Index C
The information here displays the name, service number and memorial page they are listed on, which can be accessed via the home page
Cairns, Norman - 266026 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Calladine (Or Callerdine), Horace Walter - 4692860 - Mexborough
Caller, Vernon George - 1457564 - Rossington
Camplejohn, Stanley - 4693798 - Bentley
Carey, John William - Thorne
Carey, John William - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Carr, R - Edlington
Cartlidge, Denis - 1504859 - Sprotborough
Cartlidge, Herbert - 4391532 - Bentley
Casey, James - 1348582 - Mexborough
Cash, Horace - 2664543 - Askern
Cavnor, William - 4260539 - Askern
Chadbourne, George Stanley - 7689897 - Armthorpe
Chadwick, John Alfred - 1483767 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Chadwick, John Alfred - 1483767 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Chambers, George Henry - 1059768 - Mexborough
Chambers, John Alfred - 1891908 - Denaby Main
Chantry, George - 4621424 - Owston
Chapman, Thomas Henry - 4540257 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Chappell, Harry - 2662354 - Mexborough
Charlesworth, Henry - 4693263 - Mexborough
Charlotte, John Edward - 13005382 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Cheadle, Jack - 802228 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Cheadle, Jack - 802228 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Cheadle, Jack - 802228 - Stainforth
Cheesmond, William Charles - 14421255 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Cheesmond, William Charles - 14421255 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Chester, Arthur - 1028844 - Warmsworth
Chopping, Norris Bernard - 947981 - Hooton Pagnell
Church, Arthur James - 4538920 - Thorne
Church, Arthur James - 4538920 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Clark, Harry - 1134863 - Bentley
Clarke, Cyril James - 2207098 - Owston
Clarke, Donald - Owston
Clarke, F - Edlington
Clarkson, Pinder - 2596572 - Mexborough
Clayton, Edmund Horace - 2662392 - Braithwell
Clayton, Frank - 643566 - Thorne
Clayton, Frank - 643566 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Clayworth, Albert - 1621688 - Highfields Clock
Cliff, Ernest Oliver - 2132786 - Mexborough
Clothier, Harry Eli - 955781 - Mexborough
Cockayne, Albert - 4694368 - Stainforth
Cockburn, T - Bentley
Cockin, Isaac William - P/JX 139380 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Colbear, George Harold - 1095523 - Warmsworth
Cole, William - 6137453 - Highfields Clock
Collins, Alfred Eric - 409508 - Hexthorpe
Collins, Thomas Leslie - 4692767 - Stainforth
Collishe, Richard - D/JX 165248 - Owston
Cook, Dennis - P/JX 333321 - Bentley
Cook, George - 4693806 - Thorne
Cook, George - 4693806 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Cooke, William Francis - D/JX 165374 - Edlington
Coope, Bernard - 2659090 - Sprotborough
Coope, Bernard - 2659090 - Conisbrough
Cooper, Douglas H - 4537516 - Stainforth
Cooper, Eric Franklin - 1686028 - Conisbrough
Cooper, W.C. - Denaby Main
Corney, J T - Denaby Main
Corney, W S - Denaby Main
Cottam, James - 1596259 - Askern
Cottam, James - 1596259 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Cox, Samuel J - 171869 - Owston
Crocker, Benjamin Bilton - D/JX 165727 - Hexthorpe
Croft, John Ernest Norman - 974572 - Edlington
Cross, Walter - 993388 - Rossington
Crowcroft, Charles Lever - 650296 - Hexthorpe
Cubbage, Louis - P/MX 557731 - Bentley
Curl, Frank - 10543333 - Highfields Clock
Curry, Arthur - Rossington
Curry, Thomas - 842973 - Rossington
Cusworth, John - 868833 - Bentley
Cutler, Joseph - Owston
Cuttell, Alfred - 1467082 - Denaby Main
Cutts, Wilson Jesse - 11408335 - Mexborough
Calladine (Or Callerdine), Horace Walter - 4692860 - Mexborough
Caller, Vernon George - 1457564 - Rossington
Camplejohn, Stanley - 4693798 - Bentley
Carey, John William - Thorne
Carey, John William - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Carr, R - Edlington
Cartlidge, Denis - 1504859 - Sprotborough
Cartlidge, Herbert - 4391532 - Bentley
Casey, James - 1348582 - Mexborough
Cash, Horace - 2664543 - Askern
Cavnor, William - 4260539 - Askern
Chadbourne, George Stanley - 7689897 - Armthorpe
Chadwick, John Alfred - 1483767 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Chadwick, John Alfred - 1483767 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Chambers, George Henry - 1059768 - Mexborough
Chambers, John Alfred - 1891908 - Denaby Main
Chantry, George - 4621424 - Owston
Chapman, Thomas Henry - 4540257 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Chappell, Harry - 2662354 - Mexborough
Charlesworth, Henry - 4693263 - Mexborough
Charlotte, John Edward - 13005382 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Cheadle, Jack - 802228 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Cheadle, Jack - 802228 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Cheadle, Jack - 802228 - Stainforth
Cheesmond, William Charles - 14421255 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Cheesmond, William Charles - 14421255 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Chester, Arthur - 1028844 - Warmsworth
Chopping, Norris Bernard - 947981 - Hooton Pagnell
Church, Arthur James - 4538920 - Thorne
Church, Arthur James - 4538920 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Clark, Harry - 1134863 - Bentley
Clarke, Cyril James - 2207098 - Owston
Clarke, Donald - Owston
Clarke, F - Edlington
Clarkson, Pinder - 2596572 - Mexborough
Clayton, Edmund Horace - 2662392 - Braithwell
Clayton, Frank - 643566 - Thorne
Clayton, Frank - 643566 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Clayworth, Albert - 1621688 - Highfields Clock
Cliff, Ernest Oliver - 2132786 - Mexborough
Clothier, Harry Eli - 955781 - Mexborough
Cockayne, Albert - 4694368 - Stainforth
Cockburn, T - Bentley
Cockin, Isaac William - P/JX 139380 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Colbear, George Harold - 1095523 - Warmsworth
Cole, William - 6137453 - Highfields Clock
Collins, Alfred Eric - 409508 - Hexthorpe
Collins, Thomas Leslie - 4692767 - Stainforth
Collishe, Richard - D/JX 165248 - Owston
Cook, Dennis - P/JX 333321 - Bentley
Cook, George - 4693806 - Thorne
Cook, George - 4693806 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Cooke, William Francis - D/JX 165374 - Edlington
Coope, Bernard - 2659090 - Sprotborough
Coope, Bernard - 2659090 - Conisbrough
Cooper, Douglas H - 4537516 - Stainforth
Cooper, Eric Franklin - 1686028 - Conisbrough
Cooper, W.C. - Denaby Main
Corney, J T - Denaby Main
Corney, W S - Denaby Main
Cottam, James - 1596259 - Askern
Cottam, James - 1596259 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Cox, Samuel J - 171869 - Owston
Crocker, Benjamin Bilton - D/JX 165727 - Hexthorpe
Croft, John Ernest Norman - 974572 - Edlington
Cross, Walter - 993388 - Rossington
Crowcroft, Charles Lever - 650296 - Hexthorpe
Cubbage, Louis - P/MX 557731 - Bentley
Curl, Frank - 10543333 - Highfields Clock
Curry, Arthur - Rossington
Curry, Thomas - 842973 - Rossington
Cusworth, John - 868833 - Bentley
Cutler, Joseph - Owston
Cuttell, Alfred - 1467082 - Denaby Main
Cutts, Wilson Jesse - 11408335 - Mexborough
Additional casualties not listed on a memorial
Claude Ivor Caddick (7618616)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
5 April 1942, aged 24
Port Said War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Middle East
Margaret Cadman
Civilian War Dead
21 December 1940, aged 21
Bently with Arksey, Urban District
of 100 Woodlands Road, Adwick-Le-Street. Near Sun Inn, Bentley.
James Calderbank (14589496)
Royal Engineers
25 July 1945, aged 34
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Died in North Yorkshire
Alexander Campbell (974217)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
18 June 1941, aged 19
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Hampden P4389 near Finningley. On 18th June 1941 this aircraft stalled while taking off from Finningley airfield so that an airtest could be carried out, it dived into the ground one field away from the airfield boundary near Gatewood Farm at 18.50hrs. The aircraft was destroyed and all on board were sadly killed. The last three named below were ground crew probably going along for a ride which appears to have been reasonably common practice at the time.
John James Campbell (971123)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
10 April 1941, aged 25
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Campbell took off in a Hampden from Lindholme on a training flight. Eye witness reports indicate that he used the opportunity for undertaking aerobatics over Evington, Leicester, reputedly by 'shooting up' the home of his girlfriend. As onlookers on the ground watched the twin-engined aircraft wheeling and soaring, first with admiration but then with anxiety. The pilot lost control and the aircraft crashed into houses on Denys Road, killing Campbell, his Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Flight Sergeant Leslie Carn of Southend and Maud Harris of number 26. A second civilian on the ground was also injured.
William Canill (6144786)
East Surrey Regiment - 1st Bn.
22 May 1940
Dunkirk Memorial
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Harry Cannon (4689581)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn.
28 June 1942, aged 24
Imphal War Cemetery
Died in India
Albert Cant (2315011)
Corps of Royal Military Police
27 January 1947, aged 51
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
George Riley Carr (3322183)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 7th Bn.
6 April 1943, aged 27
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
Died in North Africa
Cecil William Cartwright (640825)
Royal Air Force
26 May 1944, aged 25
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Died on Active Service
Tom Cassey (301755)
Royal Air Force
18 February 1941, aged 52
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Death registered in Thorne
Edward Casson
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 18
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 48 Wordsworth Avenue.
Edward John Casson
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 45
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 48 Wordsworth Avenue.
Esther May Casson
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 20
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, injured at 48 Wordsworth Avenue; died the same day at Royal Infirmary.
Miss. Edith Evangeline Castle
Civilian War Dead
19 November 1944, aged 50
Sumatra
Died at Muntok, Banka Island.
Thomas William Chambers (1459021)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 143 Sqdn.
17 October 1943, aged 22
Runnymede Memorial
Other casualty James Simpson 1553933. Both posted Missing believed KIA. Shot down over Bay of Biscay
Arthur Stanley Chapman (1434611)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
10 August 1944, aged 26
Thure Communal Cemetery
Lancaster LM435 coded NV-E airborne 20:49 on 9 August 1944 from Skellingthorpe to bomb storage dumps in the Foret de Chatellerault. Believed to have collided with a 619 Sqdn Lancaster (ME866). Crashed at Thure (Vienne), a village 7 km WNW of Ch_tellerault and astride the road leading to Monts-sur- Guesnes. All are buried in Thure Communal Cemetery, alongside their comrades from ME866.
George Henry Chapman (T/78331)
Royal Army Service Corps - 38 Res Mt Coy
14 November 1942
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
John Clifford Chapman (180591)
Royal Artillery - Seconded To 1st Bn.
24 May 1944, aged 23
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Reginald Montague Chapman (1833489)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
2 September 1947, aged 25
Stainforth Cemetery
Death registered in Don Valley
Thomas Chapman (1076944)
Royal Artillery - 7 Medium Regt
Between 28 and 29 May 1941, aged 25
Athens Memorial
Killed in action, died at sea during the battle for Crete
Harold Chappell (4758390)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 7th Bn.
15 April 1945, aged 23
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Ernest Henry Charlesworth (T/129073)
Royal Army Service Corps
27 November 1945
Brighton City (Bear Road) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Thomas Charnley (1498742)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 320 MU
1 August 1944, aged 22
Karachi War Cemetery
Died on Active Service in East India
Norman Cheesmond (4747932)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 2nd Bn.
29 November 1941, aged 20
Tobruk War Cemetery
Killed in action during Operation Crusader, as the 70th Division broke out of Tobruk.
Harold Chesworth (1517355)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 308 Sqdn.
26 June 1943, aged 36
Delhi War Cemetery
Died on Active Service in India
Arthur John Frank Churchill (37036)
Royal Air Force
21 September 1941, aged 27
Arthur Churchill was appointed to a short service commission in the RAF as Acting P/O on probation in October 1935 and posted to 9 Squadron at Boscombe Down on 14th October 1935. He rose to acting F/O on 19th April 1937 (made permanent in February 1938) and then to acting F/Lt on 20th May 1938 and permanent F/Lt on 19th April 1939. He rose to temporary S/Ldr in September 1940.
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
On 21st September 1941 the pilot of Oxford V4036 aircraft was taking off using instruments at Finningley in poor visibility when, at 09.19hrs the aircraft drifted off course and crashed into a hanger.
James Clamp (4539398)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
21 January 1944, aged 20
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Edward Clarke (1480536)
Royal Artillery - 78 Bty., 35 Lt. A.A. Regt.
15 September 1945, aged 40
Enlisted 1938
Jakarta War Cemetery
Died of enteritis while a Japanese PoW at Palembang, Sumatra.
Frederick Clarke (2979730)
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - 2nd Bn.
31 July 1943, aged 31
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW
Herbert John Clarke (1913175)
Royal Engineers - 9 Mechanical Equipment Sec.
12 October 1944, aged 37
Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery
Terence Vincent Gerard Clarke (1165625)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 25 O.T.U.
11 August 1941, aged 28
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Killed on active service 11th August 1941 (age 26). The pilot lost control of Hampden (X2916) during a landing at Finningley
William Clarke (7378206)
Royal Army Medical Corps
15 March 1944, aged 24
Naples War Cemetery
Died during the Italian Campaign, probably in one of the General Hospitals that were established in Naples.
John Clatworthy (2664361)
Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn.
Between 24 and 25 December 1942, aged 21
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
Died in North Africa
Herbert William Clay (CH/X 109545)
Royal Marines - 27th Bn.
5 March 1945, aged 23
Drunen (Elshout) Roman Catholic Churchyard
Killed no other casualties from same Bn until 19 days later
John Matthew Clayton (4592961)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn.
14 July 1943, aged 24
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
John Thomas Cleavin (2884711)
Seaforth Highlanders - 1st Bn.
22 May 1943, aged 26
Imphal War Cemetery
Died in India
John Joseph Clifford (4544392)
Royal Artillery - 3/2 Maritime Regt
7 July 1942, aged 28
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
At 18.35 hours on 7 July 1942 the Hartlebury, dispersed from convoy PQ-17, was hit by two of three torpedoes fired by U-355 and two minutes later by another torpedo. At 18.45 hours, a coup de grâce hit the vessel, which sank over the bow within 10 minutes 17 miles 180° from Britwin Lighthouse, Novaya Zemlya. The explosions only left one lifeboat intact, which was lowered by panicking crewmen and flipped over, throwing the occupants into the icy water. Others jumped into the water and tried to reach the rafts. A total of 29 crew members, seven gunners and two naval signalmen were lost.
Noel Clifton (2663030)
Coldstream Guards - 5th Bn.
19 April 1945, aged 37
Becklingen War Cemetery
Grahame Hilton Clothier (411865)
Royal Australian Air Force - 15 (P) AFU
27 September 1942, aged 20
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Oxford R6081 near South Anston, Rotherham. On 27th September 1942 trainee pilot of this aircraft was undertaking a navigation exercise when he became lost in poor weather and crashed. Although the unit's parent airfield was Leconfield it is believed that he had taken off from Kirmington at 08.40hrs. The route was to have been from base to Worksop, Kettering, Boston and back to base. He descended to work out his position and was probably attempting a forced land the aircraft but hit a tree and dived into the ground at 09.22hrs near South Anston and was killed. The Court of Inquiry found the pilot was responsible for descending below a safe height but also blamed his superiors for allowing the flight when poor weather had been reported which stated that there were extensive fog patches over part of the route.
Arthur Clover (1458798)
Royal Artillery - 170 Bty., 57 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Between 2 February and 20 May 1942, aged 21
Alamein Memorial
Presumed KIA at sea whilst a PoW
John Parkin Coates (4537627)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn.
4 August 1941, aged 25
Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata
Died in India
Cyril Cobb (1504676)
Royal Artillery - 61 Anti-Tank Regt.
16 December 1944
Schoonselhof Cemetery
KIA in the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
William Cobb (1811401)
Royal Artillery - 3 H.A.A. Regt.
28 July 1942, aged 27
Kranji War Cemetery
Died five months after Singapore was captured, reported to have died of dysentery and pneumonia in Saigon
Albert Cockayne (4694368)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2/4th Bn.
11 September 1944, aged 29
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
Died in Italy
John Cockburn (145110)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 487 Rnzaf Sqdn.
22 February 1945, aged 29
Becklingen War Cemetery
Mosquito HR 356 airborne from airfield B.87 (Rosières-en-Santerre, France) for an intruder mission over Germany. Crashed near Bevern, the registrar of the village gave this crash location as 1,000 yards northwest of the village near the railway line Bremervorde-Rotenburg.
Herbert Cockhill (P/JX 137762)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Express
1 September 1940, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
On 31 August 1940 HMS Esk was mined and sunk about 40 nautical miles north-west of Texel island, the Netherlands in position 53º30'N, 03º47'E.
Charles H Cocks (T/174135)
Royal Army Service Corps
2 August 1945, aged 33
Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Hospital (Cairo) as a result of Malaria
Leslie William Codd (T/200008)
Royal Army Service Corps - 1824 Assault Platoon
12 May 1944
Cassino Memorial
Died in Italy
William Edward Codd (P/SBR/X 7234)
Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve - H.M.S. Dunedin
24 November 1941, aged 33
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died when vessel was sunk in the Atlantic
Harold Coggon (1216180)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Seletar
24 June 1945, aged 22
Singapore Memorial
Captured Java arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943. Japanese recorded death as Malaria. Sandakan death marches from 1945/01/29, to Paginatan and Ranau. Out of the 2434 Sandakan prisoners, 1787 Australians and 641 British died, only 6 Australians survived by escaping.
Geoffrey Landas Cohen (402212)
Royal Australian Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
3 August 1941, aged 27
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington X3177 took off from RAF Finningley, for a night training exercise. At sometime between 0430 and 0530, the bomber hit the ground at high speed, roughly three miles south west of Bawtry, Nottinghampshire, UK. All the crew were killed.
Edward D'Ewes Fitzgerald Coke (66152)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - attd. 6th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
27 September 1944, aged 29
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
William Colclough (7813266)
Pioneer Corps
23 October 1942, aged 41
Stainforth Cemetery
Died in the UK
Harry Cole (981797)
Dorsetshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
20 November 1944, aged 29
Brunssum War Cemetery
Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by British XXX Corps (which included the U.S. 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944. Clipper was a part of a wider Allied operation, named Operation Queen to gain control of the Roer valley and the Hürtgen Forest. 43rd (Wessex) Division was to advance and capture the high ground north and west of the town (around Bauchem and Tripsrath). Once done, Geilenkirchen would be virtually encircled.
Harry Cole (4862493)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 1st Bn.
14 February 1945, aged 25
Enlisted 13.6.1940 into Leicestershire Regiment. Transferred to Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1.4.1943.
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
George William Collings (998458)
King's Shropshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
7 June 1944, aged 28
Ranville War Cemetery
The 2nd Battalion landed on Sword Beach, Queen sector near Hermanville-sur-Mer on “D-Day”, 6th June 1944 as part of 185 Brigade. Killed on D-Day+1, near Bieville
Charles Norman Collingwood (1595173)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 428 Sqdn.
5 December 1944, aged 19
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster KB768 code NA-E airborne 17:50 on 5 December 1944 from Middleton St.George for a mission to Soest. Collided in the air with a 426 Sqdn Halifax (LW200), both aircraft crashing 19:00 near Rugby in Warwickshire.
William Henry Collishaw (2619814)
Grenadier Guards - 5th Bn.
26 January 1944, aged 24
Anzio War Cemetery
Died during the battle of Anzio
Cyril Connell (4689704)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
11 February 1942, aged 25
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Thomas Harold Cook (T/203967)
Royal Army Service Corps - -
16 May 1941
Tobruk War Cemetery
Died during the siege of Tobruk
Roy James Cooke (CH/X 113813)
Royal Marines - H.M.S. Westcliffe
2 March 1944, aged 18
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died at the Naval Hospital, Westcliffe on Sea
James Cooke (S/10671114)
Royal Army Service Corps
23 July 1943, aged 30
La Reunion War Cemetery
KIA during the North African Campaign
Angus Andrew Cooper (1510879)
Royal Artillery - 80 Anti Tank Regt
12 September 1944, aged 25
Singapore Memorial
Died as PoW when ship, the Kachidoki Maru was sunk by the US submarine Pampanito
Ernest Cooper (1055977)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 103 Sqdn.
9 January 1943, aged 28
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Lancaster mk I ED384 coded PM-H, airborne 1652 9 Jan 43 from Elsham wolds on a mission to Essen. Crashed in the vicinity of Koln-Sud, where all were buried 12 Jan 43. When lost this aircraft was on its first operation and had a total of 9 hours.
Arthur Robert Cornish (LT/KX.160308)
Royal Naval Patrol Service - H.M.S. Golden Hind
30 July 1945, aged 21
Sydney War Cemetery
Died on war service in Australia
John Charles Coulthard (569673)
Royal Air Force - 102 Sqdn.
24 September 1942, aged 22
Kiel War Cemetery
Flight Engineer, 102 Squadron. HP Halifax II DT517, DY-G. T/o Pocklington for Flensburg. Airborne 0015 24Sep42 from Pocklington. Cause of loss and crash- site not established.
Peter Cyprian Coulthard (110823)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 18 Sqdn.
14 July 1942, aged 19
Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery
Blenheim V6071 airborne 0015 14Jul42 from Wattisham for an Intruder operation to Deelen Airfield, Holland. Shot down by Flak and crashed 0120 into the Amsterdam Bos, a wooded area S of the city,
Stanley Courtney (4868422)
Royal Corps of Signals - 6th Airborne Div. Sigs.
13 June 1944, aged 23
Ranville War Cemetery
Died in Normandy
William Coward (2020845)
Royal Engineers - 159 Bomb Disposal Platoon
8 September 1944
Rome War Cemetery
Died in Italy
William Marchant Cowburn
Civilian War Dead
24 April 1941, aged 37
Cowes, Urban District
Air Raid Warden; Died At The Limes, Cambridge Road, East Cowes, Isle of Wight along with another warden. They rushed into a bombed house to try to rescue the occupants only to fall into a hole 30 feet deep created by the high exposive bomb.
Walter Cowles (874443)
Royal Artillery - 188 Bty., 67 H.A.A. Regt
23 June 1944, aged 28
Taukkyan War Cemetery
KIA in Burma
Jack Cowley (T/14419241)
Royal Army Service Corps - 753 Amb. Car Coy.
26 December 1944, aged 19
Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
Stephen Cox (117932)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
24 December 1945, aged 28
Sedgeley (All Saints) Churchyard West Extension
Died on active service in The Royal Infirmary Doncaster
Harold Cracknell (1887420)
Royal Engineers - 159 Rly. Constr. Coy.
17 June 1940, aged 30
Dunkirk Memorial
Died when the ship Lancastrian sank off the coast of France
William Henry Crane (402567)
Royal Australian Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
3 August 1941, aged 19
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington X3177 took off from RAF Finningley, for a night training exercise. At sometime between 0430 and 0530, the bomber hit the ground at high speed, roughly three miles south west of Bawtry, Nottinghampshire, UK. All the crew were killed.
Maxwell Robert (Max) Crisp (1593585)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 106 Sqdn.
22 February 1946, aged 23
Scrooby (St Wilfrid) Churchyard
Died in the UK
Thomas Henry Cross (P/JX 193434)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Kashmir
23 May 1941, aged 22
Son of Irvin (former licensee of Winning Post, Moorends) and Edith Cross Former pupil of Thorne Grammar School.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean
Stanley Victor Crossley (14623775)
South Staffordshire Regiment - 2/6th Bn.
8 July 1944, aged 19
Hermanville War Cemetery
Died during Operation Charnwood - 'H' hour was to be 0420 hours on 8th July when 59 Division was to attack due south against the main enemy defences. 3 Canadian Division and 3 British Division were to attack at the same time, down the ridges on our right and left respectively. At 0420 hours our leading troops crossed the start line. On the right 2/6 South Staffordshire were directed on Galmanche. Leading companies came under heavy fire within 200 yards of the start line, and though elements of one company entered the outskirts of Galmanche and a few tanks got round the village to the southeast, our attack on this flank came to a full stop. The infantry lost the barrage and remained in the open, suffering heavy casualties from mortar fire as they lay in the standing crops and from machine-gun fire if they tried to move.
Sydney Crowcroft (1991872)
Royal Engineers - 629 Field Sqn
6 June 1944, aged 25
Hermanville War Cemetery
Killed on D-Day, landing on Sword Beach. The sappers of 629 Field Squadron were to make a start on clearing and marking paths through the beach obstacles. They would first disarm and remove mines and then hook up the obstacles to tanks of the Clearance Teams to be towed away to dumps. If it was not possible to tow away obstacles each sapper carried eight 3lb made up charges with which to demolish the obstacles.
William Arthur Crowcroft (1729369)
Royal Artillery
8 April 1944, aged 36
Gilgil War Cemetery
Riding accident, East Africa (include Abyssinia)
Wilfred Crummack (4688859)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn.
28 April 1940, aged 23
Kvam Churchyard
KIA in the Norwegian Campaign
Albert Edward Cullen (4453559)
Durham Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
15 May 1940, aged 23
Leopoldsburg War Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Martin Cummins (C/MX 77363)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Cleopatra
16 July 1943, aged 22
Chatham Naval Memorial
HMS Cleopatra was torpedoed and heavily damaged off Sicily by the Italian submarine Dandolo
David Currie (3127110)
Royal Armoured Corps - Warwickshire Yeomanry
14 November 1942
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
Patrick Joseph Curry (573507)
Royal Air Force - 106 Sqdn.
6 July 1940, aged 19
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
On 6th July 1940 Hampden L4181 made a fast landing at Finningley airfield at 23.25hrs following a night flying exercise and ran into the overshoot area. Around Finningley airfield at this time were a number of tented camps, so dispersed because of the fear of air-raids and sadly the aircraft crashed through one of these groups of tents and struck a number of people in the process. The tent the aircraft struck held members of a defence gun crew; three were killed and two others injured. The aircraft was initially believed repairable but later deemed beyond repair. The crew escaped injury.
Arthur Willis Cusa (P/JX 217437)
Royal Navy - French Ship Branlebas
14 December 1940, aged 19
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the ship sunk in very heavy seas whilst westbound in a convoy off the Cornish coast.
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
5 April 1942, aged 24
Port Said War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Middle East
Margaret Cadman
Civilian War Dead
21 December 1940, aged 21
Bently with Arksey, Urban District
of 100 Woodlands Road, Adwick-Le-Street. Near Sun Inn, Bentley.
James Calderbank (14589496)
Royal Engineers
25 July 1945, aged 34
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Died in North Yorkshire
Alexander Campbell (974217)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
18 June 1941, aged 19
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Hampden P4389 near Finningley. On 18th June 1941 this aircraft stalled while taking off from Finningley airfield so that an airtest could be carried out, it dived into the ground one field away from the airfield boundary near Gatewood Farm at 18.50hrs. The aircraft was destroyed and all on board were sadly killed. The last three named below were ground crew probably going along for a ride which appears to have been reasonably common practice at the time.
John James Campbell (971123)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
10 April 1941, aged 25
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Campbell took off in a Hampden from Lindholme on a training flight. Eye witness reports indicate that he used the opportunity for undertaking aerobatics over Evington, Leicester, reputedly by 'shooting up' the home of his girlfriend. As onlookers on the ground watched the twin-engined aircraft wheeling and soaring, first with admiration but then with anxiety. The pilot lost control and the aircraft crashed into houses on Denys Road, killing Campbell, his Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Flight Sergeant Leslie Carn of Southend and Maud Harris of number 26. A second civilian on the ground was also injured.
William Canill (6144786)
East Surrey Regiment - 1st Bn.
22 May 1940
Dunkirk Memorial
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Harry Cannon (4689581)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn.
28 June 1942, aged 24
Imphal War Cemetery
Died in India
Albert Cant (2315011)
Corps of Royal Military Police
27 January 1947, aged 51
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
George Riley Carr (3322183)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 7th Bn.
6 April 1943, aged 27
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
Died in North Africa
Cecil William Cartwright (640825)
Royal Air Force
26 May 1944, aged 25
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Died on Active Service
Tom Cassey (301755)
Royal Air Force
18 February 1941, aged 52
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Death registered in Thorne
Edward Casson
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 18
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 48 Wordsworth Avenue.
Edward John Casson
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 45
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 48 Wordsworth Avenue.
Esther May Casson
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 20
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, injured at 48 Wordsworth Avenue; died the same day at Royal Infirmary.
Miss. Edith Evangeline Castle
Civilian War Dead
19 November 1944, aged 50
Sumatra
Died at Muntok, Banka Island.
Thomas William Chambers (1459021)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 143 Sqdn.
17 October 1943, aged 22
Runnymede Memorial
Other casualty James Simpson 1553933. Both posted Missing believed KIA. Shot down over Bay of Biscay
Arthur Stanley Chapman (1434611)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
10 August 1944, aged 26
Thure Communal Cemetery
Lancaster LM435 coded NV-E airborne 20:49 on 9 August 1944 from Skellingthorpe to bomb storage dumps in the Foret de Chatellerault. Believed to have collided with a 619 Sqdn Lancaster (ME866). Crashed at Thure (Vienne), a village 7 km WNW of Ch_tellerault and astride the road leading to Monts-sur- Guesnes. All are buried in Thure Communal Cemetery, alongside their comrades from ME866.
George Henry Chapman (T/78331)
Royal Army Service Corps - 38 Res Mt Coy
14 November 1942
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
John Clifford Chapman (180591)
Royal Artillery - Seconded To 1st Bn.
24 May 1944, aged 23
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Reginald Montague Chapman (1833489)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
2 September 1947, aged 25
Stainforth Cemetery
Death registered in Don Valley
Thomas Chapman (1076944)
Royal Artillery - 7 Medium Regt
Between 28 and 29 May 1941, aged 25
Athens Memorial
Killed in action, died at sea during the battle for Crete
Harold Chappell (4758390)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 7th Bn.
15 April 1945, aged 23
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Ernest Henry Charlesworth (T/129073)
Royal Army Service Corps
27 November 1945
Brighton City (Bear Road) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Thomas Charnley (1498742)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 320 MU
1 August 1944, aged 22
Karachi War Cemetery
Died on Active Service in East India
Norman Cheesmond (4747932)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 2nd Bn.
29 November 1941, aged 20
Tobruk War Cemetery
Killed in action during Operation Crusader, as the 70th Division broke out of Tobruk.
Harold Chesworth (1517355)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 308 Sqdn.
26 June 1943, aged 36
Delhi War Cemetery
Died on Active Service in India
Arthur John Frank Churchill (37036)
Royal Air Force
21 September 1941, aged 27
Arthur Churchill was appointed to a short service commission in the RAF as Acting P/O on probation in October 1935 and posted to 9 Squadron at Boscombe Down on 14th October 1935. He rose to acting F/O on 19th April 1937 (made permanent in February 1938) and then to acting F/Lt on 20th May 1938 and permanent F/Lt on 19th April 1939. He rose to temporary S/Ldr in September 1940.
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
On 21st September 1941 the pilot of Oxford V4036 aircraft was taking off using instruments at Finningley in poor visibility when, at 09.19hrs the aircraft drifted off course and crashed into a hanger.
James Clamp (4539398)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
21 January 1944, aged 20
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Edward Clarke (1480536)
Royal Artillery - 78 Bty., 35 Lt. A.A. Regt.
15 September 1945, aged 40
Enlisted 1938
Jakarta War Cemetery
Died of enteritis while a Japanese PoW at Palembang, Sumatra.
Frederick Clarke (2979730)
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - 2nd Bn.
31 July 1943, aged 31
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW
Herbert John Clarke (1913175)
Royal Engineers - 9 Mechanical Equipment Sec.
12 October 1944, aged 37
Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery
Terence Vincent Gerard Clarke (1165625)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 25 O.T.U.
11 August 1941, aged 28
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Killed on active service 11th August 1941 (age 26). The pilot lost control of Hampden (X2916) during a landing at Finningley
William Clarke (7378206)
Royal Army Medical Corps
15 March 1944, aged 24
Naples War Cemetery
Died during the Italian Campaign, probably in one of the General Hospitals that were established in Naples.
John Clatworthy (2664361)
Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn.
Between 24 and 25 December 1942, aged 21
Medjez-El-Bab Memorial
Died in North Africa
Herbert William Clay (CH/X 109545)
Royal Marines - 27th Bn.
5 March 1945, aged 23
Drunen (Elshout) Roman Catholic Churchyard
Killed no other casualties from same Bn until 19 days later
John Matthew Clayton (4592961)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn.
14 July 1943, aged 24
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
John Thomas Cleavin (2884711)
Seaforth Highlanders - 1st Bn.
22 May 1943, aged 26
Imphal War Cemetery
Died in India
John Joseph Clifford (4544392)
Royal Artillery - 3/2 Maritime Regt
7 July 1942, aged 28
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
At 18.35 hours on 7 July 1942 the Hartlebury, dispersed from convoy PQ-17, was hit by two of three torpedoes fired by U-355 and two minutes later by another torpedo. At 18.45 hours, a coup de grâce hit the vessel, which sank over the bow within 10 minutes 17 miles 180° from Britwin Lighthouse, Novaya Zemlya. The explosions only left one lifeboat intact, which was lowered by panicking crewmen and flipped over, throwing the occupants into the icy water. Others jumped into the water and tried to reach the rafts. A total of 29 crew members, seven gunners and two naval signalmen were lost.
Noel Clifton (2663030)
Coldstream Guards - 5th Bn.
19 April 1945, aged 37
Becklingen War Cemetery
Grahame Hilton Clothier (411865)
Royal Australian Air Force - 15 (P) AFU
27 September 1942, aged 20
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Oxford R6081 near South Anston, Rotherham. On 27th September 1942 trainee pilot of this aircraft was undertaking a navigation exercise when he became lost in poor weather and crashed. Although the unit's parent airfield was Leconfield it is believed that he had taken off from Kirmington at 08.40hrs. The route was to have been from base to Worksop, Kettering, Boston and back to base. He descended to work out his position and was probably attempting a forced land the aircraft but hit a tree and dived into the ground at 09.22hrs near South Anston and was killed. The Court of Inquiry found the pilot was responsible for descending below a safe height but also blamed his superiors for allowing the flight when poor weather had been reported which stated that there were extensive fog patches over part of the route.
Arthur Clover (1458798)
Royal Artillery - 170 Bty., 57 Lt. A.A. Regt.
Between 2 February and 20 May 1942, aged 21
Alamein Memorial
Presumed KIA at sea whilst a PoW
John Parkin Coates (4537627)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn.
4 August 1941, aged 25
Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata
Died in India
Cyril Cobb (1504676)
Royal Artillery - 61 Anti-Tank Regt.
16 December 1944
Schoonselhof Cemetery
KIA in the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
William Cobb (1811401)
Royal Artillery - 3 H.A.A. Regt.
28 July 1942, aged 27
Kranji War Cemetery
Died five months after Singapore was captured, reported to have died of dysentery and pneumonia in Saigon
Albert Cockayne (4694368)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2/4th Bn.
11 September 1944, aged 29
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
Died in Italy
John Cockburn (145110)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 487 Rnzaf Sqdn.
22 February 1945, aged 29
Becklingen War Cemetery
Mosquito HR 356 airborne from airfield B.87 (Rosières-en-Santerre, France) for an intruder mission over Germany. Crashed near Bevern, the registrar of the village gave this crash location as 1,000 yards northwest of the village near the railway line Bremervorde-Rotenburg.
Herbert Cockhill (P/JX 137762)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Express
1 September 1940, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
On 31 August 1940 HMS Esk was mined and sunk about 40 nautical miles north-west of Texel island, the Netherlands in position 53º30'N, 03º47'E.
Charles H Cocks (T/174135)
Royal Army Service Corps
2 August 1945, aged 33
Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Hospital (Cairo) as a result of Malaria
Leslie William Codd (T/200008)
Royal Army Service Corps - 1824 Assault Platoon
12 May 1944
Cassino Memorial
Died in Italy
William Edward Codd (P/SBR/X 7234)
Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve - H.M.S. Dunedin
24 November 1941, aged 33
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died when vessel was sunk in the Atlantic
Harold Coggon (1216180)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Seletar
24 June 1945, aged 22
Singapore Memorial
Captured Java arrive at Sandakan from 8th to 18th April 1943. Japanese recorded death as Malaria. Sandakan death marches from 1945/01/29, to Paginatan and Ranau. Out of the 2434 Sandakan prisoners, 1787 Australians and 641 British died, only 6 Australians survived by escaping.
Geoffrey Landas Cohen (402212)
Royal Australian Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
3 August 1941, aged 27
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington X3177 took off from RAF Finningley, for a night training exercise. At sometime between 0430 and 0530, the bomber hit the ground at high speed, roughly three miles south west of Bawtry, Nottinghampshire, UK. All the crew were killed.
Edward D'Ewes Fitzgerald Coke (66152)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - attd. 6th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
27 September 1944, aged 29
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
William Colclough (7813266)
Pioneer Corps
23 October 1942, aged 41
Stainforth Cemetery
Died in the UK
Harry Cole (981797)
Dorsetshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
20 November 1944, aged 29
Brunssum War Cemetery
Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by British XXX Corps (which included the U.S. 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944. Clipper was a part of a wider Allied operation, named Operation Queen to gain control of the Roer valley and the Hürtgen Forest. 43rd (Wessex) Division was to advance and capture the high ground north and west of the town (around Bauchem and Tripsrath). Once done, Geilenkirchen would be virtually encircled.
Harry Cole (4862493)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 1st Bn.
14 February 1945, aged 25
Enlisted 13.6.1940 into Leicestershire Regiment. Transferred to Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1.4.1943.
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
George William Collings (998458)
King's Shropshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
7 June 1944, aged 28
Ranville War Cemetery
The 2nd Battalion landed on Sword Beach, Queen sector near Hermanville-sur-Mer on “D-Day”, 6th June 1944 as part of 185 Brigade. Killed on D-Day+1, near Bieville
Charles Norman Collingwood (1595173)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 428 Sqdn.
5 December 1944, aged 19
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster KB768 code NA-E airborne 17:50 on 5 December 1944 from Middleton St.George for a mission to Soest. Collided in the air with a 426 Sqdn Halifax (LW200), both aircraft crashing 19:00 near Rugby in Warwickshire.
William Henry Collishaw (2619814)
Grenadier Guards - 5th Bn.
26 January 1944, aged 24
Anzio War Cemetery
Died during the battle of Anzio
Cyril Connell (4689704)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
11 February 1942, aged 25
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Thomas Harold Cook (T/203967)
Royal Army Service Corps - -
16 May 1941
Tobruk War Cemetery
Died during the siege of Tobruk
Roy James Cooke (CH/X 113813)
Royal Marines - H.M.S. Westcliffe
2 March 1944, aged 18
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died at the Naval Hospital, Westcliffe on Sea
James Cooke (S/10671114)
Royal Army Service Corps
23 July 1943, aged 30
La Reunion War Cemetery
KIA during the North African Campaign
Angus Andrew Cooper (1510879)
Royal Artillery - 80 Anti Tank Regt
12 September 1944, aged 25
Singapore Memorial
Died as PoW when ship, the Kachidoki Maru was sunk by the US submarine Pampanito
Ernest Cooper (1055977)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 103 Sqdn.
9 January 1943, aged 28
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Lancaster mk I ED384 coded PM-H, airborne 1652 9 Jan 43 from Elsham wolds on a mission to Essen. Crashed in the vicinity of Koln-Sud, where all were buried 12 Jan 43. When lost this aircraft was on its first operation and had a total of 9 hours.
Arthur Robert Cornish (LT/KX.160308)
Royal Naval Patrol Service - H.M.S. Golden Hind
30 July 1945, aged 21
Sydney War Cemetery
Died on war service in Australia
John Charles Coulthard (569673)
Royal Air Force - 102 Sqdn.
24 September 1942, aged 22
Kiel War Cemetery
Flight Engineer, 102 Squadron. HP Halifax II DT517, DY-G. T/o Pocklington for Flensburg. Airborne 0015 24Sep42 from Pocklington. Cause of loss and crash- site not established.
Peter Cyprian Coulthard (110823)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 18 Sqdn.
14 July 1942, aged 19
Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery
Blenheim V6071 airborne 0015 14Jul42 from Wattisham for an Intruder operation to Deelen Airfield, Holland. Shot down by Flak and crashed 0120 into the Amsterdam Bos, a wooded area S of the city,
Stanley Courtney (4868422)
Royal Corps of Signals - 6th Airborne Div. Sigs.
13 June 1944, aged 23
Ranville War Cemetery
Died in Normandy
William Coward (2020845)
Royal Engineers - 159 Bomb Disposal Platoon
8 September 1944
Rome War Cemetery
Died in Italy
William Marchant Cowburn
Civilian War Dead
24 April 1941, aged 37
Cowes, Urban District
Air Raid Warden; Died At The Limes, Cambridge Road, East Cowes, Isle of Wight along with another warden. They rushed into a bombed house to try to rescue the occupants only to fall into a hole 30 feet deep created by the high exposive bomb.
Walter Cowles (874443)
Royal Artillery - 188 Bty., 67 H.A.A. Regt
23 June 1944, aged 28
Taukkyan War Cemetery
KIA in Burma
Jack Cowley (T/14419241)
Royal Army Service Corps - 753 Amb. Car Coy.
26 December 1944, aged 19
Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
Stephen Cox (117932)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
24 December 1945, aged 28
Sedgeley (All Saints) Churchyard West Extension
Died on active service in The Royal Infirmary Doncaster
Harold Cracknell (1887420)
Royal Engineers - 159 Rly. Constr. Coy.
17 June 1940, aged 30
Dunkirk Memorial
Died when the ship Lancastrian sank off the coast of France
William Henry Crane (402567)
Royal Australian Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
3 August 1941, aged 19
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington X3177 took off from RAF Finningley, for a night training exercise. At sometime between 0430 and 0530, the bomber hit the ground at high speed, roughly three miles south west of Bawtry, Nottinghampshire, UK. All the crew were killed.
Maxwell Robert (Max) Crisp (1593585)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 106 Sqdn.
22 February 1946, aged 23
Scrooby (St Wilfrid) Churchyard
Died in the UK
Thomas Henry Cross (P/JX 193434)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Kashmir
23 May 1941, aged 22
Son of Irvin (former licensee of Winning Post, Moorends) and Edith Cross Former pupil of Thorne Grammar School.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean
Stanley Victor Crossley (14623775)
South Staffordshire Regiment - 2/6th Bn.
8 July 1944, aged 19
Hermanville War Cemetery
Died during Operation Charnwood - 'H' hour was to be 0420 hours on 8th July when 59 Division was to attack due south against the main enemy defences. 3 Canadian Division and 3 British Division were to attack at the same time, down the ridges on our right and left respectively. At 0420 hours our leading troops crossed the start line. On the right 2/6 South Staffordshire were directed on Galmanche. Leading companies came under heavy fire within 200 yards of the start line, and though elements of one company entered the outskirts of Galmanche and a few tanks got round the village to the southeast, our attack on this flank came to a full stop. The infantry lost the barrage and remained in the open, suffering heavy casualties from mortar fire as they lay in the standing crops and from machine-gun fire if they tried to move.
Sydney Crowcroft (1991872)
Royal Engineers - 629 Field Sqn
6 June 1944, aged 25
Hermanville War Cemetery
Killed on D-Day, landing on Sword Beach. The sappers of 629 Field Squadron were to make a start on clearing and marking paths through the beach obstacles. They would first disarm and remove mines and then hook up the obstacles to tanks of the Clearance Teams to be towed away to dumps. If it was not possible to tow away obstacles each sapper carried eight 3lb made up charges with which to demolish the obstacles.
William Arthur Crowcroft (1729369)
Royal Artillery
8 April 1944, aged 36
Gilgil War Cemetery
Riding accident, East Africa (include Abyssinia)
Wilfred Crummack (4688859)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn.
28 April 1940, aged 23
Kvam Churchyard
KIA in the Norwegian Campaign
Albert Edward Cullen (4453559)
Durham Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
15 May 1940, aged 23
Leopoldsburg War Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Martin Cummins (C/MX 77363)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Cleopatra
16 July 1943, aged 22
Chatham Naval Memorial
HMS Cleopatra was torpedoed and heavily damaged off Sicily by the Italian submarine Dandolo
David Currie (3127110)
Royal Armoured Corps - Warwickshire Yeomanry
14 November 1942
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
Patrick Joseph Curry (573507)
Royal Air Force - 106 Sqdn.
6 July 1940, aged 19
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
On 6th July 1940 Hampden L4181 made a fast landing at Finningley airfield at 23.25hrs following a night flying exercise and ran into the overshoot area. Around Finningley airfield at this time were a number of tented camps, so dispersed because of the fear of air-raids and sadly the aircraft crashed through one of these groups of tents and struck a number of people in the process. The tent the aircraft struck held members of a defence gun crew; three were killed and two others injured. The aircraft was initially believed repairable but later deemed beyond repair. The crew escaped injury.
Arthur Willis Cusa (P/JX 217437)
Royal Navy - French Ship Branlebas
14 December 1940, aged 19
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the ship sunk in very heavy seas whilst westbound in a convoy off the Cornish coast.