Victims of The Bombing of The Guards Chapel
18th June 1944, Wellington Barracks, London
Below, is a list of the victims of the Guards Chapel bombing, June 1944 when the chapel in Wellington Barracks was hit by a V1 flying bomb in the midst of a service. All original research by Jan Gore. Please email jangore3@gmail.com if you have any additional information which would help to complete these biographies.
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Mrs Dorothy Allfrey
Dorothy Allfrey, aged 65, of 229 St. James's Court, [45-51] Buckingham Gate. Daughter of Beville Ramsay and Sarah Maria Ramsay, of Croughton House, Brackley, Northamptonshire; widow of William Sheddon Allfrey of Chacombe. She was born in the March quarter of 1879 at Brackley, Northamptonshire, and married William S Allfrey in the December quarter of 1910 at Brackley; he was born in 1858 and a widower. She was the sister of Allen Beville Ramsey, (1872-1955), former Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Her funeral was at Golders Green Crematorium on June 27, 1944.
Guardsman William George Frederick Annals
William George Frederick Annals, aged 35, Guardsman in the Coldstream Guards, service number 2652730. He was born in the June quarter of 1909 in Farnham. He was the eldest son of William and Ethel Annals of Farnham. He is commemorated on Panel 1 in Mortlake Crematorium.
Miss Peggy Louise May Arnold
Peggy Louise May Arnold, aged 24. Hospital Nurse. Daughter of Dorothy M. Tongue (formerly Arnold, nee Saunders), of 49 Wyatt Road, Highbury, and of the late George Arnold. She was born in the March quarter of 1920 in East Ham.
Miss Amy Atkins
Amy Atkins, aged 73, of Flat 3, 152 Holland Road, Kensington. Daughter of the late Charles and Caroline Atkins, of 5 Camden Place, Lewisham, and sister of Philip Atkins (see below). She was born in the June quarter of 1871 in Lewisham. She had been a woman clerk, according to the 1911 census. The funeral for her and her brother was held at St John the Baptist, Holland Road, followed by cremation at Golders Green Monday 26 June 1944.
Mr Philip Atkins
Philip Atkins, aged 70, of Flat 3, 152 Holland Road, Kensington. Son of the late Charles and Caroline Atkins, of 5 Camden Place, Lewisham., and brother of Amy Atkins (see above). He was born in the March quarter of 1874 in Lewisham. He had been a bank clerk, according to the 1911 census. He and his sister had a joint funeral (see above).
Corporal Martin Bacchiolelli
Martin Bacchiolelli, Corporal, Free French Forces, aged 20. Buried at Brookwood Cemetery in the French section. (Formerly listed as Marem Macchiolelli)
Major Clarence Alvin Baker
Clarence Alvin Baker, Royal Canadian Artillery, aged 35. Son of Frank Hamilton Baker and Ella Jean Baker; husband of Georgie Carney Baker, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in 1908. He received the Canadian Efficiency Decoration. He was buried in the Canadian section of Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference: 54. G. 3.
Mr Arthur Ernest Berry
Arthur Ernest Berry, aged 38, of Australia House, Strand. Son of Ernest William and Dorothy Berry, of 49 Joseph Street, Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia; husband of Sylvia Martha Berry, of No. 2 Chatsworth, Manion Avenue, Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia. . A recently-discovered news article in Canberra Times of 11 July 1944 states he was "a member of a textile mission." Earlier that year, on 13 March 1944, he had sailed to San Francisco from Sydney. The passenger list describes him as: "Arthur Ernest Berry from Sydney Australia. D o b 10 June 1906, Petersham NSW, Australia Government official, going to stay c/o Australian Legation, Washington. Travelling by US Army plane. He is senior officer, Division of Import Procurement, Dept of Trade and Customs on official business for the Commonwealth Government of Australia." He was allegedly buried in Westminster City Cemetery, Hanwell, but I have been unable to find any confirmation of this in the cemetery records.
Mr John Bostock
John Bostock, aged 74. Husband of Annetta Bostock (nee Beeston) (1873-1960), of 100 Gloucester Road, New Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was born in Tarporley, Cheshire in c 1870, and married Annetta in 1897; they had two children. In the 1911 census he was working as a valet (domestic) to Enstan Loder in Mount Street, London SW1; Annetta was the housekeeper there.
Lance Corporal Alfred Reginald Bowyer
Alfred Reginald Bowyer, service number 2617261, Grenadier Guards, aged 24. Son of James and Susan Elizabeth Bowyer, of Peterchurch. He was born in the December quarter of 1919 in Hereford, and was one of 12 children. He hadn’t been due to attend the service but had swapped duties with a colleague. He was buried in Peterchurch (St. Peter) Churchyard, to the north-east of the church.
Guardsman Sidney George Broughton
Sidney George Broughton, service number 2620462, Grenadier Guards, aged 32. Son of Annie Louisa Broughton (nee Mulley) and the late Noah Broughton, of Appleford, Oxfordshire. He was born in the December quarter of 1911 in Abingdon, Berks. He was buried in Appleford (SS. Peter and Paul) Churchyard, north of the chancel.
Mr Herbert Vigers Caldicott
Herbert Vigers Caldicott, aged 70. Managing director of H V Caldicott, Ltd, 19-25 Argyll Street, W1. Freeman of the City of London; of Berners Hotel, Berners Street, St. Marylebone. Son of the late Thomas Parker Caldicott (1831-1907) and Eliza Vigers Lloyd (1834-1921). He was born in Brixton on 19 September 1873. He married Mabel Browne in 1913 but the marriage was dissolved. In the 1911 census he was described as a “ribbon warehouseman” and was living with his mother and sister in Dulwich.
Musician George Edward Carr
George Carr, service number 4256661, Coldstream Guards, aged 41. Son of George William Henry and Alice Leah Carr; husband of Mary Russell Carr, of Tynemouth, Northumberland. He was born in the September quarter of 1902, and married Mary Russell Hunter in the September quarter of 1939 in Tynemouth. He had formerly served in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. The notice in the Times announcing Major Windram’s death states: “also in grateful memory of 27 years’ devoted service, Guardsman George Carr who was killed in the same action”. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference: 33 A.B.7.
Miss Ada Ellen Cattarns
Ada Ellen Cattarns, aged 72. B.R.C.S. W.V.S.; of 40 Vandon Court, Buckingham Gate. She was the second daughter of the late Richard and Anna Ellen Cattarns. She was christened 10 January 1872 at St Andrews Enfield. She was a medical nurse working in Lewisham Union Infirmary and living in Enfield at the time of the 1901 census. Her funeral was at St Pauls Knightsbridge on 26th June 1944, followed by interment at Hither Green Cemetery.
Guardsman John Tatton Trevor Cave
John Tatton Trevor Cave, service number 2624469, Grenadier Guards, aged 18. Son of John Henry and Enid Cave, of Armley, Leeds. He was born in the June quarter of 1926 in Bramley, Yorks. He was buried in Leeds (Armley) Cemetery. Grave reference: Section G, grave 1248.
Miss Beryl Violet Clark
Beryl Violet Clark, aged 22. S.R.N. Daughter of Philip and Violet Clark, of 5 Crathie Road, Lee. She was born in the September quarter of 1921 at Lewisham. She was a nurse at St George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner.
Lieutenant Colonel John Murray Cobbold
John Murray Cobbold, service number 110300, Scots Guards, aged 47. Son of John Dupuis Cobbold, D.L., and of Lady Evelyn Cobbold (nee Murray); husband of Lady Blanche Cobbold (nee Cavendish). of Glemham Hall, Suffolk. D.L., J.P., Sherriff of Suffolk. He was born at Holy Wells, Ipswich, on January 28 1897, and was always known as Ivan, a nickname given him by his nurse. He married Lady Blanche Katherine Cavendish, second daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, in the Guards Chapel on April 30 1919; one of her younger sisters, Lady Dorothy, married Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), who later became Prime Minister (1957-1963). Ivan was a Captain in the Scots Guards during the First World War and served in France, where he was injured. Later he joined the family brewing business, Cobbold & Co, and became chairman after his father’s death in 1929. He also founded Ipswich Town FC. At the time of his death he was the Commanding Officer of the Scots Guards. He is commemorated on Panel 1 at Golders Green Crematorium, and on the Rannoch War Memorial on the east bank of Loch Rannoch.
Captain Alan Fraser Coleman
Alan Fraser Coleman, aged 55. Capt. (retd.); of 14 Woodstock Road, Chiswick, Middlesex. Son of the Revd. G. W. and Elizabeth Coleman, of Nelson, Lancashire, husband of Edith Coleman (see below) He was born in the June quarter of 1889 in Burnley, and christened at Dunham Massey on 29 May 1889. His father was George Worsley Coleman and his mother was born Elizabeth Heyes. He married Edith King at Gravesend in the December quarter of 1914. He was working as a chemical improver at the time of the 1911 census. He served in the First World War; he joined up in 1916 and fought in France, first in the Manchester Regiment as a private, then in the Lincolnshire Regiment as a second lieutenant. He is commemorated on the Civilian War Dead memorial in Westminster City Cemetery and was buried there on 27 June 1944, along with his wife. Grave reference 21A, grave 12A.
Their house in Chiswick was a beautiful Arts & Crafts property, built in 1876, and was previously owned by the artist Myles Birket Foster.
Mr Cyril Johnson Coleman
Cyril Johnson Coleman, aged 50, of 33 Nottingham Place, St. Marylebone. Son of the late Johnson Coleman and Sally Coleman, of Cul-de-sac, King's Road, Bloxham, Banbury, Oxfordshire. He was born in the March quarter of 1895 in Banbury, and was working as a GWR porter at the time of the 1911 census; his father was a bricklayer.
Mr Edith Coleman
Edith Coleman, aged 54, of 14 Woodstock Road, Chiswick, Middlesex. Younger daughter of Arthur and Jane King, of Gravesend, Kent; wife of Captain Alan Fraser Coleman.(see above) She was born in the June quarter of 1889 in Gravesend. Her father was the general manager of a waterworks in Gravesend at the time of the 1901 census. In 1911 Edith was working as a lady’s help in Berkhamsted. She is commemorated on the Civilian War Dead memorial in Westminster City Cemetery and was buried there, along with her husband. Grave reference 21A, grave 11B.
Guardsman Leonard Congreve
Leonard Congreve, service number 2663561, Coldstream Guards, aged 36. He was the son of William Henry and Ellen Congreve of Sheffield, and was born there in the December quarter of 1907. He married Nellie Walker in the June quarter of 1932 in Sheffield. He was buried in Sheffield (City Road) Cemetery. Grave reference Sec N N, grave 15055
Drummer James Frank Copeman
James Frank Copeman, service number 2658383, Coldstream Guards, aged 22. Son of Archibald Frederick and Bertha Copeman (nee Mould) of Tacolneston; husband of Margaret Copeman, of Regents Park, London. He was born in the June quarter of 1922 at Depwade in Norfolk and married Margaret Downing at Depwade in the June quarter of 1942; their son was just over a year old when James was killed. He was buried in Tacolneston (All Saints) Churchyard, and is one of the five WW2 dead listed on the Tacolneston War memorial. A note on the Tacolneston Roll of Honour states:
On 18 June 1944 a section of the Band conducted by Major Windram was playing for the service in the Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks, when a German rocket crashed through the roof and exploded, wrecking the Chapel. Amongst those killed were Major Windram and five of the musicians; a further twelve members of the Band were injured, and all the instruments destroyed beyond repair. As a memorial to Major Windram and those killed, fellow musicians presented a beautiful conductor's stand, which can be found in the Guards Chapel, whilst a plaque was laid in the Chapel at Kneller Hall.
Mrs Sarah Louisa Courtney
Sarah Louisa Courtney, aged 73, of 5 Great Scotland Yard, Whitehall. (This was the former Guards recruiting building) Widow of Thomas Courtney. She was born Sarah Louisa Goodchild in the September quarter of 1871 in Marylebone, and married Thomas Courtney in Chelsea in the December quarter of 1902; he was a Sergeant in the Coldstream Guards. They were living at Baubigny Arsenal, St Sampsons, Guernsey at the time of the 1911 census. Their son, Thomas Courtney, was the WO1 Garrison Sergeant Major of the Coldstream Guards from 1940 to 1950. Their grandson, Thomas George Courtney, was injured at Braemar Avenue, Wimbledon in October 1940 and died, aged 16, later that month as a result of enemy action; he and Sarah are listed by the CWGC as two of the WW2 civilian war dead.
Guardsman Alexander Only Crofts
Alexander Only Crofts, service number 14498932, Grenadier Guards, aged 18. He was born in the March quarter of 1926 in Greenwich. (His mother was nee Monachan, but I have been unable to locate any more information) He was buried in Lewisham (Hither Green) Cemetery. Grave reference: Sec. U. Grave 612. Screen Wall. Panel 2.
Miss Olive Louisa Crooke
Olive Louisa Crooke, aged 71 (actually 70), of 23/24 Montague Street, Holborn. Daughter of the late Revd. Milward Crooke, C.F., and Mrs. Emily Crooke, of Morningside Park, Edinburgh. Olive was born 17 April 1874, one of eight children. Her father was Chaplain to the Crimean armed forces. Her elder brother, Thomas Leslie Crooke, was a physician and surgeon; he was Lord Tennyson’s doctor on the Isle of Wight before emigrating to New Zealand. Olive was a pioneer pharmacist who studied under Sophia Jex-Blake in Edinburgh before serving in the First World War as a pharmacist. She later moved to New Zealand to be with her brother, but after his death in 1943 decided to return to the UK. An interview in a contemporary paper described her as hale and hearty and eager to make a contribution to war work. She is commemorated on the Civilian War Dead memorial in Westminster City Cemetery, and was buried there on 28 June 1944. Grave reference 21A, grave 11A.
Guardsman Eric James Curry
Eric Curry, service number 14499452, Grenadier Guards, aged 18. He was born in Watford in the March quarter of 1926. His father, Roland J Curry, married Greta S Clarke in Coventry the previous year. Eric was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33.A.B.2.
Guardsman George Morris Dalton
George Morris Dalton, service number 2660806, Coldstream Guards, aged 38. Elder son of Eli and Mary Matilda Dalton (nee Wallace), of Headingley, Leeds. George was born in the September quarter of 1905 in Leeds. Eli died in 1910, Mary married Henry Ingham in 1911 and died in 1935. George was buried in Leeds (Lawns Wood) Cemetery. Grave reference Section 3 grave 54.
Guardsman George Davidson
George Davidson, service number 2656863, Coldstream Guards, aged 28. Son of Jane Davidson, and stepson of Samuel Clegg, of New Herrington in Sunderland. He was buried in Herrington (St. Cuthbert) Churchyard. Grave reference Row 12 grave 25
Mr Bryn Davies
Bryn (Brinley) Davies, aged 35 (34 on grave), of 11 Kensington Place, Notting Hill Gate. Son of the late Aaron James Davies (who died 15 January 1944 aged 74) and Ellen Davies (who died 28 June 1951 aged 79), of Oaklands, Gorof Road, Ystradgynlais, Swansea, Glamorgan. He was buried in St Cynog’s Churchyard, Ystradgynlais. Grave reference Row E, number 7. His parents are buried in the same grave.
Miss Clara Georgina Deadfield
Clara Georgina Deadfield, aged 50 (actually 53), of Berners Hotel, Berners Street, St. Marylebone. Daughter of the late George Henry and Elizabeth Deadfield. She was born in the December quarter of 1890 in Chelsea, and so would have been 53 at the time of her death. She was working as a dressmaker at the time of the 1911 census.
Mrs Isabelle Elisa Dewar-Durie
Isabelle Elisa Dewar-Durie, aged 73, of 22 Eccleston Street. Daughter of the late Francis W. and Harriett E. Rowsell; widow of Norman Dewar-Durie (1873-1916). Her father was Superintendant of Naval Contracts to the Admiralty (1870-1879), and then became British Commissioner for the Domains in Egypt (1879-1895). He published “Recollections of a Relieving Officer” in 1885. She married in the March quarter of 1905 at St George’s Hanover Square and was widowed in the March quarter of 1916. Her funeral was on 28 June at St Andrews, Farlington, Hampshire. There is a plaque in the church to Norman Dewar-Durie, and they are buried together in the churchyard.
Lieutenant Harold William Dods
Harold William Dods, service number 200108, Scots Guards, aged 35. Only son of Harold and Florence Louisa (nee Holman) Dods, of Donington. He was born 25 March 1909 in Gosberton, and married Marigold Bird in the March quarter of 1944 in Sleaford. He was a well-known cricketer, as was his father. He was buried in Donington Cemetery. Grave reference 380. There is also a plaque to him in the memorial cloister of Guards Chapel:
(INTERNAL PLAQUE):"THE THREE MAPLE TREES/ IN THE GARDEN/ WERE GIVEN/ IN MEMORY OF/ LIEUTENANT/ HAROLD WILLIAM DODS/ SCOTS GUARDS/ WHO WAS KILLED/ IN THE OLD CHAPEL/ 18TH JUNE 1944."
Second Lieutenant James Arthur Grey Duberly
James Arthur Grey Duberly, service number 320937, Scots Guards, aged 18. Only son of Maj. Montagu Richard William Duberly O.B.E., and of Lady Eileen Duberly (nee Stopford), of Buckden; they married in the March quarter of 1924 at St George’s Hanover Square. He was born on 3 September 1925 in India and educated at Winchester College, 1937-1943. The Duberly Prize for the cadet who has contributed the most to the CCF, irrespective of age or rank in any one term was established in his name and is still awarded. He was buried in Great Staughton (St Andrew) Churchyard. He is commemorated in the Ferns Cathedral (County Wexford) 1939-1945 Roll of Honour.
Wren Joan Ruth Duncan
Joan Ruth Duncan, service number 72461, H.M.S. Copra, Women's Royal Naval Service, aged 19. Daughter of Thomas and Beatrice Duncan, of Romford. She was born in the March quarter of 1925 in West Ham. She was a friend of Edith Farmer (see below). They had gone together to join the Wrens that day, and had afterwards attended the service in the Guards Chapel. They were buried together in Romford Cemetery. Grave reference Sec. K.K. Joint grave 2011.
Lance Corporal James Edward Dunn
James Edward Dunn, service number 2656165, Coldstream Guards, aged 29 (actually 28). Son of James and Lucy Dunn, husband of M. Dunn, of Swinton; he was born in Wellington, Shropshire, in the September quarter of 1915. He married Margaret A. Grimley in Salford in the September quarter of 1942. He was buried in Swinton Cemetery. Grave reference Sec B grave 2623.
Wren Edith Anne Farmer
Edith Anne Farmer, service number 72463, H.M.S. Copra, Women's Royal Naval Service, aged 18. Daughter of George William and Lilian May Farmer (nee East), of Hougham, Lincolnshire. She was born in the December quarter of 1925 in Southwark. She went to join up with Joan Duncan (see above). They were buried together in Romford Cemetery. Grave reference Sec. K.K. Joint grave 2011.
Her brother William wrote a poignant account of this for the BBC Peoples’ War WW2 archive.
"When I reached the ripe old age of 14 I left school to work in a book publishing firm in The Strand. Then the V1 rockets started to appear regularly. My sister who was eighteen along with her friend decided to join the WRNS on June 18th 1944. They went into Westminster and into the Birdcage Walk. There was a service in the Guard's Chapel, so they decided to join. Then a V1 rocket fell on the chapel and they and 119 others were killed. The following day we had a telegram from the War Office telling us what happened. We went to my mother's parents [Emily and John Eustace East] which was a mile away in Southwark. We had things to do so left them. Apparently they needed a stiff drink so went round to the pub [the King Henry VIII pub in Union Street]. They too were killed by a flying bomb [which landed on the junction of Union Street at just after 10 pm, killing 49 people] so my mother lost her daughter and parents in two days."
Captain John Douglas Gall
John Douglas Gall, 22nd Armd. Regt., Canadian Grenadier Guards, R.C.A.C., aged 25. Son of Douglas Meikle Gall and Mabel Gall, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada; husband of Marion Edna Wilmott Gall (nee Beer), of Montreal. There is a photograph of him in the Montreal Gazette of 17 February 1941, and the article states:
"Lieutenant John Douglas Gall, Canadian Grenadier Guards, A.C.A., Camp Borden, and Mrs Gall photographed leaving Trinity Memorial Church following their wedding Saturday afternoon. Mrs Gall was formerly Miss Marion Edna Wilmott Beer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Netlam Beer, and Lieutenant Gall is the son of Mr D.M. Gall and the late Mrs. Gall."
He was buried in the Canadian section of Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 54.G.2. There is a plaque to him in the Guards Chapel, on the North wall:
"IN MEMORY OF/ CAPTAIN/ JOHN DOUGLAS GALL/ CANADIAN GRENADIER GUARDS/ 22ND CANADIAN ARMOURED/ REGIMENT/ 1939 - 1944/ BORN 18TH MARCH 1919/ KILLED IN THE GUARDS CHAPEL/ 18TH JUNE 1944"
Miss Beatrice Isabel Gardner
Beatrice Isabel Gardner, aged 22, of 28 Penywern Road, Kensington. Daughter of Ernest Harry and Louisa Kate Gardner (nee Mehrmann), of 48 Hillfield Avenue, Wembley, Middlesex; they married in the December quarter of 1918 in West Ham. Ernest Harry Gardner was a stockbroker’s clerk at the time of the 1911 census. Beatrice was born in the December quarter of 1921 in Hendon. She was the cousin of Margaret Norris (see below); her father was the brother of Margaret’s mother.
Note by Jan Gore:-
Beatrice was one of the friends that my mother, Enid Mitchell, spoke of; they shared digs near Earls Court, along with Margaret Norris and Marjorie Souter, and Mum spoke of how they used to go for walks in Brompton Cemetery nearby.
Miss Edith Kathleen Kay Garland
Edith Kathleen Kay Garland, aged 36, of 21 Pembridge Square, Bayswater, Kensington. Daughter of Alice E. Garland, of 43 Mackenzie Road, Beckenham, Kent, and of the late Herbert Edwin Garland. She was born in the December quarter of 1906 in Rochford Essex (so was actually 37). An article in Time refers to her as “blond, gracious Kay Garland, known to every correspondent in London for her friendly labours in Britain’s Ministry of Information.” Earlier in the war, in 1943, she had travelled to New York on the Meiningen; the immigration records described her as Edith Kathleen Garland, civil servant, aged 37, born Southchurch, recently living in Kent. The Times described her as 'private secretary to Mr. J. H. Brebner, director of the news division, Ministry of Information'.
Guardsman Dennis George Gibson
Dennis George Gibson, service number 2719737, Irish Guards, aged 24. Son of Ernest G. and Florence M. Gibson (nee Burtenshaw), husband of L.J. Gibson of East Croydon, Surrey. He was born on 21 September 1919 in Wandsworth, and married Lena Joan Avery in the March quarter of 1941 in Reading; their son was only three weeks old at the time of Dennis’s death. Dennis was buried in Wandsworth Cemetery. Grave reference Block 28, grave 41.
Mrs Dorothy Helen Gidley-Kitchin
Dorothy Helen Gidley-Kitchin, aged 55, of Audley House, Crane Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Daughter of Robert Nathaniel and Janie Hodges, of 123 Ware Road, Hertfordshire; wife of Col. Edward Gidley Gidley-Kitchin. She was born on 31 October 1888, and married Edward Gidley-Kitchin at Peshawur in India in November 1915. Her daughter (see below) died in the same incident. There was a service at St Marylebone for them both on June 24th, followed by interment at Ewshott Church later that day. They were buried in the same grave, number 116. The plaque in the church says they "both lived courageously and together died for us all and their country on June 18th (Waterloo Day) at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London. Their ways are ways of pleasantness and all their paths are peace."
Second Subaltern Dorothy Rosemary Marian Gidley-Kitchin
Dorothy Rosemary Marian Gidley-Kitchin, service number 322124, Auxiliary Territorial Service aged 21. Only daughter of Colonel Edward Gidley Gidley-Kitchin and Dorothy Helen Gidley-Kitchin. She was born on 16 September 1922 in India. She joined the ATS on 12 May 1944. Her mother (see above) was killed in the same incident. She is listed on the Scottish Roll of Honour (see note for Valerian Peacock).
Major John Gilliat
John Gilliat, service number 63033, Irish Guards, aged 30. Son of John Francis Grey Gilliat and Lilian Florence Maud Gilliat, of Sunningdale, Berkshire. He was born on 4 January 1914. John Francis Grey Gilliat (1883-1948) was the director of the bank of Australasia, British West Africa and South Africa; he married Lilian Florence Maud Chetwynd on 11 December 1909 in Westminster. Their son was buried in Brookwood Cemetery, in the family plot, near his elder brother Simon, who had died aged 23 as a result of an air accident in 1936. Grave reference St Chad’s Avenue, grave 209123. John is also named on the Windlesham Roll of Honour.
Lady Evelyn Gordon-Lennox
Evelyn Gordon-Lennox, aged 66 (The Lady Bernard Gordon-Lennox); of 631 Nell Gwyn House, Sloane Avenue, Chelsea. Younger daughter of Baron Loch of Drylaw, and Emily Villiers, of 44 Elm Park Gardens, West Brompton; widow of Maj. The Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox. She married on 25 July 1907; her husband was in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War, and was killed in action near Ypres in November 1914.There was a small memorial plaque to him above the arcades on the north side of the chapel, but this was lost when the chapel was destroyed. There is a plaque commemorating their elder son in the Guards Chapel on the right hand side as you face the altar.
The plaque to her son reads:
IN MEMORY OF/ LIEUTENANT GENERAL/ SIR GEORGE GORDON LENNOX/ K.B.E., C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O./JOINED THE GRENADIER GUARDS 1928/ COMMANDING OFFICER/ THE FIFTH BATTALION 1943-1944/ THE SECOND BATTALION 1947-1949/ COMMANDER/ 1ST GUARDS BRIGADE 1952-1955/ GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING/ 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION 1957-1960/ COMMANDANT/ R.M.A. SANDHURST 1960-1963/ GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING/ SCOTTISH COMMAND 1964-1966/ COLONEL/ GORDON HIGHLANDERS 1965-1978/ BORN 1908 DIED 1988/ BRAVE GUARDSMAN AND WISE HIGHLANDER
Her funeral took place at Boxgrove Priory, Sussex on June 22nd. She is listed on the Boxgrove Priory War memorial, as is her husband.
Pierre Maurice Gras
Pierre Maurice Gras, Free French Forces, aged 20. No other information found; unlike his compatriot Martin Bacchiolelli, he is not buried in the French military section of Brookwood Military Cemetery, and he is not listed on the CWGC site.
Colonel Gustav B Guenther
Gustav B Guenther was born on 21 April 1896 in Wisconsin. He graduated from St John’s Military Academy in 1914 and became an officer in the US Army. In 1938 he was the US military attaché to Estonia, where he received the Order of the Cross of the Eagle 3rd Class for his services. During the war he worked for the War Department in Washington, and made several flights across the Atlantic on military business, before coming to London as a senior officer in the US Army’s psychological warfare branch. He was a friend of Eisenhower and had formerly been head of OSS operations in Cairo. He was married to Helena Knott, and they had two children. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Virginia, as an Army Colonel.
Miss Dorothy Pauline Gye
(Dorothy) Pauline Gye aged 25, C.S.P., Air Raid Warden. Daughter of Hugh Montague and Lilian Irene Gye, of 16 Cwrt-y-vil Road, Penarth, Glamorgan. She was born in the September quarter of 1919 in Cardiff. She was the friend who accompanied Elisabeth Sheppard-Jones to the service that day, and is mentioned in the book “I walk on wheels”; they had grown up in Penarth together. Elisabeth was left paralysed after the incident.
Mr Albert William Hall / William Albert Garland Beer
Albert William Hall aged 70, (otherwise Beer, William Albert Garland), of 8 Bessborough Street. Listed as William A G Beer in the England &Wales death index, 1916-2005. He is commemorated on the Civilian War Dead memorial in Westminster City Cemetery, and was buried there on 28 June, 1944. Grave reference 21A, grave 12B.
Lance Serjeant John Hall
John Hall, service number 2661797, Coldstream Guards, aged 30. He was buried in Marton (St. Paul) Church Burial Ground, near Blackpool. Grave reference Plot 9, grave 1. I have been unable to verify any further information about him.
The Lord Lt Col Edward Douglas John Hay
Edward Douglas John Hay, service number 24133, Grenadier Guards, aged 55. Son of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale and the Marchioness Tweeddale; husband of Lady Audrey Hay (nee Latham), of Theydon Mount. Lord Edward Hay was born 2 November 1888, and was the brother and heir-presumptive of 11th Marquess of Tweeddale. He married 1st, 1917, Bridget (died 1926), only daughter of Major Cameron Barclay, 10th Royal Hussars; one son one daughter; 2nd, 1928, Audrey Birkin, younger daughter of Sir Thomas Latham, 1st Bt; one daughter. He was educated at Eton and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Lieut Grenadier Guards, 1913; Acting Capt. 1918; Capt. 1920. Served European War, France, Gallipoli, Egypt, 1918; Major, 1928; retired pay, 1930; served on Peace Conference, Paris, 1918-1919; Special Missions to Austria, Hungary, and Bulgaria; Staff Captain to Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside on special mission to Hungary and Roumania, 1921; Military Secretary to Rt Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner in Palestine, 1921-1923. He lived at Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Essex.
He was the Commanding officer of the Grenadier Guards and had just finished reading the lesson and was walking back to his seat when the bomb exploded. He was buried in Theydon Mount (St. Michael) Churchyard, to the East of the church. He is listed on the Scottish Roll of Honour.
Further details from
http://www.scottishwargraves.phpbbweb.com/scottishwargraves-ftopic1201.html
HAY, EDWARD DOUGLAS JOHN
Initials: E D J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel (Lord)
Regiment/Service: Grenadier Guards
Age: 55
Date of Death: 18/06/1944
Service No: 24133
Additional information: Son of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale and the Marchioness Tweeddale; husband of Lady Hay (nee Latham), of Theydon Mount. Also served in the 1914-18 War. Staff Capt. to General Sir Edmund Ironside, 1921. Military Secretary to Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel from 1921-1923.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: East of Church.
Cemetery: THEYDON MOUNT (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD
Biography:
Lt.Col Lord Edward Douglas John Hay was born 2nd Nov 1888, son of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquis of Tweeddale and his wife Candida Louisa Bartolucci. He was married twice, firstly to (Bridget) Violet Florence Catherine Barclay, daughter of Major Cameron Barclay (10th Royal Hussars) and Hon. Charlotte Ernestine Harsley-Beresford on 18th Oct 1917 and they had 1 son (David George Montagu Hay) and 1 daughter (Marioth Christina Hay). Bridget died on 17th March 1926. He then married for a second time on 5th July 1928 to Audrey Clara Lilian Latham, daughter of Sir Thomas Paul Latham 1st Bt and Florence Clara Walley, they had a daughter (Caroline Susan Elizabeth Hay). He was killed on 18th June 1944 when a German V1 bomb destroyed Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks Westminster London. At this time he was Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Guards and he was walking back to his seat after reading the lesson, when the bomb hit. The funeral service was at his home at Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Essex, where The Bishop of Barking, The Rev H G Barclay and the Rev E W Grevatt officiated. He is buried in Theydon Mount (St Michael) Churchyard.
Career:
He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College Oxford and was Gazetted Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards in 1913. He served in France, Gallipoli and Egypt during WWI and was promoted to Captain in 1920 and Major in 1928. He retired in 1930, but was re-employed in 1941. He served on the Peace Conference in Paris in 1918-19 and had also served on special missions to Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria and served as Staff Captain to General Sir Edmund Ironside on a special mission to Hungary and Rumania in 1921 and from 1921-1923 acted as Military Secretary to Sir Herbert Samuel when he was High Commissioner in Palestine. For a number of years he had lived at Hill Hall Theydon Mount Essex, formerly the home of Sir Robert and Lady Hudson and was a JP and DL for Essex and served as Lt.Col 4th Battn Essex Regt (TA).
Lance Serjeant Arthur E Hewlett
Arthur Hewlett, service number 390198, Coldstream Guards, aged 43.Son of William Joseph and Minnie Emma Hewlett (nee Wells). They married in Brighton in 1896, and there is a birth record for an Arthur Victor Hewlett in Brighton in the June quarter of 1901. By 1911, Minnie was a widow with five children; Arthur and his elder brother were attending school in Rottingdean. He was formerly in the Queen’s Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards). He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33A.B.6.
Lance Corporal Edwin Lloyd Holmes
Edwin Lloyd Holmes, service number 2661081, Coldstream Guards, aged 31 (listed as aged 30 in the UK register of deaths, 1916-2005, and born in the December quarter of 1913 in Totnes). He was the tenth child of William Stevens Holmes and Emma Jane Holmes (nee Hardaker); husband of Alice May Holmes (nee Hewett), of Watcombe. They married in Newton Abbot in the June quarter of 1940. He was buried in Torquay Cemetery. Grave reference Sec. MX. Grave 15672. He is listed on the Torquay roll of honour for WW2.
Guardsman Alexander Hooper
Alexander Hooper, service number 853787, Coldstream Guards, aged 26. Son of Alexander and Lily Hooper, of Castleford; husband of Winifred Hooper (nee Farrar), of Castleford. He was born in the June quarter of 1918 in Chesterfield, and married Winifred in the June quarter of 1940 in Pontefract. He was buried in Castleford (Whitwood) Cemetery. Grave reference Section C. Grave 115.
Guardsman Denis Walter George Hooper
Denis Walter George Hooper, service number 2613846, Grenadier Guards, aged 33. Son of Bertie and Louisa Hooper; husband of Olive Kathleen Hooper (nee Coles), of West Kensington, London. He was born in the March quarter of 1911 in Long Ashton, and married Olive in the December quarter of 1935 in Windsor. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33A.B.5.
Mrs Gwendolen Anna Le Bas Horton
Gwendolen Anna Le Bas Horton, aged 43, of 23 Montagu Square, St. Marylebone. Elder daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Le Bas; wife of Lt.-Col. William Gray Horton, Scots Guards. Sister of Molly Brocas Burrows, the sculptor, and Edward Le Bas (1904-1966), the painter. She was known as Gwen. Her father was an iron merchant, originally from St Brelades, Jersey. Gwen was born in 1901 in Stoke Newington. She married William Gray Horton in October 1930, at the Guards Chapel; both their children were christened there, and their daughter married at the chapel in the 1960s. Her husband was on the 1924 Olympic bobsleigh team and was the son of the painter William S Horton; he died in 1974 and his grave is in the Scots Guards section of Brookwood Military Cemetery. She is listed on the family gravestone at Guilsborough Cemetery:
"GWEN GRAY HORTON/ KILLED BY ENEMY ACTION AT/ THE GUARDS CHAPEL/ JUNE 18TH 1944/ AGED 43/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF MUMMY/ FROM DADDY, ROBIN AND CHARLOTTE"
Lance Corporal Horace Hyde
Lance Corporal Horace Hyde, service number 2698573, Scots Guards, aged 31. Son of James Hewitt Hyde and Fanny Hyde (nee Brant), of Denton; husband of Edna Hyde (nee Walton), of North Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire. He was born in the March quarter of 1914 in Chorlton (so was actually 30), and married Edna in the December quarter of 1940 in Stockport. He was buried in Manchester (Gorton) Cemetery. Grave reference Section G Grave 404.
Mrs Annie Ellen Irving
Annie Ellen Irving (nee Goffe), aged 54, of 16 Theobald's Road, Holborn. Widow of Ernest Irving. She was born in the March quarter of 1890 in Whitechapel and married Ernest Irving in the March quarter of 1916 in Southwark. At the time of the 1911 census, she was a dressmaker in Chancery Lane, London; she was living with her parents, Murry Wilson and Eliza Matilda Goffe, and her younger sister Rose. Her father was a former soldier; he was working as a commissionaire in 1911.
Private Kathleen Jackson
Kathleen Jackson, service number W/188917, Auxiliary Territorial Service, aged 28. Daughter of Elizabeth Jackson, of 35 Percival Crescent, Sutton-in-Ashfield. She is listed on the Scottish Roll of Honour, which states she was born in Sheffield; her father, Norman A E Jackson, married Elizabeth Kelly in Derby in the December quarter of 1910, and Kathleen was born in Sheffield in the September quarter of 1916 (so was actually 27 at the time of her death.) She was buried in Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery, Nottinghamshire, on 22 June 1944. Grave reference A ext 9590.
Mrs Mary Jameson
Mary Jameson aged 24, of Mill Brooks, Earls Colne, Essex. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Frederick Trewby, of Brackendale, North End Common, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Wife of Major John G. C. Jameson, Grenadier Guards. She was born in the March quarter of 1920 in Marylebone, and married John in the March quarter of 1942 in Westminster. Her mother-in-law died in the same incident (see below).
Mrs Phyllis Jameson
Phyllis Jameson aged 57. Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Ward Baines, of 37 Carlton Drive, East Putney; wife of Lt.-Col. (retd.) George Dearden Jameson, Royal Army Medical Corps, of Mill Brooks, Earls Colne, Essex. She was born in the June quarter of 1887 in Kensington; her father (1852-1924) was a barrister-at-law in Putney at the time of the 1911 census. Her daughter-in-law died in the same incident (see above)
Miss Ethel Annie Jones
Ethel Annie Jones aged 52, of 77 Castleton Mansions, Riverview Gardens, Barnes, Surrey. Daughter of the late David and Annie Jones, of Cardiff. No further details found.
Mrs Alice Gabriel Lumley Keane
Alice Gabriel Lumley Keane, aged 65 (actually 67) of 8 Cadogan Court, Draycott Avenue, Chelsea. Daughter of the late Sir Lumley Smith, K.C., Judge of the City of London Court and Lady Jessie Smith (nee Gabriel), of 25 Cadogan Square; widow of Lt Col. Richard Henry. Keane, C.B.E., (1881-1925) of Cappoquirim, Co. Waterford, Irish Republic. She was born in the December quarter of 1876 in Kensington. Alice married in the September quarter of 1906 in Chelsea. She was the elder sister of Major Sir Thomas Lumley-Smith ( 1879-1961), and hence the sister-in-law of Gwendolen Lumley-Smith (see below) and the aunt of Moya Lumley-Smith (see below). Her son Robert Lumley Keane (1910-1946) was married to the novelist Molly Keane (1904-1999).
Captain George Durant Kemp-Welch
George Durant Kemp-Welch, service number 131986, Grenadier Guards aged 37. Son of Brian and Verena Kemp-Welch; husband of Diana Kemp-Welch, of Astley. He was born on August 4th 1907 in Chelsea, and was educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge. He was the brother of Betty Kenward, who wrote Jennifer’s Diary for the Tatler. He captained Cambridge at cricket and association football and played cricket for Warwickshire; he played 57 matches between 1927 and 1935, scoring more than 4000 runs. In 1934 he married Diana Lucy, the eldest daughter of Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative statesman. He was buried in Astley (St Peter) Churchyard, in the SE corner of the 2nd extension. There was a memorial service for him on June 30th 1944 at St Michael’s, Cornhill. He and his twin brother are commemorated by an inscription on the font in the Guards Chapel.
ON TOP OF BASE: "IN MEMORY OF/ LIEUTENANT COLONEL P.W.KEMP-WELCH, O.B.E./ COLDSTREAM GUARDS/ 1939-45/ AND HIS TWIN BROTHER/ CAPTAIN G.D.KEMP-WELCH/ GRENADIER GUARDS/ GUARDS CHAPEL 18TH JUNE 1944"
ON SIDES OF BASE:"GIVEN BY HIS MOTHER IN MEMORY OF ALBERT SYLVAIN BATES VAN DE WEYER, LIEUTENANT AND CAPTAIN GRENADIER GUARDS FROM 21ST NOVEMBER, 1865, TO 28TH DECEMBER 1874"
Musician Frederick Dowdney Kent
Frederick Dowdney Kent, service number 2653113, Coldstream Guards, aged 36. He was born in Croydon in the December quarter of 1908, to Charles Clifton Kent and his wife, Sarah. In the 1911 census they were living in Tulse Hill with their six children; Charles was described as a professional musician. Frederick was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33A.B.8.
Captain Sampson Beamish Lane
Sampson Beamish Lane aged 72. Capt. (retd.); of 74 Inverness Terrace, Bayswater, Paddington. Son of Major Lane, J.P., of Cork, Irish Republic. He was born in 1872, and at one time lived in Cape Province, South Africa. He was in the Rand Intelligence Corps and then the Royal Field Artillery in WW1, when he served in France.
Lance Serjeant Percy Leonard Livermore
Percy Leonard Livermore, service number 2720194, Irish Guards, aged 31. Son of John and Alice L. Livermore (nee Young), of Harold Wood; husband of D. P. Livermore. He was born in the December quarter of 1912 in Romford, married Dorothy P. Kelly in the September quarter of 1938 in Romford and their son was born the following year. He was buried in Hornchurch Cemetery. Grave reference Sec. A grave 1359.
Lady Gwendolen Muriel Maud Lumley-Smith
Gwendolen Muriel Maud Lumley-Smith aged 57 (Lady); of 244 St. James's Court, Buckingham Gate. Daughter of the late Charles Edward Coles Pasha, C.M.G.; wife of Major Sir Thomas Lumley-Smith (1879-1961), D.S.O. Charles Edward Coles Pasha 1853-1926 was an author and an inspector general of prisons. He served for 40 years in India and Egypt and became Inspector-General of Prisons, Egypt. Gwendolen was born in the September quarter of 1887 in Williton; she married in the September quarter of 1911 in Chelsea.
Details of her husband are as follows:
LUMLEY-SMITH, Major Sir Thomas (Gabriel Lumley), Kt, 1937; DSO 1918; FSA; Knight of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem; one of HM's Lieuts for City of London; born 27 October 1879; only son of late Sir Lumley Smith [who was b 1834 d 7 June 1918, KC, Judge of City of London and Central Criminal Courts, 1901-1913, and Jessie, daughter of late Sir Thomas Gabriel, Bt; married 1st, 1911, Gwendolen (died 1944), youngest daughter of late Charles Edward Coles, CMG, Pasha; two sons (one daughter decd); 2nd, 1946, Helen, OStJ, only daughter of Hubert Blenkinsopp Coulson. Eton; Trinity Coll., Cambridge. Received commission in 21st Lancers, 1900; served in Egypt and Gallipoli, 1915; in France and Belgium, 1916-1919, with 3rd Division and Cavalry Corps (despatches twice, DSO); Member of Council and Hon. Registrar, Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor; Grand Sec. of Mark Master Masons, 1923-1955. Kintbury Lodge, Kintbury, Berks
(In the 1911 census, Thomas was a Lieutenant in the 21st Empress of India's Lancers, based at Abbassia Barracks, Cairo, Egypt. He was single and aged 31.)
The funeral arrangements for her and her daughter Moya (see below) were private, but there was a memorial service at the King's Chapel of the Savoy on June 26.
Miss Moya Lumley-Smith
Moya Lumley-Smith aged 31, Staff Officer, S.J.A.B Headquarters; of 244 St. James's Court, Buckingham Gate. Only daughter of Major Sir Thomas Lumley-Smith, D.S.O., and of Lady Gwendolen Muriel Maud Lumley-Smith, who died in the same incident.
Guardsman Ahmand Male
Ahmand Male, service number 2739032, Welsh Guards aged 18. (He is listed as Ahmond Male in the Army records) Stepson of Sydney and Florence Perkins, of Glyn Neath. He was born in the September quarter of 1925 in Neath to Richard and Florence Male (nee Davies). He was buried in Neath Higher (Glyn Neath) Cemetery. Grave reference Block D. Grave 707.
Miss Mabel Annie Maultby
Mabel Annie Maultby aged 41, B.R.C.S.; of 85 Claverton Street. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Skinner Maultby, of 94 Felhampton Road, New Eltham, Woolwich. She was born in the March quarter of 1903 in Edmonton. Her father was a timekeeper in East Ham in the 1901 census; by 1911 he had become an assistant inspector of weights and measures and was living in Lewisham. His wife was a confectioner and tobacconist. According to the 1911 census their eldest son was born in Buenos Aires.
Miss Marian Daphne McDonald
Marian Daphne McDonald aged 40, of St. John's Cottage, Kempston, Bedford. Daughter of Gordon James McDonald, of Kenya, East Africa, and Marian McDonald (nee Tomkins); they married in the September quarter of 1901 in Newport Pagnell.
Miss Elizabeth Amy Millen
Elizabeth Amy Millen aged 56, of 85A Knatchbull Road, Camberwell. Daughter of the late Stephen George and Millicent Millen, sister of Marjorie (see below). She was born in the December quarter of 1887 at St George’s Hanover Square. According to the 1901 census, Stephen George Millen was a law writer and professional singer at a theatre, sharing accommodation with a vocalist at the music hall and an artiste from the Mohawk Minstrels. The 1911 census described Stephen as a law writer, while Elizabeth was a general clerk and her younger sister was still at school.
Miss Millicent Marjorie Millen
Millicent Marjorie Millen aged 49, of 85A Knatchbull Road, Camberwell. Daughter of the late Stephen George and Millicent Millen, sister of Elizabeth (see above). She was born in the March quarter of 1895 in Tooting.
Mrs Diana Milton-Willmott
Diana Milton-Willmott, aged 46, of 117 Walm Lane, Cricklewood, Middlesex. No further confirmed information found. She is commemorated on the Civilian War Dead memorial in Westminster City Cemetery, and was buried there on June 27, 1944. Grave reference 21A, grave 11A.
Miss Janet Lockett Mitchell
Janet Lockett Mitchell aged 20, B.R.C.S. Only daughter of Major Alexander Black Mitchell, of Poulton Priory, Fairford, Gloucestershire, and of Vera Margaret Mitchell (nee Lockett). Her father was a Major in the Somerset Light Infantry in WW1. She was born in the March quarter of 1924 at Thornbury. She, her mother and her older brother (see below) all died in this incident. They are listed on the Poulton war memorial, the only casualties of the 1939-45 war. There is also a memorial window to them in Poulton Church, which states:
"Dedicated to some of the Mitchell family who lost their lives through enemy action on the 18th June 1944
Janet Locket Mitchell aged 20 of the British Red Cross Society. Daughter of Major Alexander Black Mitchell, of Poulton Priory, Fairford, Gloucestershire, and of Vera Margaret Mitchell. Died at The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks London. Buried in Westminster City Cemetery
Vera Margaret aged 50 of the Women’s Volunteer Service died in the same incident and is also buried at Westminster City Cemetery
Lieutenant 186914 Michael Bradstock Alexander, 3rd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards who died the same day. Son of Alexander and Vera of Poulton Priory. At rest in Golders Green Crematorium, Middlesex."
Despite the inscription above, I have been unable to find any references to them in the records of Westminster City Cemetery.
Lieutenant Michael Bradstock Alexander Mitchell
Michael Bradstock Alexander Mitchell, service number 186914, 3rd Bn., Coldstream Guards. Elder son of Alexander Black Mitchell and Vera Margaret Mitchell (see below), of Poulton Priory, Gloucestershire. He was born in the September quarter of 1921 in Thornbury.
Mrs Vera Margaret Mitchell
Vera Margaret Mitchell (nee Lockett), aged 50, W.V.S. Wife of Major Alexander Black Mitchell, of Poulton Priory, Fairford, Gloucestershire. She was born in the September quarter of 1894 in Toxteth Park, Lancashire, and they married in the June quarter of 1920 in the Wirral. Two of her children were killed in the same incident (see above).
Ronald Charles Mitchell
Guardsman Ronald Charles Mitchell, service number 2659836, Coldstream Guards, aged 19, was the son of Elizabeth Mitchell (nee Finch) of Dagenham. Elizabeth Emily Finch (1896-1962) married Thomas Charles Mitchell, a fitter, on 20 April 1919 at St. James, Hatcham, Lewisham; he died in Romford in the June quarter of 1943, aged 48. (In 1939 he was a general labourer, living in Gale Street, Dagenham.) Ronald was born on 27 December 1924 in Greenwich. He was the middle child of five. He enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in December 1939 when he was just under 15 years old; he was 5 feet 7 1/2 in tall, with brown eyes and brown hair. He started training at Pirbright in 1939, and continued to study as part of his Army training; he obtained a man's pay and privileges when he was 17 1/2. He was buried at Barking (Rippleside) Cemetery. (Grave Reference: Sec O M Grave 41). His gravestone bears the inscription: "A sudden change, at God's command he fell; he had no chance to bid his friends farewell."
Lance Corporal Frederick Dowdney Morley
Frederick Morley, service number 2652792, Coldstream Guards, aged 37. He was born in the September quarter of 1906 in Barnsley, and is listed as Frederick Morley in both the birth and the Army records He was the son of Frederick and Florence Morley, of Barnsley; in the 1911 census they were living at Railway Terrace, Carlton, Barnsley. Florence (nee Pickles) was originally from Pennsylvania, America. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33 A.B.10.
Miss Agnes Moscrop
Agnes Moscrop, aged 19. Daughter of James and Agnes Logan Moscrop, of 3 Ronald Drive, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland. James Moscrop married Agnes L Graham in the June quarter of 1911 in Easington. Their daughter Agnes was born in the September quarter of 1924 in Easington.
Mrs Hettie Ruthin Neilson
Hettie Ruthin Neilson, aged 61, of 78 Murray House, Vandon Street. Daughter of William and Mary Sarvis, of The Garth, Hirwaun, Glamorgan. Hettie Ruthin Sarvis was born in c. 1881 in Aberdare, Glamorgan. She married Andrew Shennan Neilson in the September quarter of 1915 in Bridgend. There was a notice in the Times in June 1944:
NEILSON.-Recently by enemy action. HETTIE RUTHIN NEILSON, late of Cheltenham. Greatly loved and devoted mother of Margaret, Mary and Andrew.
Her son Andrew was killed in action in Italy the following month. He was Captain Andrew Shennan Neilson, service number 219064, of the Scots Guards attached to the 2nd battalion of the Coldstream Guards. He had been awarded the DSO and died on 16th July 1944 aged 23. He was buried in Assisi War Cemetery in Italy. Grave reference III F 12.
Lance Serjeant Sidney Walter Newbould
Sidney Walter Newbould, service number 2657482, Coldstream Guards, aged 25. Son of Henry and Mary Jane Newbould, of Walsall. He was born in the September quarter of 1918 in Walsall. He was buried in Aldridge (St. Mary) Churchyard Extension. Grave reference Row Q grave 23.
Miss Margaret Ellen Norris
Margaret Ellen Norris, aged 22, of 28 Penywern Road, Earl's Court, Kensington. Daughter of Mr. George John and Mrs Margaret Norris (nee Gardner), of Godmasham, Lewisham Road, River, Dover, Kent. Her parents married in the June quarter of 1917 at Elham, and she was born in the December quarter of 1921 in Eastry. She is remembered on the Dover virtual war memorial. She was a cousin of Beatrice Gardner; her mother was the elder sister of Beatrice Gardner’s father, Ernest. This may be why the cousins were in digs in London together.
Miss Lilian Northing
Lilian Northing, aged 55, of 49 Gloucester Road, South Kensington. Daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Northing, of the Murrough, Wicklow, Irish Republic.
John Northing was listed in the 1910 Wicklow directory as manager of Dublin and Wicklow Manure Co Ltd (Manufacturers of sulphuric acid and artificial manures.)
Guardsman William Henry Norton
William Henry Norton, service number 2620397, Grenadier Guards, aged 27. Son of Walter William and Elizabeth Norton, of Leicester; husband of Joan Norton, of Leeds, Yorkshire. He was born in the June quarter of 1917 in Leicester, and married Joan Flockton in the June quarter of 1942 in Leeds. He was buried in Leicester (Welford Road) Cemetery. Grave reference Section O. Cons. Grave 208.
Miss Edith Winifred Cazenove Ogden
Edith Winifred Cazenove Ogden, aged 48, of Hanover Court, Hanover Street. Daughter of Edith Armitage Ogden, of Cumberland House, Nassau, Bahamas, and of the late John Armitage Ogden. Her parents were first cousins once removed; John Armitage Ogden of Ashton-under-Lyne (born 1853) married Edith Mary Armitage (who was born in Ceylon). There was a notice in the Times:
"OGDEN.-In June, 1944, by enemy action, Miss EDITH WINIFRED CAZENOVE ARMITAGE OGDEN, daughter of the late John Armitage Ogden. Funeral Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell, Tuesday June 27 at 11.30. (American and Bahamas papers, please copy.)"
She was buried in Westminster City Cemetery. Grave reference 14, grave 13449. She is also listed on the Caribbean Roll of Honour for World War Two.
Private Valerian Peacock
Valerian Peacock, service number W/210690, Auxiliary Territorial Service, aged 19. Daughter of Joseph and Mary Jane Peacock, of Billingham. She was born in the June quarter of 1925, in Auckland. She was buried in Billingham (St. Cuthbert) Churchyard. Grave reference Section X, grave 21.
Margaret Harford wrote, in her memories of the ATS:
"One Sunday morning there was a church parade to the Guards Chapel nearby and the Chapel had a direct hit. One of our girls was killed and another injured. I was friendly with her. It was a very upsetting time. Long after the war I went to Edinburgh Castle and somewhere there was a large room with rolls of honour for every war casualty – her name was there. It was an emotional moment." The Scottish Roll of Honour includes those who have Scots ancestry, as well as those who served in the Scots Guards and a number of those listed here are included on it.
Miss Constance Olivia Penn
Constance Olivia Penn, aged 60 (actually 64), of 17 Eaton Terrace. Daughter of William Penn of Tavernham Hall, Norwich. She was born in the September quarter of 1879 in London. Two of her brothers died in WW1:
Eric (Frank) Penn, Captain, 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Born April 17th, 1878, in London. Died 18th October 1915 aged 33 years, killed when a shell struck his dugout opposite the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Loos. Son of William and Constance Penn, of London. Husband of Gladys Penn, of Baldslow Place, Baldslow, Sussex, whom he married in 1906; their son, Lt Col Sir Eric Charles William Mackenzie Penn, also went into the Grenadier Guards. Buried Vermelles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave reference I.K.11. (Eric and Geoffrey are on the roll of honour, Nonington, Kent).
An extract from the Stock Exchange memorial book reads:
"When the South African war began he went to the front with the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Scots, which he had joined while still at Eton. He was invalided home in 1901 with the rank of Captain. He went back to Cambridge and again played against Oxford at cricket. Later on he played brilliantly for Norfolk County. On leaving the University he went into the City and became a partner in the firm of Sir R. W. Carden and Co, and a member of the Stock Exchange in 1905. On the outbreak of war Captain Penn joined the Norfolk Yeomanry, but in his impatience to get into action transferred to the Grenadier Guards and went to the front with the 4th Battalion as a subaltern…..One of his brother officers wrote: “I can never forget what his example has been to me, and I know that it has helped many along the road." Another wrote “He was an exceptionally fine company commander and his men would have done anything for him." He married, in 1906, Gladys, daughter of Mr. Charles Ebden of Baldstow Place, Sussex, by whom he had one son, born posthumously."
Geoffrey Mark Penn Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Attended Somerset Light Infantry (S.L.I). Died 11th February 1915 aged 28 years. Son of William and Constance Penn, of 34 Wilton Crescent, Victoria, London. Buried Rifle House Cemetery, (located in Ploegsteert Wood), Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. Grave reference IV.H.6.
Her brother Arthur had served with the Grenadier Guards and at the time of her death he was their regimental Adjutant; he later became the Queen Mother’s Treasurer. Hence Constance had links to the Grenadier Guards via two of her brothers and her nephew Eric. In a notice in the Times, she is described as “dearly loved sister of Marjorie and Arthur”. Pew K in the Guards Chapel was given in memory of her and her brothers. The inscription reads:
"THIS PEW WAS GIVEN/ IN MEMORY OF/ CAPTAIN/ ERIC FRANK PENN/ GRENADIER GUARDS/ KILLED IN ACTION 1915/ IN MEMORY OF MISS OLIVE PENN/ KILLED IN THE GUARDS CHAPEL 18 JUNE 1944/ AND IN MEMORY OF/ MAJOR/ SIR ARTHUR PENN G.C.V.O., M.C./ 1886-1960 GRENADIER GUARDS/ 1914-18 AND 1939-45"
Guardsman Leslie Charles Phillips
Leslie Charles Phillips, service number 2722011, Irish Guards, aged 24. Son of Harold Charles and Lucy Phillips; husband of Ellen Phillips, of East Putney, London. Harold Phillips married Lucy Free in the September quarter of 1915 in Chesterton. Leslie was born there in the June quarter of 1920, and married Ellen Elkins in Wandsworth in the December quarter of 1943. He was buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33A.B.12.
Private Phyllis Mary Potter
Phyllis Mary Potter, service number W/237282, Auxiliary Territorial Service, aged 23. Daughter of Frederick N. Potter and Edith Catherine Potter, of East Ham, Essex. She was born in the December quarter of 1920 in West Ham. She was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33A.B.14. She is listed on the Scottish Roll of Honour.
Drummer Albert Charles Richmond
Albert Charles Richmond, service number 2662384, Coldstream Guards, aged 31. Son of Thomas George and Rachel Richmond, of Droylsden; husband of Elsie Richmond, of Droylsden. He was born in the December quarter of 1912 in Ashton and married Elsie Finch in the June quarter of 1939 at Ashton. He was buried in Droylsden Cemetery. Grave reference Section R. Grave 450. He is listed on the Droylsden war memorial roll of honour.
Mrs Phyllis Margaret Roper
Phyllis Margaret Roper, aged 59, of 33 Medway Street. Daughter of the late Alfred Craven Fletcher and Emily Constance Fletcher, of Beech Lawn, Rose Hill, Bowden, Cheshire; widow of Garwood Roper. She was born in the June quarter of 1885 in Altrincham, Cheshire. In the 1911 census she was in a boarding house in Belgravia and was working as a shorthand writer and typist. She married Robert Garwood Roper in the September quarter of 1915 in London; in the 1911 census he was living with his mother and sister in Woodford Green and working as an auctioneer.
Mrs Mary Josephine Sargent
Mary Josephine Sargent, aged 65, of 3F Bramham Gardens, Kensington. Daughter of the late General David Thomson and his wife Emily (nee Birdwood); the 1891 census says he was a retired major general and had been born in India, as had his wife and mother-in-law. Mary was the widow of the Revd Douglas H. G. Sargent, M.A (1879-1935). She was born in the June quarter of 1879 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire; she had a twin sister, Alice. Mary married in the June quarter of 1905 in Cheltenham. Her husband was a member of the Church Missionary Society and died in the September quarter of 1935. There was a notice in the Times which said:
"MARY J. widow of the REV. D. H. G. SARGENT, and beloved mother of the late Christopher Sargent, Bishop of Fukien, and of Gordon and Eric Sargent. No mourning please. Cremation at Golders Green to-morrow (Thursday 21st June) at 10.30. "
The Reverend Christopher Sargent was Headmaster of the Diocesan Boys’ School in Hong Kong, 1932-38, and became Bishop of Fukien in 1940. He died of pneumonic plague on 8 August 1943.
Lance Corporal Edwin Lloyd Sellers
Edwin Sellers, service number 2655807, Coldstream Guards, aged 28. Son of Edwin Bygate Sellers and Mabel Sellers (nee Bennett), of Barnsley; they married in Barnsley in the June quarter of 1912. Edwin was born in the June quarter of 1916 in Barnsley; he married Florence Ivy Isobel Hipkins in the December quarter of 1939 in Lambeth. He was buried in Barnsley Cemetery. Grave reference Section E grave 56.
Guardsman William Henry Shaw
William Henry Shaw, service number 4614268, Coldstream Guards, aged 23. Son of Richard and Winifred Shaw (nee Heywood); husband of Olive Elizabeth Shaw, of Frome, Somerset. He was born in the December quarter of 1920 in Oldham and married Olive Elizabeth Evans in the June quarter of 1942 in Frome. He was buried in Oldham (Greenacres) Cemetery. Grave reference Section L Row 13 Grave 17.
Mrs Rose May Sheridan
Rose May Sheridan, aged 39, of 4 Queen Mary's Buildings, Westminster. Wife of Gdsmn. James Sheridan, Irish Guards. I have been unable to identify her birth record as Rose May Barnes as there are a number of possible matches; she married in the December quarter of 1931 in Hammersmith.
Miss Edna Mary Shooter
Edna Mary Shooter, aged 34. Nurse; of King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell. Daughter of George William and Olive Shooter ( nee Farrant-Patey) . Died at The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks. She was born in the March quarter of 1910 in Richmond, Surrey. She is commemorated on the Civilian War Dead memorial in Westminster City Cemetery, and was buried there on 28 June, 1944. Grave reference 21A, grave 11B.
Musician Ralph Herbert Shorten
Ralph Herbert Shorten, service number 3649008, Coldstream Guards aged 39. Son of William and Alice Louise Shorten; husband of Eleonore Shorten, of Battersea, London. Formerly of the Prince of Wales Volunteers. Ralph was born c. 1904, but I have been unable to find more information. He married Eleonore Van Helvoirt Pel in the June quarter of 1934 in Battersea. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33.A.B.9.
In April 1939 he and 56 other musicians travelled to New York on the Aquitania; James Causley Windram, Edwin Sellers, George Carr, Charles Hart, Arthur Hewlett and Frederick D Kent were among those listed with Ralph Shorten on the passenger manifest, and all seven of them later died as a result of the bombing of the Guards Chapel.
Guardsman Jack Smith
Jack Smith, service number 14499377, Grenadier Guards aged 18. Son of Leonard and Martha Ann Smith, of Leeds. He was buried in Leeds (Harehills) Cemetery. Grave reference Section U.2.Grave 19.
Miss Olive Gertrude Annie Smith
Olive Gertrude Annie Smith, aged 50, of 108 Belgrave Road. Daughter of Sidney Edward and Anna Catherine Smith, of Derryvale, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Irish Republic. In the 1901 census, Olive was aged 7 and living at Derryvale with her parents, three siblings, a governess and two servants; by 1911 her father had died and Olive had left home.
There was a death notice in the Times:
"SMITH.-In June, 1944, by enemy action, OLIVE GERTRUDE ANNIE SMITH, of 108, Belgrave Road, S.W.I. Funeral, 3 o'clock Thursday, June 29. at Streatham Park Cemetery. Flowers to T. Cocks and Sons. 70, Rochester Row. S.Wl."
Miss Marjorie Souter
Marjorie Souter, aged 30, of 28 Penywern Road, Earls Court, Kensington. Daughter of Mrs. Harvey (formerly Souter), of The Square, Kintore, Aberdeenshire. No further information found. She shared digs with Beatrice Gardner and Margaret Norris (see above).
Guardsman Ernest Keith Stamp
Ernest Keith Stamp, service number 2739031, Welsh Guards aged 18. Son of Sidney Howard Stamp and Jessie Stamp (nee Pennell), of Reading, Berkshire. He was born in the March quarter of 1927 in Reading; the records list him as Keith (EB). He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33.A.B.13.
His father Sidney Howard Stamp was a private in the 1st battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment in the First World War and received the Distinguished Conduct medal for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 6th February 1918.
Miss Ida Thomson
Ida Thomson, aged 19, of 44 Mortimer Street, St. Marylebone. Daughter of Robert and Janet Reid Thomson, of 15 West Newington Place, Edinburgh. Possibly related to Mary Josephine Sargent (nee Thomson)?
Section Officer Cornelia Despard Thorn
Cornelia Despard Thorn, service number 4442, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, aged 33. Daughter of William Birkbeck Vanderhoof and Estella Despard Vanderhoof; wife of Major Terence Conrad Thorn, M.C., Royal Engineers, who died in the same incident, as did his mother. She was born on 14 February 1911 in Bronxville, New York. She married Terence Thorn in the March quarter of 1935 in Newton Abbot. She is commemorated on Panel 5 of Woking (St John’s) Crematorium. There was a death notice in the Times:
"THORN.-In June 1944, by enemy action. SECTION OFFICER CORNELIA DESPARD THORN. W.A.A.F., beloved elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Vanderhoof, of Torquay and New York. Funeral service St. Mark's Church. Torquay. 5 p.m. to-morrow (Saturday). Interment private. Please, no flowers. Contributions R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. (New York papers. please copy.)"
She is listed on the Torquay war memorial as one of the WW2 WAAF dead.
Mrs Elizabeth Amy Thorn
Elizabeth Thorn, aged 84, W.V.S.; of Pembridge Gardens Hotel, Paddington. Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sennet; widow of William Thomas Thorn. Her son and daughter-in-law died in the same incident. She was born in the June quarter of 1860 in St. Saviour, Southwark , and married William Thorn in the September quarter of 1883 in Lambeth. (Her son and daughter-in-law were also killed: see above and below). Her funeral service was at Golders Green Crematorium on 23rd June.
Captain Terence Conrad Thorn
Terence Conrad Thorn MC, service number 127713, Devonshire Regiment, attached Royal Engineers, aged 56. Son of William Thomas Thorn and Elizabeth Thorn; husband of Section Offr. Cornelia Despard Thorn (nee Vanderhoof) W.A.A.F. who was killed in the same incident. He was born on 15th January 1888 in Hampstead. He served in the Indian Army Reserve of officers in WW1 and was promoted to Captain. He is commemorated on Panel 3 at Golders Green Crematorium.
Details of his Military Cross award are given in the Edinburgh Gazette of March 14 1917:
"2nd Lt. Terence Conrad Thorn, I.A.R.O. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty, when he went out under very heavy rifle and machine gun fire and carried into safety a man who had been severely wounded."
Major Dick Henry Brewster Thornton
Dick Henry Brewster Thornton, service number 100546, Grenadier Guards, aged 36. Son of Gwendoline Thornton (b. 1887) and husband of (Joan) Rosemary Thornton (nee Cohen), of Marylebone, London. He was born c 1908 in London, and was formerly a barrister; he had been promoted to Major shortly before the Guards Chapel incident. He and Rosemary married in the December quarter of 1937 in Westminster, and had a son in 1939. Major Thornton is commemorated on Panel 3 at Golders Green Crematorium, and is listed on the Lord’s Roll of Honour.
Guardsman Henry Alfred George Thornton
Henry Alfred George Thornton, service number 2620282, Grenadier Guards, aged 30. Son of Henry James Thornton and Florence Charlotte Thornton, of Bermondsey, London; they married in the March quarter of 1907 at St Olave. He was born in the September quarter of 1913 in Bermondsey. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33.B.4.
Guardsman Anthony Sidney George Titcombe
Anthony Sidney George Titcombe, service number 2661159, Coldstream Guards aged 37. Son of George and Ellen Rose Titcombe; husband of Gertrude Maud Titcombe (1911-1994), of West Brompton, London. He was born in 1907 in Reading, and named Sydney George. He married Gertrude M Weiss (nee Castle) in the June quarter of 1938 in Fulham; he was listed as Sidney G Titcombe in the records at that point. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33.A.B.11.
Guardsman George Tranter
George Tranter, service number 2695860, Scots Guards (aged 28). Son of Jabez and Alice Jane Tranter (nee Llewellyn), of Glass Houghton, Castleford; they married in the December quarter of 1913 in Pontefract. He was their eldest child and was born in the September quarter of 1915 in Pontefract. He was buried in Castleford New Cemetery. Grave reference Section U. Grave 199.
Drill Sargeant Nathaniel Turton
Warrant Officer Class II (Drill Sargeant) Nathaniel TURTON - Nathaniel Turton, service number 2606370, Grenadier Guards (aged 44). He was born in the December quarter of 1899 in West Derby, Lancashire to Nathaniel and Letitia Turton. He was married three times: first to Jane Thompson in 1919 in Liverpool, then to Emily Dwyer in Kensington in 1923, and finally to Marjorie Hill in Westminster in 1936. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33A.B.1.
Captain Leslie Edwin Gordon Wall
Leslie Edwin Gordon Wall, service number 141033, Grenadier Guards, who died aged 43. Youngest son of the Revd. Richard Wall, A.K.C., and Ethel Mabel Wall, The Vicarage, Bobbing; husband of Violet Maud (Diana) Wall, who died in the same incident (see below). He was born in the September quarter of 1898 in Eastry, Kent. He was buried in Bobbing (St. Bartholomew) Churchyard. Grave reference Row 8 grave 5.
Mrs Violet Maud Wall
Violet Maud (Diana) Wall, aged 52, W.V.S.; of 120 Mount Street. Daughter of Mrs. Jackson, of High Halden, Kent; wife of Captain Leslie Edwin Gordon Wall, of Bobbing, Grenadier Guards, who died in the same incident (see above). She was born Violet Maud Neal in the June quarter of 1891 in Aston, and married Daniel C. J. Cambridge in the March quarter of 1913 in Brentford.
Her son from this marriage, William James Cecil Cambridge, a sergeant in the RAF volunteer reserve, died on 19 July 1944 when his plane crashed after a bombing raid on the Scholver-Buer oil plant. He was buried in the Jonkerbos war cemetery near Nijmegen. Grave reference 12.F.7. He, his mother and his stepfather are all commemorated on the High Halden roll of honour.
Violet married Leslie Gordon Wall in the September quarter of 1929 at St Martin’s in London. She was buried in Bobbing (St. Bartholomew) Churchyard. Grave reference Row 8 grave 5.
The obituary notice in the Times read:
"WALL.-In June. 1944. by enemy action. CAPTAIN L. E. G. WALL, Grenadier Guards, of 120 Mount Street, W.l., and also his devoted wife DIANA. Burial together, privately at Bobbing Church,. Sittingbourne, Kent. tomorrow (Saturday). at 3 p.m. Evensong at St. George's, Hanover Square, on Tuesday, June 27 at 6.30. Instead of flowers, a donation to W.V.S. is suggested."
Lance Serjeant Edgar Watson
Edgar Watson, service number 2651598, Coldstream Guards aged 39. Son of George and Emily Watson, of Ruston Parva; husband of Marie A. Watson, of Forthampton, Gloucestershire. He was born in the September quarter of 1904 in Driffield; he married Marie Lemarchand at Tewkesbury in the September quarter of 1936. He was buried in Ruston Parva (St. Nicholas) Churchyard. He is commemorated on the Lowthorpe 1939-45 memorial plaque, in the church porch at Forthampton and on the roadside war memorial there.
Guardsman Derek James Weaver
Derek James Weaver, service number 2624193, Grenadier Guards, aged 19. Son of Albert James Weaver and Millicent Weaver, of Shepherd's Bush, London. He was born in the June quarter of 1925 in Hammersmith. He was buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 33A.B.3.
Amy Louisa Weller
Amy Louisa Weller, aged 27 [actually 29 or 30], of 145 Kilburn Lane, Willesden, Middlesex. Daughter of William Weller and Rose Mabel Doel; they married in the December quarter of 1903 in Kensington. She was born in the June quarter of 1914 in Kensington.
Reverend Ralph Henry Whitrow
The Revd. Ralph Henry Whitrow TD , service number 40452, Royal Army Chaplains' Department, aged 47. Son of Benjamin and Mary Whitrow; husband of Brenda Muriel Whitrow (1908-1991), of Winchester. M.A. (Oxon.) Hon. Minor Canon of Winchester Cathedral. He was born on 20th December 1896 in Tonbridge, and married Brenda Muriel Bent in the September quarter of 1932 in Battersea; they had three children. He was in the Royal Field Artillery in WW1 from 1917 onwards, and then studied Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with BA in 1922, MA 1925. There was a requiem for him in Winchester Cathedral on June 23, 1944, followed by a funeral service at. St. Paul's Church,Weeke. He was buried in Winchester (West Hill) Old Cemetery. Grave reference Square 27, grave 2693.
Mrs Adelaide Louise Wilson
Adelaide Louisa Wilson, aged 71, W.V.S. Second daughter of Robert Knox Masterton and Hannah McLean Masterton, of Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh; wife of Col. George Tyrie Brand Wilson, D.S.O. (1867-1953), of 14 Morpeth Mansions. She was born in 1872 and married George Tyrie Brand Wilson in 1896. He served in WW1 as a lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry and fought at Gallipoli.
Mrs Violet Wilson
Violet Wilson, aged 72, W.V.S., of Pembridge Gardens Hotel, Kensington. Daughter of the late Col. Charles V. Conway-Gordon (b 21 Dec 1834 England, died Bombay 6 March 1884) and Anna Lumsden Roberdeau Conway-Gordon (1840-1916), widow of Maj. John Arthur MacLean Wilson, O.B.E. He was born in Pietermaritzburg in c 1866 and served in the Indian Army in WW1.
Major James Causley Windram
Major (Director of Music) James Causley Windram - James Causley Windram, service number 47956, Coldstream Guards, aged 57. Son of William Charles and Catherine Windram; husband of Olive Atkinson Windram, of Annalong, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. L.R.A.M. He was born in the December quarter of 1886 in Chorlton, Manchester. In the 1911 census he was resident at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, as a Lance Sergeant in the Gordon Highlanders. He married Ida Earl in the December quarter of 1913 in Portsmouth, and after her death in December 1937 he married Olive Atkinson Carruthers (born c. 1901), of Mullartown House, C. Down. He and his wife Olive travelled to New York on the Aquitania in April 1939 with a number of other band members (see the entry for Ralph Shorten above).The 18th June would have been his last day of service before retirement. He was buried at St. Pancras Cemetery. Grave reference Screen wall Sec 7.P. Grave 15.
Reverend Gordon Gladstone Wood
Chaplain The Reverend Gordon Gladstone Wood - The Revd. Gordon Gladstone Wood, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 43. Son of Alfred and Janet Wood; husband of Gwendoline Enid Wood, of Beverley Hills, New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 24 June 1901 in Moonta Mines, South Australia, and married Gwendolen Enid Staples in 1928. The Canberra Times of the period described him as “an Australian Air Force padre, Squadron Leader Woods” [sic]. He served as a squadron leader attached to RAAF overseas HQ at Kodak House, Kingsway, London, and was the conductor of the RAAF choir there. He was buried in the Australian section of Brookwood Military Cemetery. Grave reference 4.N.16. His name is on the Australian War memorial in Canberra, panel 97, and a memorial chapel was dedicated to him in the Uniting Church, Arthur Street, Wellington, New South Wales, where he had been superintendant minister, 1937-1940.
Mrs Hilda Mary Worrall
Hilda Mary Worrall, aged 49, W.V.S.; of 25 Kensington Gore. Daughter of Mrs. Chambers, of 31 Mill Lane, Ryhill, Wakefield, Yorkshire, and of the late George Edward Chambers. She was born in the December quarter of 1894 in Hemsworth, and married Alfred T. Worrall in the September quarter of 1930 in Hemsworth. She was buried in Westminster City Cemetery on 28 June 1944. Grave reference 20A, grave 13451.
Also
Unknown Female
No further details available. Died in the Guards Chapel, buried in Westminster City Cemetery on 29 June 1944. Grave reference 21A grave 11B.
Charles Hart
Charles (Jock) Hart, Coldstream Guards, aged 44, on 13 April 1945. Service number 537872. Husband of Margaret Hart, of Westminster. He was injured at the Guards Chapel, and died of his injuries the following year. Buried Brompton Cemetery Plot N (Guards Plot). Grave 193534, in an area dedicated to the Guards.
He was listed on the Aquitania passenger list in 1939 as Charles Hart aged 38, 129 Queen Mary Buildings London SW1.
Research by Jan Gore
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