Index W
The information here displays the name, service number and memorial page they are listed on, which can be accessed via the home page
Waddington, Frank - 10603617 - Mexborough
Wainwright, Walter - 410280 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wakelam , James - 821355 - Armthorpe
Wakelin, Victor - 4342768 - Thorne
Wakelin, Victor - 4342768 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Walker, Edward Preston - 997639 - Cantley
Walker, Eric - 1026277 - Denaby Main
Walker, Ronald James - 1232380 - Thorne
Walker, Ronald James - 1232380 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wallis, Thomas Ralph - Conisbrough
Walsh, Louis - 295490 - Barnburgh
Walstow, Alfred - 4690710 - Armthorpe
Walters, Dennis - 702105 - Stainforth
Walters, J A - 7888414 - Edlington
Walton, Frederick Henry - 651948 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Ward, Harold - 1060035 - Bentley
Ward, J - Bentley
Warde-Aldam, Geoffrey St. Andrew - 156678 - Hooton Pagnell
Warren, Philip - Sprotborough
Wass, Henry James - 4617075 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Waterhouse, Ronald - 1908845 - Owston
Watkinson, Leslie Howard - C/MX 782148 - Owston
Watson, James - 4690518 - Mexborough
Watson, Thomas William - 940152 - Rossington
Webb, Edward - 4692952 - Edlington
Webb, Sidney - 14612965 - Mexborough
Webster, Samuel Francis - 4389505 - Thorne
Webster, Samuel Francis - 4389505 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wells, William - 177936 - Hexthorpe
West, Ernest - 4746038 - Denaby Main
Western, Ralph Charles - D/MX 47283 - Hexthorpe
Westfield, Samuel Lindsay - C/MX 72636 - Bentley
Weston, Roger Pickering - 1131503 - Old Edlington
Whaley, Kenneth - 1802501 - Mexborough
Wheat, Abraham - Arksey
Wheeler, John - 2664144 - Mexborough
Wheeliker, Gordon Kenneth - 1681705 - Denaby Main
Whelpton, Clifford James - 759310 - Edlington
White, Joseph - 4538473 - Conisbrough
Whitehead, Colin George William - 55845 - Mexborough
Whitehead, Frank - D/KX 90879 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Whitfield, Walter John Spencer - 410257 - Clayton with Frickley
Whitham, Wilfred - 5891134 - Mexborough
Whitlam, Ronald - 1504894 - Thorne
Whitlam, Ronald - 1504894 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Whitnall, Donald - D/JX 253953 - Highfields Clock
Whittaker, Albert - n/a - Denaby Main
Whittle, Robert - 4698229 - Owston
Whittles, Peter Albert - n/a - Arksey
Widdowson, H - Denaby Main
Wigglesworth, Reginald - 2664575 - Stainforth
Wilby, R - Mexborough
Wilde, John William - 1378164 - Edlington
Wilkinson, Walter John Charles - Edlington
Williams, David - 1691202 - Armthorpe
Williams, Harry - 10575005 - Warmsworth
Williams, William - 4757737 - Edlington
Williamson, John Herbert - 847891 - Tickhill
Willis, Robert Arthur - 1015771 - Warmsworth
Wilson, Cyril - 4538796 - Stainforth
Windle, George William - Arksey
Windle, Lilian Emily - Arksey
Windle, Roy Ellis - Arksey
Winters, Thomas Cyril - 14589805 - Blaxton
Wood, Eric Purdy - 755876 - Conisbrough
Wood, Horace - 4399756 - Conisbrough
Wood, Kenneth William - 4699275 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Wood, W - Armthorpe
Wood, W.C. - Denaby Main
Woodley, Alfred Leslie - C/JX 125146 - Conisbrough
Woods, Frank - 14206958 - Edlington
Wooldridge, John - 102017 - Thorne
Wooldridge, John - 102017 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wooldridge, Samuel - 4391534 - Thorne
Wooldridge, Samuel - 4391534 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Woolven, Leonard John - 110641 - Bentley
Worboys, Norman - 1542876 - Bentley
Wraith, John William - 4615192 - Denaby Main
Wraith, Sydney - 1466564 - Denaby Main
Wraith, William - 1103888 - Mexborough
Wright, Bernard - 2656846 - Rossington
Wright, Ellis - 4546606 - Thorne
Wright, Ellis - 4546606 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wright, Horace Charles - 1460026 - Stainforth
Wright, Walter Paul - 4346818 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Wright, William Henry - 4692899 - Stainforth
Wyatt, Doris - Arksey
Wyatt, James William Walter - 964080 - Conisbrough
Wainwright, Walter - 410280 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wakelam , James - 821355 - Armthorpe
Wakelin, Victor - 4342768 - Thorne
Wakelin, Victor - 4342768 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Walker, Edward Preston - 997639 - Cantley
Walker, Eric - 1026277 - Denaby Main
Walker, Ronald James - 1232380 - Thorne
Walker, Ronald James - 1232380 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wallis, Thomas Ralph - Conisbrough
Walsh, Louis - 295490 - Barnburgh
Walstow, Alfred - 4690710 - Armthorpe
Walters, Dennis - 702105 - Stainforth
Walters, J A - 7888414 - Edlington
Walton, Frederick Henry - 651948 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Ward, Harold - 1060035 - Bentley
Ward, J - Bentley
Warde-Aldam, Geoffrey St. Andrew - 156678 - Hooton Pagnell
Warren, Philip - Sprotborough
Wass, Henry James - 4617075 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Waterhouse, Ronald - 1908845 - Owston
Watkinson, Leslie Howard - C/MX 782148 - Owston
Watson, James - 4690518 - Mexborough
Watson, Thomas William - 940152 - Rossington
Webb, Edward - 4692952 - Edlington
Webb, Sidney - 14612965 - Mexborough
Webster, Samuel Francis - 4389505 - Thorne
Webster, Samuel Francis - 4389505 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wells, William - 177936 - Hexthorpe
West, Ernest - 4746038 - Denaby Main
Western, Ralph Charles - D/MX 47283 - Hexthorpe
Westfield, Samuel Lindsay - C/MX 72636 - Bentley
Weston, Roger Pickering - 1131503 - Old Edlington
Whaley, Kenneth - 1802501 - Mexborough
Wheat, Abraham - Arksey
Wheeler, John - 2664144 - Mexborough
Wheeliker, Gordon Kenneth - 1681705 - Denaby Main
Whelpton, Clifford James - 759310 - Edlington
White, Joseph - 4538473 - Conisbrough
Whitehead, Colin George William - 55845 - Mexborough
Whitehead, Frank - D/KX 90879 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Whitfield, Walter John Spencer - 410257 - Clayton with Frickley
Whitham, Wilfred - 5891134 - Mexborough
Whitlam, Ronald - 1504894 - Thorne
Whitlam, Ronald - 1504894 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Whitnall, Donald - D/JX 253953 - Highfields Clock
Whittaker, Albert - n/a - Denaby Main
Whittle, Robert - 4698229 - Owston
Whittles, Peter Albert - n/a - Arksey
Widdowson, H - Denaby Main
Wigglesworth, Reginald - 2664575 - Stainforth
Wilby, R - Mexborough
Wilde, John William - 1378164 - Edlington
Wilkinson, Walter John Charles - Edlington
Williams, David - 1691202 - Armthorpe
Williams, Harry - 10575005 - Warmsworth
Williams, William - 4757737 - Edlington
Williamson, John Herbert - 847891 - Tickhill
Willis, Robert Arthur - 1015771 - Warmsworth
Wilson, Cyril - 4538796 - Stainforth
Windle, George William - Arksey
Windle, Lilian Emily - Arksey
Windle, Roy Ellis - Arksey
Winters, Thomas Cyril - 14589805 - Blaxton
Wood, Eric Purdy - 755876 - Conisbrough
Wood, Horace - 4399756 - Conisbrough
Wood, Kenneth William - 4699275 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Wood, W - Armthorpe
Wood, W.C. - Denaby Main
Woodley, Alfred Leslie - C/JX 125146 - Conisbrough
Woods, Frank - 14206958 - Edlington
Wooldridge, John - 102017 - Thorne
Wooldridge, John - 102017 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wooldridge, Samuel - 4391534 - Thorne
Wooldridge, Samuel - 4391534 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Woolven, Leonard John - 110641 - Bentley
Worboys, Norman - 1542876 - Bentley
Wraith, John William - 4615192 - Denaby Main
Wraith, Sydney - 1466564 - Denaby Main
Wraith, William - 1103888 - Mexborough
Wright, Bernard - 2656846 - Rossington
Wright, Ellis - 4546606 - Thorne
Wright, Ellis - 4546606 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Wright, Horace Charles - 1460026 - Stainforth
Wright, Walter Paul - 4346818 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Wright, William Henry - 4692899 - Stainforth
Wyatt, Doris - Arksey
Wyatt, James William Walter - 964080 - Conisbrough
Additional casualties not listed on a memorial
Lawrence Waddington (14751804)
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - 9th Bn.
22 November 1944, aged 18
Nederweert War Cemetery
Died in Holland
Geoffrey Price Wadsworth (14655070)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 7th Bn.
25 November 1944, aged 20
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
Died in Holland
Sydney Derrick Wager (1627794)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 153 Sqdn.
17 March 1945, aged 20
Durnbach War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III PB642 coded P4-W airborne 17:20 on 16 March 1945 from Scampton to bomb a target in Nürnberg. Aircraft was shot down, at 22:00 (local time) by a night fighter, exploded in the air, spreading wreckage over a wide area and leaving a large crater in the forest near Rietenau. This crew was on their first operation.
Cyril Edward Waite (13017972)
Pioneer Corps - Aux. Mil.
15 July 1940
Liverpool (West Derby) Cemetery
Death registered in Prescott, Lancs
Eli Walker (1877446)
Royal Engineers - 58 Chem. Warfare Coy.
14 May 1945, aged 25
Prague War Cemetery
Died shortly after VE Day, was a prisoner of war previously held at Stalag 344 in Lambinowice, Poland
Frank Walker (1625136)
Royal Artillery - Attd 1 Lt AA Regt
6 September 1944, aged 33
Enlisted 1940
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died at Isolation Hospital Doncaster
George Walker (1103049)
Royal Artillery - 419 Bty 148 The Bedfordshire Yeo Field Regt
12 September 1944, aged 24
Singapore Memorial
Died as a PoW when ship travelling on was sunk
Horace Walker (7602277)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
27 July 1946, aged 28
Sheffield Crematorium
Died at Crookhill Hall Sanatorium, Conisbrough
John Arthur Walker (P/KX 94639)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Jersey
23 October 1939, aged 19
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost overboard in heavy weather
Norman Walker (1474514)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Ex Disposal Depot, Belvedere, S Rhodesia,
15 June 1943, aged 32
Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery
Died on active service in South Africa
Peter Cracknall Walker (14509759)
Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C. - 15th (Scottish) Regt.
30 July 1944, aged 20
St. Charles De Percy War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Robert Walker (3521361)
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) - 1st Bn.
28 August 1942, aged 36
Benghazi War Cemetery
Died in north africa, possibly as a PoW
Ronald Walker
Merchant Navy - S.S. Samstrae (London)
6 December 1945, aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in Yorkshire
Sydney Waller (5437048)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn.
1 February 1942, aged 23
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Thomas Walsh (14661135)
East Lancashire Regiment - 5th Bn.
17 July 1944, aged 19
Bayeux War Cemetery
Operation Pomegranate began on 16 July, in the centre the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division was to capture the villages of Noyers-Bocage, Haut des Forges and Landelle. In the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division area, phase I of the attack began at 5:30 a.m. with the 197th Infantry Brigade on the right attacking with the 5th East Lancashire Battalion. The 5th East Lancashires fought their way to the first objective east of Vendes and captured part of the village by 8:00 a.m. but at 2:30 p.m. were counter-attacked by infantry and tanks, which overran one company and forced the rest of the battalion back to the start line.
William Walsh (1438748)
Royal Artillery - 16 Defence Regt.
12 August 1943, aged 28
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
Christopher Charles Walters (1794549)
Royal Artillery
9 June 1941, aged 20
Maltby Burial Ground
Died in the UK
Benjamin Walton (71718)
Royal Army Service Corps - 1615 Artillery Platoon
27 May 1945, aged 24
Becklingen War Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Douglas Robert Ward (1460596)
Royal Artillery - 158 Bty., 53 Lt. A.A. Regt.
1 May 1940, aged 19
Dunkirk Memorial
KIA at sea during France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF
Joseph Ward (14651)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 6th Bn.
2 October 1940
Brookwood Memorial
Died in the UK
Raymond Ward (1577566)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 158 Sqdn.
3 June 1944, aged 22
Evreux Communal Cemetery
Halifax LW635 coded NP-K airborne 22:21 on 2 Jun 1944 from Lissett to bomb the railway yards at Trappes. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at Barneville-sur-Seine (Eure), 8 km E of Routot.
Raymond Ward (4746375)
Royal Corps of Signals - 17 L Of C Sigs
1 February 1945, aged 25
Schoonselhof Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Reginald Foster Ward (PO/X 107762)
Royal Marines - No 43 RM Commando
3 February 1944, aged 37
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Killed in operations at Minturno, Italy
Richard Ward (1699098)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
7 March 1943, aged 41
Edlington Cemetery
Killed on active service, death registered in Eastbourne
John Frederick Wardle (7914445)
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 44th
2 January 1942, aged 31
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
Edward John Wardley (14413456)
Northamptonshire Regiment - 1st Bn.
15 June 1944, aged 19
Imphal War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Charles Henry Warner (13012678)
Pioneer Corps
31 March 1945, aged 40
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
George Edward Wass (39194)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - -
13 December 1943, aged 50
Pontefract Cemetery
Died in the UK
Leonard Waterhouse (1502722)
Royal Artillery - 15 Bty., 6 H.A.A. Regt.
14 November 1942, aged 21
Sai Wan War Cemetery
Died while a Japanese PoW,
Albert Wattam (14546155)
Parachute Regiment, A A C - 9th Bn.
19 August 1944, aged 21
Ranville War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Reginald Weaver (5575935)
Royal Engineers - 80 Assault Sqn.
7 June 1944, aged 20
Bayeux War Cemetery
Landed on White Nan sector of Juno beach with the Canadian Infantry at Bernieres-sur-Mer. The AVREs of the Engineers were to overcome obsticles. Died on D-Day + 1.
Bertha Webb
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 35
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 53 Weston Road.
Joseph Webb
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 9m
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 53 Weston Road.
Leslie Ernest Webb (7643957)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
13 February 1942, aged 31
Singapore Memorial
Killed during the fight for Singapore
Violet Maureen Webb
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 5
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 53 Weston Road.
Allan Webster (14427283)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 7th Bn.
3 August 1944, aged 18
Bayeux War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
George Webster (6201463)
Middlesex Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 March 1944, aged 28
Sai Wan Memorial
Died as a Japanese PoW after being captured in Hong Kong
Dennis Walter George Weighill (14434337)
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C. - 12th (10th Bn. The Green Howards [Yorkshire Regt.]) Bn.
24 March 1945, aged 20
Groesbeek Memorial
Died during Operation Varsity, the airborne operation to cross the River Rhine.
Ernest Edward Weldon (754906)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 58 Sqdn.
18 June 1941, aged 23
Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery
Whitley N1462 GE-V airborne 2255 17Jun41 from Linton-on-Ouse to raid Cologne. Shot down by a night- fighter (Oblt Wolfgang Thimming, 2./NJG1) and crashed 0234 some 2 km N of Best (Noord Brabant) 10 km NNW of Eindhoven.
Richard Arthur Wesson (6086980)
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
10 August 1940, aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
William Horace Westney
Civilian War Dead
27 January 1941, aged 43
Grantham Municipal Borough
Died at Ministry of Aircraft Production, Springfield Road.
Horace Wharton (1073453)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 612 Sqdn.
4 August 1943, aged 23
Runnymede Memorial
He was part of the crew of Wellington XIV HF128/P on a anti-submarine patrol. Intially the crew took off from Chivenor at 23:15 with Wellington XIV MP654/J but returned to base with engine trouble and landing at 00:48 on the 4 August. Took off in HF128 at 01:48 and failed to return.
Harry Wheeler (D/16886)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 10th (H D) Bn.
16 February 1940, aged 53
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Killed in a road accident in Lincolnshire
Richard Harold Wheeliker
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 39
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 23 Wordsworth Avenue.
Arthur Whitaker (981063)
Royal Artillery - 143 (The Kent Yeomanry) Field Regt.
1 November 1944, aged 31
Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
KIA Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Frederick White (1866935)
Royal Engineers - 1012 Port Maint. Coy.
1 January 1944, aged 37
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Egypt
John William White (1004581)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
28 January 1945, aged 39
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in Doncaster
Leonard White (1148360)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25 January 1946, aged 31
Sheffield Crematorium
Died on active service, death registered in Westminster, London
Daniel Whitehead (LT/JX 100817)
Royal Naval Patrol Service - H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley
11 December 1941, aged 25
Lowestoft Naval Memorial
HMS Lady Shirley (Lt.Cdr. Arthur Henry Callaway, DSO, RANVR) was hit by one torpedo from U-374 and sunk in the Staits of Gibraltar in position 35º59'N, 05º17'W. All 33 hands on board were lost with the ship.
Henry Whitehead (D/KX 90876)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Charybdis
12 December 1947, aged 29
Thorne Cemetery
Died in Yorkshire, reportedly his death was connected to the sinking of the ship on 12 December 1943
Roy Whitehouse (4351544)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
18 June 1944, aged 20
La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres
Died in Normandy
William Whitehurst (D/14758)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 8th HD Bn.
12 December 1939, aged 44
Stainforth Cemetery
Died in the UK
Dennis Albert Whiteley (14401213)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
15 June 1944, aged 20
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
John Robert Whiteley (T/194234)
Royal Army Service Corps
7 April 1944
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Died as a PoW
Stephen Whiteley (6146011)
Rifle Brigade - 7th (1st Bn. The London Rifle Brigade) Bn.
2 August 1944, aged 27
Arezzo War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Charles Joseph Whittaker (3131564)
Royal Scots Fusiliers - 2nd Bn.
10 July 1943, aged 24
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Died on first day of Sicily landings
John Eric Whittington (14354164)
Royal Corps of Signals
20 February 1943
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died at Pinderfields Emergency Military Hospital, Wakefield
Frederick Wigg (14420106)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 7th Bn.
15 July 1944, aged 19
Ranville War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Bernard Wilburn (C/JX188222)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III / SS Stanbold
27 February 1941, aged 20
Eastbourne (Langney) Cemetery
Death registered Easbourne, Sussex
Clifford Edgar Wilburn (534269)
Royal Air Force - 142 Sqdn.
7 April 1940, aged 25
Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille
Fairey Battle mk I serial N2088 crashed at Hourilcourt, 7 km east of Neufchatel-sur-Aisne while on a training flight.
Fred Wilby (2654553)
Coldstream Guards - 1st Bn.
8 December 1941, aged 31
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Died in the UK
Thomas Wilcock (C/JX 290035)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine P222
21 December 1942, aged 33
Chatham Naval Memorial
P 222 left Gibraltar for a patrol off Naples on 30 November 1942. Messages were received from her on 7th December but after that date no more was heard. P 222 failed to arrive at Algiers and was reported overdue on 21 December 1942. The Italians claimed to have sunk a submarine by depth charging from the Italian torpedo boat Fortunale on 12 December, south-east of Isola di Capri in position 40º29'N, 14º20'E.
Leonard Arthur Wilde
Civilian War Dead
6 May 1941, aged 39
Edinburgh City, Scotland
Died at 27 Milton Crescent.
Joseph Alexander Wildish (3320000)
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders - 1st Bn.
9 September 1943, aged 25
Kirkee War Cemetery
Died in India
Bertie Sedgwick Wilkinson (C/272526)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Blanche
12 March 1947, aged 61
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Frank Wilkinson (4393757)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 5th Bn.
13 November 1942, aged 26
Tripoli War Cemetery
May have died as a prisoner of war. 5th Green Howards were part of 150th Brigade which was overrun on 1 June 1942 during the Battle of Gazala.
Herbert Wilkinson (14808168)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
31 October 1944, aged 22
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Jack Wilkinson (995412)
Royal Artillery - 80 (The Scottish Horse) Medium Regt.
4 February 1943, aged 29
Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery
Died in Cambridgeshire
Gordon Bowman Will (65445)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 48 Sqdn.
11 April 1942, aged 26
Sola Churchyard
Lockheed Hudson V AE645 coded OY-N take off Wick at 03:26, Op: South Stab Patrol (Shipping recce), failed to return.
George Davies Williams (D/14762)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 6th (H.D.) Bn.
27 May 1945, aged 52
Conisbrough Cemetery
Died in the UK
Gerald Stanley Williams (1948916)
Royal Engineers - 9 Airborne Field Coy
Between 19 and 20 November 1942, aged 18
Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard
Took part in the ill-fated Operation Freshman mission to sabotage the German development of an atomic bomb at the Vermock Heavy Water plant in Norway. Following take-off at 1800hrs from Wick, Scotland on 19 November 1942, the mission soon became hampered by severe weather conditions. As the aircraft neared their intended targets the glider and tug encountered dense fog northwest of Rjukan which they were unable to emerge from, coupled with problems with their target-location apparatus. Fuel was getting low and as both tug plane and glider started to collect ice, they rapidly lost altitude. Tug and glider separated although details are not known exactly what happened afterwards. The glider crashed approximately 2.5 kilometres north-east of Lensmannsgard, 400-500 metres north-west of Gasetjern, some four kilometres north from where the towing Halifax crashed killing both pilots, and one of the passengers. The remaining fourteen survivors, including Spr Williams, were all captured shortly afterwards as Prisoners of War and taken to the Slettebø camp at Egersund. After thorough interrogation all were shot by members of the German camp guard in accordance with a decree from Hitler ordering the executions of Special Forces prisoners. They were buried later at a local churchyard at Stavanger. Sapper Williams was killed on 19-20 November 1942, aged 18 years old. He is now buried alongside all other victims of the ill-fated Horsa HS114 (also the resting place of several victims from sister glider Horsa DP-349) at Eiganes Churchyard, in Stavanger, Norway.
Keith Williams (1062588)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 98 Sqdn.
16 November 1942, aged 20
Other casualties, in the same aircraft, William Smith Crowe 751521 and Nicholas Saravanos 1053155
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
November saw more training flights and included two fatal crashes, one on 16 Nov 42 where Mitchell FL179 stalled and crashed on approach to Attlebridge, with the entire crew receiving fatal injuries: F/S Williams, K. Pilot, F/S Seravanos, N. Nav B, F/S Crowe, W.S. W/Op AG. The starboard engine failed due to birdstrike into carburetor. On subsequent single-engine approach, aircraft was stalled and spun into ground
Leslie Williams (4696482)
Pioneer Corps
12 August 1943, aged 23
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
Frank Glover Williamson (D/JX 238692)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III - SS Avoceta
25 September 1941, aged 23
Plymouth Naval Memorial
The steam passenger ship Avoceta in station 51 of convoy HG 73 was sunk en-route Lisbon – Liverpool with a cargo of 469 tons of general cargo and mail. At 00.31 hours on 26 Sep 1941, U-203 fired a spread of four torpedoes at the convoy when north of the Azores. Four detonations were heard, but the submarine made no observations because they had to dive to evade an attack by HMS Larkspur. Two ships were hit and sunk in this attack: Varangberg and Avoceta. Avoceta was hit on the port side close to the engine room by one torpedo and sank quickly. Out of a complement of 166, 43 crew members, four gunners and 76 passengers were lost.
Edwin Albert Willis (966381)
Royal Horse Artillery - 11 (Honourable Artillery Coy.) Regt.
15 June 1942, aged 24
Alamein Memorial
Died in the Middle East
Joshua Stephen Willis (44051)
Royal Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
10 September 1941, aged 34
Clogh (or Clough) (Holy Trinity) Church Of Ireland Churchyard
Wellington IC R1767 of B Flight took off from Finningley on a night cross-country flight. It dived to the ground, from very low altitude, onto an area described as the Horseway, about a mile north-east of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Seconds prior to the crash at 21:10, a searchligyt had illuminated the Wellington and it is believed the pilot was dazzled by the brightness of the beam and became disorientated.
James Willitts (14209486)
General Service Corps
6 October 1947, aged 36
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Henry Herbert Wilsea (14576616)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 7th Bn.
25 October 1944
Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Norman Wilson (54931)
Royal Army Service Corps
21 July 1942, aged 26
Sheffield (City Road) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Thomas Wilson (1457579)
Royal Artillery - 157 Bty, 53 Lt AA Regt
23 March 1943, aged 26
Sfax War Cemetery
Died of wounds in North Africa
Thomas Malaburn Wilson (10602162)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 5th Bn.
11 June 1944, aged 24
Hermanville War Cemetery
At 0430 hours on June 11th, HQ and “D” Companies from the 5th Black Watch relieved the 9th Battalion’s “C” Company at the chateau. The Paras watched the assault by “A”, “B”, and “C” Companies of the Black Watch on Breville. The Highlanders were stopped well short of their objective suffering over 300 casualties. The survivors fell back to the Paras’ position in the woods where the 9th Battalion’s officers and NCOs rallied the Highlanders. The survivors were sent to the chateau to establish a defensive position. Later in the day the 5th Black Watch placed several 6 lb. AT guns in the Bois des Monts and were reinforced by an HMG platoon from “C” Company of the 1/7 Middlesex Battalion.
Doris Wimbush (W/35004)
Auxiliary Territorial Service
11 May 1943, aged 28
Great Yarmouth (Caister) Cemetery
Died in the UK
John H Winterbottom (14896497)
Royal Engineers
4 March 1947, aged 20
Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
Fred Winters (4539171)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
12 June 1944
Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville
The battalion came ashore on D-Day at Red King Sector of Gold Beach on D-Day. Killed on D-Day + 6 near Hautes-Les-Ventes
Charles Harold Wise (505501)
Royal Air Force - 50 Sqdn.
5 October 1940, aged 32
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster NF919 VN-D airborne 2054 11Sep44 from Skellingthorpe on an op to Darmstadt. Crashed 0015 12Sep44 near Niederkirchen bei Deidesheim, 17 km SW from the centre of Ludwigshafen.
Thomas Withington (828381)
Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C. - 2nd Wing
21 September 1944, aged 30
Enlisted in RA 1933. Transferred 29/10/1942 to ACC.
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
Died during Operation Market Garden
Bertram Wood (4535024)
York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn.
18 August 1944, aged 33
Bieville-En-Auge Churchyard
Killed in Normandy nr Mery Corbon
Clifford Henry Wood (2126499)
Royal Engineers - 23 Bomb Disposal Coy
22 November 1944, aged 25
Groesbeek Memorial
KIA in Holland
Ernest Wilfred Wood (1079925)
Royal Artillery - 81 (The Glamorgan Yeomanry) Field Regt.
7 August 1944
Brouay War Cemetery
KIA during the Normandy Campaign
Frederick Francis Andrew Wood (J/8619)
Royal Canadian Air Force - 14 O.T.U.
29 June 1942
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Hampden AD848 between Moorends and Thorne. On 29th June 1942 this aircraft struck the ground between Moorends and Thorne at a near vertical angle at 23.43hrs while its crew were undertaking a night cross-country training exercise. Sadly all in the aircraft were killed and the cause for the accident was never established.
Galen Wood (1047841)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 431 RCAF Sqdn.
4 December 1943
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Halifax mk III serial LK898 coded SE-O airborne at 23:34 on 3 December 1943 from Tholthorpe for a mission to Leipzig. Reported to have crashed at 04:45 just south of the village Altranstadt after being shot down by a night fighter.
Harold Wood (195063)
General List
8 July 1944, aged 55
Owston (All Saints) Churchyard
Died in the UK
Walter Wood (1512079)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
21 March 1944, aged 43
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in Doncaster of Coronary Thrombosis
George Arthur Woodcock (2362567)
Royal Corps of Signals
8 October 1941, aged 22
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Died in the UK
Percy Benjamin Elliott Woodham (1377795)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 25 O.T.U.
18 September 1942, aged 32
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington BJ976 near Tickhill, Doncaster. On 18th September 1942 the crew of this aircraft were undertaking a training flight and left Bircotes airfield on the Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire border at 00.40hrs for a night time bombing practice. At 01.30hrs the aircraft the aircraft had returned to the airfield but had then taken off again (possibly overshooting a landing), it was then seen to climb away but then crash near the village of Tickhill, just inside Yorkshire. The crew of four were sadly killed.
Jack Woods (940148)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 9 Sqdn.
28 September 1940, aged 20
Schoonselhof Cemetery
Wellington T2505 coded WS-W airborne from Honington for a raid on Cologne. Crashed near Antwerp, Belgium. Cause unknown.
James Woods (542030)
Royal Air Force - 138 Sqdn.
14 May 1943, aged 23
Pont-Audemer Communal Cemetery
Halifax BB328 NF-U airborne from Tempsford on SOE mission Operation Physician 10/Roach 6. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at Pont-Audemer (Eure), France,
George Woodward (4623841)
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 3rd
18 July 1944, aged 23
Bayeux Memorial
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Jack Woolley (4741684)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn.
28 April 1940, aged 35
Kvam Churchyard
Died during the Norway campaign
Kenneth Worrall (C/SSX 25484)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Exmoor
25 February 1941
Chatham Naval Memorial
HMS Exmoor was sunk about 12 nautical miles east-north-east of Lowestoft, Sussex, England in position 52º32'N 02º05'E while escorting convoy FN 417. She was hit aft by a torpedo fired by the German motor torpedo boat S-30, she caught fire and sank quickly. 4 officers, including her Commanding Officer and 100 men were lost with the ship.
Sidney Wragg (P/MX 70721)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Kashmir
23 May 1941, aged 25
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean
Ernest Wraith (4350927)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
4 August 1943, aged 25
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
Walter Richard Wraith (4694551)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2/4th Bn.
29 March 1943, aged 27
Tabarka Ras Rajel War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Raymond Ray Wray (4535707)
Dorsetshire Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 July 1943, aged 26
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died on the 13th day of the Sicilian Campaign
Arthur Wright (P/JX 363674)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Valkyrie
6 October 1942, aged 18
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died of illness. Death registered in Chatham
Frederick Charles Wright (905440)
Royal Artillery - 135 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
27 January 1942
Taiping War Cemetery
KIA during the fight for Malaya
Kenneth Arthur Wright provost (V508553)
Royal Australian Engineers - A.C.M.F. 4 Docks Op. Coy.
12 October 1943, aged 32
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery
Died with Australian Forces on Papua New Guinea
Tom Tacey Wrigley (7906405)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 1st Bn.
11 March 1944, aged 24
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
William Richard Wroot (1086195)
Royal Horse Artillery - 4 Regt.
9 December 1941, aged 24
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died of wounds at Sidi Rezegh during Operation Crusader, the relief of the besieged Tobruk.
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) - 9th Bn.
22 November 1944, aged 18
Nederweert War Cemetery
Died in Holland
Geoffrey Price Wadsworth (14655070)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 7th Bn.
25 November 1944, aged 20
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
Died in Holland
Sydney Derrick Wager (1627794)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 153 Sqdn.
17 March 1945, aged 20
Durnbach War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III PB642 coded P4-W airborne 17:20 on 16 March 1945 from Scampton to bomb a target in Nürnberg. Aircraft was shot down, at 22:00 (local time) by a night fighter, exploded in the air, spreading wreckage over a wide area and leaving a large crater in the forest near Rietenau. This crew was on their first operation.
Cyril Edward Waite (13017972)
Pioneer Corps - Aux. Mil.
15 July 1940
Liverpool (West Derby) Cemetery
Death registered in Prescott, Lancs
Eli Walker (1877446)
Royal Engineers - 58 Chem. Warfare Coy.
14 May 1945, aged 25
Prague War Cemetery
Died shortly after VE Day, was a prisoner of war previously held at Stalag 344 in Lambinowice, Poland
Frank Walker (1625136)
Royal Artillery - Attd 1 Lt AA Regt
6 September 1944, aged 33
Enlisted 1940
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died at Isolation Hospital Doncaster
George Walker (1103049)
Royal Artillery - 419 Bty 148 The Bedfordshire Yeo Field Regt
12 September 1944, aged 24
Singapore Memorial
Died as a PoW when ship travelling on was sunk
Horace Walker (7602277)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
27 July 1946, aged 28
Sheffield Crematorium
Died at Crookhill Hall Sanatorium, Conisbrough
John Arthur Walker (P/KX 94639)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Jersey
23 October 1939, aged 19
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost overboard in heavy weather
Norman Walker (1474514)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Ex Disposal Depot, Belvedere, S Rhodesia,
15 June 1943, aged 32
Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery
Died on active service in South Africa
Peter Cracknall Walker (14509759)
Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C. - 15th (Scottish) Regt.
30 July 1944, aged 20
St. Charles De Percy War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Robert Walker (3521361)
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) - 1st Bn.
28 August 1942, aged 36
Benghazi War Cemetery
Died in north africa, possibly as a PoW
Ronald Walker
Merchant Navy - S.S. Samstrae (London)
6 December 1945, aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in Yorkshire
Sydney Waller (5437048)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 1st Bn.
1 February 1942, aged 23
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Thomas Walsh (14661135)
East Lancashire Regiment - 5th Bn.
17 July 1944, aged 19
Bayeux War Cemetery
Operation Pomegranate began on 16 July, in the centre the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division was to capture the villages of Noyers-Bocage, Haut des Forges and Landelle. In the 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division area, phase I of the attack began at 5:30 a.m. with the 197th Infantry Brigade on the right attacking with the 5th East Lancashire Battalion. The 5th East Lancashires fought their way to the first objective east of Vendes and captured part of the village by 8:00 a.m. but at 2:30 p.m. were counter-attacked by infantry and tanks, which overran one company and forced the rest of the battalion back to the start line.
William Walsh (1438748)
Royal Artillery - 16 Defence Regt.
12 August 1943, aged 28
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
Christopher Charles Walters (1794549)
Royal Artillery
9 June 1941, aged 20
Maltby Burial Ground
Died in the UK
Benjamin Walton (71718)
Royal Army Service Corps - 1615 Artillery Platoon
27 May 1945, aged 24
Becklingen War Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Douglas Robert Ward (1460596)
Royal Artillery - 158 Bty., 53 Lt. A.A. Regt.
1 May 1940, aged 19
Dunkirk Memorial
KIA at sea during France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF
Joseph Ward (14651)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 6th Bn.
2 October 1940
Brookwood Memorial
Died in the UK
Raymond Ward (1577566)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 158 Sqdn.
3 June 1944, aged 22
Evreux Communal Cemetery
Halifax LW635 coded NP-K airborne 22:21 on 2 Jun 1944 from Lissett to bomb the railway yards at Trappes. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at Barneville-sur-Seine (Eure), 8 km E of Routot.
Raymond Ward (4746375)
Royal Corps of Signals - 17 L Of C Sigs
1 February 1945, aged 25
Schoonselhof Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Reginald Foster Ward (PO/X 107762)
Royal Marines - No 43 RM Commando
3 February 1944, aged 37
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Killed in operations at Minturno, Italy
Richard Ward (1699098)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
7 March 1943, aged 41
Edlington Cemetery
Killed on active service, death registered in Eastbourne
John Frederick Wardle (7914445)
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 44th
2 January 1942, aged 31
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
Edward John Wardley (14413456)
Northamptonshire Regiment - 1st Bn.
15 June 1944, aged 19
Imphal War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Charles Henry Warner (13012678)
Pioneer Corps
31 March 1945, aged 40
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
George Edward Wass (39194)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - -
13 December 1943, aged 50
Pontefract Cemetery
Died in the UK
Leonard Waterhouse (1502722)
Royal Artillery - 15 Bty., 6 H.A.A. Regt.
14 November 1942, aged 21
Sai Wan War Cemetery
Died while a Japanese PoW,
Albert Wattam (14546155)
Parachute Regiment, A A C - 9th Bn.
19 August 1944, aged 21
Ranville War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Reginald Weaver (5575935)
Royal Engineers - 80 Assault Sqn.
7 June 1944, aged 20
Bayeux War Cemetery
Landed on White Nan sector of Juno beach with the Canadian Infantry at Bernieres-sur-Mer. The AVREs of the Engineers were to overcome obsticles. Died on D-Day + 1.
Bertha Webb
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 35
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 53 Weston Road.
Joseph Webb
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 9m
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 53 Weston Road.
Leslie Ernest Webb (7643957)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
13 February 1942, aged 31
Singapore Memorial
Killed during the fight for Singapore
Violet Maureen Webb
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 5
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 53 Weston Road.
Allan Webster (14427283)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 7th Bn.
3 August 1944, aged 18
Bayeux War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
George Webster (6201463)
Middlesex Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 March 1944, aged 28
Sai Wan Memorial
Died as a Japanese PoW after being captured in Hong Kong
Dennis Walter George Weighill (14434337)
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C. - 12th (10th Bn. The Green Howards [Yorkshire Regt.]) Bn.
24 March 1945, aged 20
Groesbeek Memorial
Died during Operation Varsity, the airborne operation to cross the River Rhine.
Ernest Edward Weldon (754906)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 58 Sqdn.
18 June 1941, aged 23
Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery
Whitley N1462 GE-V airborne 2255 17Jun41 from Linton-on-Ouse to raid Cologne. Shot down by a night- fighter (Oblt Wolfgang Thimming, 2./NJG1) and crashed 0234 some 2 km N of Best (Noord Brabant) 10 km NNW of Eindhoven.
Richard Arthur Wesson (6086980)
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
10 August 1940, aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
William Horace Westney
Civilian War Dead
27 January 1941, aged 43
Grantham Municipal Borough
Died at Ministry of Aircraft Production, Springfield Road.
Horace Wharton (1073453)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 612 Sqdn.
4 August 1943, aged 23
Runnymede Memorial
He was part of the crew of Wellington XIV HF128/P on a anti-submarine patrol. Intially the crew took off from Chivenor at 23:15 with Wellington XIV MP654/J but returned to base with engine trouble and landing at 00:48 on the 4 August. Took off in HF128 at 01:48 and failed to return.
Harry Wheeler (D/16886)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 10th (H D) Bn.
16 February 1940, aged 53
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Killed in a road accident in Lincolnshire
Richard Harold Wheeliker
Civilian War Dead
9 May 1941, aged 39
Doncaster, County Borough
Air raid on Doncaster, died at 23 Wordsworth Avenue.
Arthur Whitaker (981063)
Royal Artillery - 143 (The Kent Yeomanry) Field Regt.
1 November 1944, aged 31
Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
KIA Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Frederick White (1866935)
Royal Engineers - 1012 Port Maint. Coy.
1 January 1944, aged 37
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Egypt
John William White (1004581)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
28 January 1945, aged 39
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in Doncaster
Leonard White (1148360)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
25 January 1946, aged 31
Sheffield Crematorium
Died on active service, death registered in Westminster, London
Daniel Whitehead (LT/JX 100817)
Royal Naval Patrol Service - H.M. Trawler Lady Shirley
11 December 1941, aged 25
Lowestoft Naval Memorial
HMS Lady Shirley (Lt.Cdr. Arthur Henry Callaway, DSO, RANVR) was hit by one torpedo from U-374 and sunk in the Staits of Gibraltar in position 35º59'N, 05º17'W. All 33 hands on board were lost with the ship.
Henry Whitehead (D/KX 90876)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Charybdis
12 December 1947, aged 29
Thorne Cemetery
Died in Yorkshire, reportedly his death was connected to the sinking of the ship on 12 December 1943
Roy Whitehouse (4351544)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
18 June 1944, aged 20
La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres
Died in Normandy
William Whitehurst (D/14758)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 8th HD Bn.
12 December 1939, aged 44
Stainforth Cemetery
Died in the UK
Dennis Albert Whiteley (14401213)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
15 June 1944, aged 20
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
John Robert Whiteley (T/194234)
Royal Army Service Corps
7 April 1944
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Died as a PoW
Stephen Whiteley (6146011)
Rifle Brigade - 7th (1st Bn. The London Rifle Brigade) Bn.
2 August 1944, aged 27
Arezzo War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Charles Joseph Whittaker (3131564)
Royal Scots Fusiliers - 2nd Bn.
10 July 1943, aged 24
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Died on first day of Sicily landings
John Eric Whittington (14354164)
Royal Corps of Signals
20 February 1943
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died at Pinderfields Emergency Military Hospital, Wakefield
Frederick Wigg (14420106)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 7th Bn.
15 July 1944, aged 19
Ranville War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Bernard Wilburn (C/JX188222)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III / SS Stanbold
27 February 1941, aged 20
Eastbourne (Langney) Cemetery
Death registered Easbourne, Sussex
Clifford Edgar Wilburn (534269)
Royal Air Force - 142 Sqdn.
7 April 1940, aged 25
Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille
Fairey Battle mk I serial N2088 crashed at Hourilcourt, 7 km east of Neufchatel-sur-Aisne while on a training flight.
Fred Wilby (2654553)
Coldstream Guards - 1st Bn.
8 December 1941, aged 31
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Died in the UK
Thomas Wilcock (C/JX 290035)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine P222
21 December 1942, aged 33
Chatham Naval Memorial
P 222 left Gibraltar for a patrol off Naples on 30 November 1942. Messages were received from her on 7th December but after that date no more was heard. P 222 failed to arrive at Algiers and was reported overdue on 21 December 1942. The Italians claimed to have sunk a submarine by depth charging from the Italian torpedo boat Fortunale on 12 December, south-east of Isola di Capri in position 40º29'N, 14º20'E.
Leonard Arthur Wilde
Civilian War Dead
6 May 1941, aged 39
Edinburgh City, Scotland
Died at 27 Milton Crescent.
Joseph Alexander Wildish (3320000)
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders - 1st Bn.
9 September 1943, aged 25
Kirkee War Cemetery
Died in India
Bertie Sedgwick Wilkinson (C/272526)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Blanche
12 March 1947, aged 61
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Frank Wilkinson (4393757)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 5th Bn.
13 November 1942, aged 26
Tripoli War Cemetery
May have died as a prisoner of war. 5th Green Howards were part of 150th Brigade which was overrun on 1 June 1942 during the Battle of Gazala.
Herbert Wilkinson (14808168)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
31 October 1944, aged 22
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Jack Wilkinson (995412)
Royal Artillery - 80 (The Scottish Horse) Medium Regt.
4 February 1943, aged 29
Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery
Died in Cambridgeshire
Gordon Bowman Will (65445)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 48 Sqdn.
11 April 1942, aged 26
Sola Churchyard
Lockheed Hudson V AE645 coded OY-N take off Wick at 03:26, Op: South Stab Patrol (Shipping recce), failed to return.
George Davies Williams (D/14762)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 6th (H.D.) Bn.
27 May 1945, aged 52
Conisbrough Cemetery
Died in the UK
Gerald Stanley Williams (1948916)
Royal Engineers - 9 Airborne Field Coy
Between 19 and 20 November 1942, aged 18
Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard
Took part in the ill-fated Operation Freshman mission to sabotage the German development of an atomic bomb at the Vermock Heavy Water plant in Norway. Following take-off at 1800hrs from Wick, Scotland on 19 November 1942, the mission soon became hampered by severe weather conditions. As the aircraft neared their intended targets the glider and tug encountered dense fog northwest of Rjukan which they were unable to emerge from, coupled with problems with their target-location apparatus. Fuel was getting low and as both tug plane and glider started to collect ice, they rapidly lost altitude. Tug and glider separated although details are not known exactly what happened afterwards. The glider crashed approximately 2.5 kilometres north-east of Lensmannsgard, 400-500 metres north-west of Gasetjern, some four kilometres north from where the towing Halifax crashed killing both pilots, and one of the passengers. The remaining fourteen survivors, including Spr Williams, were all captured shortly afterwards as Prisoners of War and taken to the Slettebø camp at Egersund. After thorough interrogation all were shot by members of the German camp guard in accordance with a decree from Hitler ordering the executions of Special Forces prisoners. They were buried later at a local churchyard at Stavanger. Sapper Williams was killed on 19-20 November 1942, aged 18 years old. He is now buried alongside all other victims of the ill-fated Horsa HS114 (also the resting place of several victims from sister glider Horsa DP-349) at Eiganes Churchyard, in Stavanger, Norway.
Keith Williams (1062588)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 98 Sqdn.
16 November 1942, aged 20
Other casualties, in the same aircraft, William Smith Crowe 751521 and Nicholas Saravanos 1053155
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
November saw more training flights and included two fatal crashes, one on 16 Nov 42 where Mitchell FL179 stalled and crashed on approach to Attlebridge, with the entire crew receiving fatal injuries: F/S Williams, K. Pilot, F/S Seravanos, N. Nav B, F/S Crowe, W.S. W/Op AG. The starboard engine failed due to birdstrike into carburetor. On subsequent single-engine approach, aircraft was stalled and spun into ground
Leslie Williams (4696482)
Pioneer Corps
12 August 1943, aged 23
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
Frank Glover Williamson (D/JX 238692)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. President III - SS Avoceta
25 September 1941, aged 23
Plymouth Naval Memorial
The steam passenger ship Avoceta in station 51 of convoy HG 73 was sunk en-route Lisbon – Liverpool with a cargo of 469 tons of general cargo and mail. At 00.31 hours on 26 Sep 1941, U-203 fired a spread of four torpedoes at the convoy when north of the Azores. Four detonations were heard, but the submarine made no observations because they had to dive to evade an attack by HMS Larkspur. Two ships were hit and sunk in this attack: Varangberg and Avoceta. Avoceta was hit on the port side close to the engine room by one torpedo and sank quickly. Out of a complement of 166, 43 crew members, four gunners and 76 passengers were lost.
Edwin Albert Willis (966381)
Royal Horse Artillery - 11 (Honourable Artillery Coy.) Regt.
15 June 1942, aged 24
Alamein Memorial
Died in the Middle East
Joshua Stephen Willis (44051)
Royal Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
10 September 1941, aged 34
Clogh (or Clough) (Holy Trinity) Church Of Ireland Churchyard
Wellington IC R1767 of B Flight took off from Finningley on a night cross-country flight. It dived to the ground, from very low altitude, onto an area described as the Horseway, about a mile north-east of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Seconds prior to the crash at 21:10, a searchligyt had illuminated the Wellington and it is believed the pilot was dazzled by the brightness of the beam and became disorientated.
James Willitts (14209486)
General Service Corps
6 October 1947, aged 36
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Henry Herbert Wilsea (14576616)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 7th Bn.
25 October 1944
Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Norman Wilson (54931)
Royal Army Service Corps
21 July 1942, aged 26
Sheffield (City Road) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Thomas Wilson (1457579)
Royal Artillery - 157 Bty, 53 Lt AA Regt
23 March 1943, aged 26
Sfax War Cemetery
Died of wounds in North Africa
Thomas Malaburn Wilson (10602162)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 5th Bn.
11 June 1944, aged 24
Hermanville War Cemetery
At 0430 hours on June 11th, HQ and “D” Companies from the 5th Black Watch relieved the 9th Battalion’s “C” Company at the chateau. The Paras watched the assault by “A”, “B”, and “C” Companies of the Black Watch on Breville. The Highlanders were stopped well short of their objective suffering over 300 casualties. The survivors fell back to the Paras’ position in the woods where the 9th Battalion’s officers and NCOs rallied the Highlanders. The survivors were sent to the chateau to establish a defensive position. Later in the day the 5th Black Watch placed several 6 lb. AT guns in the Bois des Monts and were reinforced by an HMG platoon from “C” Company of the 1/7 Middlesex Battalion.
Doris Wimbush (W/35004)
Auxiliary Territorial Service
11 May 1943, aged 28
Great Yarmouth (Caister) Cemetery
Died in the UK
John H Winterbottom (14896497)
Royal Engineers
4 March 1947, aged 20
Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
Fred Winters (4539171)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
12 June 1944
Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville
The battalion came ashore on D-Day at Red King Sector of Gold Beach on D-Day. Killed on D-Day + 6 near Hautes-Les-Ventes
Charles Harold Wise (505501)
Royal Air Force - 50 Sqdn.
5 October 1940, aged 32
Runnymede Memorial
Lancaster NF919 VN-D airborne 2054 11Sep44 from Skellingthorpe on an op to Darmstadt. Crashed 0015 12Sep44 near Niederkirchen bei Deidesheim, 17 km SW from the centre of Ludwigshafen.
Thomas Withington (828381)
Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C. - 2nd Wing
21 September 1944, aged 30
Enlisted in RA 1933. Transferred 29/10/1942 to ACC.
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
Died during Operation Market Garden
Bertram Wood (4535024)
York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn.
18 August 1944, aged 33
Bieville-En-Auge Churchyard
Killed in Normandy nr Mery Corbon
Clifford Henry Wood (2126499)
Royal Engineers - 23 Bomb Disposal Coy
22 November 1944, aged 25
Groesbeek Memorial
KIA in Holland
Ernest Wilfred Wood (1079925)
Royal Artillery - 81 (The Glamorgan Yeomanry) Field Regt.
7 August 1944
Brouay War Cemetery
KIA during the Normandy Campaign
Frederick Francis Andrew Wood (J/8619)
Royal Canadian Air Force - 14 O.T.U.
29 June 1942
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Hampden AD848 between Moorends and Thorne. On 29th June 1942 this aircraft struck the ground between Moorends and Thorne at a near vertical angle at 23.43hrs while its crew were undertaking a night cross-country training exercise. Sadly all in the aircraft were killed and the cause for the accident was never established.
Galen Wood (1047841)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 431 RCAF Sqdn.
4 December 1943
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Halifax mk III serial LK898 coded SE-O airborne at 23:34 on 3 December 1943 from Tholthorpe for a mission to Leipzig. Reported to have crashed at 04:45 just south of the village Altranstadt after being shot down by a night fighter.
Harold Wood (195063)
General List
8 July 1944, aged 55
Owston (All Saints) Churchyard
Died in the UK
Walter Wood (1512079)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
21 March 1944, aged 43
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in Doncaster of Coronary Thrombosis
George Arthur Woodcock (2362567)
Royal Corps of Signals
8 October 1941, aged 22
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Died in the UK
Percy Benjamin Elliott Woodham (1377795)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 25 O.T.U.
18 September 1942, aged 32
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington BJ976 near Tickhill, Doncaster. On 18th September 1942 the crew of this aircraft were undertaking a training flight and left Bircotes airfield on the Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire border at 00.40hrs for a night time bombing practice. At 01.30hrs the aircraft the aircraft had returned to the airfield but had then taken off again (possibly overshooting a landing), it was then seen to climb away but then crash near the village of Tickhill, just inside Yorkshire. The crew of four were sadly killed.
Jack Woods (940148)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 9 Sqdn.
28 September 1940, aged 20
Schoonselhof Cemetery
Wellington T2505 coded WS-W airborne from Honington for a raid on Cologne. Crashed near Antwerp, Belgium. Cause unknown.
James Woods (542030)
Royal Air Force - 138 Sqdn.
14 May 1943, aged 23
Pont-Audemer Communal Cemetery
Halifax BB328 NF-U airborne from Tempsford on SOE mission Operation Physician 10/Roach 6. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at Pont-Audemer (Eure), France,
George Woodward (4623841)
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 3rd
18 July 1944, aged 23
Bayeux Memorial
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Jack Woolley (4741684)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn.
28 April 1940, aged 35
Kvam Churchyard
Died during the Norway campaign
Kenneth Worrall (C/SSX 25484)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Exmoor
25 February 1941
Chatham Naval Memorial
HMS Exmoor was sunk about 12 nautical miles east-north-east of Lowestoft, Sussex, England in position 52º32'N 02º05'E while escorting convoy FN 417. She was hit aft by a torpedo fired by the German motor torpedo boat S-30, she caught fire and sank quickly. 4 officers, including her Commanding Officer and 100 men were lost with the ship.
Sidney Wragg (P/MX 70721)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Kashmir
23 May 1941, aged 25
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean
Ernest Wraith (4350927)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 5th Bn.
4 August 1943, aged 25
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
Walter Richard Wraith (4694551)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2/4th Bn.
29 March 1943, aged 27
Tabarka Ras Rajel War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Raymond Ray Wray (4535707)
Dorsetshire Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 July 1943, aged 26
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died on the 13th day of the Sicilian Campaign
Arthur Wright (P/JX 363674)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Valkyrie
6 October 1942, aged 18
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died of illness. Death registered in Chatham
Frederick Charles Wright (905440)
Royal Artillery - 135 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
27 January 1942
Taiping War Cemetery
KIA during the fight for Malaya
Kenneth Arthur Wright provost (V508553)
Royal Australian Engineers - A.C.M.F. 4 Docks Op. Coy.
12 October 1943, aged 32
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery
Died with Australian Forces on Papua New Guinea
Tom Tacey Wrigley (7906405)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 1st Bn.
11 March 1944, aged 24
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
William Richard Wroot (1086195)
Royal Horse Artillery - 4 Regt.
9 December 1941, aged 24
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died of wounds at Sidi Rezegh during Operation Crusader, the relief of the besieged Tobruk.
Cyril Wallace (1626022)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
10 November 1947, aged 23
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Death registered in East Retford
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
10 November 1947, aged 23
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Death registered in East Retford
John Ward (C/SR 8467)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Veteran 26 September 1942, aged 24 Chatham Naval Memorial Lost when his ship was sunk in the North Atlantic at 10.36 hours on 26 Sep, 1942, by U-404 which fired a spread of three torpedoes at a destroyer near convoy RB-1 (St John's - Liverpool) and heard two detonations. HMS Veteran (D 72) was apparently hit by two torpedoes and sank immediately. The commander, eight officers and 150 ratings were lost. The destroyer had picked up 78 survivors from two other ships that had been sunk. |
Annie Wraith, aged 58
Henry Wraith, aged 74 30 October 1944 Death Regd Thorne On the 30th October 1944, Halifax LL226 of 1667 HCU took off from RAF Sandtoft at 1856 hours, tasked for as night cross country, The aircraft had engine trouble and was returning to base and made a forced landing. It crashed into a bungalow, killing the two occupants. A passing cyclist also died (Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Simpson Nixon). PO Linklater was killed in the crash and two RAAF crew members were injured, the others being uninjured. The engine failure occurred about 2000 hours when the port inner lost all pressure and the Pilot ordered the engine feathered. The Captain decided to return to base. The aircraft was about five minutes from base when the port outer gave showers of sparks and smoke poured from it. The Pilot feathered it to prevent fire. Height 3000 feet. The aircraft lost height too quickly to bale out the crew, and the Pilot had difficulty in controlling the aircraft. The pilot ordered the crew to brace themselves and prepare for a forced landing on two engines.The aircraft made an approach in a WNW direction, overshot, but making a good touch down just short of the perimeter track with flaps down and undercarriage retracted. It skidded across the perimeter track and road and struck a cottage. The aircraft was badly damaged |
Gerald Stanley Williams (1948916)
Royal Engineers - 9 Airborne Field Coy
Between 19 and 20 November 1942, aged 18
Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard
Took part in the ill-fated Operation Freshman mission to sabotage the German development of an atomic bomb at the Vermock Heavy Water plant in Norway. Following take-off at 1800hrs from Wick, Scotland on 19 November 1942, the mission soon became hampered by severe weather conditions. As the aircraft neared their intended targets the glider and tug encountered dense fog northwest of Rjukan which they were unable to emerge from, coupled with problems with their target-location apparatus. Fuel was getting low and as both tug plane and glider started to collect ice, they rapidly lost altitude. Tug and glider separated although details are not known exactly what happened afterwards. The glider crashed approximately 2.5 kilometres north-east of Lensmannsgard, 400-500 metres north-west of Gasetjern, some four kilometres north from where the towing Halifax crashed killing both pilots, and one of the passengers. The remaining fourteen survivors, including Spr Williams, were all captured shortly afterwards as Prisoners of War and taken to the Slettebø camp at Egersund. After thorough interrogation all were shot by members of the German camp guard in accordance with a decree from Hitler ordering the executions of Special Forces prisoners. They were buried later at a local churchyard at Stavanger. Sapper Williams was killed on 19-20 November 1942, aged 18 years old. He is now buried alongside all other victims of the ill-fated Horsa HS114 (also the resting place of several victims from sister glider Horsa DP-349) at Eiganes Churchyard, in Stavanger, Norway.
Royal Engineers - 9 Airborne Field Coy
Between 19 and 20 November 1942, aged 18
Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard
Took part in the ill-fated Operation Freshman mission to sabotage the German development of an atomic bomb at the Vermock Heavy Water plant in Norway. Following take-off at 1800hrs from Wick, Scotland on 19 November 1942, the mission soon became hampered by severe weather conditions. As the aircraft neared their intended targets the glider and tug encountered dense fog northwest of Rjukan which they were unable to emerge from, coupled with problems with their target-location apparatus. Fuel was getting low and as both tug plane and glider started to collect ice, they rapidly lost altitude. Tug and glider separated although details are not known exactly what happened afterwards. The glider crashed approximately 2.5 kilometres north-east of Lensmannsgard, 400-500 metres north-west of Gasetjern, some four kilometres north from where the towing Halifax crashed killing both pilots, and one of the passengers. The remaining fourteen survivors, including Spr Williams, were all captured shortly afterwards as Prisoners of War and taken to the Slettebø camp at Egersund. After thorough interrogation all were shot by members of the German camp guard in accordance with a decree from Hitler ordering the executions of Special Forces prisoners. They were buried later at a local churchyard at Stavanger. Sapper Williams was killed on 19-20 November 1942, aged 18 years old. He is now buried alongside all other victims of the ill-fated Horsa HS114 (also the resting place of several victims from sister glider Horsa DP-349) at Eiganes Churchyard, in Stavanger, Norway.
Frank Selby Wilson (76021)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 83 Sqdn. 12 February 1941, aged 34 Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension Hampden AD722 OL-X at Finningley airfield. In the early hours of 12th February 1941 this aircraft was attempting to land at Finningley in poor visibility on return from an operational flight having bombed Bremen. The aircraft took off from Scampton the previous evening at 20.10hrs and had been directed to Finningley to land on the return due to poor weather over its home airfield. The aircraft struck a building on Finningley airfield in the early hours of the morning and crashed. Three of the four crew were sadly killed and one other on the ground also sustained injuries although his name is not yet known |
Peter Saville Woodham
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - H.M.S. Avenger 15 November 1942 Lee-On-Solent Memorial Lost when the Escort Aircraft Carrier HMS Avenger (D14) was sunk in the Atlantic. At 04.14 hours on 15 Nov, 1942, U-155 fired a spread of four torpedoes at the convoy MKF-1Y about 120 miles northwest of Gibraltar and heard three detonations, but was not able to made visual observations. HMS Avenger and two other ships were hit. HMS Avenger was hit by one torpedo, which ignited her bomb load and blew out the centre section of the ship, and she sank within two minutes. |
Allan French Wright (159087)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 408 RCAF Sqdn. 20 December 1943, aged 28 Heverlee War Cemetery Lancaster mk II serial DS704 and code EQ-W airborne at 17:19 on 20 december 1943 from Linton on Ouse for a mission to Frankfurt. The aircraft was shot down over Belgium whilst outbound. |
John Edwin Wright (1877032)
Royal Engineers - 236 Field Coy
6 September 1940, aged 37
Hindley (All Saints) Churchyard
Three soldiers were charged with his murder
Royal Engineers - 236 Field Coy
6 September 1940, aged 37
Hindley (All Saints) Churchyard
Three soldiers were charged with his murder