Postscript: The Second World War
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1939–1945 |
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Name and |
Rank and Service |
Age and date and manner of death |
Grave/Memorial |
Thomas Bryan Son of Thomas Goundrey Hill and Dorothy Mary Hill of The Nook, Boars Hill |
Flight Sergeant No. 655059 264 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Age 25 Killed on a night intruder mission to Rennes |
Remembered on Runnymede Memorial (Panel 137) |
Alfred Leonard Son of Charles and Annie Kaines Husband of Maud Kaines of Milton, Berkshire. |
Aircraftman 1st Class No. 1214661 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Taken prisoner by the Japanese and used as slave labour on the “Hell Ship” the Suez Maru |
Age 35 The Suez Maru was sunk by a United States submarine off the Kangean Islands in the Java Sea and a Japanese minesweeper massacred the survivors using machine gun and rifles |
Remembered on the Singapore Memorial (Column 428) |
Kenneth Gordon Son of Arthur Thomas Silvester and Lily Silvester of Boars Hill |
Cook (S) No. D/MX 63382 Royal Navy, |
Age 22 HMS Dorsetshire was attacked by the Japanese Navy and hit by ten bombs 200 miles of Ceylon |
Remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial |
Sidney John Oxford graduate Son of Sidney Vere Smith and Constance Louise Smith of Fair Acre, Boars Hill Husband of Gillian Reed Heath-Smith, of Moseley, Birmingham |
Major No. 117113 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
Age 26 Killed in Germany while engaged in Operation Varsity |
Buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery (Grave 35.A.2) Online biography: Also on roll of honour of St Michael-at-the-Northgate Church in Oxford |
Christopher John Victor B.A. (Cantab.) Son of Archibald Victor Wilde Young and Dorothy Cora Young (née Cowper) of Bretton, Lincombe Lane |
Lieutenant No. 102390 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery |
Age 22 Killed in Libya |
Buried at Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma |
“Rest eternal grant them O Lord.” |
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