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Jackson,
Albert - 4690369 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Jackson, Arthur - 1050666 - Mexborough
Jackson, Leslie - 10562496 - Armthorpe
Jackson, Leslie - 10562496 - Barnby Dun
Jackson , Edward - Rossington
Jameson, Sidney - Rossington
Jamfrey, John Lumsden - 2764642 - Bentley
Jeffcote, Pearl Dunhill - Denaby Main
Jenkinson, Arthur Eric - 4687667 - Conisbrough
Jenkinson, James Maddra Clifford - 649520 - Armthorpe
Johnson, R - Edlington
Jones, A - Mexborough
Jones, Alun - 2701366 - Denaby Main
Jones, George Douglas - 4755659 - High Melton
Jones, Glynn - 1684714 - Bentley
Jones, John Albert - 4750480 - Bentley
Jones, John Henry - Arksey
Jones, John Henry Jnr - Arksey
Jones, Lawrence - P/KX 101094 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Jones, Leslie - Owston
Jones, Pamela Doreen - Arksey
Jones, Sidney Charles Rupert - 1877652 - Rossington
Jones, Walter - 1459867 - Conisbrough
Jordan, Thomas Edward - 568237 - Mexborough
Judge, Edward - 2621627 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Jackson, Arthur - 1050666 - Mexborough
Jackson, Leslie - 10562496 - Armthorpe
Jackson, Leslie - 10562496 - Barnby Dun
Jackson , Edward - Rossington
Jameson, Sidney - Rossington
Jamfrey, John Lumsden - 2764642 - Bentley
Jeffcote, Pearl Dunhill - Denaby Main
Jenkinson, Arthur Eric - 4687667 - Conisbrough
Jenkinson, James Maddra Clifford - 649520 - Armthorpe
Johnson, R - Edlington
Jones, A - Mexborough
Jones, Alun - 2701366 - Denaby Main
Jones, George Douglas - 4755659 - High Melton
Jones, Glynn - 1684714 - Bentley
Jones, John Albert - 4750480 - Bentley
Jones, John Henry - Arksey
Jones, John Henry Jnr - Arksey
Jones, Lawrence - P/KX 101094 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Jones, Leslie - Owston
Jones, Pamela Doreen - Arksey
Jones, Sidney Charles Rupert - 1877652 - Rossington
Jones, Walter - 1459867 - Conisbrough
Jordan, Thomas Edward - 568237 - Mexborough
Judge, Edward - 2621627 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Additional casualties not listed on a memorial
Albert Jackson (318397)
Royal Armoured Corps - 'B' Coy Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons
2 November 1942 , aged 22
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died during the Battle of Alamein
Hedley Jackson (1871951)
Royal Engineers - 59 Field Coy.
23 May 1940 , aged 25
Kaaskerke Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
John Pugh Jacomb (C/KX 97887)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Corncrake
25 January 1943 , aged 21
Chatham Naval Memorial
The minesweeper HMS Corncrake foundered in the North Atlantic in heavy weather on 25 January 1943.
Alan John James (880917)
Royal Artillery - 24 Field Regt
19 April 1945 , aged 26
Padua War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Stanley Arthur James (809775)
Royal Engineers - 116 Road Constr Coy
17 June 1940 , aged 24
Dunkirk Memorial
Died when the ship Lancastria sank off the coast of France
George William Jameson (1458006)
Royal Artillery - 157 Bty, 53 Lt AA Regt
23 March 1943 , aged 31
Sfax War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Michael Claud Janvrin
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Triumph
20 January 1942 , aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Triumph was also used for covert operations, such as landing agents in German occupied areas. She was planned to be used as a rendezvous for commandos in Operation Colossus, but this had to be cancelled when the landing site became untenable. She undertook one such mission in December 1941, in which she successfully landed agents in Greece. She was lost just over a week later, off Greece, probably to a collision with a mine in early January 1942. All fifty-nine crew were lost.
Raymond Jarvis
Civilian War Dead
21 December 1940 , aged 18
Bently with Arksey, Urban District
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 75 Royston Avenue, Bentley.
David George Jefcoate (6631073)
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) - 1/7th Bn
15 January 1943 , aged 31
Resided Doncaster
Tripoli War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
William Leslie Jenkinson (4545346)
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - 1st Bn
28 December 1944 , aged 35
Faenza War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Robert Albert Jewell (D/MX 56854)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Valiant
28 July 1940 , aged 22
Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery
Died in Gibraltar
Victor Jinks (4970435)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 13th Bn
29 August 1944 , aged 34
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Alexander James Jobson (1520764)
Royal Artillery - 2 Bty., 1 Searchlight Regt.
21 May 1940
Les Attaques Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
David Johnson (C/JX 353438)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Karanja
12 November 1942 , aged 19
Chatham Naval Memorial
Bombed and sunk by German aircraft off Bougie, Algeria on 12 November 1942
Harry Laverne Johnson (R/70600)
Royal Canadian Air Force - 1651 C.U. C Flt
16 June 1942 , aged 26
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Stirling I N6088 - seen at about 1608 in a right hand spiral dive with the port wing on fire. The outer port mainplane broke away, causing N6088 to crash onto the Great North Road, 2½ miles north of East Retford and 9 miles south of Finningley, Nottinghamshire. All eight crew died
Reginald Charles Johnson (2348278)
Royal Corps of Signals - Guards Armd. Div. Sigs.
3 July 1944 , aged 27
St. Manvieu War Cemetery, Cheux
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Seth Johnson (7392407)
Pioneer Corps
29 April 1945
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Wilfred Johnson (321311)
Royal Armoured Corps - Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
3 November 1942 , aged 22
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
Donald Thurstan Johnston (39319)
Royal Air Force - 50 Sqdn
13 March 1941 , aged 24
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Hampden Type:Mk.B.I Serial Number:AD721 Identifier:VN-? Airborne 2223 12Mar41 from Lindholme on a mission to Berlin. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed near Nordhorn. All four crew killed and are buried in the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery.
Albert Cyril Jones (1445999)
Royal Artillery - 153 Bty, 53 Lt AA Regt
8 March 1943 , aged 40
Sfax War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Basil Everard Francis Jones (778684)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
11 June 1942
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington R1073 near Lindholme airfield. On 11th June 1942 the crew of this aircraft were to carry out a basic circuits and landings exercise at Lindholme airfield and took off from Finningley at 13.00hrs. Before any of the proposed landings could be made the aircraft went out of control and dived into ground just east of Canberra Cottage Farm close to the Lindholme's boundary at 13.15hrs. Both airmen on board were sadly killed.
Christopher Jones (4685427)
Royal Engineers - 107 Field Coy
7 July 1944 , aged 37
Sangro River War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Edward Jones (3392396)
East Lancashire Regiment - 2nd Bn
30 August 1944 , aged 30
Digboi War Cemetery
Part of 29th Infantry Brigade which flew into North Burma in August 1944 and advanced south to Mandalay.
John Jones (656792)
Royal Air Force - 104 Sqdn
9 May 1943 , aged 28
Endfidaville War Cemetery
Wellington W5418 - missing Cape Bon.
Leslie George Jones (1380974)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 97 Sqdn
2 September 1942 , aged 20
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster mk I R5741 coded OF-K airborne 2346 1Sep42 from Woodhall Spa on a raid to Saarbrucken. Presumed crashed in the North Sea. The body of the pilot was washed onto Fano Island 30Oct42
Leslie Horace Jones (646858)
Royal Air Force - 460 Sqn CF/ 20 O.T.U.
22 September 1942 , aged 30
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Halifax W1272 near Catterton, Tadcaster. On 22nd September 1942 this aircraft took off from Holme on Spalding Moor airfield for a day time training exercise and during the exercise the instructor was demonstrating the effects of rudder stall (a problem which the early Halifax's suffered from). At 10.12hrs the aircraft was allowed to enter the stall but control was lost and was not recovered, the aircraft crashed near Middle Farm, Catterton, Tadcaster with the loss of the four airmen on board. As a result this accident this form of training was struck off the syllabus at Heavy Conversion courses. The pupil pilot and the rear gunner were 460 Squadron personnel converting to flying four engined bombers.
Norman Jones (165309)
Royal Artillery - 149 Bty, 27 Lt AA Regt
10 September 1942 , aged 31
Ramleh War Cemetery
Died in the Middle
East Raymond Jones (4690150)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn
23 February 1942 , aged 24
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
William Jones (264263)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
18 December 1943 , aged 37
Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Egypt
Samuel Joyce (7945187)
Army Catering Corps
24 July 1946 , aged 45
Munster Heath War Cemetery
Died at Ober Kirchen, Germany
Francis Judge (4617239)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn
29 May 1940 , aged 21
Dunkirk Memorial
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Thomas Henry Judge (1102501)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 145 Sqdn
4 April 1945 , aged 27
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Died in the UK
Royal Armoured Corps - 'B' Coy Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons
2 November 1942 , aged 22
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died during the Battle of Alamein
Hedley Jackson (1871951)
Royal Engineers - 59 Field Coy.
23 May 1940 , aged 25
Kaaskerke Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
John Pugh Jacomb (C/KX 97887)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Corncrake
25 January 1943 , aged 21
Chatham Naval Memorial
The minesweeper HMS Corncrake foundered in the North Atlantic in heavy weather on 25 January 1943.
Alan John James (880917)
Royal Artillery - 24 Field Regt
19 April 1945 , aged 26
Padua War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Stanley Arthur James (809775)
Royal Engineers - 116 Road Constr Coy
17 June 1940 , aged 24
Dunkirk Memorial
Died when the ship Lancastria sank off the coast of France
George William Jameson (1458006)
Royal Artillery - 157 Bty, 53 Lt AA Regt
23 March 1943 , aged 31
Sfax War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Michael Claud Janvrin
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Triumph
20 January 1942 , aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Triumph was also used for covert operations, such as landing agents in German occupied areas. She was planned to be used as a rendezvous for commandos in Operation Colossus, but this had to be cancelled when the landing site became untenable. She undertook one such mission in December 1941, in which she successfully landed agents in Greece. She was lost just over a week later, off Greece, probably to a collision with a mine in early January 1942. All fifty-nine crew were lost.
Raymond Jarvis
Civilian War Dead
21 December 1940 , aged 18
Bently with Arksey, Urban District
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 75 Royston Avenue, Bentley.
David George Jefcoate (6631073)
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) - 1/7th Bn
15 January 1943 , aged 31
Resided Doncaster
Tripoli War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
William Leslie Jenkinson (4545346)
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers - 1st Bn
28 December 1944 , aged 35
Faenza War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Robert Albert Jewell (D/MX 56854)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Valiant
28 July 1940 , aged 22
Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery
Died in Gibraltar
Victor Jinks (4970435)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 13th Bn
29 August 1944 , aged 34
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Alexander James Jobson (1520764)
Royal Artillery - 2 Bty., 1 Searchlight Regt.
21 May 1940
Les Attaques Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
David Johnson (C/JX 353438)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Karanja
12 November 1942 , aged 19
Chatham Naval Memorial
Bombed and sunk by German aircraft off Bougie, Algeria on 12 November 1942
Harry Laverne Johnson (R/70600)
Royal Canadian Air Force - 1651 C.U. C Flt
16 June 1942 , aged 26
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Stirling I N6088 - seen at about 1608 in a right hand spiral dive with the port wing on fire. The outer port mainplane broke away, causing N6088 to crash onto the Great North Road, 2½ miles north of East Retford and 9 miles south of Finningley, Nottinghamshire. All eight crew died
Reginald Charles Johnson (2348278)
Royal Corps of Signals - Guards Armd. Div. Sigs.
3 July 1944 , aged 27
St. Manvieu War Cemetery, Cheux
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Seth Johnson (7392407)
Pioneer Corps
29 April 1945
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Wilfred Johnson (321311)
Royal Armoured Corps - Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
3 November 1942 , aged 22
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
Donald Thurstan Johnston (39319)
Royal Air Force - 50 Sqdn
13 March 1941 , aged 24
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Hampden Type:Mk.B.I Serial Number:AD721 Identifier:VN-? Airborne 2223 12Mar41 from Lindholme on a mission to Berlin. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed near Nordhorn. All four crew killed and are buried in the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery.
Albert Cyril Jones (1445999)
Royal Artillery - 153 Bty, 53 Lt AA Regt
8 March 1943 , aged 40
Sfax War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Basil Everard Francis Jones (778684)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
11 June 1942
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington R1073 near Lindholme airfield. On 11th June 1942 the crew of this aircraft were to carry out a basic circuits and landings exercise at Lindholme airfield and took off from Finningley at 13.00hrs. Before any of the proposed landings could be made the aircraft went out of control and dived into ground just east of Canberra Cottage Farm close to the Lindholme's boundary at 13.15hrs. Both airmen on board were sadly killed.
Christopher Jones (4685427)
Royal Engineers - 107 Field Coy
7 July 1944 , aged 37
Sangro River War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Edward Jones (3392396)
East Lancashire Regiment - 2nd Bn
30 August 1944 , aged 30
Digboi War Cemetery
Part of 29th Infantry Brigade which flew into North Burma in August 1944 and advanced south to Mandalay.
John Jones (656792)
Royal Air Force - 104 Sqdn
9 May 1943 , aged 28
Endfidaville War Cemetery
Wellington W5418 - missing Cape Bon.
Leslie George Jones (1380974)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 97 Sqdn
2 September 1942 , aged 20
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster mk I R5741 coded OF-K airborne 2346 1Sep42 from Woodhall Spa on a raid to Saarbrucken. Presumed crashed in the North Sea. The body of the pilot was washed onto Fano Island 30Oct42
Leslie Horace Jones (646858)
Royal Air Force - 460 Sqn CF/ 20 O.T.U.
22 September 1942 , aged 30
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Halifax W1272 near Catterton, Tadcaster. On 22nd September 1942 this aircraft took off from Holme on Spalding Moor airfield for a day time training exercise and during the exercise the instructor was demonstrating the effects of rudder stall (a problem which the early Halifax's suffered from). At 10.12hrs the aircraft was allowed to enter the stall but control was lost and was not recovered, the aircraft crashed near Middle Farm, Catterton, Tadcaster with the loss of the four airmen on board. As a result this accident this form of training was struck off the syllabus at Heavy Conversion courses. The pupil pilot and the rear gunner were 460 Squadron personnel converting to flying four engined bombers.
Norman Jones (165309)
Royal Artillery - 149 Bty, 27 Lt AA Regt
10 September 1942 , aged 31
Ramleh War Cemetery
Died in the Middle
East Raymond Jones (4690150)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn
23 February 1942 , aged 24
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
William Jones (264263)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
18 December 1943 , aged 37
Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Egypt
Samuel Joyce (7945187)
Army Catering Corps
24 July 1946 , aged 45
Munster Heath War Cemetery
Died at Ober Kirchen, Germany
Francis Judge (4617239)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn
29 May 1940 , aged 21
Dunkirk Memorial
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Thomas Henry Judge (1102501)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 145 Sqdn
4 April 1945 , aged 27
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Died in the UK