Index H
The information here displays the name, service number and memorial page they are listed on, which can be accessed via the home page
Haig, Stanley - 7263903 - Rossington
Hall, Ernest John - D/KX 94694 - Barnby Dun
Hall, George William - 2657499 - Cantley
Hammond, P - Mexborough
Hanman, Charles Edwin - 4690618 - Stainforth
Hanson, Harry - 1458347 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Hanson, Harry - 1458347 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Hardcastle, Arthur Vernon John - 89393 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Hardy, John William - 1880920 - Askern
Hardy, J R - Armthorpe
Hardy, Thomas Percy - 2376313 - Sprotborough
Hargraves, Ronald - C/JX 352011 - Stainforth
Hargreaves, Frederick - 1625112 - Denaby Main
Harlington, Carl - 1430143 - Hexthorpe
Harlington, Carl - 1430143 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harper, John William - 4751678 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Harper, John William - 4751678 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harris, John - 1452502 - Armthorpe
Harris, John - 1452502 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harris, Peter Raymond - 581152 - Tickhill
Harris, Peter William - 1582570 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harrison, Farewell - 1516172 - Mexborough
Harrison, James Martin - 1025099 - Thorne
Harrison, James Martin - 1025099 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harrison, John Edward - 402396 - Tickhill
Harvey, William John - C/JX 279344 - Bentley
Hatfield, Luther - 13061854 - Armthorpe
Hatfield, Luther - 13061854 - Sprotborough
Havenhand, Eric - 1057550 - Bentley
Haycock, Leonard - 4694414 - Bawtry
Heath, Ernest - 1590875 - Owston
Heath, Frederick - D/JX 368806 - Bentley
Heath, John Thomas - 2662378 - Highfields Clock
Helliwell, Roger Malcolm - 14612384 - Tickhill
Hen, Leonard Walter - 14394191 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Henderson, Wright - 1779904 - Rossington
Henson, John - 4399507 - Owston
Hepton, Clarence Edgar - 4616837 - Fishlake
Hepworth, William Henry - 4692828 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Hepworth, William Henry - 4692828 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Herd, Richard - Owston
Hewitt, Joseph - 14660710 - Bentley
Hewitt, Kenneth - D/KX 83257 - Barnby Dun
Hibbard, James Herbert - P/JX 217438 - Owston
Hibbert, Edward - 564863 - Mexborough
Hickman, John D - 4452899 - Bentley
Hickman, John D - 4452899 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Hickman, John D - 4452899 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Higgins, Elsie - 2136036 - Edlington
Higgins, John - 936972 - Thorne
Higgins, John - 936972 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Higham, Clifford - 305635 - Hexthorpe
Higham, Francis - C/JX 170058 - Stainforth
Higham, Joseph - 1094932 - Askern
Higson, William Eric - 4687964 - Bentley
Hill, Anthony Raworth - 117373 - Hooton Pagnell
Hill, B. - Denaby Main
Hill, Reggie - 7385008 - Edlington
Hinchliffe, James Lambert Terence - 1088305 - Bentley
Hingley, Sydney - 1455603 - Denaby Main
Hirst, Jack - 4689084 - Barnburgh
Hodgkinson, Sidney - 1104619 - Mexborough
Hodkinson, Kenneth Bostock - 1986002 - Warmsworth
Holmes, Cyril - 1732009 - Hexthorpe
Holmes, Harold - P/JX 145739 - Warmsworth
Holmes, James Cuthbert - 4625255 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Holmes, Reginald - D/KX 86144 - Warmsworth
Hooley, Alfred - D/SSX 21939 - Denaby Main
Hope, Douglas Alenby - 409433 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Hopkins, James Francis - D/SSX 17652 - Owston
Hopson, Joseph - 4616860 - Rossington
Horne, Ernest - 4692970 - Denaby Main
Hornsby, Leslie - 1520754 - Bentley
Hornsby, Robert - 4690932 - Edlington
Horsefield, Arthur Thomas - 1451575 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Horsfield, C - Hexthorpe
Horton, Fred - 568589 - Askern
Horton, John Stanley - 1438845 - Edlington
Houlbrook, Joseph - 4692821 - Mexborough
Howard, James Robert - 1624902 - Askern
Howell, Arthur - 1395412 - Old Edlington
Howlett, Geoffrey - C/JX 378376 - Hexthorpe
Howson, Joseph - 4756859 - Mexborough
Hughes, William Thomas - 1460593 - Stainforth
Hull, Rennie - P/JX 155686 - Edlington
Hulse, George Ernest - D/SSX 20659 - Denaby Main
Hulse, Jack - 2654856 - Mexborough
Hurst, Cecil - PO/X 106979 - Armthorpe
Hutton, Charles Peter - 573547 - Cantley
Hyland, Mary (Mollie) - Cantley
Hall, Ernest John - D/KX 94694 - Barnby Dun
Hall, George William - 2657499 - Cantley
Hammond, P - Mexborough
Hanman, Charles Edwin - 4690618 - Stainforth
Hanson, Harry - 1458347 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Hanson, Harry - 1458347 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Hardcastle, Arthur Vernon John - 89393 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Hardy, John William - 1880920 - Askern
Hardy, J R - Armthorpe
Hardy, Thomas Percy - 2376313 - Sprotborough
Hargraves, Ronald - C/JX 352011 - Stainforth
Hargreaves, Frederick - 1625112 - Denaby Main
Harlington, Carl - 1430143 - Hexthorpe
Harlington, Carl - 1430143 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harper, John William - 4751678 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Harper, John William - 4751678 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harris, John - 1452502 - Armthorpe
Harris, John - 1452502 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harris, Peter Raymond - 581152 - Tickhill
Harris, Peter William - 1582570 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harrison, Farewell - 1516172 - Mexborough
Harrison, James Martin - 1025099 - Thorne
Harrison, James Martin - 1025099 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Harrison, John Edward - 402396 - Tickhill
Harvey, William John - C/JX 279344 - Bentley
Hatfield, Luther - 13061854 - Armthorpe
Hatfield, Luther - 13061854 - Sprotborough
Havenhand, Eric - 1057550 - Bentley
Haycock, Leonard - 4694414 - Bawtry
Heath, Ernest - 1590875 - Owston
Heath, Frederick - D/JX 368806 - Bentley
Heath, John Thomas - 2662378 - Highfields Clock
Helliwell, Roger Malcolm - 14612384 - Tickhill
Hen, Leonard Walter - 14394191 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Henderson, Wright - 1779904 - Rossington
Henson, John - 4399507 - Owston
Hepton, Clarence Edgar - 4616837 - Fishlake
Hepworth, William Henry - 4692828 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Hepworth, William Henry - 4692828 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Herd, Richard - Owston
Hewitt, Joseph - 14660710 - Bentley
Hewitt, Kenneth - D/KX 83257 - Barnby Dun
Hibbard, James Herbert - P/JX 217438 - Owston
Hibbert, Edward - 564863 - Mexborough
Hickman, John D - 4452899 - Bentley
Hickman, John D - 4452899 - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Hickman, John D - 4452899 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Higgins, Elsie - 2136036 - Edlington
Higgins, John - 936972 - Thorne
Higgins, John - 936972 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Higham, Clifford - 305635 - Hexthorpe
Higham, Francis - C/JX 170058 - Stainforth
Higham, Joseph - 1094932 - Askern
Higson, William Eric - 4687964 - Bentley
Hill, Anthony Raworth - 117373 - Hooton Pagnell
Hill, B. - Denaby Main
Hill, Reggie - 7385008 - Edlington
Hinchliffe, James Lambert Terence - 1088305 - Bentley
Hingley, Sydney - 1455603 - Denaby Main
Hirst, Jack - 4689084 - Barnburgh
Hodgkinson, Sidney - 1104619 - Mexborough
Hodkinson, Kenneth Bostock - 1986002 - Warmsworth
Holmes, Cyril - 1732009 - Hexthorpe
Holmes, Harold - P/JX 145739 - Warmsworth
Holmes, James Cuthbert - 4625255 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Holmes, Reginald - D/KX 86144 - Warmsworth
Hooley, Alfred - D/SSX 21939 - Denaby Main
Hope, Douglas Alenby - 409433 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Hopkins, James Francis - D/SSX 17652 - Owston
Hopson, Joseph - 4616860 - Rossington
Horne, Ernest - 4692970 - Denaby Main
Hornsby, Leslie - 1520754 - Bentley
Hornsby, Robert - 4690932 - Edlington
Horsefield, Arthur Thomas - 1451575 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Horsfield, C - Hexthorpe
Horton, Fred - 568589 - Askern
Horton, John Stanley - 1438845 - Edlington
Houlbrook, Joseph - 4692821 - Mexborough
Howard, James Robert - 1624902 - Askern
Howell, Arthur - 1395412 - Old Edlington
Howlett, Geoffrey - C/JX 378376 - Hexthorpe
Howson, Joseph - 4756859 - Mexborough
Hughes, William Thomas - 1460593 - Stainforth
Hull, Rennie - P/JX 155686 - Edlington
Hulse, George Ernest - D/SSX 20659 - Denaby Main
Hulse, Jack - 2654856 - Mexborough
Hurst, Cecil - PO/X 106979 - Armthorpe
Hutton, Charles Peter - 573547 - Cantley
Hyland, Mary (Mollie) - Cantley
Additional casualties not listed on a memorial
Edward Arthur Hackett (P/JX 155674)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Hornet
25 December 1947, aged 27
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
Killed in a road accident
Thomas Aubrey Hadley (4617274)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn.
6 May 1943, aged 25
Massicault War Cemetery
Died in the attack on Massicault during the fight for Tunis
Ernest Hadman (4547462)
Royal Armoured Corps - 1st Lothians And Border Horse
21 November 1944, aged 24
Mook War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Roy Haigh
Merchant Navy - SS Culebra Liverpool
17 January 1942, aged 18
Tower Hill Memorial
Lost when ship was sunk, with the loss of all hands, by U-123 in the North Atlantic en-route to the Jamaica.
Eric Hall (1874860)
Royal Engineers - 9 Field Coy.
Between 2 and 4 June 1940
Coxyde Military Cemetery
Died during the France and Belgium Campaign, 1939/40
Roland Hall (14206825)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 7th Bn.
12 April 1945, aged 21
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
William Hallam (14637277)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 9th The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Bn.
18 May 1944, aged 19
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Lot Hallworth (102146)
Royal Engineers
4 February 1946, aged 40
Barnsley Cemetery
Died in Barnsley
Harold Yates Hampson (849925)
Pioneer Corps - 40 Coy., Aux. Mil.
between 26 May 1940 and 2 June 1940, aged 25
Dunkirk Memorial
KIA in France
John William Hampson (1853986)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 420 Sqdn.
8 June 1944, aged 21
Runnymede Memorial
Halifax NA 505 coded PT-J airborne 23:03 7 June 1944 from Tholthorpe to attack the railyards Acheres. Shot down by a night-fighter, crashing at Ronchois (Seine-Maritime), 14 km E of Neufchatel-en-Bray.
Edwin James Hanby (14043432)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
28 January 1947, aged 19
Ramleh War Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
George Herbert Hancock (1606738)
Royal Artillery - 80 Anti-Tank Regt.
9 December 1944, aged 24
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW, cause recorded as drowning
Harry Hancock (4748143)
York and Lancaster Regiment
13 August 1942, aged 21
Rangoon Memorial
Died of illness whilst a Japanese PoW
Rowland Hancock (2889364)
Gordon Highlanders - 1st Bn. The London Scottish
24 January 1944, aged 26
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Edward Hankinson (872760)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - And No 3 Commando
14 July 1943, aged 21
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
Charles Henry Hanson (1460578)
Royal Artillery - Attd 1 Lt AA Regt,
12 July 1942, aged 27
Rangoon Memorial
Died in a train accident in Burma
John Edward Ewart Hanson (14440347)
Royal Scots - 8th Bn.
23 February 1945, aged 19
Rheinberg War Cemetery
KIA in North West Europe
Sydney Harber (4753150)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 7th Bn.
12 April 1945, aged 31
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Dennis Edward Harding (7384999)
Royal Army Medical Corps - 3 Lt Field Amb
30 October 1942, aged 23
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died during the Battle of Alamein
Stanley Ronald Hardy (14212903)
Border Regiment - 1st Airborne Bn.
26 September 1944, aged 22
Groesbeek Memorial
Died at the end of Operation Market Garden
Thomas Joseph Hardy (1985792)
Royal Engineers - 578 Field Coy
12 December 1942, aged 36
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Harold Haresign (14546078)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 6th Bn.
18 June 1944, aged 19
Bayeux Memorial
On 17 June the 6th Duke of Wellington’s supported by tanks of the 24th Lancers had to capture Parc-de-Boislande and Hill 102 from the direction of Le Haut d’Audrieu, the Dukes lost 220 men and 16 officers in 2 days.
Austin Edmund Harrison (1525818)
Royal Artillery - 13 Anti-Tank Regt.
6 August 1942
Suez War Memorial Cemetery
Died of myocarditis in North Africa
Harold Harrison (519284)
Royal Air Force - Sungei Patani
3 April 1945, aged 31
Labuan War Cemetery
Captured Java arrive at Sandakan Number 2 Camp from 8th to 18th April 1943. Japanese recorded death from Malaria
John Thomas Hart (4691822)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn.
10 July 1943, aged 22
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Killed in action on first day of Sicily landings
David Clough Hartley (P/JX 299275)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Harvester
11 March 1943, aged 21
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
HMS Harvester was sunk on 11 March 1943 while escorting convoy HX-228. HMS Harvester rams the German submarine U-444 but is disabled and the U-boat has to be finished off by French corvette Aconit. HMS Harvester, now stationary, is torpedoed and sunk in position 51º23'N, 28º40'W by U-432 which is in turn brought to the surface by Aconit's depth charges and finally destroyed by gunfire and ramming.
Joseph Hartley (4690149)
King's Shropshire Light Infantry - 4th Bn.
8 January 1945, aged 24
Hanover War Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Arthur Hartley-Jones (194000)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
1 December 1943
George Arthur Hartshorn (C/JX 163772)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Undaunted
13 May 1941, aged 18
Chatham Naval Memorial
HMS Undaunted sailed from Malta on 29 April 1941 for a patrol near Tripoli, Libya. She was due to return to Malta on 11 May but she failed to do so and is declared overdue on 13 May.
Cyril Harvey (6201300)
Middlesex Regiment - 1st Bn.
1 October 1942, aged 30
Sai Wan Memorial
Became a PoW of the Japanese when Hong Kong was surrendered on Christmas Day 1941. Lost when the Lisbon Maru was sunk in the East China Sea by the submarine USS Grouper.
George Henry Haswell
Civilian War Dead
16 May 1943, aged 36
probate shows death as 18 May 1943
Sunderland, County Borough
Air raid on Sunderland, died at 1 Parkside Terrace, Roker
Thomas Bernard Hateley (4748004)
York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn.
26 January 1942, aged 22
Akureyri Cemetery
Died in a road traffic accident in Iceland
Jack Hatliff (P/MX 77888)
Royal Navy - HMML 916
8 November 1944, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died when Motor Launch 916 was mined and sunk off Walsoorden, Netherlands on 8 November 1943
Eric Hawksworth
Merchant Navy - SS Botavon London
14 May 1942, aged 21
Tower Hill Memorial
Lost when the ship was attacked, and was later sunk, by German He-111 aircraft off the coast of Iceland.
Leslie Hayes (14774664)
Gordon Highlanders - 2nd Bn.
23 February 1945, aged 23
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
James William Hayles (324110)
Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen's Own)
2 July 1940, aged 28
Brookwood Memorial
On ship "Arandora Star" sunk in the Atlantic
Wilfred Hayton (4622972)
Royal Scots - 1st Bn.
3 April 1943, aged 29
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Herbert Hayward (4914278)
King's Own Scottish Borderers - 2nd Bn.
17 February 1944, aged 30
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Fred Haywood (14351362)
Royal Armoured Corps - The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons).
1 September 1944, aged 28
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
Killed Somme - possibly killed in action crossing the Somme
Ernest Gomer Headon (4077002)
Welch Regiment - 1st Bn.
23 March 1945, aged 26
Athens Memorial
Captured in Crete in 1941 and spent the rest of the war in Stalag 8C (prisoner no. 6312), died of peritonitis on the forced March out of Poland the day before the column was liberated by the Americans.
Ernest Healy (7885143)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
19 February 1942, aged 25
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
David Heeley (4690208)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
1 July 1942, aged 40
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Harry Hemmingfield (4749925)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 March 1944, aged 26
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in the Italian Campaign at Anzio
Donald Downes Hemstock (P/JX 330874)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Westcliff
15 October 1945
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died of illness in Doncaster
James Hennessy (2717841)
Irish Guards - 1st Bn.
27 April 1943, aged 28
Massicault War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Percy Heppenstall (998624)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 214 Sqdn.
16 April 1942, aged 22
Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery
Wellington Z8951 airborne from Stradishall for a mission to Dortmund. Shot down by a night-fighter (Uffz Schienbein, 1./NJG1) and crashed 0358 14apr42 between Deurne and Helmond (Noor Brabant), two sizeable towns E of Eindhoven
Frank Hepworth (1306813)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
28 December 1942, aged 30
Barnsley Cemetery
Died in Ashton under Lyme Infirmary
Frederick Hesford (13001831)
Pioneer Corps
26 February 1941, aged 44
Maltby Burial Ground
Killed in an air raid on London
Stephen Basil Hewitt (1458789)
Royal Artillery - 169 Bty., 57 Lt. A.A. Regt.
21 December 1944, aged 25
Phaleron War Cemetery
Died of wounds in Greece
Joseph Richard Heyes (D/MX 63537)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Jupiter
27 February 1942
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the destroyer HMS Jupiter was sunk in the Java Sea. HMS Jupiter was sailing near the northern coast of Java in the beginning of the evening of the 27 February 1942, just before the beginning of the final stage of the battle of the Java Sea, when she was struck by a violent explosion in position 06º45'S, 112º06'E. At the time it was though that it had been torpedoed by Japanese forces. Later it was found that she had struck a mine in a Dutch minefield.
John William Heywood (T/141437)
Royal Army Service Corps - 106 Bridge Coy.
25 October 1945, aged 27
Becklingen War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Bernard George Hickling (759314)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
18 February 1944, aged 24
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Registered in Don Valley
Richard Edward Hicks (130619)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 166 Sqdn.
27 January 1944, aged 22
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Pilot of Lancaster serial number W4996 coded AS-R airborne at 17:55 on 27 January 1944 from Kirmington on a mission to Berlin
Leonard Higgins (4695121)
King's Own Scottish Borderers - 4th Bn.
5 April 1945, aged 32
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Martin Higgins (LT/KX 130310)
Royal Naval Patrol Service - H.M.S. Snowdrift
7 May 1943, aged 31
Basra War Cemetery
Died of wounds, buried in Middle East
Daniel Hill (4855655)
Leicestershire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
11 July 1941
Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery
Died during the Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon in June–July 1941.
Derrick Hill (1115276)
Royal Artillery - 67 Field Regt.
19 March 1944, aged 21
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
KIA / Battle accident in Italy
Frank Hill (7374184)
Royal Army Medical Corps - 198 Field Amb
Between 14 and 15 February 1942, aged 23
Singapore Memorial
Died around the time Singapore was surrendered
George Hill (4858257)
Leicestershire Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 September 1943, aged 29
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW
John William Arthur Hill (14568447)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn.
3 June 1944, aged 20
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Frederick Stanley Hilt (957788)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 10 O.T.U.
27 March 1943, aged 26
Frimley (St. Peter) Churchyard
Whitley LA844 Took off Stanton Harcourt for a cross country. On return to base at 0254, ran off the runway at high speed crashing into a quarry, where is burst into flames killing all on board.
Lawrence Rex Hinde (926469)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
18 June 1941, aged 20
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.
Richard Hird (2654490)
Coldstream Guards - 1st Bn.
1 June 1940, aged 29
Marquise Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
George Albert Hitchcock (2050295)
Royal Artillery - And No 1
25 September 1944, aged 25
Trincomalee War Cemetery
Died of wounds received on training in a military hospital in Trincomele, Ceylon
Harold Hobson (1506131)
Royal Artillery - 176 Bty., 63 H.A.A. Regt.
7 October 1940, aged 22
Enlisted 1938
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Died in Wales
Leonard Hobson (3317430)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 6 Tank Bde. Workshops
24 June 1944, aged 25
Lenham Cemetery
Killed by a V1 along with 51 other REME, which landed in Kent between Lenham & Charing, Kent, England
Edward Cartner Hodgson (3593342)
Corps of Military Police
13 February 1944, aged 47
Yokohama War Cemetery
Died as a PoW
James Frank Holdom (407267)
Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn.
21 May 1940, aged 23
Pecq Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Ralph Holgate (5117897)
Worcestershire Regiment - 1st Bn.
1 February 1941, aged 28
Keren War Cemetery
Died in East Africa
Francis Holland (132994)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 405 RCAF Sqdn.
12 March 1943, aged 23
La Malmaison Communal Cemetery
Halifax W7803 coded LQ-B airborne 1901 11Mar43 from Topcliffe for Stuttgart. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at la Malmaison (Aisne), 25 km ESE of Laon, France.
Joseph Richardson Holliday (4390451)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 1st Bn.
28 April 1940
Nord-Sel Churchyard
Died during the Norway campaign
Wilfred Holling (4626923)
Royal Armoured Corps - 17th/21st Lancers
13 March 1946, aged 28
Phaleron War Cemetery
Harry Reginald Hollings (1433950)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Melton Mowbray
6 March 1945, aged 21
Limoges (Louyat) Communal Cemetery
Killed on active service in a crash landing of Spitfire JK620 which was being ferried to the middle east
Alexander Hollingworth (404246)
Royal Australian Air Force - 102 Sqdn.
6 January 1942, aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
On 6 January 1942 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley mk V of 102 Squadron, serial number Z9289 set off from its base at RAF Dalton, North Yorkshire about 10 miles south-west of Thirsk. The aircraft was airborne at 04:24 to attack the mighty German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest harbour. It was part of a force of 154 aircraft, mainly Vickers Wellingtons that were dispatched to attack naval targets in the French port. The two-engine Whitley turned back over Cherbourg after the starboard engine failed. Having made significant progress back to base the aircraft suffered a fire in the unserviceable engine whilst 12 miles south of Sheffield. The pilot, Sgt Hollingworth ordered the crew to bail out and then kept the aircraft as straight as he could to allow this. Although all other four crew members managed to abandon the aircraft Sergeant Buchanan bailed out on the south side of West Road and his parachute failed to deploy correctly and he was killed when it became entangled with the destructor tower on the Corporation tip. The pilot was committed to a forced landing and the aircraft came down in the quarry at 10:10 in the quarry at the rear of Creswell Street, killing Sgt Hollingworth.
James Cyril Holmes (D/JX 253959)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Raleigh
28 April 1941, aged 19
Torpoint (Horson) Cemetery
Killed in an air raid on Plymouth
Harold Kirkham Holt (D/KX 132234)
Royal Navy - H.M. Mtb 310
14 September 1942, aged 22
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Bombed and sunk by Italian aircraft at Tobruk, Libya
James Samuel Holt (P/JX 201158)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Tamar
2 October 1942, aged 32
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died as a Japanese PoW. Was aboard a ship, the Lisbon Maru which left Hong Kong on 27 August 1942 for Shanghai with 1816 prisoners on board. Attacked and sunk by submarine USS Grouper.
Thomas Hoob (4621472)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn.
6 May 1943
Massicault War Cemetery
Died in the attack on Massicault during the fight for Tunis
Edward Hood (D/JX 137108)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Diamond
27 April 1941, aged 25
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 27 April 1941, during the evacutation of Greece, HMS Diamond was sunk by German aircraft about 20 nautical miles east of Cape Maleas, Greece in position 36º30'N, 23º34'E. Lost with 148 men, with very few survivors found.
George Hopkin (1009537)
Royal Artillery - 126 Bty., 38 Lt. A.A. Regt.
5 May 1940, aged 46
Enlisted 20/5/1913 in Pontefract, aged 19, Army No 73289.Pony Driver. Address on Discharge 187 Balby Road, Doncaster. Re-enlisted RA (TA) 12/9/1939
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Death registered in Rotherham
Harry Hopkin (230535)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 14th Bn.
24 October 1942, aged 39
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died on the first full day of the Battle of Alamein
George Alfred Hopkins (4546853)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
Between 6 and 7 June 1944, aged 21
Hermanville War Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
Ernest Hopkinson (964790)
Royal Artillery - 137 Field Regt
29 January 1944, aged 27
Chungkai War Cemetery
Died whilst a Japanese POW of acute enteritis
George Hubbard Hopkinson (847486)
Corps of Royal Military Police
28 May 1947, aged 28
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Maurice Hopkinson (4751256)
Royal Artillery - 3 Bty, 2 Maritime Regt
1 January 1943, aged 24
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
John Horbsey (4980161)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 1st Bn.
20 June 1942
Alamein Memorial
Died the day before Tobruk was surrendered
John William Frederick Horey (3532608)
Royal Artillery - 3/2 Maritime Regt.
29 October 1942, aged 22
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
At 22.13 hours on 29 Oct 1942, U-575 fired four torpedoes at the unescorted Abosso about 700 miles northwest of the Azores, but only one of them hit. At 22.28 hours, a coup de grâce struck the ship, causing her to sink at 23.05 hours. The master, 150 crew members, 18 gunners and 193 passengers were lost. Twelve crew members, two gunners and 17 passengers were picked up on 2 November.
John Dennis Horton (C/SSX 33948)
Royal Navy - Dutch Ship Isaac Sweers.
13 November 1942
Chatham Naval Memorial
On 13 November 1942, during Operation Torch, was hit by two torpedoes from the German submarine U-431. She sank with the loss of 108 of her 194 men.
Walter Hough (2004585)
Royal Engineers - 8 Field Sqn
15 August 1944, aged 27
Arezzo War Cemetery
Died in Italy
William Hoult (4199860)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 4th Bn.
16 February 1945
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
Constance Mary Housley
Civilian War Dead
Between 1and 30 September 1942, aged 36
1911 census lived at Church Lane Bagthorpe Jacksdale Notts
Luton, Municipal Borough
Killed in an air raid on Luton on 5 September 1942. at Midland Road, Luton. She was walking to the station and was later identified when a telegram was received asking why she had not returned home.
Lawrence Housley (T/10669053)
Royal Army Service Corps
8 November 1943
Heliopolis War Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
Henry Clifford Howard (400471)
Royal Australian Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
9 November 1941, aged 22
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington N2783 near Rossington, Finningley. On 9th November 1941 the crew on this aircraft took off from Finningley to undertake a night training exercise. At 21.15hrs the aircraft crashed near Old Rossington village and sadly four of the six on board were killed. The crash investigation found the altimeter had been incorrectly set prior to take off and the aircraft had probably flown into the ground.
Leslie Harrison Howard (2660862)
Coldstream Guards - 3rd Bn.
28 June 1944, aged 28
Foiano Della Chiana War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Thomas Joseph Howard (T/4698538)
Royal Army Service Corps
19 May 1944, aged 21
Cassino War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Albert Howcroft (1592318)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 431 RCAF Sqdn.
23 April 1944, aged 19
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Halifax MZ514 coded SE-P airborne 2229 23Apr44 from Croft on a mission to Dusseldorf. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at Veen, where all were initially buried, a small town W of the Rhine, 12 km SW of Wesel. Their graves are now located in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Kenneth Howe (4748936)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn.
13 October 1944, aged 26
Assisi War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Horace Gordon Howell (4917288)
Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C. - 2nd Wing
20 September 1944, aged 24
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
Died during Operation Market Garden
James Huddart (1140437)
Royal Artillery - 172 Field Regt
6 February 1944, aged 23
Minturno War Cemetery
KIA in Italy
Charles Thomas Hudson (6150219)
East Surrey Regiment - 1st Bn.
27 November 1942, aged 34
Massicault War Cemetery
KIA in the Tunisian Campaign
John Hudson (D/MX 61094)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune
19 December 1941, aged 24
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean
Noble Hugill (1378874)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 622 Sqdn.
1 September 1943, aged 29
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Stirling MZ264 coded GI-A airborne 20:15 on 31 August 1943 from Mildenhall on a mission to Berlin. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed at Schape, 10 km ENE of Bruck. Those killed were buried at Schape. Their graves are now located in the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery.
Thomas H Humber (T/106795)
Royal Army Service Corps
7 July 1943, aged 33
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW in Burma
Frederick Henry Hunt (FAA/FX. 87071)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Victorious
4 August 1944, aged 20
Lee-On-Solent Memorial
Killed in an air crash
Alwyn Hunter (13006398)
Pioneer Corps - Aux. Mil.
28 May 1940
Vlieland General Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Cyril Hurdley (1460579)
Royal Artillery
12 December 1940
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Maurice Raymond Hutson (1064670)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 42 Sqdn.
30 September 1942, aged 27
Runnymede Memorial
KIA
Walter E Hyde (884804)
Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt.
9 April 1945, aged 29
Enlisted 1938
Kranji War Cemetery
Died as a Japanese PoW
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Hornet
25 December 1947, aged 27
Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery
Killed in a road accident
Thomas Aubrey Hadley (4617274)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn.
6 May 1943, aged 25
Massicault War Cemetery
Died in the attack on Massicault during the fight for Tunis
Ernest Hadman (4547462)
Royal Armoured Corps - 1st Lothians And Border Horse
21 November 1944, aged 24
Mook War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Roy Haigh
Merchant Navy - SS Culebra Liverpool
17 January 1942, aged 18
Tower Hill Memorial
Lost when ship was sunk, with the loss of all hands, by U-123 in the North Atlantic en-route to the Jamaica.
Eric Hall (1874860)
Royal Engineers - 9 Field Coy.
Between 2 and 4 June 1940
Coxyde Military Cemetery
Died during the France and Belgium Campaign, 1939/40
Roland Hall (14206825)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 7th Bn.
12 April 1945, aged 21
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
William Hallam (14637277)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 9th The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Bn.
18 May 1944, aged 19
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Lot Hallworth (102146)
Royal Engineers
4 February 1946, aged 40
Barnsley Cemetery
Died in Barnsley
Harold Yates Hampson (849925)
Pioneer Corps - 40 Coy., Aux. Mil.
between 26 May 1940 and 2 June 1940, aged 25
Dunkirk Memorial
KIA in France
John William Hampson (1853986)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 420 Sqdn.
8 June 1944, aged 21
Runnymede Memorial
Halifax NA 505 coded PT-J airborne 23:03 7 June 1944 from Tholthorpe to attack the railyards Acheres. Shot down by a night-fighter, crashing at Ronchois (Seine-Maritime), 14 km E of Neufchatel-en-Bray.
Edwin James Hanby (14043432)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
28 January 1947, aged 19
Ramleh War Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
George Herbert Hancock (1606738)
Royal Artillery - 80 Anti-Tank Regt.
9 December 1944, aged 24
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW, cause recorded as drowning
Harry Hancock (4748143)
York and Lancaster Regiment
13 August 1942, aged 21
Rangoon Memorial
Died of illness whilst a Japanese PoW
Rowland Hancock (2889364)
Gordon Highlanders - 1st Bn. The London Scottish
24 January 1944, aged 26
Minturno War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Edward Hankinson (872760)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - And No 3 Commando
14 July 1943, aged 21
Catania War Cemetery, Sicily
Died during the Sicily Campaign
Charles Henry Hanson (1460578)
Royal Artillery - Attd 1 Lt AA Regt,
12 July 1942, aged 27
Rangoon Memorial
Died in a train accident in Burma
John Edward Ewart Hanson (14440347)
Royal Scots - 8th Bn.
23 February 1945, aged 19
Rheinberg War Cemetery
KIA in North West Europe
Sydney Harber (4753150)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 7th Bn.
12 April 1945, aged 31
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
Dennis Edward Harding (7384999)
Royal Army Medical Corps - 3 Lt Field Amb
30 October 1942, aged 23
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died during the Battle of Alamein
Stanley Ronald Hardy (14212903)
Border Regiment - 1st Airborne Bn.
26 September 1944, aged 22
Groesbeek Memorial
Died at the end of Operation Market Garden
Thomas Joseph Hardy (1985792)
Royal Engineers - 578 Field Coy
12 December 1942, aged 36
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Harold Haresign (14546078)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 6th Bn.
18 June 1944, aged 19
Bayeux Memorial
On 17 June the 6th Duke of Wellington’s supported by tanks of the 24th Lancers had to capture Parc-de-Boislande and Hill 102 from the direction of Le Haut d’Audrieu, the Dukes lost 220 men and 16 officers in 2 days.
Austin Edmund Harrison (1525818)
Royal Artillery - 13 Anti-Tank Regt.
6 August 1942
Suez War Memorial Cemetery
Died of myocarditis in North Africa
Harold Harrison (519284)
Royal Air Force - Sungei Patani
3 April 1945, aged 31
Labuan War Cemetery
Captured Java arrive at Sandakan Number 2 Camp from 8th to 18th April 1943. Japanese recorded death from Malaria
John Thomas Hart (4691822)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn.
10 July 1943, aged 22
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Killed in action on first day of Sicily landings
David Clough Hartley (P/JX 299275)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Harvester
11 March 1943, aged 21
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
HMS Harvester was sunk on 11 March 1943 while escorting convoy HX-228. HMS Harvester rams the German submarine U-444 but is disabled and the U-boat has to be finished off by French corvette Aconit. HMS Harvester, now stationary, is torpedoed and sunk in position 51º23'N, 28º40'W by U-432 which is in turn brought to the surface by Aconit's depth charges and finally destroyed by gunfire and ramming.
Joseph Hartley (4690149)
King's Shropshire Light Infantry - 4th Bn.
8 January 1945, aged 24
Hanover War Cemetery
Died during Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Arthur Hartley-Jones (194000)
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
1 December 1943
George Arthur Hartshorn (C/JX 163772)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Undaunted
13 May 1941, aged 18
Chatham Naval Memorial
HMS Undaunted sailed from Malta on 29 April 1941 for a patrol near Tripoli, Libya. She was due to return to Malta on 11 May but she failed to do so and is declared overdue on 13 May.
Cyril Harvey (6201300)
Middlesex Regiment - 1st Bn.
1 October 1942, aged 30
Sai Wan Memorial
Became a PoW of the Japanese when Hong Kong was surrendered on Christmas Day 1941. Lost when the Lisbon Maru was sunk in the East China Sea by the submarine USS Grouper.
George Henry Haswell
Civilian War Dead
16 May 1943, aged 36
probate shows death as 18 May 1943
Sunderland, County Borough
Air raid on Sunderland, died at 1 Parkside Terrace, Roker
Thomas Bernard Hateley (4748004)
York and Lancaster Regiment - The Hallamshire Bn.
26 January 1942, aged 22
Akureyri Cemetery
Died in a road traffic accident in Iceland
Jack Hatliff (P/MX 77888)
Royal Navy - HMML 916
8 November 1944, aged 23
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died when Motor Launch 916 was mined and sunk off Walsoorden, Netherlands on 8 November 1943
Eric Hawksworth
Merchant Navy - SS Botavon London
14 May 1942, aged 21
Tower Hill Memorial
Lost when the ship was attacked, and was later sunk, by German He-111 aircraft off the coast of Iceland.
Leslie Hayes (14774664)
Gordon Highlanders - 2nd Bn.
23 February 1945, aged 23
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
James William Hayles (324110)
Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry (Queen's Own)
2 July 1940, aged 28
Brookwood Memorial
On ship "Arandora Star" sunk in the Atlantic
Wilfred Hayton (4622972)
Royal Scots - 1st Bn.
3 April 1943, aged 29
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Herbert Hayward (4914278)
King's Own Scottish Borderers - 2nd Bn.
17 February 1944, aged 30
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
Fred Haywood (14351362)
Royal Armoured Corps - The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons).
1 September 1944, aged 28
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
Killed Somme - possibly killed in action crossing the Somme
Ernest Gomer Headon (4077002)
Welch Regiment - 1st Bn.
23 March 1945, aged 26
Athens Memorial
Captured in Crete in 1941 and spent the rest of the war in Stalag 8C (prisoner no. 6312), died of peritonitis on the forced March out of Poland the day before the column was liberated by the Americans.
Ernest Healy (7885143)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
19 February 1942, aged 25
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
David Heeley (4690208)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
1 July 1942, aged 40
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Harry Hemmingfield (4749925)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 March 1944, aged 26
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in the Italian Campaign at Anzio
Donald Downes Hemstock (P/JX 330874)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Westcliff
15 October 1945
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died of illness in Doncaster
James Hennessy (2717841)
Irish Guards - 1st Bn.
27 April 1943, aged 28
Massicault War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Percy Heppenstall (998624)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 214 Sqdn.
16 April 1942, aged 22
Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery
Wellington Z8951 airborne from Stradishall for a mission to Dortmund. Shot down by a night-fighter (Uffz Schienbein, 1./NJG1) and crashed 0358 14apr42 between Deurne and Helmond (Noor Brabant), two sizeable towns E of Eindhoven
Frank Hepworth (1306813)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
28 December 1942, aged 30
Barnsley Cemetery
Died in Ashton under Lyme Infirmary
Frederick Hesford (13001831)
Pioneer Corps
26 February 1941, aged 44
Maltby Burial Ground
Killed in an air raid on London
Stephen Basil Hewitt (1458789)
Royal Artillery - 169 Bty., 57 Lt. A.A. Regt.
21 December 1944, aged 25
Phaleron War Cemetery
Died of wounds in Greece
Joseph Richard Heyes (D/MX 63537)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Jupiter
27 February 1942
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the destroyer HMS Jupiter was sunk in the Java Sea. HMS Jupiter was sailing near the northern coast of Java in the beginning of the evening of the 27 February 1942, just before the beginning of the final stage of the battle of the Java Sea, when she was struck by a violent explosion in position 06º45'S, 112º06'E. At the time it was though that it had been torpedoed by Japanese forces. Later it was found that she had struck a mine in a Dutch minefield.
John William Heywood (T/141437)
Royal Army Service Corps - 106 Bridge Coy.
25 October 1945, aged 27
Becklingen War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Bernard George Hickling (759314)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
18 February 1944, aged 24
Adwick-le-Street Cemetery
Registered in Don Valley
Richard Edward Hicks (130619)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 166 Sqdn.
27 January 1944, aged 22
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Pilot of Lancaster serial number W4996 coded AS-R airborne at 17:55 on 27 January 1944 from Kirmington on a mission to Berlin
Leonard Higgins (4695121)
King's Own Scottish Borderers - 4th Bn.
5 April 1945, aged 32
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Martin Higgins (LT/KX 130310)
Royal Naval Patrol Service - H.M.S. Snowdrift
7 May 1943, aged 31
Basra War Cemetery
Died of wounds, buried in Middle East
Daniel Hill (4855655)
Leicestershire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
11 July 1941
Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery
Died during the Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon in June–July 1941.
Derrick Hill (1115276)
Royal Artillery - 67 Field Regt.
19 March 1944, aged 21
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
KIA / Battle accident in Italy
Frank Hill (7374184)
Royal Army Medical Corps - 198 Field Amb
Between 14 and 15 February 1942, aged 23
Singapore Memorial
Died around the time Singapore was surrendered
George Hill (4858257)
Leicestershire Regiment - 1st Bn.
21 September 1943, aged 29
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW
John William Arthur Hill (14568447)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 1st Bn.
3 June 1944, aged 20
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Frederick Stanley Hilt (957788)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 10 O.T.U.
27 March 1943, aged 26
Frimley (St. Peter) Churchyard
Whitley LA844 Took off Stanton Harcourt for a cross country. On return to base at 0254, ran off the runway at high speed crashing into a quarry, where is burst into flames killing all on board.
Lawrence Rex Hinde (926469)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 50 Sqdn.
18 June 1941, aged 20
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.
Richard Hird (2654490)
Coldstream Guards - 1st Bn.
1 June 1940, aged 29
Marquise Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
George Albert Hitchcock (2050295)
Royal Artillery - And No 1
25 September 1944, aged 25
Trincomalee War Cemetery
Died of wounds received on training in a military hospital in Trincomele, Ceylon
Harold Hobson (1506131)
Royal Artillery - 176 Bty., 63 H.A.A. Regt.
7 October 1940, aged 22
Enlisted 1938
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Died in Wales
Leonard Hobson (3317430)
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - 6 Tank Bde. Workshops
24 June 1944, aged 25
Lenham Cemetery
Killed by a V1 along with 51 other REME, which landed in Kent between Lenham & Charing, Kent, England
Edward Cartner Hodgson (3593342)
Corps of Military Police
13 February 1944, aged 47
Yokohama War Cemetery
Died as a PoW
James Frank Holdom (407267)
Coldstream Guards - 2nd Bn.
21 May 1940, aged 23
Pecq Communal Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Ralph Holgate (5117897)
Worcestershire Regiment - 1st Bn.
1 February 1941, aged 28
Keren War Cemetery
Died in East Africa
Francis Holland (132994)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 405 RCAF Sqdn.
12 March 1943, aged 23
La Malmaison Communal Cemetery
Halifax W7803 coded LQ-B airborne 1901 11Mar43 from Topcliffe for Stuttgart. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at la Malmaison (Aisne), 25 km ESE of Laon, France.
Joseph Richardson Holliday (4390451)
Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) - 1st Bn.
28 April 1940
Nord-Sel Churchyard
Died during the Norway campaign
Wilfred Holling (4626923)
Royal Armoured Corps - 17th/21st Lancers
13 March 1946, aged 28
Phaleron War Cemetery
Harry Reginald Hollings (1433950)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Melton Mowbray
6 March 1945, aged 21
Limoges (Louyat) Communal Cemetery
Killed on active service in a crash landing of Spitfire JK620 which was being ferried to the middle east
Alexander Hollingworth (404246)
Royal Australian Air Force - 102 Sqdn.
6 January 1942, aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
On 6 January 1942 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley mk V of 102 Squadron, serial number Z9289 set off from its base at RAF Dalton, North Yorkshire about 10 miles south-west of Thirsk. The aircraft was airborne at 04:24 to attack the mighty German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest harbour. It was part of a force of 154 aircraft, mainly Vickers Wellingtons that were dispatched to attack naval targets in the French port. The two-engine Whitley turned back over Cherbourg after the starboard engine failed. Having made significant progress back to base the aircraft suffered a fire in the unserviceable engine whilst 12 miles south of Sheffield. The pilot, Sgt Hollingworth ordered the crew to bail out and then kept the aircraft as straight as he could to allow this. Although all other four crew members managed to abandon the aircraft Sergeant Buchanan bailed out on the south side of West Road and his parachute failed to deploy correctly and he was killed when it became entangled with the destructor tower on the Corporation tip. The pilot was committed to a forced landing and the aircraft came down in the quarry at 10:10 in the quarry at the rear of Creswell Street, killing Sgt Hollingworth.
James Cyril Holmes (D/JX 253959)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Raleigh
28 April 1941, aged 19
Torpoint (Horson) Cemetery
Killed in an air raid on Plymouth
Harold Kirkham Holt (D/KX 132234)
Royal Navy - H.M. Mtb 310
14 September 1942, aged 22
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Bombed and sunk by Italian aircraft at Tobruk, Libya
James Samuel Holt (P/JX 201158)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Tamar
2 October 1942, aged 32
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Died as a Japanese PoW. Was aboard a ship, the Lisbon Maru which left Hong Kong on 27 August 1942 for Shanghai with 1816 prisoners on board. Attacked and sunk by submarine USS Grouper.
Thomas Hoob (4621472)
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 1st Bn.
6 May 1943
Massicault War Cemetery
Died in the attack on Massicault during the fight for Tunis
Edward Hood (D/JX 137108)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Diamond
27 April 1941, aged 25
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 27 April 1941, during the evacutation of Greece, HMS Diamond was sunk by German aircraft about 20 nautical miles east of Cape Maleas, Greece in position 36º30'N, 23º34'E. Lost with 148 men, with very few survivors found.
George Hopkin (1009537)
Royal Artillery - 126 Bty., 38 Lt. A.A. Regt.
5 May 1940, aged 46
Enlisted 20/5/1913 in Pontefract, aged 19, Army No 73289.Pony Driver. Address on Discharge 187 Balby Road, Doncaster. Re-enlisted RA (TA) 12/9/1939
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Death registered in Rotherham
Harry Hopkin (230535)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 14th Bn.
24 October 1942, aged 39
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died on the first full day of the Battle of Alamein
George Alfred Hopkins (4546853)
East Yorkshire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
Between 6 and 7 June 1944, aged 21
Hermanville War Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
Ernest Hopkinson (964790)
Royal Artillery - 137 Field Regt
29 January 1944, aged 27
Chungkai War Cemetery
Died whilst a Japanese POW of acute enteritis
George Hubbard Hopkinson (847486)
Corps of Royal Military Police
28 May 1947, aged 28
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
Maurice Hopkinson (4751256)
Royal Artillery - 3 Bty, 2 Maritime Regt
1 January 1943, aged 24
Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery
Died in the UK
John Horbsey (4980161)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 1st Bn.
20 June 1942
Alamein Memorial
Died the day before Tobruk was surrendered
John William Frederick Horey (3532608)
Royal Artillery - 3/2 Maritime Regt.
29 October 1942, aged 22
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
At 22.13 hours on 29 Oct 1942, U-575 fired four torpedoes at the unescorted Abosso about 700 miles northwest of the Azores, but only one of them hit. At 22.28 hours, a coup de grâce struck the ship, causing her to sink at 23.05 hours. The master, 150 crew members, 18 gunners and 193 passengers were lost. Twelve crew members, two gunners and 17 passengers were picked up on 2 November.
John Dennis Horton (C/SSX 33948)
Royal Navy - Dutch Ship Isaac Sweers.
13 November 1942
Chatham Naval Memorial
On 13 November 1942, during Operation Torch, was hit by two torpedoes from the German submarine U-431. She sank with the loss of 108 of her 194 men.
Walter Hough (2004585)
Royal Engineers - 8 Field Sqn
15 August 1944, aged 27
Arezzo War Cemetery
Died in Italy
William Hoult (4199860)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 4th Bn.
16 February 1945
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western European 1944/45 Campaign
Constance Mary Housley
Civilian War Dead
Between 1and 30 September 1942, aged 36
1911 census lived at Church Lane Bagthorpe Jacksdale Notts
Luton, Municipal Borough
Killed in an air raid on Luton on 5 September 1942. at Midland Road, Luton. She was walking to the station and was later identified when a telegram was received asking why she had not returned home.
Lawrence Housley (T/10669053)
Royal Army Service Corps
8 November 1943
Heliopolis War Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
Henry Clifford Howard (400471)
Royal Australian Air Force - 25 O.T.U.
9 November 1941, aged 22
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington N2783 near Rossington, Finningley. On 9th November 1941 the crew on this aircraft took off from Finningley to undertake a night training exercise. At 21.15hrs the aircraft crashed near Old Rossington village and sadly four of the six on board were killed. The crash investigation found the altimeter had been incorrectly set prior to take off and the aircraft had probably flown into the ground.
Leslie Harrison Howard (2660862)
Coldstream Guards - 3rd Bn.
28 June 1944, aged 28
Foiano Della Chiana War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Thomas Joseph Howard (T/4698538)
Royal Army Service Corps
19 May 1944, aged 21
Cassino War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Albert Howcroft (1592318)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 431 RCAF Sqdn.
23 April 1944, aged 19
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Halifax MZ514 coded SE-P airborne 2229 23Apr44 from Croft on a mission to Dusseldorf. Cause of loss not established. Crashed at Veen, where all were initially buried, a small town W of the Rhine, 12 km SW of Wesel. Their graves are now located in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Kenneth Howe (4748936)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn.
13 October 1944, aged 26
Assisi War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Horace Gordon Howell (4917288)
Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C. - 2nd Wing
20 September 1944, aged 24
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery
Died during Operation Market Garden
James Huddart (1140437)
Royal Artillery - 172 Field Regt
6 February 1944, aged 23
Minturno War Cemetery
KIA in Italy
Charles Thomas Hudson (6150219)
East Surrey Regiment - 1st Bn.
27 November 1942, aged 34
Massicault War Cemetery
KIA in the Tunisian Campaign
John Hudson (D/MX 61094)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune
19 December 1941, aged 24
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Mediterranean
Noble Hugill (1378874)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 622 Sqdn.
1 September 1943, aged 29
Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Stirling MZ264 coded GI-A airborne 20:15 on 31 August 1943 from Mildenhall on a mission to Berlin. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed at Schape, 10 km ENE of Bruck. Those killed were buried at Schape. Their graves are now located in the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery.
Thomas H Humber (T/106795)
Royal Army Service Corps
7 July 1943, aged 33
Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW in Burma
Frederick Henry Hunt (FAA/FX. 87071)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Victorious
4 August 1944, aged 20
Lee-On-Solent Memorial
Killed in an air crash
Alwyn Hunter (13006398)
Pioneer Corps - Aux. Mil.
28 May 1940
Vlieland General Cemetery
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF during the retreat to Dunkirk
Cyril Hurdley (1460579)
Royal Artillery
12 December 1940
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died in the UK
Maurice Raymond Hutson (1064670)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 42 Sqdn.
30 September 1942, aged 27
Runnymede Memorial
KIA
Walter E Hyde (884804)
Royal Artillery - 7 Coast Regt.
9 April 1945, aged 29
Enlisted 1938
Kranji War Cemetery
Died as a Japanese PoW
Geoffrey Oswald Hawke
Merchant Navy - S.S. Shrewsbury (London) 12 February 1941, aged 21 Tower Hill Memorial SS Shrewsbury was part of the unescorted convoy SLS 64 when she was attacked with shellfire by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper whilst in the North Atlantic. The SS Shrewsbury was the first vessel to be hit and sank about 300 miles South East of the Azores. The master and eighteen crew members were rescued - fifteen by SS Blairatholl. Eighteen crew members were in a lifeboat that received a direct hit by a shell and were all killed. Twenty crew members from SS Shrewsbury were lost in total. |
John Hamilton Hopper (518878)
Royal Air Force - 102 Sqdn. 1 May 1940, aged 23 Survived an overshot landing on 2/4/40 in Whitley N1368 at Driffield Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery Whitley V - N1500 of 102 Sqn as crashing on the slopes of Hill of Foudland, 6mls SE of Huntley in Aberdeenshire, whilst being ferried from Kinloss to Driffield. The crash site for N1500 is recorded in a 102 Sqn telegram of 1 May 40 as being 'Bains Hole, near Insch, Ordnance survey 1/4 mile to inch - (Q) K.1356.' The time is given as 1059 hours. |
Thomas William Housley (4544407)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
19 July 1942, aged 28
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn.
19 July 1942, aged 28
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Bernard Walter Howcroft (1238940)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 31 PD ATT 14 July 1942, aged 22 Montgomery (Oakwood) Cemetery Annexe Killed in the US when a flight of 39 trainer aircraft took off from Moody Field, Georgia for a night exercise to Mariana, Florida and back. Four of the aircraft crashed whilst trying to fly under thunderstorms in the area, resulting in the deaths of 7 RAF trainee aircrew and an American instructor. Howcroft was in a Cessna AT-17 with serial number 42-138. |
George Hunter (FX606399)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Seaborn
7 February 1945, aged 19
Vankleek Hill (Greenwood) Cemetery
Aircraft crashed in Canada
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Seaborn
7 February 1945, aged 19
Vankleek Hill (Greenwood) Cemetery
Aircraft crashed in Canada