Cruiser. Launched 1937.
She was attacked and sunk on 22 May 1941 by bombs from German and
Italian aircraft N.W. of Crete with a loss of 736 lives.
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SHUTTLEWORTH
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Richard
Ormonde
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Pilot
officer 76022. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died Friday
2 august 1940. Age 31. Son of Colonel Frank Shuttleworth and Dorothy
Clotilda Shuttleworth of Biggleswade. Commemorated on Old Warden
(St. Leonard) Churchyard, Bedfordshire.
On
family memorial:
Richard
Ormonde Shuttleworth
July 18 1909 – August 2 1940
Beloved only son of
Frank & Dorothy
Shuttleworth.
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WILLIAMS
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Ernest
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Sergeant.
Royal Artillery. No further information available at present.
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“GREATER
LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS,
THAT
A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”.
23 July 2001
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