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The information here displays the name, service number and memorial page they are listed on, which can be accessed via the home page
Page, B - Hatfield Woodhouse
Page, James Cuthbert - 264587 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Palmer Philip - 10601752 - Sprotborough
Palmer , Robert - 951869 - Rossington
Parr, George - 1005807 - Armthorpe
Pashley, George Kenneth - 865493 - Adwick On Dearne
Patterson, Thomas - 1485397 - Highfields Clock
Pattinson, Clifford - 2992572 - Askern
Pearce, Martin Raymmond - 1808544 - Old Edlington
Pears, J.J. - Denaby Main
Pears, John Pinder - 1452361 - Denaby Main
Pearson, G - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Pearson, G - Hatfield Woodhouse
Peel, John Clarke - 14289045 - Owston
Peet, F - Edlington
Pegg, George - C/MX 66733 - Highfields Clock
Pepper, George Phillip - 7893919 - Hexthorpe Percival, Samuel - 1147343 - Owston
Perkins (see also Moody), William - LT/KX 104844 - Mexborough
Peters, Leslie - 1466554 - Conisbrough
Phillips, D - Mexborough
Phillips, Edward Walter - 1059982 - Conisbrough
Phillips, William - T/136360 - Thorne
Phillips, William - T/136360 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Pinder, Charles Alan - 1623092 - Armthorpe
Platt, Harold - 171557 - Mexborough
Plows, Harry - 2659162 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Pope, John Edmund - C/KX 111806 - Tickhill
Popple, Charles Kenneth - 1622319 - Mexborough
Potter, Horace - 4538028 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Potter, Kenneth - 1889387 - Bentley
Potts, J P - Armthorpe
Potts, Joseph Thomas - P/JX 174970 - Thorne
Potts, William Henry - 14448165 - Rossington
Prentice, Douglas Robert Campbell - 96405 - Cantley
Preston, Horace Ronald - 1876923 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Preston, James William - 926054 - Denaby Main
Price, William - C/JX 354672 - Bentley
Prince, Charles Edward - 1379759 - Denaby Main
Prince, Ernest Edward - 950104 - Owston
Prince, Samuel - 5572693 - Mexborough
Punt, Benjamin - 14354902 - Rossington
Page, James Cuthbert - 264587 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Palmer Philip - 10601752 - Sprotborough
Palmer , Robert - 951869 - Rossington
Parr, George - 1005807 - Armthorpe
Pashley, George Kenneth - 865493 - Adwick On Dearne
Patterson, Thomas - 1485397 - Highfields Clock
Pattinson, Clifford - 2992572 - Askern
Pearce, Martin Raymmond - 1808544 - Old Edlington
Pears, J.J. - Denaby Main
Pears, John Pinder - 1452361 - Denaby Main
Pearson, G - Hatfield Dunscroft British Legion
Pearson, G - Hatfield Woodhouse
Peel, John Clarke - 14289045 - Owston
Peet, F - Edlington
Pegg, George - C/MX 66733 - Highfields Clock
Pepper, George Phillip - 7893919 - Hexthorpe Percival, Samuel - 1147343 - Owston
Perkins (see also Moody), William - LT/KX 104844 - Mexborough
Peters, Leslie - 1466554 - Conisbrough
Phillips, D - Mexborough
Phillips, Edward Walter - 1059982 - Conisbrough
Phillips, William - T/136360 - Thorne
Phillips, William - T/136360 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Pinder, Charles Alan - 1623092 - Armthorpe
Platt, Harold - 171557 - Mexborough
Plows, Harry - 2659162 - Thorne St Nicholas Memorial
Pope, John Edmund - C/KX 111806 - Tickhill
Popple, Charles Kenneth - 1622319 - Mexborough
Potter, Horace - 4538028 - Campsall, Norton & Sutton
Potter, Kenneth - 1889387 - Bentley
Potts, J P - Armthorpe
Potts, Joseph Thomas - P/JX 174970 - Thorne
Potts, William Henry - 14448165 - Rossington
Prentice, Douglas Robert Campbell - 96405 - Cantley
Preston, Horace Ronald - 1876923 - Hatfield Woodhouse
Preston, James William - 926054 - Denaby Main
Price, William - C/JX 354672 - Bentley
Prince, Charles Edward - 1379759 - Denaby Main
Prince, Ernest Edward - 950104 - Owston
Prince, Samuel - 5572693 - Mexborough
Punt, Benjamin - 14354902 - Rossington
Additional casualties not listed on a memorial
Edward Padgett (950097)
Royal Artillery - 155 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
23 October 1943 , aged 24
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW
Tom Lawson Padley (D/MX. 62580)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Glorious
8 June 1940 , aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Norwegian Sea
Joseph Paget (3252950)
Royal Scots - 1st Bn
10 June 1944 , aged 28
Kohima War Cemetery
Died in India
Thomas Albert Paguin (3526993)
Manchester Regiment - 2nd Bn
1 May 1940 , aged 25
Dunkirk Memorial
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF
John William Palfreyman (13037949)
Army Catering Corps - Attd
10 April 1943 , aged 44
Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery
Died on Gibraltar
William Collier Pamment (1672234)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 1 OADU
31 March 1945 , aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Mosqito NF XIX TA226 aircraft crashed shortly after take off from Portreath airfield in Cornwall on a flight to Cairo.
Roger Edward Rawle Paramore (84309)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 49 Squadron
6 June 1942, aged 23
Runnymede Memorial
Avro Manchester mk I L7287 was airborne from Scampton on a mission to Emden. Failed to return with the loss of all the crew, thought to have crashed in the sea.
John Douglas Parker
Merchant Navy - SS Dafila Liverpool
18 March 1943 , aged 20
Tower Hill Memorial
Lost when the ship was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya by U-593
Fred Parkin (1531382)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 136 Sqdn
21 February 1942 , aged 21
Taukkyan Memorial
Died on active service in Burma
George Pascall (4747373)
Royal Artillery - 28 Field Regt
19 August 1943 , aged 23
Rangoon Memorial
Died in India
Robert Aubrey Paske (D/K 63767)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune
19 December 1941 , aged 39
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 19 December 1941, following the First Battle if the Syrte, Force "K", consisting of light cruisers HMS Neptune, Aurora, Penelope with destroyers Kandahar, Havock, Lance and Lively, sortied from Malta in the hope of intercepting the Italian convoy known to be heading for Tripoli. At a point 20 nautical miles E of Tripoli, Force "K" entered an Italian minefield, laid by Italian cruiser force in June 1941. At 0106 hrs Neptune, leading the British column, hit a mine and backed her engines but at 0116 another mine detonated under the stern, losing propellers and rudder and going dead in the water. This left the cruiser at the mercy of wind and water in sea state 5 (heavy whitecaps), Neptune hit another mine. A 4th mine detonated under the bridge of Neptune, 5 minutes later she capsized and sank in position 33º15'N, 13º30'E.
Geoffrey William Paton (C/JX 707134)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Cassandra
11 December 1944 , aged 19
Chatham Naval Memorial
Killed when ship hit and damaged by a torpedo fired by U-365 whilst on a convoy to Russia
William Patrick (2764323)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 70th Bn
18 September 1941 , aged 20
Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery
Died in Yorkshire
John Patterson (4692788)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn
1 April 1943 , aged 23
Fayid War Cemetery
Died in Egypt
Everitt Peach (4757697)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 9th Bn
12 January 1945 , aged 31
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
John William Pearce (5824604)
Cambridgeshire Regiment - 2nd Bn
23 January 1942 , aged 35
Singapore Memorial
Killed in action during the fighting in Singapore
Cuthbert Pearson (961291)
Royal Artillery - 137 Field Regt
26 March 1942 , aged 30
Kuala Lumpur (Cheras Road) Civil Cemetery
Died as a Japanese POW
Geoffrey Lloyd Pearson (14533433)
Royal Artillery - 83 Field Regt
18 September 1944 , aged 35
Geel War Cemetery
Died in the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
William Alfred Peatling (D/LX 28309)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Duke of York
16 June 1944 , aged 41
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died of illness
Edward Victor Pegler (D/MX 122111)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Spartan
29 January 1944 , aged 32
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Spartan was sunk by a glider bomb from a German aircraft off Anzio, western Italy in position 41º26'2"N, 12º41'2'E.
Harold Perkins (14315518)
Royal Armoured Corps - 12th Royal Lancers
28 February 1945 , aged 21
Listed on 'Bramley' & 'Bramley Old Wesleyan' memorials in the Rotherham area.
Ravenna War Cemetery
Killed in the Italian Campaign
James Perkins (14815317)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 7th Bn
2 April 1945 , aged 18
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Horace Perks (6299476)
Hampshire Regiment - 2nd Bn
4 December 1943 , aged 30
Faenza War Cemetery
Died in Italy
George Barker Perry (1609751)
Royal Artillery - 21 Anti Tank Regt.
23 February 1946 , aged 25
Moorthorpe Cemetery
Died in the UK
John William (Bill) Perry (1439469)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 18 O.T.U.
2 August 1943 , aged 28
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington aircraft RQ3800 crashed 15:30 Wroot near Finningley. Pilot was 20 minutes into a flight to carry out solo engined flying. Aircraft was seen to dive into ground in a deep spiral.
Basil Harry Petch (1592800)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 625 Sqdn
4 November 1944 , aged 22
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number PB154 coded CF-Y airborne at 17:15 on 4 November 1944 from Kelstern to attack Bochum.
Billy Pettit (4694607)
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C. - 3rd Bn
19 September 1944 , aged 23
Groesbeek Memorial
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
George William Pettit (7934531)
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 5th
21 August 1944 , aged 34
Banneville-La-Campagne War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Arthur Phillips (3131703)
Royal Scots Fusiliers - 11th Bn
25 June 1944 , aged 26
Bayeux War Cemetery
Died in Normandy
Ernest Phillips
Civilian War Dead
26 August 1940 , aged 59
Wantage Rural District
Died at R.A.F. Aerodrome, Harwell
Henry Phillips (NX137477)
Australian Commando Squadron - A.I.F. 2/4
15 June 1945 , aged 24
Labuan War Cemetery
Killed in action on Borneo
Kenneth Phillips (1067854)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 241 Sqdn
4 May 1941 , aged 20
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died on Active Service, Death registered in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Leslie Phillips (5344344)
Royal Berkshire Regiment - 10th Bn
25 July 1943 , aged 28
Pembroke Military Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
William Phillips (955477)
Royal Artillery - 257 Bty, 65 Field Regt
5 June 1946 , aged 27
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Died in hospital after returning home with major injuries
Walter Slasser Pigford (6289231)
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - 1st Bn
23 March 1944 , aged 26
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
John Lawrence Phipps Pilbeam (6403250)
Royal Sussex Regiment - 7th Bn
Between 19/05/1940 - - 23/05/1940 , aged 22
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
Died with the BEF during the France/Belgium 1939/40 Campaign
Frank Pilgrim (JX. 191111)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Ganges
6 June 1940 , aged 22
Shotley (St. Mary) Churchyard
Died in Suffolk
Herbert Pilling (755384)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 502 Sqdn
23 January 1941 , aged 23
Conisbrough Cemetery Whitley P5041 coded YG-C of 502 Sqn. took off from Aldergrove at 1222hrs on 23rd January 1941 to provide escort cover for Convoy HG50 en route from Gibraltar to Liverpool. P5041 became lost on return to Aldergrove and flew into high ground near Balmavicar on the Mull of Kintyre
Edward Pinkney (4538228)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn
9 June 1942 , aged 32
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Anthony Richard Playfair (39679)
Royal Air Force - 7 Sqdn
5 September 1939 , aged 26
Anthony Playfair was born in India and was the son of Col. and Mrs Playfair. His family arrived in Vancouver Island when he child, he attended school at Shawnigan Lake. He left his home town in British Columbia three years before his death to take up a Commission in the RAF in England in May 1937 as Acting P/O on probation. He left a brother Geoffrey and he was the first British Columbian casualty of the War.
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Hampden L4161 - On 5th September 1939 this aircraft dived into the ground near Cantley, roughly two miles north of Finningley airfield when the pilot lost control on a training flight, he was practicing single engine flying at the time of the accident. The pilot was killed and although the cause was never discovered it was the first wartime training fatality in Yorkshire since the outbreak of war. An investigation found that it was possible that the pilot had shut down one engine to practice single engine flying but he had lost control and the aircraft had entered a steep dive from which he was only partially able to recover before it then dived vertically into the ground at high speed and at a steep angle.
Albert Leslie Plimmer (1620607)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 582 Sqdn
12 December 1944 , aged 21
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Lancaster PB554 coded 60-M airborne at 17:17 on 12 December 1944 from Little Staughton for an attack on Essen. Hit by Flak on the bombung run and exploded, debris being scattered over Mulheim. Seven of the eight-man crew are now buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. F/S Plimmer, flying as Second Navigator, had recently served with 101 Sqdn his award had been Gazetted on 17 October 1944.
Francis Leslie Plowman (567918)
Royal Air Force - 35 Sqdn.
11 November 1941 , aged 21
Dishforth Cemetery Halifax L9487 at Baldersby St. James, Thirsk. On 13th January 1941 this brand-new aircraft was being given a fuel consumption test and carried a mixed crew but all were operationally experienced and qualified to carry out the test. They were to carry out the test at 12,000ft at which they were to cruise at that height for an hour and measure the fuel consumption. The aircraft took off from Linton on Ouse at 11.20hrs and climbed away. About half an hour later the aircraft was seen near Dishforth at around 3,000ft with the port undercarriage down and a trail of vapour behind the port side of the aircraft. One of the port engines was also seen not to be working. The vapour then ignited (probably as a result of being ignited by an engine exhaust flame) and a large fire was seen on the port side of the aircraft after which the aircraft entered a steep dive before crashing from 2,500ft near Baldersby St. James, between Thirsk and Dishforth at 11.53hrs. All the airmen on board were sadly killed instantly. The fire was thought to have burnt away the aircrafts tail control surfaces making the aircraft become uncontrollable. The crew were found to have all been wearing their parachutes and all were probably preparing to bale out when the aircraft entered the spiralling dive and as a result they were unable to get out. The cause of the fire was blamed on the failure of groundcrew at Linton on Ouse to put the fuel-filler cap back on one of the port fuel tanks after it had been refuelled. The vapour seen behind the port wing would also certainly have been fuel, which, by the time it ignited had soaked into the tail section of the aircraft. Also of note is that the port outer engine had been suffering trouble since its delivery. It suffered a coolant leak on 3rd December 1940 which resulted in a new radiator being fitted and then the same engine showed low oil pressure, it was run-up on 24th December 1940 and a new oil relief valve had to be fitted. Following the crash all the engines were removed and taken away for inspection and this engine was found to have suffered an oil shortage in the air prior to the crash, part of the crankshaft had broken causing the failure of the engine. Further investigation of other early Halifax's found that this was a design problem with early Halifax's. When full of fuel and in a tail-down position the oil pumps on the outer engines were above the oil level. This oil system was later changed to stop the problem re-occuring. Why the undercarriage had dropped or been lowered is not known
John Cecil Pollard (PLY/X 107580)
Royal Marines - H.M.S. Charybdis
23 October 1943 , aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Charybdis was sunk off north coast of Brittany, France by 2 torpedoes from the German torpedo boats T-23 and T-27. 464 men died and 107 survived.
Roland George Ponting (563370)
Royal Air Force - 15 Sqdn.
29 October 1942
Marham Cemetery
Short Stirling I BF386, LS-Q. On Air Test from Bourn, crashed near Downham Market on emerging from cloud in steep turn. All 11 aboard killed.
Charles Poppleton (2146014)
Royal Engineers - 213 Army Field Coy
26 October 1943
Naples War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Joseph Henry Porter (13005198)
Pioneer Corps - Aux. Mil.
17 June 1940 , aged 37
Ste. Marie Communal Cemetery
Died when the ship Lancastrian sank off the coast of France
Dennis Walter Potter (P/MX 78677)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Parthian
11 August 1943
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when submarine was lost. Having sailed from Malta on 22nd July for patrol west of Greece in the southern Adriatic. She was ordered to patrol off Otranto on 26th July 1943. She was again given a new area to patrol on the 28th. She was reported overdue at Beirut on 11th August 1943. Most likely she was mined off Brindisi. The date given as lost (11 August 1943) is the date she was reported missing.
James Potter (7918633)
Royal Armoured Corps - 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons)
27 April 1943 , aged 33
Rawcliffe Cemetery
Died in Dorset
Derek John Povey (164204)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 1656 HCU
20 November 1944 , aged 31
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Halifax mk II BB254 take off from Lindholme was tasked for a night navigation exercise. It failed to climb and struck the gable end of a house in Coppice Avenue, Hatfield and then dived into a poultry farm on the opposite side of the road. This was the first of the aircraft that the unit lost, all in take off accidents, in just over and hour resulting in the deaths of 11 men, with 8 injured.
Donald Powell (886587)
Royal Horse Artillery - 3 Regt.
5 July 1942 , aged 21
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
Dennis Pratt (1598625)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 21 O.T.U.
30 October 1944 , aged 20
Leeds (Hunslet Old) Cemetery
On the 30th October 1944, Wellington NC649 took off from RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, for a night cross-country training exercise. While in the process of letting down through cloud the aircraft is believed to have stalled for at 2335 hours, it crashed out of control and burst into flames at Donnington Farm near Stow-0n-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. All on board were killed. A Court of Inquiry concluded that : “ NC649 took off at 1900 hours on the 30th October, Flt Sgt Moran was a Pupil Pilot flying with a Pupil crew of six. The cross-country route was Base – St Davisd’s St Mary’s, -Tiverton- Brostol- Priors Hardwick- Odstone- Base. At 1228 hours the aircraft received a QDM and it was expected that R/T communication would soon be established but after the QDM nothing was heard. At approx 2330 hours the aircraft was heard circling near an Royal Observation Corps Post Y3 Stow on the Wold. It appeared to circle twice before crashing about half a mile 157 from the post, and it hit the ground approx 250 feet above the airfield. The cloud at base was 800 feet wi9th patches of cloud at 500 feet The cause of the accident was obscure, but it was considered that the accident was due to the aircraft striking high ground while endeavouring to locate the drome under a low cloud base, It was considered possible that the Pilot was not flying on instruments but was looking out.”
Denis Walter Price (1458348)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 12 Sqdn
27 January 1944 , aged 20
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Lancaster JB283 code PH-W airborne 17:27 on 27 Jan 1944 from Wickenby to bomb a target in Berlin. Attacked by a night-fighter (believed, H.W.Schnauffer, 12./NJG 1) and before any order could be given, the Lancaster exploded, scattering debris near Ehren, 6 km SW of Löningen. There was one survivor who in a later PoW report stated: "The aircraft crashed between the villages of Ehren and Wind Kum approx 30 miles north west of Osnabruck, Germany. The aircraft was flying at 21,000 feet, and had just crossed the coast on the way in when it was attacked by an unseen night fighter near Osnabruck. There was no time for conversation as the aircraft exploded almost instantly. I was blown through the side with my chute on, but the rest of the crew did not have their chutes on at the time of the explosion and were definitely killed.
Jack Price (331173)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 1st Bn
24 March 1945 , aged 25
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died in Germany, Crossing of the Rhine
Victor Terence Priestley (4627650)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 9th The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Bn
19 March 1944 , aged 20
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Alan Leslie Proudman (163553)
Royal Army Service Corps
9 December 1947
Warmsworth Cemetery
Died in the UK
Leonard Prouse (14353308)
King's Own Scottish Borderers
28 June 1944 , aged 20
Kirkee War Cemetery
Died in India
Ronald Pycroft (940529)
Royal Air Force
20 September 1940 , aged 22
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Killed in an air raid on London
Royal Artillery - 155 (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt.
23 October 1943 , aged 24
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Died as Japanese PoW
Tom Lawson Padley (D/MX. 62580)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Glorious
8 June 1940 , aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when vessel sunk in the Norwegian Sea
Joseph Paget (3252950)
Royal Scots - 1st Bn
10 June 1944 , aged 28
Kohima War Cemetery
Died in India
Thomas Albert Paguin (3526993)
Manchester Regiment - 2nd Bn
1 May 1940 , aged 25
Dunkirk Memorial
Died in France and Belgium Campaign with the BEF
John William Palfreyman (13037949)
Army Catering Corps - Attd
10 April 1943 , aged 44
Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery
Died on Gibraltar
William Collier Pamment (1672234)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 1 OADU
31 March 1945 , aged 22
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Mosqito NF XIX TA226 aircraft crashed shortly after take off from Portreath airfield in Cornwall on a flight to Cairo.
Roger Edward Rawle Paramore (84309)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 49 Squadron
6 June 1942, aged 23
Runnymede Memorial
Avro Manchester mk I L7287 was airborne from Scampton on a mission to Emden. Failed to return with the loss of all the crew, thought to have crashed in the sea.
John Douglas Parker
Merchant Navy - SS Dafila Liverpool
18 March 1943 , aged 20
Tower Hill Memorial
Lost when the ship was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya by U-593
Fred Parkin (1531382)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 136 Sqdn
21 February 1942 , aged 21
Taukkyan Memorial
Died on active service in Burma
George Pascall (4747373)
Royal Artillery - 28 Field Regt
19 August 1943 , aged 23
Rangoon Memorial
Died in India
Robert Aubrey Paske (D/K 63767)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Neptune
19 December 1941 , aged 39
Plymouth Naval Memorial
On 19 December 1941, following the First Battle if the Syrte, Force "K", consisting of light cruisers HMS Neptune, Aurora, Penelope with destroyers Kandahar, Havock, Lance and Lively, sortied from Malta in the hope of intercepting the Italian convoy known to be heading for Tripoli. At a point 20 nautical miles E of Tripoli, Force "K" entered an Italian minefield, laid by Italian cruiser force in June 1941. At 0106 hrs Neptune, leading the British column, hit a mine and backed her engines but at 0116 another mine detonated under the stern, losing propellers and rudder and going dead in the water. This left the cruiser at the mercy of wind and water in sea state 5 (heavy whitecaps), Neptune hit another mine. A 4th mine detonated under the bridge of Neptune, 5 minutes later she capsized and sank in position 33º15'N, 13º30'E.
Geoffrey William Paton (C/JX 707134)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Cassandra
11 December 1944 , aged 19
Chatham Naval Memorial
Killed when ship hit and damaged by a torpedo fired by U-365 whilst on a convoy to Russia
William Patrick (2764323)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 70th Bn
18 September 1941 , aged 20
Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery
Died in Yorkshire
John Patterson (4692788)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn
1 April 1943 , aged 23
Fayid War Cemetery
Died in Egypt
Everitt Peach (4757697)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 9th Bn
12 January 1945 , aged 31
Taukkyan War Cemetery
Died in Burma
John William Pearce (5824604)
Cambridgeshire Regiment - 2nd Bn
23 January 1942 , aged 35
Singapore Memorial
Killed in action during the fighting in Singapore
Cuthbert Pearson (961291)
Royal Artillery - 137 Field Regt
26 March 1942 , aged 30
Kuala Lumpur (Cheras Road) Civil Cemetery
Died as a Japanese POW
Geoffrey Lloyd Pearson (14533433)
Royal Artillery - 83 Field Regt
18 September 1944 , aged 35
Geel War Cemetery
Died in the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
William Alfred Peatling (D/LX 28309)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Duke of York
16 June 1944 , aged 41
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died of illness
Edward Victor Pegler (D/MX 122111)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Spartan
29 January 1944 , aged 32
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Spartan was sunk by a glider bomb from a German aircraft off Anzio, western Italy in position 41º26'2"N, 12º41'2'E.
Harold Perkins (14315518)
Royal Armoured Corps - 12th Royal Lancers
28 February 1945 , aged 21
Listed on 'Bramley' & 'Bramley Old Wesleyan' memorials in the Rotherham area.
Ravenna War Cemetery
Killed in the Italian Campaign
James Perkins (14815317)
Royal Welch Fusiliers - 7th Bn
2 April 1945 , aged 18
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Horace Perks (6299476)
Hampshire Regiment - 2nd Bn
4 December 1943 , aged 30
Faenza War Cemetery
Died in Italy
George Barker Perry (1609751)
Royal Artillery - 21 Anti Tank Regt.
23 February 1946 , aged 25
Moorthorpe Cemetery
Died in the UK
John William (Bill) Perry (1439469)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 18 O.T.U.
2 August 1943 , aged 28
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Wellington aircraft RQ3800 crashed 15:30 Wroot near Finningley. Pilot was 20 minutes into a flight to carry out solo engined flying. Aircraft was seen to dive into ground in a deep spiral.
Basil Harry Petch (1592800)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 625 Sqdn
4 November 1944 , aged 22
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Lancaster mk III serial number PB154 coded CF-Y airborne at 17:15 on 4 November 1944 from Kelstern to attack Bochum.
Billy Pettit (4694607)
The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C. - 3rd Bn
19 September 1944 , aged 23
Groesbeek Memorial
Died during the Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
George William Pettit (7934531)
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. - 5th
21 August 1944 , aged 34
Banneville-La-Campagne War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
Arthur Phillips (3131703)
Royal Scots Fusiliers - 11th Bn
25 June 1944 , aged 26
Bayeux War Cemetery
Died in Normandy
Ernest Phillips
Civilian War Dead
26 August 1940 , aged 59
Wantage Rural District
Died at R.A.F. Aerodrome, Harwell
Henry Phillips (NX137477)
Australian Commando Squadron - A.I.F. 2/4
15 June 1945 , aged 24
Labuan War Cemetery
Killed in action on Borneo
Kenneth Phillips (1067854)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 241 Sqdn
4 May 1941 , aged 20
Doncaster (Rose Hill) Cemetery
Died on Active Service, Death registered in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Leslie Phillips (5344344)
Royal Berkshire Regiment - 10th Bn
25 July 1943 , aged 28
Pembroke Military Cemetery
Died in the Middle East
William Phillips (955477)
Royal Artillery - 257 Bty, 65 Field Regt
5 June 1946 , aged 27
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Died in hospital after returning home with major injuries
Walter Slasser Pigford (6289231)
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - 1st Bn
23 March 1944 , aged 26
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
John Lawrence Phipps Pilbeam (6403250)
Royal Sussex Regiment - 7th Bn
Between 19/05/1940 - - 23/05/1940 , aged 22
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
Died with the BEF during the France/Belgium 1939/40 Campaign
Frank Pilgrim (JX. 191111)
Royal Navy - H.M.S. Ganges
6 June 1940 , aged 22
Shotley (St. Mary) Churchyard
Died in Suffolk
Herbert Pilling (755384)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 502 Sqdn
23 January 1941 , aged 23
Conisbrough Cemetery Whitley P5041 coded YG-C of 502 Sqn. took off from Aldergrove at 1222hrs on 23rd January 1941 to provide escort cover for Convoy HG50 en route from Gibraltar to Liverpool. P5041 became lost on return to Aldergrove and flew into high ground near Balmavicar on the Mull of Kintyre
Edward Pinkney (4538228)
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) - 2nd Bn
9 June 1942 , aged 32
Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery
Died in North Africa
Anthony Richard Playfair (39679)
Royal Air Force - 7 Sqdn
5 September 1939 , aged 26
Anthony Playfair was born in India and was the son of Col. and Mrs Playfair. His family arrived in Vancouver Island when he child, he attended school at Shawnigan Lake. He left his home town in British Columbia three years before his death to take up a Commission in the RAF in England in May 1937 as Acting P/O on probation. He left a brother Geoffrey and he was the first British Columbian casualty of the War.
Finningley (Holy Trinity and St. Oswald) Chyd. Extension
Hampden L4161 - On 5th September 1939 this aircraft dived into the ground near Cantley, roughly two miles north of Finningley airfield when the pilot lost control on a training flight, he was practicing single engine flying at the time of the accident. The pilot was killed and although the cause was never discovered it was the first wartime training fatality in Yorkshire since the outbreak of war. An investigation found that it was possible that the pilot had shut down one engine to practice single engine flying but he had lost control and the aircraft had entered a steep dive from which he was only partially able to recover before it then dived vertically into the ground at high speed and at a steep angle.
Albert Leslie Plimmer (1620607)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 582 Sqdn
12 December 1944 , aged 21
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Lancaster PB554 coded 60-M airborne at 17:17 on 12 December 1944 from Little Staughton for an attack on Essen. Hit by Flak on the bombung run and exploded, debris being scattered over Mulheim. Seven of the eight-man crew are now buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. F/S Plimmer, flying as Second Navigator, had recently served with 101 Sqdn his award had been Gazetted on 17 October 1944.
Francis Leslie Plowman (567918)
Royal Air Force - 35 Sqdn.
11 November 1941 , aged 21
Dishforth Cemetery Halifax L9487 at Baldersby St. James, Thirsk. On 13th January 1941 this brand-new aircraft was being given a fuel consumption test and carried a mixed crew but all were operationally experienced and qualified to carry out the test. They were to carry out the test at 12,000ft at which they were to cruise at that height for an hour and measure the fuel consumption. The aircraft took off from Linton on Ouse at 11.20hrs and climbed away. About half an hour later the aircraft was seen near Dishforth at around 3,000ft with the port undercarriage down and a trail of vapour behind the port side of the aircraft. One of the port engines was also seen not to be working. The vapour then ignited (probably as a result of being ignited by an engine exhaust flame) and a large fire was seen on the port side of the aircraft after which the aircraft entered a steep dive before crashing from 2,500ft near Baldersby St. James, between Thirsk and Dishforth at 11.53hrs. All the airmen on board were sadly killed instantly. The fire was thought to have burnt away the aircrafts tail control surfaces making the aircraft become uncontrollable. The crew were found to have all been wearing their parachutes and all were probably preparing to bale out when the aircraft entered the spiralling dive and as a result they were unable to get out. The cause of the fire was blamed on the failure of groundcrew at Linton on Ouse to put the fuel-filler cap back on one of the port fuel tanks after it had been refuelled. The vapour seen behind the port wing would also certainly have been fuel, which, by the time it ignited had soaked into the tail section of the aircraft. Also of note is that the port outer engine had been suffering trouble since its delivery. It suffered a coolant leak on 3rd December 1940 which resulted in a new radiator being fitted and then the same engine showed low oil pressure, it was run-up on 24th December 1940 and a new oil relief valve had to be fitted. Following the crash all the engines were removed and taken away for inspection and this engine was found to have suffered an oil shortage in the air prior to the crash, part of the crankshaft had broken causing the failure of the engine. Further investigation of other early Halifax's found that this was a design problem with early Halifax's. When full of fuel and in a tail-down position the oil pumps on the outer engines were above the oil level. This oil system was later changed to stop the problem re-occuring. Why the undercarriage had dropped or been lowered is not known
John Cecil Pollard (PLY/X 107580)
Royal Marines - H.M.S. Charybdis
23 October 1943 , aged 20
Plymouth Naval Memorial
HMS Charybdis was sunk off north coast of Brittany, France by 2 torpedoes from the German torpedo boats T-23 and T-27. 464 men died and 107 survived.
Roland George Ponting (563370)
Royal Air Force - 15 Sqdn.
29 October 1942
Marham Cemetery
Short Stirling I BF386, LS-Q. On Air Test from Bourn, crashed near Downham Market on emerging from cloud in steep turn. All 11 aboard killed.
Charles Poppleton (2146014)
Royal Engineers - 213 Army Field Coy
26 October 1943
Naples War Cemetery
Died in Italy
Joseph Henry Porter (13005198)
Pioneer Corps - Aux. Mil.
17 June 1940 , aged 37
Ste. Marie Communal Cemetery
Died when the ship Lancastrian sank off the coast of France
Dennis Walter Potter (P/MX 78677)
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Parthian
11 August 1943
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Lost when submarine was lost. Having sailed from Malta on 22nd July for patrol west of Greece in the southern Adriatic. She was ordered to patrol off Otranto on 26th July 1943. She was again given a new area to patrol on the 28th. She was reported overdue at Beirut on 11th August 1943. Most likely she was mined off Brindisi. The date given as lost (11 August 1943) is the date she was reported missing.
James Potter (7918633)
Royal Armoured Corps - 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons)
27 April 1943 , aged 33
Rawcliffe Cemetery
Died in Dorset
Derek John Povey (164204)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 1656 HCU
20 November 1944 , aged 31
Hatfield (Woodhouse) Cemetery
Halifax mk II BB254 take off from Lindholme was tasked for a night navigation exercise. It failed to climb and struck the gable end of a house in Coppice Avenue, Hatfield and then dived into a poultry farm on the opposite side of the road. This was the first of the aircraft that the unit lost, all in take off accidents, in just over and hour resulting in the deaths of 11 men, with 8 injured.
Donald Powell (886587)
Royal Horse Artillery - 3 Regt.
5 July 1942 , aged 21
Alamein Memorial
Died in North Africa
Dennis Pratt (1598625)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 21 O.T.U.
30 October 1944 , aged 20
Leeds (Hunslet Old) Cemetery
On the 30th October 1944, Wellington NC649 took off from RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, for a night cross-country training exercise. While in the process of letting down through cloud the aircraft is believed to have stalled for at 2335 hours, it crashed out of control and burst into flames at Donnington Farm near Stow-0n-the-Wold, Gloucestershire. All on board were killed. A Court of Inquiry concluded that : “ NC649 took off at 1900 hours on the 30th October, Flt Sgt Moran was a Pupil Pilot flying with a Pupil crew of six. The cross-country route was Base – St Davisd’s St Mary’s, -Tiverton- Brostol- Priors Hardwick- Odstone- Base. At 1228 hours the aircraft received a QDM and it was expected that R/T communication would soon be established but after the QDM nothing was heard. At approx 2330 hours the aircraft was heard circling near an Royal Observation Corps Post Y3 Stow on the Wold. It appeared to circle twice before crashing about half a mile 157 from the post, and it hit the ground approx 250 feet above the airfield. The cloud at base was 800 feet wi9th patches of cloud at 500 feet The cause of the accident was obscure, but it was considered that the accident was due to the aircraft striking high ground while endeavouring to locate the drome under a low cloud base, It was considered possible that the Pilot was not flying on instruments but was looking out.”
Denis Walter Price (1458348)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 12 Sqdn
27 January 1944 , aged 20
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Lancaster JB283 code PH-W airborne 17:27 on 27 Jan 1944 from Wickenby to bomb a target in Berlin. Attacked by a night-fighter (believed, H.W.Schnauffer, 12./NJG 1) and before any order could be given, the Lancaster exploded, scattering debris near Ehren, 6 km SW of Löningen. There was one survivor who in a later PoW report stated: "The aircraft crashed between the villages of Ehren and Wind Kum approx 30 miles north west of Osnabruck, Germany. The aircraft was flying at 21,000 feet, and had just crossed the coast on the way in when it was attacked by an unseen night fighter near Osnabruck. There was no time for conversation as the aircraft exploded almost instantly. I was blown through the side with my chute on, but the rest of the crew did not have their chutes on at the time of the explosion and were definitely killed.
Jack Price (331173)
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) - 1st Bn
24 March 1945 , aged 25
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died in Germany, Crossing of the Rhine
Victor Terence Priestley (4627650)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 9th The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Bn
19 March 1944 , aged 20
Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio
Died in Italy
Alan Leslie Proudman (163553)
Royal Army Service Corps
9 December 1947
Warmsworth Cemetery
Died in the UK
Leonard Prouse (14353308)
King's Own Scottish Borderers
28 June 1944 , aged 20
Kirkee War Cemetery
Died in India
Ronald Pycroft (940529)
Royal Air Force
20 September 1940 , aged 22
Swinton (St. Margaret) Churchyard
Killed in an air raid on London
Mary Parker
Civilian 1 May 1942 Inquest 3 July 1942 - Accidental death Death regd Q3 1942 Lived at 19 Leicester Avenue, Doncaster Died in Doncaster infirmary 3 weeks after being hit by parts of a plane which crashed in the road that she was being pushed along in a wheelchair by her mother. Dominie Z7263 was No.4 Group's communications aircraft and those on board had been visiting Doncaster airfield on 11th April 1942. Doncaster was used by an Army Co-Operation unit. When it came to taking off the aircraft stalled at 500 feet and hit trees on the north-eastern boundary and crashed on a road in the Bessacarr area. Sadly the three crew on board died |