Roll of Honour: 1942-46
More than 1,000 men lost their lives while serving with the 38th (Irish) Brigade during the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy, men from all parts of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England as well as a number of Canadians and South Africans and at least one Australian.
On this page, the Irish Brigade website lists their names, regiment, service number, date of death, age and place of burial or memorial, all in chronological order of the date of their death. The information has come from Clear The Way! A History of the 38th (Irish) Brigade and from independent research by the Irish Brigade website.
We continue to find additional details of men, whose names have previously not been included in the listings and we shall add their details as they become known. Click on the monthly headings to see photographs of some of the final resting places of men of the brigade.
Full details can be found on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website by clicking here.
December 1942 – 20 Men
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981482
Date: 08.12.1942 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“GOD’S GARDEN OF SLEEP PEACE, PERFECT PEACE”
Sergeant Farthing’s death is recorded on a date when the battalion was travelling by road at night from Bone to Souq el-Khamis in Tunisia. The journey started at 11pm on 7 December and was completed at 5am on 8 December. The diaries record that a carrier operated by 14 platoon drove off the road and fell 50 feet down a mountain side and there were 14 casualties but no deaths. This information may have been outdated if Farthing had died of his injuries later in the day without the knowledge of the author of the diaries.
Son of Fred and Annie Farthing of Grimsby.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016720
Date: 10.12.1942 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM AND WITHOUT FEAR”
Rifleman Childs, a 22-year old member of the high-spirited carrier platoon, was killed when he slipped and fell on the Number 75 Hawkins anti-tank grenade he was carrying which was designed to be detonated when a vehicle drove over it. The grenade contained about 1lb of high explosives.
Son of Herbert and Edith Alice Childs of Kenton, Harrow.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022243
Date: 11.12.1942 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM”
Rifleman Brady was in F Company and was accidentally killed in an unexplained incident that involved one other unnamed casualty.
Son of Samuel and Sarah Brady, of Leyton, Essex.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981938
Date: 11.12.1942 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Harry and Winifred May of Portskewett, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045512
Date: 21.12.1942 Age: 28 Place of burial: Massicault
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14209861
Date: 26.12.1942 Age: 34 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Nicholson and Alice Kershaw.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Worcestershire Regiment Service number: 124194
Date 27.12.1942 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS, FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP”
Lieutenant Moore of B Company was ambushed and killed with three of his men in the Goubellat area while leading a patrol on the night of 27 December.
Son of Albert Victor and Alice Machell Moore of Stamford Lincolnshire and was a graduate of University College Oxford. Desmond Moore had been posted to the Faughs from the Worcestershire Regiment in October 1942.
8 Leonard Charles Thoroughgood
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982677
Date: 27.12.1942 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Thoroughgood, a member of B Company, was killed in the Goubellat area along with Lt Moore.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982382
Date: 27.12.1942 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Williams, a member of B Company, was killed in the Goubellat area with Lt Moore.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043103
Date: 27.12.1942 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“O SACRED HEART OF JESUS HAVE MERCY ON HIM AND GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST, AMEN”
Fusilier Downing, a member of B Company, was killed in the Goubellat area with Lt Moore.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Downing, of Sneem, Killarney.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043683
Date: 28.12.1942 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DARLING HUSBAND R.I.P.”
Fusilier Roche was a member of D Company in the Faughs and was wounded in the groin during a company operation across the Goubellat valley. He died almost instantly.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Roche; husband of Katie Roche, of Horsham, Sussex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982648
Date: 28.12.1942 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6977922
Date: 28.12.1942 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“MANLY AND BRAVE HIS YOUNG LIFE HE GAVE”
Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Kane; husband of Emma Kane, of Portadown, Co. Armagh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6979320
Date: 28.12.1942 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Jean Montgomery; husband of Margaret Montgomery, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044953
Date: 28.12.1942 Age: 26 Place of burial: Thibar Seminary, Tunisia
“HIS DUTY BRAVELY DONE FOR HIS KING AND COUNTRY”
Husband of Myra Robinson of Clun, Shropshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046225
Date: 29.12.1942 Age: 33 Place of burial: Massicault
“HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE”
Fusilier Deakin was killed during the Faughs’ operations around Goubellat on 27-29 December 1943.
Son of Henry and Lizzie Deakin of Normacott, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043678
Date: 29.12.1942 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON NORMAN, EVER REMEMBERED BY MOTHER AND FATHER”
Fusilier Kyle was killed during the Faughs’ operations around Goubellat on 27-29 December 1943.
Son of Annie Kyle of Carnmoney, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047601
Date: 29.12.1942 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“SLEEP ON, DEAR SON, AS LONG AS MEMORY LASTS WE WILL REMEMBER THEE ‘PEACE, PERFECT PEACE'”
Fusilier Eales was killed during the Faughs’ operations around Goubellat on 27-29 December 1943.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Eales, of Bulkington, Warwickshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046597
Date: 29.12.1942 Age: 29 Place of burial: Thibar Seminary, Tunisia
“GOD’S GREATEST GIFT, REMEMBRANCE”
Fusilier Cross was killed during the Faughs’ operations around Goubellat on 27-29 December 1943.
Son of Henry and Selina Cross of Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7012407
Date: 31.12.1942 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“INTO THE MOSAIC OF VICTORY WAS LAID THIS PRECIOUS PIECE”
Son of William and Jean Farnan of Higher Broughton, Salford.
January 1943 – 144 Men
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6475959
Date: 03.01.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Lunn was killed during a patrol commanded by Lieutenant McCaldin which started on the night of 2 January when the battalion was based in around Goubellat. The patrol was ordered to probe west and to harass, ambush and inflict casualties on German Forces. It was spotted and attacked at around 230am on 4 January. In the ensuing fight, Lunn was shot and died.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 180162
Date: 04.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Dely Ibrahim, Algeria
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS”
Lt Carruthers, who was 6 Innisks’ Adjutant and intelligence officer, was hit in the head in a ME 109 attack on the car he was travelling in with the Skins’ commanding officer Lieutenant Terence Macartney-Filgate on the road between El-Aroussa and Bou Arada at 830am on 20th December 1942. He died of his wounds 15 days later at the Thibar dressing station. Macartney-Filgate recovered from his wounds, occupied staff positions and was awarded an OBE in 1945.
Son of Lieut.-Comdr. Robert Jardine Carruthers, R.N.V.R., and Georgina Rose Carruthers, of Blindley Heath, Surrey; husband of Doris Joan Carruthers, of Katesbridge, Co. Down.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 235692
Date: 04.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Lieutenant McKee led a patrol dispatched at the same time as that the one led by Lieutenant McCaldin on the night of 2nd January. He was reported overdue at 7am on 5 January. The war diaries record state that he and his whole patrol including 20 other ranks “must be considered captured”. McKee had been in fact killed on the night of 4th January.
Son of Phineas and Helen McKee.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 201012
Date: 05.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Massicault
“HE DIED AS HE LIVED WITHOUT FEAR AND WITHOUT REPROACH”
Commander of 18 Platoon in D Company of the Faughs, which was at the time led by Major John Coldwell-Horsfall, Lt Sutcliffe was accidentally killed by pickets during a night patrol.
Son of William Henry and Charlotte Sutcliffe, of Raglan, Monmouthshire. He joined the Faughs at the end of 1941.
25 Joseph Wilfred Francis Green
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983562
Daate: 06.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
A member of A Company and a bren-gunner, Lance Corporal Joseph (Dodger) Green had used up all his ammunition in a patrol action around Goubellat on 6 January. According to a wounded survivor of the action, Green stood with grenades in both hands “hurling abuse at his assailants in between pulling the pins of the grenades with his teeth. Still defiant, Green inevitably fell to enemy fire.” Page 23, Chapter 2, Clear the Way by Richard Doherty, 1993.
Son of Francis and Lydia Green of Burton-on-Trent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7020719
Date: 07.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“MY LOVING HUSBAND GONE FROM US BUT NOT FORGOTTEN”
Son of Thomas and Alice Moore; husband of Gladys Moore of Highgate, Middlesex.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986135
Date: 09.01.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Thibar Seminary, Tunisia
Son of Henry and Mary Reid Varty; husband of Sarah Arm Varty, of Newhall, Staffordshire.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 140028
Date: 10.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“IN JESUS’ KEEPING”
Lieutenant Andrews of C Company was killed at around 1000hrs when a truck exploded, presumably as a result of bombing. Corporal Christie was injured in the eye in the same incident.
Son of Sydney and Jessie Andrews of Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6979800
Date: 10.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Beggs was buried on 10 January at 1500hrs. He was killed in the same incident as Lieutenant Andrews (above).
Son of George and Mary Beggs, of Burnley, Lancashire.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 2716183
Date: 11.01.1943 Age: 39 Place of burial: Massicault
“IN MEMORY OF MY SON JOHN. JESUS MERCY”
H Company Sergeant Hogan, who came from Croydon, was killed during an operation in the Goubellat plain to recover tanks that were immobilised in mud. Platoon sergeants up to this point wore wireless sets carrying an aerial that could be seen by snipers. This was the 2nd Battalion’s first significant action during which four men were killed and twelve wounded.
John Hogan was a former Irish guardsman and was the son of Patrick and Mary Hogan, of West Croydon, Surrey.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014578
Date: 11.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND. O LORD JESUS, GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST. R.I.P.”
Lance Sergeant McLoughlin, a citizen of Eire, was killed in the tank recovery action in the Goubellat Valley.
Son of James and Kathleen McLoughlin; husband of Bridget McLoughlin, of Victoria, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022287
Date: 11.01.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Griffin was killed in the Goubellat Valley operation.
Son of Michael and Ellen Griffin, of Dublin.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7047572
Date: 11.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Hogan was killed in the Goubellat Valley operation.
Son of Ignatius Francis and Mary Hogan.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014465
Date: 12.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Thibar Seminary
“YOUR DUTY DONE MY LOVING SON ALTHOUGH FAR AWAY MY MEMORIES OF YOU STAY”
Son of Alfred Charles and J. E. Fraser, of Fulham, London.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 233251
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Massicault
Lt Warren was killed in the first and failed attack on Two Tree Hill. Other casualties suffered in the attack included Captain Ferris wounded, Lieutenants Buck, George, Strickland and Power also wounded. A total of 11 other ranks were killed (see below) and 55 wounded. The diaries reported 16 missing (and possibly killed). Company sergeant major Stevenson was among the wounded. This suggests the battalion suffered 88-89 casualties during the attack. The Commonwealth War Cemetery records suggest that the final toll was 31 dead. This brought its losses since being deployed at the end of December to almost 200.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045064
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Massicault
“AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING I WILL REMEMBER YOU”
Fusilier Higgins was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Henry and Harriet Higgins; husband of Elizabeth Higgins, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985816
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Massicault
Fusilier Sipson was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7047659
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Massicault
Fusilier Holbeche was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6984667
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Massicault
“WE HAVE LOVED HIM IN LIFE WE WON’T FORGET HIM IN DEATH MAY HE REST IN PEACE”
Son of Michael and Agnes Quinn, of Dublin.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6210786
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Massicault
“AS TIME ROLLS ON WE MISS YOU, DEAR SON, MORE AND MORE. MUM AND DAD”
Son of James Pusey, and of Mary Ann Pusey, of Harlesden, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3137691
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Ellis was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981574
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“FOR EVERYONE HE DID HIS BEST GRANT HIM, O LORD ETERNAL REST”
Fusilier Birds was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of John and Sarah Birds of Youlgreave, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985793
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS”
Fusilier Marlow was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044999
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS”
L/Sgt Boyle was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Michael Boyle, and of Susan M. Boyle, of Golders Green, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044543
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“FOR EVER IN MY THOUGHTS, DAD”
Fusilier Alcock was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Edward and Florence Alcock, of Basford, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984481
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“FAREWELL, IN HOPE AND LOVE IN FAITH & PEACE & PRAYER TILL HE, WHOSE HOME IS OURS ABOVE, UNITE US THERE”
Fusilier Murphy was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Kenrick Bourne Murphy and Florence Gertrude Murphy, of Chiswick, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044630
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Ponton was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981985
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“WITH HIS HEAD HELD HIGH SLOWLY HE WENT TO HIS GOD IN THE SKY. DUTY NOBLY DONE”
Corporal Pidcock was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Wilfred Thompson Pidcock and Mercy Pidcock, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981851
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“WE SHALL MEET AGAIN TO BE PARTED NO MORE THEN UNDIVIDED BY A FOREIGN SHORE”
Fusilier Handley was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Husband of Fanny Handley, of Old Basford, Nottingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044486
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“AS WE LOVED, SO WE MISS YOU IN OUR HEARTS YOU’RE ALWAYS NEAR. MOM, DAD, WIN.”
Fusilier Skinner was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Alexander John and Clara Skinner, of Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044987
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Ager was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Thomas and Susan Ager; husband of Jessie Helen Ager, of Newbury Park, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3137720
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Battersby was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6979999
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Corporal Brownlee was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4459986
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Sgt English was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Charles and Catherine English; husband of Veronica Ruth English, of Harpurhey, Manchester.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984636
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
L/Sgt Hadden was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hadden, of Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982565
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Corporal McAteer was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of John and Hessie McAteer, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045115
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Corporal Osborn was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of John and M. Osborn; husband of Gertrude Osborn.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981946
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Dumelow was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of William and Frances Martha Dumelow, of Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6148430
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Fray was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Henry and Hannah Fray; husband of Anna Christina Fray, of Spangle Hill, Cork.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 5734148
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier King was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Frank Edward and Beatrice Alice King, of Erdington, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982452
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Martin was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7046348
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Siviter was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Edward and Esther Siviter; husband of Susan Siviter, of Blackheath, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4986539
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Twells was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Joseph and Mary Ann Twells, of Boothorpe, Leicestershire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4398652
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Tyler was killed in the first attack on Two Tree Hill.
Son of Frederick Henry and Bertha Tyler, of Balby, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860470
Date: 13.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Massicault
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service Number: 7045151
Date: 14.01.1943 Aged: 28 Place of burial: Thibar Seminary
“HE LIVES FOR EVER IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVED HIM”
Son of Samuel Douglas Smith and Hilda May Smith; husband of Mary Isabel Smith, of Harrow Weald, Middlesex.
Rank: Lance Serjeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service Number: 4459982
Date: 14.01.1943 Aged: 26 Place of burial: Thibar Seminary
“BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART; FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD”
Son of Elizabeth E. Wood, of Sale, Cheshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985698
Date: 15.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982392
Date: 15.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Rose Hannah Woodley, of Wandsworth, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14201669
Date: 17.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“WE LOVED HIM, HIS MEMORY SHALL NOT DIE, HOPE BIDS US CHEER WE’LL MEET HIM BYE AND BYE”
Son of John and Minnie Pinchin, of Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3608303
Date: 17.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Taylor, of Great Clifton, Cumberland.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981044
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Massicault
“TO THE EVERLASTING MEMORY OF A DEAR SON. ‘ABIDE WITH ME’ MOTHER AND FATHER”
L/Sgt Voss was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Charles and Nelly Voss, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire; husband of Norah Voss, of Cleethorpes.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 13086982
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Massicault
Fusilier Sullivan was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Herbert and Emily Sullivan, of Moss Side, Manchester.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981833
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Massicault
“IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DARLING HUSBAND. ASLEEP WITH ENGLAND’S HEROES”
Fusilier Chambers was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Stephen and Amy Chambers; husband of Sarah Ellen Chambers, of Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045071
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Massicault
“AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM”
Corporal Jeffrey was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Percy John and Agnes Margaret Marian Jeffery, of Sittingbourne, Kent; husband of Kathleen Jeffery, of Sittingbourne.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046820
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Massicault
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”
Son of Thomas and Mary Patterson, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982526
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Massicault
“MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU IS NOT THE SAME. O BEAUTIFUL STAR SHINE O’ER HIS GRAVE”
Son of Frederick and Bertha Welbourn; husband of Margaret Mary Welbourn, of Earls Barton, Northamptonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981404
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“ONLY A BRITISH SOLDIER BUT A MOTHER’S SON BURIED ON A FIELD OF BATTLE HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE”
Fusilier Kitchen was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kitchen, of Keal Cotes, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4459898
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS”
Sergeant Lloyd was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Hugh Davies Lloyd and of Sarah Ann Lloyd (nee Jones), of Abersoch, Caernarvonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981088
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“DUTY NOBLY DONE”
Son of Thomas Henry and Rose Emma Slater; husband of Lucy Margaret Slater, of Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6979698
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“UNTIL WE MEET AT JESUS’ FEET REST IN PEACE. EILEEN”
Son of Patrick and Elizabeth Shortt, of Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim; husband of Eileen Shortt, of Kiltyclogher.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046765
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“HE TOILED WITH JOY FOR THOSE HE LOVED THEN LEFT US TO REMEMBER R.I.P.”
Son of William Henry and Laura Elizabeth Webb, of Walsall, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6405646
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“OUR LADY OF WATERFORD INTERCEDE FOR HIM”
Son of Daniel and Katherine McCarthy, of Paddington, London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982319
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“ALWAYS REMEMBERED, THOUGH FAR FROM HOME’ UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN.”
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044664
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“NOBLY HE LIVED, NOBLY HE DIED GONE FOR EVER FROM OUR SIDE. FRANCES AND JOSIE”
Described as a promising NCO by his company commander John Coldwell-Horsfall, Fusilier Wood was killed during defensive fighting around Grandstand Hill.
Son of Josiah and Prudence Wood, of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Emily Frances Wood, of Hanley.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985942
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“FATHER, IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW OUR DEAR ONE SLEEPING”
Described as a promising NCO by his company commander John Coldwell-Horsfall, L/Cpl White was killed during defensive fighting around Grandstand Hill.
Son of William and Mabel White, of Newark, Nottinghamshire; husband of Margaret Brown White, of Newark.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 53706
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. R.I.P.”
Major Murphy was commander of the Faughs’ A Company during a counterattack on Grandstand in the Bou Arada area on the afternoon of 18 January 1943 and was leading a charge against German positions when he was killed. Peter Murphy was born in 1912, was one of nine children the son of Major Frank and Marguerite Murphy who lived at Dunsland Court in Jacobstowe. Major Frank Murphy moved with his family to Jacobstowe in Devon in 1921. He was educated at Beaumont College and Sandhurst, before being commissioned into the East Yorks Regiment and then sent to India where he served on the North West Frontier and was also caught up in the 1936 Quetta Earthquake. Later, he also served in Palestine. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was a captain in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. While on a training assignment in Catterick he met Kathleen Margaret Sharpe and in early 1940 they were married. On 2nd October 1939, Murphy left for France in command of A Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, to join the BEF. The battalion acted as rearguard to the bulk of the BEF in their retreat towards the River Escaut. During this withdrawal Peter Murphy was severely wounded having been hit through the lung. Nevertheless, he kept command and marched with his company for several days, before he collapsed and was evacuated back to England via Dunkirk in a critical condition. While in hospital, he received a visit from the Queen. For this rearguard action Murphy was awarded the Military Cross. He recovered from his wounds and was posted to Northern Ireland, where his son, Patrick was born. Murphy left a wife who he married in 1939 and a son Patrick with another, Peter, soon to be born.
Son of F. D. A. and Margurite Murphy; husband of Kathleen Margaret Murphy, of Parkstone, Dorsetshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045383
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3774708
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“SILVER STARS SHINE ON A GRAVE BUT COULD NOT SAVE. R.I.P.”
Son of Joseph Charles and Mary Ann Crawford, of Liverpool; husband of Margaret Crawford, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985767
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Casswell was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Mrs. H. Casswell, of Heckington, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3771594
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Dangerfield was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045607
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Hodson was killed in the German attack on Grandstand.
Son of Edward Arthur and Mabel Hodson, of Boston, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046918
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
“YOUR CAREFREE WAYS WILL BE MISSED BY YOUR LOVING WIFE LILIAN AND SON BRIAN”
Son of William and Kate Haywood, of Birmingham; husband of Lilian Beatrice Haywood, of Witton, Birmingham.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 235694
Date: 18.01.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Massicault
“TEDDY, LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL IN LIFE WE SHALL NOT FORGET YOU. SYB. AND THE BOYS”
Captain Spencer was killed by a mortar shell at 0845 during an attack on Irish Brigade positions around Grandstand hill by the 1st and 3rd battalions of the Hermann Goering Regiment and IInd Marsh battalion. The war diaries record the Inniskillings suffered nine dead (including Spencer) and 31 wounded.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Spencer; husband of Sybil F. Spencer, of Kingsbury, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3777369
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Massicault
“R.I.P.”
Fusilier Casey was one of five Skins killed during the second day of German attack on Grandstand (four others listed below).
Son of Timothy and Mary Casey, of Birkenhead.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 5124206
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Charles and Mary Whalley, of Penny Lane, Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3780995
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Edward and Anne Parry, of Leigh, Lancashire; husband of May Parry, of Leigh.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019085
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Connery was killed by mortar fire as the London Irish marched from Bou Arada to an area around Stuka Farm in preparation for the attack on Hills 279 and 286 early next morning.
Son of Samuel and Sarah Connery, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985831
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6979743
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Mrs. Mary Nicholl, of Bushmills, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985761
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rank: L/Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983411
Date: 19.01.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Frederick and Amy Harrison, of Rainsworth, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015279
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Massicault
Corporal Hall was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Edmond and Mary Hall, of Killenaull, Co. Tipperary,
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984125
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of George and Helen Elizabeth Livingstone, of Londonderry.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 217804
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lt Pottinger of F Company was killed during fighting for Hill 286 in the Bou Arada area on the morning of 20 January (see London Irish War Diary for details).
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Pottinger, of Reading, Berkshire; husband of Ellice Vivien Pottinger, of Reading.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016695
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Sinodorou was killed on Hill 286.
Son of George and Kalliopi Sinodorou; husband of Jeanette Sinodorou, of Auchinleck, Ayrshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015737
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lance Corporal Stanley Meager was fatally wounded by mortar fire as the London Irish marched from Bou Arada to an area around Stuka Farm on 19 January in preparation for the attack on Hills 279 and 286 early next morning.
Son of Henry Joseph and Harriett Daisy Meager, of Tottenham, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6472465
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Baxter was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Arnold and Rossina Baxter; husband of Daisy Amelia Baxter, of Rainham, Essex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019499
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Wallace was killed on Hill 286.
Foster-son of Margaret Anderson, of Ballymoney, Co. Antrim,
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6472132
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Viney was killed on Hill 286.
Son of John Walter and Emma Jane Viney, of Canning Town, London.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3675683
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 37 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Sergeant Rock was killed during fighting for Hill 286 in the Bou Arada area.
Son of George Alfred and Elizabeth Martha Rock, of Bray, Co. Wicklow. His brother Robert H. also fell.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022330
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl Norland was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Charles and Frances Norland, of North Kensington, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020056
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Smyth was killed on Hill 286.
Son of William John and Mary Smyth, of Newtownards, Co. Down.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022323
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Murphy was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Michael and Bridget Murphy, of Kiskeam North, Co. Cork.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016181
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
A boxing champion, Sergeant Griffin was killed during fighting for Hill 286 in the Bou Arada area.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5954799
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Deards was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Herbert and Edith Mary Deards, of Woolmer Green, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015973
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Connolly was killed on Hill 286.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 219911
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lt McGranahan of F Company was killed leading his platoon during the attack on Hill 286 on the morning of 20 January (see London Irish War Diary for details of the battle).
Son of Dr. John Benson McGranahan and Louisa Odlin McGranahan, of Carlton, Yorkshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015859
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Duncombe was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Mrs. E. Duncombe, of Leyton, Essex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7011302
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman McDowell was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Robert G. and Agnes McDowell, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045190
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Clara Bakewell, of Kates Hill, Dudley, Worcestershire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4867691
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of William Henry and Sarah Paddock, of Wednesbury, Staffordshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015092
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Corporal Robinson was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Henry Charles and Hetty Robinson, of Fulham, London.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 1012459
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Sergeant Atkinson was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Fred and Francis Mary Atkinson.
Rank: Captain Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 156813
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Captain Carrigan, second in command of E Company, was killed instantly by a mortar bomb on Hill 279 during an Orders (‘O’) Group.
Son of Francis Vincent Carrigan, and of Mary Teresa Carrigan, of Harrow, Middlesex.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5824219
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
L/Sgt Crouchman was killed on Hill 286.
Son of William and Katherine Crouchman, of St. Pauls Cray, Kent.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7010955
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
L/Sgt Whelan was killed on Hill 286.
Husband of Elizabeth Whelan, of Dublin.
Link to a photograph of Joseph Whelan.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6460602
Date 20.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Cooling was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Ernest George and Violet Cooling, of Shepperton, Middlesex.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015983
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
L/Cpl Cram was killed on Hill 286.
Son of David and Alice Cram, of Hebburn, Co. Durham.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014550
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Fourt was killed on Hill 286.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6466849
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Hamilton was killed on Hill 286.
Son of John Finlay Hamilton and Robina Hamilton, of Clifton, Warwickshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6466851
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Harris was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Thomas William and Nellie Harris, of Hammersmith. London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019600
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
L/Cpl Loughbridge was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Elizabeth McIlwaine, of Parkmore, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019059
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman McCracken was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. McCracken.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019573
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Mills was killed on Hill 286.
Son of George and Mary Mills, of Larne, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022374
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Trivett was killed on Hill 286.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6470584
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Waller was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Mrs. A Waller; husband of Ethel Mary Waller, of Neath, Glamorgan.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6089737
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Williams was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Montague and Florence Williams, of Epsom, Surrey; husband of Ellen Elizabeth Williams, of Epsom.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6471812
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Thibar Seminary, Tunisia
Rifleman Gant was fatally wounded by mortar fire as the London Irish marched from Bou Arada to an area around Stuka Farm on 19 January in preparation for the attack on Hills 279 and 286 early next morning.
Son of William and Laura Gant, of Norwich.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 152217
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Frank Percy and Lena Hooper; husband of Edith Annas Eliza Hooper, of Loughton, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6980809
Date: 20.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022307
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Massicault
Rifleman McInerney was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Michael and Susan McInerney; husband of Phyllis Joan McInerney, of Bayswater, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047643
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Massicault
Son of Albert and Frances Sarah Turner, of Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6471992
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl Rickard was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Ernest Alfred Rickard and of Mabel Rickard (nee Colley).
Rank: Captain Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 89200
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Captain Ekin of F Company was killed on Hill 286 in the morning of 20 January (see London Irish War Diary for details). He was the son of James and Josephine Alice Montrose Ekin. James Ekin worked for many years in the Belfast Bank in Cookstown and Dungannon before emigrating to Australia. The family returned to the UK in 1910 and lived in London. Sydney’s elder brothers Leslie (22) and James (19), both 2nd Lieutenants in the York and Lancaster Regiment, were killed on 1 July 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Sydney Ekin, who had a degree in law from Cambridge University, was married to Beatrice Ekin, of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3783498
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of, both burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Mangan was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Alexander and Catherine Mangan, of Edge Lane, Liverpool.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6475014
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Wyman was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Gertrude Wyman, of Upper Holloway, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014748
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Crofts was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Clement James Crofts and Annie Crofts, of Fulham, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019585
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman King was killed on Hill 286.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 233305
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lt McKenna of G Company was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Thomas and Ethel McKenna, of Warwick.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 193855
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lt Beechey of G Company was killed on Hill 286.
Son of the Revd. J. W. Beechey and of Emily Georgina Beechey (nee Clements); husband of Lucy Eleanor Beechey (nee Fairbrass), of Hove, Sussex.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018526
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl Booker was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Douglas Alexander Booker and Ada Booker; husband of Hannah Booker.
Rank: Captain Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 137933
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Captain Henderson was Second-in-Command of “H” Company when he was killed during fighting on Hill 286.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016157
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Dunham was killed on Hill 286.
Son of Henry and Isabella Dunham; husband of Ivy Esther Dunham, of Bow, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015019
Date: 21.01.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Figg was killed on Hill 286.
Son of William and Phyllis Grace Figg, of Croydon, Surrey; husband of Gladys Vera Figg, of Collier Row, Romford, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6978889
Date: 22.01.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of William J. and Winifred B. Craddock, of Crumlin, Co. Dublin.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016161
Date: 24.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045147
Date: 25.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Corporal Sills was killed in a shelling attack at 335am. Two Royal Engineers were also killed in the attack.
Son of Edward Sills and of Evelyna Sills (nee Glover); husband of Daisy Vera Sills, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7040786
Date: 25.01.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of William George and Ada Gertrude Slocombe; husband of Mary Bursey Slocombe, of Feltham, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6210233
Date: 26.01.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Massicault
Son of John Trotter, and of Ellen Trotter, of Dinnington Colliery, Northumberland.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4998510
Date: 28.01.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984041
Date: 29.01.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Walter and Jane Swan, of Spondon, Derbyshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7017670
Date: 29.01.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5507388
Date: 31.01.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of James and Alice O’Halloran, of Camberley, Surrey.
February 1943 – 47 Men
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6976921
Date: 03.02.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Bone
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043461
Date: 09.02.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Massicault
Son of William and Jean Ross; husband of Elizebeth N. Ross, of Belfast.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6975296
Date: 09.02.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Massicault
Husband of Matilda McCartney, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3247959
Date: 09.02.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of James and Bridget McIntyre, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire; husband of Theresa McIntyre (nee Morris), of Coatbridge.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3774271
Date: 09.02.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of James Flanagan, and of Ellen Flanagan, of St. Helens, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6461655
Date: 11.02.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Dely Ibrahim, Algeria
Son of Arthur and Kate Barrett; husband of Cecilia Barrett, of Holborn, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7010552
Date: 11.02.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3775823
Date: 11.02.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of James and Elizabeth Mansfield.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers attached from RUR Service number: 162687
Date: 18.02.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Commisioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles in January 1942,Captain Black joined the Faughs just before it left for Algeria in November 1942. He was initially second in command of A Company. It was decided to select 10-15 of the best night patrollers from each rifle company to be used exclusively for night patrolling. Black was made commander of the unit which was named Nighthawks. He was killed in its first operation on the night of 18/19 January.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046611
Date: 20.02.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Evan Arthur and Elizabeth Davies, of Rhydlewis, Cardiganshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985686
Date: 20.02.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of James and Florence Ethel Parker, of Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 166008
Date: 21.02.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lieutenant Page led a 20-person night patrol in the area of the Mahmoud Gap in the winter of 1942. After resting in a wadi, the patrol was ambushed. The patrol fought off the German attackers, but a new attack came after day-break. Page divided his men into two groups and ordered them to withdraw to the battalion lines, but Page’s own group was spotted by German armoured cars and attacked. Only one of them escaped. Three days later, however, French Spahis (local troops) brought Page in. He had been wounded but hidden by a French farmer. Page was recommended for a Military Cross for his leadership and valour in a battle in which it is estimated about two dozen enemy soldiers were killed or wounded. Page died later of his wounds.
Son of Charles Edward and Hilda May Page, of Tottenham, Middlesex.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7042903
Date: 21.02.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022276
Date: 22.02.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Albert Fitzgibbon was a member of cookhouse team which was preparing breakfast for 8 Platoon of E Company on Mosque Hill west of Stuka Ridge between 8 and 9am on 22 February 1943. He was working with Rifleman Maher. The area was hit by heavy shelling. Fitzgibbon and Maher took cover in a slit trench. As soon as the shelling stopped, they returned to their cooking duties. The cookhouse then took a direct hit. Fitzgibbon died from his wounds and Maher was evacuated with a bad head wound. E Company Colour Sergeant Edmund O’Sullivan said Fitzgibbon was a very popular member of E Company. He was a bricklayer by trade and a harmonica player which he took with him into the army.
Son of William Fitzgibbon and of Annie Fitzgibbon (nee Garland), of West Drayton, Middlesex; husband of Caroline Annie Fitzgibbon, of West Drayton.
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Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3773041
Date: 22.02.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Joseph Hall Murphy and Jane Murphy, of Waterloo, Liverpool.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6979641
Date: 24.02.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Albert and Charlotte Reid, of Waterside, Londonderry; husband of Elizabeth J. Reid, of Fintona, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984981
Date: 25.02.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Patrick Joseph and Julia Jane Maguire, of Hollybrook, Co. Fermanagh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6976088
Date: 25.02.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Robert and Mary Anne Crocker, of Belfast; husband of Elizabeth Crocker, of Belfast.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046911
Date: 25.02.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045180
Date: 25.02.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of John William and Nellie Ann Blundell, of Oldbury, Worcestershire; husband of Dacia Blundell, of Warley, Oldbury.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022717
Date: 25.02.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Abraham and Lottie Needlestein. Both his parents are buried in Rainham Cemetery in Kent.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles (Royal Ulster Rifles) Service number: 6471376
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Massicault
Corporal Kawalsky was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Husband of Frances Kawalsky, of Stoke Newington, London.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 174285
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Captain Boyle was killed around 430pm in the Skins’ counterattack on Stuka Ridge during fighting on the afternoon of 26 February.
Son of Alexander Frederick and Eileen Mary Boyle, of Portnoo, Co. Donegal.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014282
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Ruddock was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of Samuel and Esther Ruddock, of Belfast.
Rank: Company Quarter Master Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014506
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Colour Sergeant Brooks was killed at Stuka Farm during the German attack.
Son of Stanley and Ella Brooks; husband of Madge Winifred Brooks, of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018891
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Scott was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of David L. and Annie Scott, of Lisburn, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6470891
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Brooks was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of Ernest and Daisy Brooks; husband of Marjorie Rose Brooks, of Desborough, Northamptonshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3784030
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Roberts was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of George and Mary Ellen Roberts, of Liverpool.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019478
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 16 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Hamilton was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of John and Mary Hamilton, of Shantallow, Londonderry.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14211405
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Corporal Dunsmuir was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Dunsmuir; husband of Catherine Dunsmuir, of Leven, Fife.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022714
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl Mills was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of Charles Herbert and Florence Emily Mills, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7048087
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Turner was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of James and Florence M. Turner, of Baddeley Green, Staffordshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 778549
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl Tryers was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of Edward and Kathleen Tryers, of Liverpool.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016046
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Corporal Metcalfe was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Husband of Doris Irene Metcalfe, of South Harrow, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6020287
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Watts was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Husband of Elsie May Watts, of Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022250
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Carey was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada–Goubellat road.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022242
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Booth was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arad–Goubellat road.
Son of Francis Milbanke Booth and Ethel May Booth, of Dagenham, Essex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015958
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Flaherty was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada–Goubellat road.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14202595
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Henderson was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada–Goubellat road.
Son of William J. and Jane Henderson, of Clifton, York.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7017549
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Corporal McGrath was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada–Goubellat road.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016727
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Crush was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada–Goubellat road.
Son of Thomas and Emily Esther Crush, of Hanwell, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043299
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
To read Fusilier McCabe’s story, please click here.
He had lied about his age in February 1939 together with his friend Fusilier Andrew Gardiner who was killed fighting with the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles in the Simeto battle in August 1943.
Son of John and Mary McCabe, of Dublin,
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985895
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Thomas and Minnie Graves, of Leicester; husband of Florence Rose Graves, of Leicester.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6979136
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lance-Corporal Reid from B Company was killed in the counterattack along Stuka Ridge at around 430pm on 26 February.
Son of Alexander and Elizabeth Reid, of Rasharkin, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014641
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Corporal Church was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of Benjamin Hubert and Amy Church.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 4206358
Date: 26.02.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Smith was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018840
Date: 27.02.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Taylor was killed in the German attack in the Djebel Rihane area west of the Bou Arada – Goubellat road.
Son of John and Ruby Taylor, of Belfast.
March 1943 – 13 Men
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7011718
Date: 01.03.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Thomas and Ellen Gardiner, of Larne, Co. Antrim; husband of Barbara Gardiner.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 174288
Date: 02.03.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Captain Daly was killed in a Skins attack on Stop Farm north of Grandstand to the east of the Medjez el-Bab to Goubellat road at 8pm 0n 2 March. The farm was occupied by the Germans and was believed to be the site of munitions including teller mines and used as a forward observation post for checking Grandstand Hill about two miles to the south. Daly led a fighting patrol drawn from the Skin’s career platoon. The attack on the farm started at 8pm. At least four German machine guns opened fire. Daly was hit but continued to direct the patrol until he realised the Germans were too strong and ordered a withdrawal. Attempts were made to move Daly, but he was too badly wounded. Daly died of his wounds at the farm. His body was retrieved by a Skins patrol on 9 March.
Son of Christopher and Alicia Daly; husband of Olive Margaret Daly, of Newtownbreda, Belfast.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4274785
Date: 02.03.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lance Corporal Black was killed in the Skins attack on Stop Farm north of Grandstand to the east of the Medjez el-Bab to Goubellat road on the evening of 2 March.
Son of Robert Black, and of Adelaide E. M. Black, of Hebburn, Co. Durham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981289
Date: 02.03.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Towle was killed in the Skins attack on Stop Farm north of Grandstand to the east of the Medjez el-Bab to Goubellat road on the evening of 2 March.
Son of Thomas Walter and Sarah Ann Towle, of Spilsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Agnes Towle, of Spilsby.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4457039
Date: 03.03.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Hugh and Christiana Smart, of Kelloe, Co. Durham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982028
Date: 04.03.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Le Petit Lac, Algeria
Son of Robert and Mary Dougan, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6976611
Date: 05.03.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Husband of Louisa Thompson, of Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 2188386
Date: 07.03.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Daniels was killed while part of a 10-man fighting patrol led by Sergeant O’Driscoll which was sent out from the Skins’ base on and around Grandstand Hill to Carrier Farm, which lay west of the Goubellat-Bou Arada road. As Sergeant O’Donnell of the patrol approached the farm at around 9pm, he saw a sentry and opened fire with a machine gun. Several German machine guns replied, including from the west of the road. German soldiers advanced towards the patrol and it withdrew. Daniels was found to be missing and was later found to have died in the skirmish.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from the Royal Ulster Rifles Service number: 2010007
Date: 07.03.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lieutenant Baggs joined the Faughs from the Royal Ulster Rifles on 7 February 1943. He died of wounds in an accident, which occurred during his return from patrol when the Faughs were based around Beja during a rest period. He was pulling an NCO up the 12 foot wall of a gully by his Tommy Gun, when it discharged, wounding him in the left shoulder and in the abdomen.
Son of Percy James Baggs and Beatrice Baggs, of Chaldon Herring, Dorsetshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043184
Date: 07.03.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Patrick and Kate Cahill, of Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers attached from Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, Canada Service number: D/61768
Date: 11.03.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Sergeant Lortie was killed during a B Company fighting patrol mission of 20 other ranks and one officer back to Stop Farm to blow up a Teller Mine dump. When about 200 yards from the farm, they were challenged in English and did not fire straightaway. The patrol commander decided that the people before him were a German patrol, so he opened fire. One of the enemy came in and threw a grenade. In the darkness, the commander could not get everyone together, and after firing most of his ammunition, decided to withdraw. Two men were wounded. All struggled to the battalion area, with the exception of Lortie, a French-Canadian NCO attached to the unit. His body was found near the scene of the action on the following night. One other patrol member was missing and believed to have been taken prisoner.
Son of Angelina Lortie, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3130829
Date: 15.03.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022820
Date: 15.03.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Charles George and Elizebeth Dobson; husband of Norah Margaret Dobson, of Kingsbury, Middlesex.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers attached from Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment Service number: 156654
Date: 03.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Captain Beeching, a Downing College Cambridge University graduate who was educated at Maidstone Grammar School, led a fighting patrol sent to test German defence positions on Djebel Mahdi on the night of 4 April 1943. He was killed with one other member of the patrol (below) when a booby-trap Teller anti-tank mine exploded.
Son of Hubert Josiah and Anne Beeching; husband of Betty Vera Beeching, of Solihull. Warwickshire. M.A. (Cantab). Beeching was the younger brother of Baron Beeching, who was chairman of British Rail in 1961-45.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3654324
Date: 04.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
War diaries suggest that Lance Corporal Rose was killed on the night of 4 April during a fighting patrol comprising 16 other ranks and led by Lieutenant Beeching that was sent to test German positions on Djebel Mahdi ahead of the planned Skins’ assault on the mountain.
Son of Emmanuel and Esther Rose, of Norris Green, Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3774392
Date: 04.04.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Maurice and Florence Quirk; husband of Marjorie Quirk, of Whiston, Lancashire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044883
Date: 06.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Brookes; husband of Rose Anna Brookes, of Ironbridge, Shropshire.
Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached from Royal Ulster Rifles Service number: 36245
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 37 Place of burial: Beja
Lieutenant Colonel ‘Heaver’ Allen, the CO of the 6th Inniskillings, was killed during the initial assault on Djebel el Mahdi. The battalion attack started in darkness at 4am following an artillery barrage. It reached its objective around 5am. A German machine gun was spotted on the reverse slope that was causing problems for C company. Allen directed a bren gunner who was unable to follow his instructions. He called the gunner to him but before he arrived, Allen looked up and was shot through the head. Allen had been promoted to command the Skins in December 1942 following the wounding of its original commanding officer Terence Macartney-Filgate who was seriously wounded in a strafing attack near Bou Arada. The death of Allen, the Skins’ first fatality on 7 April, was followed by increased enemy mortar fire and casualties. Major John McCann took over command. Allen was the first of 18 fatalities that the Skins suffered on 7 April (others are listed below). They were withdrawn and put under the command of TN Grazebrook.
Son of Maj. Henry George Allen, O.B.E., R.A.V.C., and Rosamunde Elizabeth Allen; husband of Katharine Elizabeth Mary Allen, of Barnby Dun, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7606610
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Beja
Fusilier McCarthy was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of William and Mary Anne McCarthy, of Liverpool; husband of Ethel McCarthy, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022562
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Beja
Fusilier Heath was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Heath, of Leytonstone, Essex.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3775355
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Sgt Jones was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Wilfred James Jones and Alice Jones, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983418
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Hunt was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Alfred and Florence Hunt, of Radford, Nottingham. His brother William also died on service.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044508
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Wootton was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983317
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Corporal Tinman was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Robert and Fanny Tinman, of Portadown, Co. Armagh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4752524
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Gidney was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of William and Agnes Gidney, of Parkgate, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3783400
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Clough was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022866
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Milton was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of John Henry and Mary Ann Milton; husband of Jennie Milton, of Richmond, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985807
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Rice was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Bert and Olive Rice, of Raunds, Northamptonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6980804
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Kerr was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Robert and Jeannie Kerr, of Castlederg, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044362
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Sgt Fraser was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Leslie and Florence Fraser, of Manchester; husband of Sally Fraser, of Manchester.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047680
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Gibson was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of William John and Sarah Jane Gibson, of Chapel End, Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044307
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Platoon Sergeant Ford of A Company was killed in the first attack on Jebel el-Mahdi on 7 April. He was replaced by Sergeant Walls.
Son of William and Laura Ford, of Saxilby, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984825
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of John William and Sarah Caroline Davis, of Leicester.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982166
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Gower was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Harry and Emma Gower.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044343
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Trimble was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of John and Susan Trimble; husband of M. Trimble, of Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985242
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Fusilier Coffey was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Mary Coffey, of Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3137727
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Fusilier Evans was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Joseph and Alice Evans, of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3527077
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Sgt Owen was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Owen, of Wigan, Lancashire; husband of Catherine Owen, of Wigan.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984687
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Fusilier Robinson was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Joseph Robinson, and of Elizabeth Robinson, of Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986045
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Fusilier Pickford was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Francis Edwin and Ruby Pickford, of Higham Ferrars, Northamptonshire; husband of Lilian Laura Pickford, of Higham Ferrars.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043743
Date: 07.04.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Corporal Megarity was killed in the assault on Djebel el Mahdi.
Son of Samuel and Sarah Megarity, of Armagh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982298
Date: 08.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Harry and Martha Ward, of Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire; husband of Beatrice Ward, of Wirkeworth, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045240
Date: 08.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Walter and Margaret Ann Lake; stepson of John Dowson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044660
Date: 08.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
A member of 17 Platoon in the Faughs’ D Company, Fusilier Winston was badly wounded in the leg in the early part of the attack on Jebel Mahdi and died later on the same day.
Son of William and Hannah Mary Winston, of Aston, Birmingham.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982295
Date: 09.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Beja
Lance Sergeant Walls was killed when he stepped on a mine during the second Skins’ attack on Jebel Mahdi which started with a barrage at 1pm and ended at 6pm when the battalion was again withdrawn after failing to reach all objectives. The Skins suffered two fatalities and 12 wounded on the day. Some happened when three of the companies entered a minefield.
Son of Albert and Elizebeth Ann Walls; husband of Isabella Gladys Walls, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7849189
Date: 09.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lance Corporal Nicholls was killed during the second Skins’ attack on Jebel Mahdi which started with a barrage at 1pm and ended at 6pm when the battalion was again withdrawn after failing to reach all objectives. The Skins suffered two fatalities and 12 wounded on the day. Some happened when three of the companies entered a minefield.
Son of James Albert and Eliza Jane Nicholls, of Knowle, Bristol.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Corps of Signals (with Brigade HQ) Service number: 140936
Date: 09.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Vincent and Eleanor Dale Strange.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047619
Date: 10.04.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of George Samuel and Agnes Nash, of Smethwick, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14206941
Date: 11.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Beja
The Skins’ battalion area was bombed on 11 April. One member of the battalion was killed (probably Fusilier Westerman) and two wounded.
Son of Arthur and Annie Westerman, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3774575
Date: 12.04.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Thomas and Caroline Corless, of Rock Ferry, Birkenhead.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3608183
Date: 14.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Beja
Son of Thomas Henry and Gladys Tickell, of Raffles, Carlisle.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022164
Date: 15.04.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Henry and Florence Wise; husband of Beatrice Nellie Wise, of Dartford, Kent.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 172413
Date: 15.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lt Slattery was killed instantly by enemy together with three other Faughs by defensive fire on Kef el Tior on the night of 15 April. The Faughs were heard to scream “Faugh a Ballagh” in their assault. Slattery had been wounded during the Faughs’ counterattack during fighting to the east of Grandstand Hill on 18 January 1943. Slattery went to Stoneyhurst School and then spent several years goldmining in South Africa. He returned to the UK at the start of the war and enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers. Slattery was commissioned in February 1941 and joined the Faughs in July that year. He was wounded in January 1943 and returned to the battalion on 12 April. Slattery was in A Company of the Faughs during his entire period of service.
Son of Jerome Paul Slattery, and of Adela Mary Slattery, of Buntingford, Hertfordshire.
262 David Nicholas Jefferies MC
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 117829
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Beja
Captain Jefferies joined D Company of the Faughs and served as second-in-command of the company under Major John Coldwell-Horsfall. He emerged as one of the bravest officers in the battalion who specialised in night reconnaissance patrols. His exploits included leading a patrol on 29 December into enemy territory. Jefferies spotted and then joined a German patrol, taking one of them prisoner. For these and other actions, Jefferies was awarded the MC and was appointed commander of A Company. He was badly wounded by shell fire in the Faughs’ attack on Kef El Tior mountain on the night of 15 April. It took many hours to carry him off the mountain and he died of his wounds at the casualty clearing station in Beja where he is buried. Jefferies, who spoke German, famously captured the lagging member of a German patrol during a one-man operation in the Goubellat area of Tunisia on the night of 29 December. For his actions, Jefferies was awarded the first MC to a member of the Irish Brigade. He went to Marlborough School and joined the Faughs from officer training in February 1940.
Son of the Revd. Canon Arthur Charles Jefferies, M.A., and of Frances Doris Jefferies, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982514
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins participated in the Irish Brigade attack on high ground north of the road to Medjez el-Bab which began in bright moonlight at 1 minute after midnight on 16 April. The battalion’s lead companies immediately suffer 12 casualties including Captain McCaldin and Lieutenant Lambert Porter as a result of British shells falling short of the target. The Skin’s objective was Jebel Tanngoucha but the battalion had not taken the objectives 430am and it was decided their position was untenable during daylight hours. It was withdrawn. The Skins’ war diaries say it suffered four fatalities among other ranks and a total of 36 wounded officers and other ranks. Fusilier Mandy, Sergeant Fenton and Fusiliers Picker and Curzon were killed in the attack.
Son of John Alfred and Matilda Mandy, of East Ham, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981423
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins participated in the Irish Brigade attack on high ground north of the road to Medjez el-Bab which began in bright moonlight at 1 minute after midnight on 16 April. The battalion’s lead companies immediately suffer 12 casualties including Captain McCaldin and Lieutenant Lambert Porter as a result of British shells falling short of the target. The Skin’s objective was Jebel Tanngoucha but the battalion had not taken the objectives 430am and it was decided their position was untenable during daylight hours. It was withdrawn. The Skins’ war diaries say it suffered four fatalities among other ranks and a total of 36 wounded officers and other ranks. Fusilier Picker, Sergeant Fenton and Fusiliers Mandy and Curzon were killed in the attack.
Son of Thomas and Jessie Picker, of Ruskington, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981949
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins participated in the Irish Brigade attack on high ground north of the road to Medjez el-Bab which began in bright moonlight at 1 minute after midnight on 16 April. The battalion’s lead companies immediately suffer 12 casualties including Captain McCaldin and Lieutenant Lambert Porter as a result of British shells falling short of the target. The Skin’s objective was Jebel Tanngoucha but the battalion had not taken the objectives 430am and it was decided their position was untenable during daylight hours. It was withdrawn. The Skins’ war diaries say it suffered four fatalities among other ranks and a total of 36 wounded officers and other ranks. Sergeant Fenton and Fusiliers Mandy, Picker and Curzon were killed in the attack.
Son of Arthur and Emma Haynes Fenton; husband of Winifred Annie Fenton, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7017516
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of William and Mary Carrig, of Kildysart, Co. Clare.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 4205977
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Maurice and Ann Reuben, of Moss Side, Manchester.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045176
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Husband of Grace May Addey, of Hull.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045795
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Charles Edward and Lilian Flowers; husband of Emma Bloom Flowers, of Smethwick, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983374
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
The Skins participated in the Irish Brigade attack on high ground north of the road to Medjez el-Bab which began in bright moonlight at 1 minute after midnight on 16 April. The battalion’s lead companies immediately suffer 12 casualties including Captain McCaldin and Lieutenant Lambert Porter as a result of British shells falling short of the target. The Skin’s objective was Jebel Tanngoucha but the battalion had not taken the objectives 430am and it was decided their position was untenable during daylight hours. It was withdrawn. The Skins’ war diaries say it suffered four fatalities among other ranks and a total of 36 wounded officers and other ranks. Fusilier Curzon, Sergeant Fenton and Fusiliers Picker and Mandy were killed in the attack.
Son of Robert Curzon, and of Elizabeth Curzon, of Hyson Green, Nottingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047546
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047221
Date: 16.04.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Robert and Annie Henry, of Cookstown, Co. Tyrone; husband of Margaret Henry, of Cookstown.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3196442
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of William and Elizabeth Grant, of Glasgow.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985820
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of John and Annie J. Orr, of Limavady, Co. Londonderry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043624
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of David and Margaret Crawford, of Beragh, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985708
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Albert and Olive Ada Wild, of Clowne, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6981991
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of James and Esther Rabone, of Hugglescote, Coalville, Leicestershire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044792
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of John and Mary Mason, of Tipton, Staffordshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6976278
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
A Faughs’ regular, L/Cpl Given was in 17 Platoon in D Company during the Tunisian campaign. He was in a trench on Kef El Tior when suffered a shrapnel wound to his head, and was then sent for medical treatment and, according to John Coldwell-Horsfall (The Wild Geese Are Flighting), “he found and consumed medical rum supplies.”…he headed back to the battle and the Inniskillings found him a week later, lying dead in the German positions on the col of Tanngoucha.
Son of Parnell and Sarah Given, of Omagh, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047670
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047634
Date: 17.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045941
Date: 18.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Alfred James Bishop and Kate Bishop, of Stirchley, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3603156
Date: 18.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of J. B. and Phoebe Louise Jewels, of Blyth, Northumberland.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015170
Date: 20.04.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Charles Henry and Phoebe Alice Mizon; husband of Margaret Mizon, of Combpyne, Devon.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044812
Date: 21.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Fredrick Freeman Sanders and Mary Ellen Sanders, of Coventry.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 201008
Date: 21.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lieutenant Emmins joined the Faughs in early April from the 7th Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles. He was initially a platoon commander but was made battalion signals officer. He was killed on 21 April when the Faughs’ battalion headquarters was mortared during operations around Heidous.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046311
Date: 21.04.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez el-Bab Memorial
Son of Arthur and Joyce Mallen; husband of Winifred Maud Mallen, of Creswell, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3774655
Date: 21.04.1943. Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of John and Mary Porter, of Liverpool; husband of Elizabeth Porter, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3608618
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: La Reunion, Algeria
Son of John William and Amy Kellett, of Butterknowle, Co. Durham.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7860798
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl Millard was killed in the assault on Tanngoucha.
Son of Eli James Millard and Isabella Millard, of Astley, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4511678
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Horsfield was killed in the assault on Tanngoucha.
Son of William and Annie Horsfield, of Colne, Lancashire; husband of Hilda Horsfield, of Colne.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983509
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Vann was killed in the second Skins’ attack on Jebel Tanngoucha which started at 9pm on the night of April.
Son of Frederick and Ada Vann, of Warsop Vale, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3783861
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl Graham was killed in the second assault on Jebel Tanngoucha.
Son of William George and Florence Graham, of Mossley Hill, Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4546237
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 18 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Poole was killed in the second assault on Jebel Tanngoucha.
Son of Frederick Charles and Sarah Alice Poole, of Bolton, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022993
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Ross was killed in the assault on Heidous.
Son of Thomas Edward and Elizabeth Emily Ross, of East Barnet, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019513
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Corporal Palmer was killed by machine-gun fire in the attack on Heidous.
Son of Arthur William and Alice Palmer, Or Killester, Dublin.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3250861
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman Watkins was killed in the assault on Heidous.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019231
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
L/Cpl McDonald was killed in the assault on Heidous.
Son of Dawson D. A. and Elizabeth Ann McDonald; husband of Lily Elizabeth McDonald, of Stepney, London.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044982
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Sgt Hobbs was killed in the assault on Hill 622 and Butler’s Hill.
Son of Robert James Hobbs and Elizabeth Hobbs, of Belfast; husband of Violet Hobbs, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984357
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Irwin was killed in the second assault on Jebel Tanngoucha.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3251027
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Corporal Hamilton was killed in the assault on Heidous.
Son of John and Jessie Frame Hamilton.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018574
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
L/Cpl Doherty was killed in the assault on Heidous.
Son of John and Helen Mary Doherty; husband of Frances Doherty, of Freemantle, Southampton.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6341336
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Linihan was killed in the assault on Heidous.
Son of Richard Francis and Elizebeth Linihan; husband of Mary Linihan, of Bethnal Green, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7045500
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rifleman Pasby was killed in the assault on Heidous.
Son of Alfred and Mary Pasby, of Brixton, London; husband of Margaret Evelyn Pasby, of Brixton.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022075
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of James and Sarah Hesketh, of Preston, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7012003
Date: 22.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045000
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins had advanced 1,000 yards from its start point in the early hours of 23 April in the second attack on Tanngoucha. After attempting to capture a German strongpoint on a rocky outcrop, B and C came under heavy fire from both flanks and were counterattacked. They withdrew but three out of four of their officers were killed. By daylight, D Company was pinned down. The war diaries record that the battalion lost four officers and 43 other ranks as casualties in the 24 hours after the start of the attack. Lance Sergeant Bride was one of those that died in this period.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3195825
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins had advanced 1,000 yards from its start point in the early hours of 23 April in the second attack on Tanngoucha. After attempting to capture a German strongpoint on a rocky outcrop, B and C came under heavy fire from both flanks and were counterattacked. They withdrew but three out of four of their officers were killed. By daylight, D Company was pinned down. The war diaries record that the battalion lost four officers and 43 other ranks as casualties in the 24 hours after the start of the attack. Fusilier Hilton was one of those that died in this period.
Son of William and Lillian Hilton, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Ada Hilton, of Leeds.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14206949
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins had advanced 1,000 yards from its start point in the early hours of 23 April in the second attack on Tanngoucha. After attempting to capture a German strongpoint on a rocky outcrop, B and C came under heavy fire from both flanks and were counterattacked. They withdrew but three out of four of their officers were killed. By daylight, D Company was pinned down. The war diaries record that the battalion lost four officers and 43 other ranks as casualties in the 24 hours after the start of the attack. Fusilier Williamson was one of those that died in this period.
Son of John W. and Jane Williamson, of New Wortley, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 103025
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins had advanced 1,000 yards from its start point in the early hours of 23 April in the second attack on Tanngoucha. After attempting to capture a German strongpoint on a rocky outcrop, B and C came under heavy fire from both flanks and were counterattacked. They withdrew but three out of four of their officers were killed. By daylight, D Company was pinned down. The war diaries record that the battalion lost four officers and 43 other ranks as casualties in the 24 hours after the start of the attack. Captain Hill was one of two captains killed in the attack.
Son of Charles Hugh Hill and Ethel Annie Hill; husband of Joyce Edna Hill, of New Malden, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047022
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins had advanced 1,000 yards from its start point in the early hours of 23 April in the second attack on Tanngoucha. After attempting to capture a German strongpoint on a rocky outcrop, B and C came under heavy fire from both flanks and were counterattacked. They withdrew but three out of four of their officers were killed. By daylight, D Company was pinned down. The war diaries record that the battalion lost four officers and 43 other ranks as casualties in the 24 hours after the start of the attack. Fusilier Dunne was one of those that died in this period.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 121597
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
The Skins had advanced 1,000 yards from its start point in the early hours of 23 April in the second attack on Tanngoucha. After attempting to capture a German strongpoint on a rocky outcrop, B and C came under heavy fire from both flanks and were counterattacked. They withdrew but three out of four of their officers were killed. By daylight, D Company was pinned down. The war diaries record that the battalion lost four officers and 43 other ranks as casualties in the 24 hours after the start of the attack. Captain Megginson was one of two Skins’ captains killed in this period.
Son of Robert Frederick and Gertrude Megginson, of Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6209554
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Francis and Mary Hand, of Magheracloone, Kingscourt, Co. Cavan.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3531711
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Ulster Rifles, attached to Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 201006
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Michael Bernard and Marie Lillian Mahony; husband of Christina Mahony, of Selkirk.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045495
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Notley was one of the Skins killed on the second day of its second attack on Jebel Tanngoucha on 23/24 April.
Son of Alfred and Laura Notley, of Battersea, London; husband of Annie Notley, of Battersea.
Rank: L/Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982490
Date: 23.04.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of John Willie and Gertrude Schofield, of Tapton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14201861
Date: 24.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lance Corporal Jennings was one of the Skins killed on the second day of its second attack on Jebel Tanngoucha on 23/24 April. .
Son of Thomas and Florence Jennings, of Acocks Green, Birmingham.
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Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045007
Date: 24.04.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Bygrave was one of the Skins killed on the second day of its second attack on Jebel Tanngoucha on 23/24 April.
Son of John and Clara Bygrave; husband of Phyllis Bygrave, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3607851
Date: 24.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Hall was one of the Skins killed on the second day of its second attack on Jebel Tanngoucha on 23/24 April.
Son of Samuel Hall, and of Alice Hall, of Frizington, Cumberland.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3778804
Date: 24.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Lance Corporal Hall was one of the Skins killed on the second day of its second attack on Jebel Tanngoucha on 23/24 April.
Son of Frederick Herbert and Elizabeth Hall; husband of May Theresa Hall, of Wilmslow, Cheshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6980470
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Boyd was one of the casualties suffered by the Skins on the third day of its second attack on Jebel Tanngoucha.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6975441
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Mary Blair; husband of Catherine Blair, of Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045312
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Arthur Henry and Hellen Ball, of Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Dorothy Lois Ball, of Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Welch Regiment Service number: 219879
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lt Sillem joined D Company of the Faughs in February 1943 on transfer from the Welch Regiment. In the Faughs’ spirited but unsuccessful attack on Point 622 on the night of 22 April, Sillem commanded 18 Platoon. A and D Companies attacked Butler’s Hill in the same area on 25 April and Sillem, who was then commander of D Company, was killed. His company commander John Coldwell-Horsfall described him in The Wild Geese Are Flighting thus: “Peter was a swashbuckler. He had a heart of gold and he dressed like a pirate. He was a delight to serve with and he made his mark in our little history.” Sillem had been Mentioned in Despatches.
Son of Charles Augustus and Muriel Ada Isabella Sillem, of Surbiton, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047828
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Charles and Lucy Jane Tilson, of Stockingford, Warwickshire; husband of Hilda Annie Tilson, of Stockingford.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047861
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of William and Jessie Gordon Constable, of Peterculter, Aberdeenshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046925
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lance-Corporal Rogan was killed in the Faughs’ final attack on Hill 622 on Kef El Tior mountain.
Son of Thomas Patrick and Catherine Rogan, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044662
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Fusilier Willis was killed in the final attack on Hill 622 on Kef El Tior mountain.
Son of Samuel and Sarah Jane Willis; husband of Lillian May Willis, of Coventry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044575
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of John Henry and Rose Duval, of Perry Common, Birmingham.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043641
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Husband of Lily Clarke, of Lisburn, Co Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043583
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Johanna-Keating McEnery, of Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022743
Date: 25.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Edward John and Madeline Ella Young, of Ashington, Dorsetshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047851
Date: 26.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Alcock, of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983769
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
The Skins’ third attack on high points north of the road to Medjez el-Bab started with an artillery barrage on Kef el-Senach at 1130am on 27 April. Kef el-Senech which is about 1,200 feet above sea level. It consisted of four separate high points, all of which were held by the Germans. The battalion took two of the four by midday. It suffered a total of 13 fatalities on 27 April including Lance Corporal McMullan.
Son of Robert James McMullan and Isabella McMullan; nephew of John Cairns, of Newport, Hillsborough, Co. Down.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3718747
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Brown was killed in the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of Alfred and Agnes Brown, of Edge Hill, Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3132834
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Campbell was killed in the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6978607
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Sergeant Heron was killed in the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of John and Annie Heron, of Coagh, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981648
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Lance Sergeant Shimwell was killed in the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of Joseph and Lydia Shimwell.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3135708
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Connell was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Connell, of Glasgow; husband of Mary Jane Connell, of Glasgow.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3784010
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Evans was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of John and Ruth May Evans.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3607860
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier McLaughlan was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of John and Grace Ann McLaughlan, of Carlisle.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3607649
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Newman was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of Joseph and Florence Ann Newman.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3607688
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Parkinson was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Parkinson, of Blackburn, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14206442
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Persechino was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 5436998
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Rice was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of John and Rose Rice, of Belfast,
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3195335
Date: 27.04.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Fusilier Swanson was killed during the Skins’ attack on Kef el-Senach.
Son of George and Marion Swanson, of Peebles.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983555
Date: 28.04.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Christopher and Ivy May Grosse, of Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014470
Date: 28.04.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Rifleman McRory was acting as driver for Irish Brigade commander Nelson Russell when he was killed by shelling in an incident witnessed by London Irish E Company Colour Sergeant Edmund O’Sullivan.
Son of John and Mary McRory; husband of Rosemary Ellen McRory, of Hornsey, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3608619
Date: 28.04.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of John and Grace Linton, of Hunwick, Co. Durham.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7045494
Date: 28.04.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Sergeant Norman of F Company died from wounds sustained during the second attack on Heidous on the night of 22 April 1943. He was found by the London Irish Rifles when they captured Heidous in the second attack on the village on the night of 25 April.
Son of Arthur Henry and Ann Maria Norman; husband of Evelyn Mary Norman, of Whitton Park, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 2722770
Date: 30.04.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of William and Priscilla Potton; husband of Hilda Potton, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6980546
Date: 30.04.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
Son of George and Mary Green; husband of Ellen Green, of Londonderry.
Rank: Company Sergeant Major (D Company) Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043002
Date: 01.05.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Oued Zarga
CSM Fincham was Colour Sergeant in B Company at the start of the Tunisian campaign, and was promoted Company Sergeant Major of D Company to replace “Tug” Wilson on 28 January 1943.
Son of Frederick and Kathleen Fincham; husband of Norah Eileen Fincham, of Tiverton, Devon.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 13081936
Date: 06.05.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: El Alia, Algeria
Son of Frederick William and Florence E. Herbert, of Hanworth, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019390
Date: 06.05.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6976983
Date: 08.05.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Sergeant McAleer achieved notoriety during the Skins’ operations in the Goubellat plain on the morning of 24 February 1943 when he unilaterally and single-handedly went out from his position south of Hill 286 in revenge for the loss of a patrol the previous night. His military mission was information, but his own object was to obtain revenge for the loss of a patrol on night 23/24 Feb 43. He spotted machine gun post, went to the flank of it, surprised the crew of two, collected the gun and disabled the two prisoners. McAleer was awarded a DCM for this action.
Son of Frank and Elizabeth McAleer; husband of Grace McAleer, of Aldershot, Hampshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6975608
Date: 13.05.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: El Alia, Algeria
Son of Patrick and Hannah Stewart; husband of Lucy Georgena Stewart, of Bearney, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Captain Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 124647
Date: 13.05.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Captain Thornton, an Oxford graduate and professional actor, was seriously wounded during the London Irish attack on Heidous, a village in high land north of the road to Medjez el-Bab. The attack was led by F Company under Captain Dunnill with G Company under Thornton in support. The attack started with an artillery barrage on Heidous and Jebel Tanngoucha at 545pm on 22 April. F Company advanced to Heidous but came under heavy machine gun fire and Dunnill was wounded. G Company’s radio connection with F Company failed and Thornton went forward to Heidous to find out what was happening. He was hit in the legs by machine gun fire and taken prisoner. The fighting in Heidous continued until the village was taken by the evening of 23 April. Thornton died of his wounds on 13 May. Thornton was born in Frome in Somerset, the only son of the Reverend Robert Thornton, vicar of Corringham, and his wife Ethel. They lived at 19 Holdenhurst Avenue, Boscombe in Hampshire. Thornton went to school at Lancing College. He went to Hertford College Oxford in 1925. After, he went to Sudan to work as a cotton planter and then to South Africa where he was a salesman. Thornton married Kathleen Roulston at Cape Town Cathedral in 1932. Their daughter Jill was born in 1934. Thornton and his family returned to the UK and he became an actor with the Oxford Repertory Company. He was conscripted into the army and completed officer training in March 1940, when he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers. Thornton was transferred to the Royal Ulster Rifles and then to the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles.
Son of the Revd. Robert Thornton and Ethel B. Thornton, of Bournemouth, Hampshire. B.A. (Oxon.).
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 247963
Date: 13.05.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Lieutenant O’Gorman was examining a grenade which detonated. O’Gorman had served for nine years in the Royal Berkshire Regiment before being commissioned into the Faughs.
Son of Hugh and Catherine O’Gorman.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044389
Date: 14.05.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: El Alia, Algeria
Son of William Henry Moores, and of Mary Lilian Moores, of Woolton, Lancashire.
Rank: Platoon sergeant Major (PSM) Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6975298
Date: 23.05.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
PSM O’Brien joined the Faughs in 1925. His father had been regimental sergeant major and two of his elder brothers were already in the Faughs. O’Brien was commander of the pioneer platoon when he was wounded. He died of his wounds on 23 May 1943.
Son of Owen and Katherine O’Brien, of Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7017597
Date: 15.06.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Abney Park, UK
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lane, of Dalston.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14211959
Date: 19.06.1943 Age: 38 Place of burial: El Alia, Algeria
Son of Ben and Cathie Carr; husband of Mary M. M. Carr, of Dundee.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3771936
Date: 25.06.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of John William and Nellie Thomas, of Willenhall, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7047556
Date: 05.07.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Joseph and Annie Myatt; husband of Susan Myatt, of Newcastle, Staffordshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6350946
Date: 06.07.1943 (grave marker incorrect). Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Oliver and Ruth Keepin; husband of Dilys Keepin, of Morriston, Glamorgan.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019209
Date: 06.07.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of James and Katherine Kiely, of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045513
Date: 14.07.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Robert and Christina Purvis; husband of Blodwen Purvis, of Caerau, Bridgend, Glamorgan.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4209641
Date: 19.07.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab
Son of Willie David and Annie Mary Anthony, of Penybank, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.
Roll of Honour – Sicily.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3910467
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of William John Radford, and of Elizabeth Jane Radford, of Newport, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4187864
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Fusilier Williams was killed in the Skins’ attack on Centuripe which started at dawn on 2 August. The town was taken by 330am on 3 August. The Skins’ fatalities were eight other ranks and four officers. A total of 36 other ranks were wounded.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3783571
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Catania
Corporal Hanley was killed in the Skins’ attack on Centuripe which started at dawn on 2 August. The town was taken by 330am on 3 August. The Skins’ fatalities were eight other ranks and four officers. A total of 36 other ranks were wounded.
Son of Patrick and Bridget Hanley, of Huyton, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4209577
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Catania
Fusilier Williams was killed in the Skins’ attack on Centuripe which started at dawn on 2 August. The town was taken by 330am on 3 August. The Skins’ fatalities were eight other ranks and four officers. A total of 36 other ranks were wounded.
Foster-son of Elizabeth Roberts, of Llanllyfni, Caernarvonshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981811
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Corporal Bates was killed in the Skins’ attack on Centuripe which started at dawn on 2 August. The town was taken by 330am on 3 August. The Skins’ fatalities were eight other ranks and four officers. A total of 36 other ranks were wounded.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985066
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Catania
Fusilier Walsh was killed in the Skins’ attack on Centuripe which started at dawn on 2 August. The town was taken by 330am on 3 August. The Skins’ fatalities were eight other ranks and four officers. A total of 36 other ranks were wounded.
Son of William Henry and Malvina Walsh, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3973004
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Fusilier Dackins was killed in the Skins’ attack on Centuripe which started at dawn on 2 August. The town was taken by 330am on 3 August. The Skins’ fatalities were eight other ranks and four officers. A total of 36 other ranks were wounded.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3971671
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Fusilier Beer was killed in the Skins’ attack on Centuripe which started at dawn on 2 August. The town was taken by 330am on 3 August. The Skins’ fatalities were eight other ranks and four officers. A total of 36 other ranks were wounded.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14201280
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Evan and Elizabeth Wildgoose, of Tintwistle, Cheshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5954754
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Walter and Myfanwy Griffiths, of Pontypridd, Glamorgan.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044889
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Alfred and Eleanor Butler; husband of Elizabeth Butler, of Old Bradwell, Buckinghamshire.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Royal Ulster Rifles Service number: 112985
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Catania
Capt Hanna, who was D Company Commander, died in the attack on Centuripe. William Hanna had been born in Armagh in 1921 and was the youngest of three brothers, the other two boys being Robert and James. William Hanna began his army career at Sandhurst in July 1939 and was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles (RUR) soon after the outbreak of war. During early 1940, 2nd Lieutenant Hanna joined up with the RUR at their depot in Northern Ireland. Hanna was posted to the Faughs on 13 May 1943 after being posted to the British North African Force as a reinforcement. He was promoted to Captain and made second-in-command of A Company. Hanna took over command of D Company after the Tunisian campaign.
Son of Walker and Sue Hanna, of Armagh, Northern Ireland.
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Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3135255
Date: 02.08.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Catania
Son of James and Mary McCrorie, of Muirkirk, Ayrshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: 1st Bn London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014884
Date: 03.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Bone
Son of Henry Ebenezar and Annie Elizabeth Imbush, of Battersea, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3534935
Date: 03.08.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Mrs. R. A. Davies, of Droylsden, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3772693
Date: 03.08.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Charles and Catherine Roberts, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044328
Date: 04.08.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: El Alia, Algeria
Son of Michael and Catherine Enright, of Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4195254
Date: 04.08.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Catania
Fusilier Jones was killed during the crossing of the River Salso north of Centuripe which began on the morning of 4 August.
Son of George and Louisia Jones.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6976602
Date: 04.08.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Catania
Lance Sergeant John Loughrey was killed during the crossing of the River Salso north of Centuripe which began on the morning of 4 August.
Son of Peter and Ellen Loughrey, of Castlederg, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14206440
Date: 04.08.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Margaret Mulcaster, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6019156
Date: 04.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Syracuse
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044644
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of George Frederick and Fanny Elizabeth Steel; husband of Doris Steel, of Warwick.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 279504
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Catania
Lieutenant Morrow was appointed commander of 10 Platoon of A Company, the lead company in the attack on Point 708 at Centuripe on 3 August 1943, just before the attack was launched at 430pm. He was wounded in the head and died soon after.
Son of David and Annie Morrow, of Killyleagh, Co. Down; husband of Marguerite Morrow, of Killyleagh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985571
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 18 Place of burial: Catania
The Irish Brigade attack to cross the River Simeto started at 1030am on 5 August and Fusilier Trainor may have been killed then or died of wounds suffered at the battles for Centuripe or the Salso on 3-4 August.
Son of William and Sarah Trainor, of Castledawson, Co. Londonderry,
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4267945
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Elizabeth Ross; husband of Sarah Ethel Henderson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Rank: Private Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached from Army Catering Corps Service number: 7044723
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Catania
The Irish Brigade attack to cross the River Simeto started at 1030am on 5 August and Rifleman Birch may have been killed then or died of wounds suffered at the battles for Centuripe or the Salso on 3-4 August.
Son of Thomas Gladstone Birch and Evelyn Birch, of Birmingham; husband of Edna Elizabeth Birch, of Acocks Green, Birmingham.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3712674
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Catania
The Irish Brigade attack to cross the River Simeto started at 1030am on 5 August and Lance Corporal Wilde may have been killed then or died of wounds suffered at the battles for Centuripe or the Salso on 3-4 August.
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Wilde, of Thatto Heath, St. Helens, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4198926
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Catania
The Irish Brigade attack to cross the River Simeto started at 1030am on 5 August and Fusilier Way may have been killed then or died of wounds suffered at the battles for Centuripe or the Salso on 3-4 August.
Son of William Thomas Way and Mabel Way; husband of Dorothy Hilda Way, of Malpas, Newport, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from Beds/Herts Regiment Service number: 234061
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Lt Howells was platoon commander in H Company, and was killed leading his men in an attack on a German position on the River Simeto. He was on attachment to the London Irish from the 6th Battalion of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6475374
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Chapman, of Bowes Park, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014596
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Catania
Son of George and Kate Hunt; husband of Mary Jane Hunt, of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6475463
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Samuel and Maud Garratt; husband of Catherine Alma Garratt, of Sandown, Isle of Wight.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6470376
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Catania
Husband of Gertrude Maud Sargeant, of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7012832
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Catania
Son of James and Sarah Ann Hooke, of Belfast; husband of Sarah Jane Hooke, of Belfast.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14206252
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Catania
Son of James and May Curwen, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020159
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Catania
Son of James Patterson, and of Emily Patterson, of Belfast.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018587
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Catania
Son of John and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick; husband of Olive Fitzpatrick, of Weston Favell, Northampton.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5335217
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Thomas and Maggie Mark; husband of Ellen Mark, of Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022284
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Catania
Rifleman Gardiner had lied about his aged to enlist in the British Army in February 1939 with his friend James McCabe who was killed fighting with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers on Stuka Ridge in Tunisia on 26 February 1943.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gardiner, of Dublin.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022289
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Sidney and Ellen Haggerty; husband of Joan Haggerty, of Homerton, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3250205
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Robert and Margaret McCrone; husband of May Hilda McCrone, of Great Oakley, Essex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019509
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Catania
Son of James and Margaret Orr, of Lurgan, Co. Armagh
Rank: Captain Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 172410
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Raymond and Florette A. Allen, of Swinishead, Devon.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018590
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018987
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Son of William and Margaret Stewart Cathcart, of Kells, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5834348
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Arthur William and Ada Ellen Crisp; husband of Mary Mabel Crisp, of Beccles, Suffolk.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3860386
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Harry and Mary Hopkinson, of Burnley, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014324
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018586
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Catania
Son of James and Ellen Eliza Fitzgerald, of Barnsbury, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3596875
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Hugh and Edith Ann Rodden; husband of Jenny Rodden, of Hayes, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019096
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Catania
Son of John and Susanna Mullen, of Lambeg, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043525
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860352
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Michael C. and Laura Gill, of Haslingden, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7014041
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6977098
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Matthew and Bridget McGuinness; husband of Margaret McGuinness, of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6097825
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Ernest and Alice Bee, of Tottenham, Middlesex; husband of Gladys Matilda Bee, of Tottenham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 13097626
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6104417
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Evelyn Hope, of Whitton, Middlesex.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046942
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Peter and Mary Graal; husband of Ethel Graal, of Sneyd Green, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860530
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
433 Charles Plunkett O’Farrell MC
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 85700
Date: 05.08.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Catania
Major O’Farrell was OC of Support Company killed by mortar fire crossing the Salso river. O’Farrell was commissioned into the Faughs and posted to the first battalion in early 1939. He commanded the carrier platoon until the Faughs were evacuated from Dunkirk. O’Farrell was awarded the Military Cross for courage and leadership in Belgium and France. He then commanded Headquarters company until January 1941 when he was made battalion adjutant. In early 1943, O’Farrell was appointed staff captain with the Irish Brigade. He rejoined the Faughs as major just before the invasion of Sicily. O’Farrell was killed when the Faughs’ battalion HQ was shelled around 1300 during crossing of the River Simeto in Sicily.
Son of Ernest Harward Mayhew O’Farrell and Selina Geraldine O’Farrell, of Christian Malford, Wiltshire. His father had also served in the Faughs.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6978214
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Dely Ibrahim, Algeria
Husband of Jacqueline Johnston, of Oxhey, Watford, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7021970
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: 17 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Harold and Emily Scarse.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3784006
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Thomas Henry and Maud Elizabeth Cartledge, of Huyton, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14224700
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Catania
Son of George and Lydia E. Beavis, of Anerley, Kent.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14402260
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Catania
Son of William and Mary Weir, of Clara, King’s Co.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 4074856
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6975419
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Michael and Ellen Watt, of Belfast; husband of Mary Watt, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3596685
Date: 06.08.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Thomas and May Hall; husband of Nellie Mary Hall, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached from Royal Ulster Rifles Service number: 88113
Date: 06.08.43 Age: 28 Place of burial: Catania.
Major Peter Robert Savage was the second son of Ernest Arthur and Lilian Savage of Upper Warlingham, Surrey and husband of Rita Mildred Savage. He went to Oundle School in Northamptonshire and was subsequently employed by Whitebread. Savage was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles on attachment to the London Rifles in 1939. Attached to 6 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in June 1943, Savage commanded C company which was called to the assistance of Royal Irish Fusiliers on the afternoon of 5 August following the crossing of the Simeto River. During the night, Savage was shot accidentally by a fusilier of the Faughs, who mistook his identity.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044047
Date: 07.08.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Catania
Son of George and Emma Worrall, of Ashted, Warwickshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020039
Date: 08.08.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Syracuse
Son of James and Margaret Dooey.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982334
Date: 09.08.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Tripoli
Husband of Edith May (Edie) Shea, of Hackney, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044954
Date: 09.08.1943 Age:30 Place of burial: Catania
Son of John Rowland Roberts and Violet Roberts, of Oakengates, Shropshire; husband of Gladys Evelyn Roberts, of Oakengates.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022088
Date: 09.08.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Syracuse
Son of William and Lydia Elizabeth Bertrand; husband of Jessie Emily Bertrand, of Hampstead, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7902391
Date: 10.08.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7021110
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Catania
Son of George and Elizabeth Purnell, of Bethnal Green, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021679
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6146492
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Charles Frederick and Rose Elizabeth Roberts, of North Kensington, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014471
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Rifleman McRory was killed leading an attack during the battle for Maletto.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7011620
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Catania
Son of John and Mary J. Creaney, of Lurgan, Co. Armagh; husband of Dilys E. Creaney, of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
467 Joseph Gerald Fitzgerald MC
Rank: Major Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 71440
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 39 Place of burial: Catania
Major Fitzgerald, commander of F Company, was killed while crossing open country during the battle for Maletto.
Son of Michael and Agnes Fitzgerald; husband of Kathleen Fitzgerald, of Brackenstown, Co. Dublin, Irish Republic. B.A., LL.B., Solicitor.
An article about Joseph Fitzgerald can be found here
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016207
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Frederick G. and Ellen M. Roffey, of Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14407213
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Thomas and Gertrude Violet Gregory, of Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3771847
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Catania
Son of William George and Margaret E. Jones, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3772078
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Catania
Nephew of Mrs. E. A. Killeen, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044534
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Thomas and Hannah Kennedy; husband of Sarah S. Kennedy, of White Abbey, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3597064
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Catania
Son of John Thomas Jackson and Clara Evelyn Jackson, of Lazonby, Cumberland.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043713
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Catania
Son of William and Jane Martin, of Tyldesley, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14234751
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Catania
Son of William and Sarah Hamlett, of Warrington, Lancashire; husband of Gladys Hamlett, of Warrington.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022697
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Thomas and Emily Holmes, of Belvedere, Kent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14218960
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Arthur Ernest Edwards, and of Elsie May Edwards, of Copperhall, Cheshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045780
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Thomas and Elsie Dixon, of Walsall, Staffordshire; husband of Ellen Florence Dixon, of Delves, Walsall.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044976
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Ernest and Lucy Williams, of Birmingham; husband of Beatrice May Williams, of Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4193474
Date: 12.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4451503
Date: 13.08.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Sarah Ann Graham; husband of Eveline Graham, of Acomb, Northumberland.
Read more about Edward Graham.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 255824
Date: 13.08.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Catania
Lt Bolton was killed in the pursuit towards Randazzo. He joined the Faughs in December 1942 after being commissioned. Bolton was posted temporarily to The Sherwood Foresters but rejoined the Faughs at the end of the Tunisian campaign. He was initially a platoon commander in A Company but was transferred to B Company when it lost most of its officers.
Son of Samuel and Sadie Bolton, of Belfast,.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860405
Date: 13.08.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Catania
Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Baybutt, of Orrell, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3858876
Date: 14.08.1943 Age: Place of burial: Catania
Husband of Agnes Roby, of Orrell, Lancashire
Rank: Lieutenant. Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers attached from Canadian Intelligence Corps Service number:
Date: 14.08.1943. Age: 31. Place of burial: Milan.
Lieutenant Curphey, who was from Nova Scotia in Canada, was captured in February 1943 and died in Italy while a POW.
Son of William Frederick and Violet Emmeline Curphey, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018170
Date: 15.08.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Tripoli
Rifleman Murtagh was a bren gunner in the London Irish attack on Monte Sperina in the final Irish Brigade battle in Sicily. He was hit by shrapnel and died of gangrene infection three days later.
Read more about Rifleman Murtagh here.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044559
Date: 18.08.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Catania
Son of William and Sarah Cooper, of Meir Heath, Stoke-on-Trent.
486a Henry George Cashel Garratt
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 27238
Date: 18.08.1943 Age: 40 Place of burial: Catania
Major Garratt, commander of B Company of the Faughs, was wounded in the pursuit towards Randazzo. Garratt had been commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles on 30 August 1923. He became a reservist in 1926. He was in the US when the war began and returned to serve with the RUR in France. After staff appointments. Garratt returned to the RUR and spent seven months with the London Irish Rifles. He volunteered for service and was attached to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Garratt joined the Faughs on 26 April and was made commander of B Company.
Son of George and Alice Garratt; husband of Cynthia E. Garratt, of Newport, Essex.
Rank: CSM Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7011969
Date: 20.08.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Catania
Son of John James Hill McKee and of Sarah McKee (nee McFarland); husband of Jane Winifred McKee, of Armagh.
Roll of Honour – Termoli to the Moro River.
October 1943.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7047802
Date: 05.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Harry John Edward and Florence Mitchell, of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6399022
Date: 05.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Frederick and Gertrude Groome, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6479464
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Medjez-el-Bab Memorial
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Whitham, of Poplar, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14316764
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Bari
Son of Harry and Annie Fenn, of Rainbow Hill, Worcestershire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044585
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Alfred and Leah Farrow, of Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7047734
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William F. and Florence Timmins, of South Yardley, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6476507
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Husband of Bell Christina Smith, of Stratford, Essex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021338
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Bernard and Eileen Kelly, of Glasthule, Co. Dublin.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3910491
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Richard William and Elizabeth Mabel Morgan, of Resolven, Glamorgan.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016248
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Christopher Parnell Murphy and Mary Jane Murphy; husband of Mollie Peffers Murphy, of Westminster, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3653904
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Stanley and Margaret Alice Peers, of Dovecot, Liverpool.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7023037
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020240
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Samuel and Sarah Jenkins, of Waterside, Londonderry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6472386
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14416670
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Michael P. and Elizabeth Keogh, of Crumlin. Co. Dublin.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044970
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Arthur and Annie Laura Villiers, of Coventry; husband of Mabel Vincey Villiers, of Radford, Coventry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14336468
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860481
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of George and Annie Merryfield; husband of Norah Merryfield, of Elton, Bury, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 555998
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James and Beatrice Beardmore, of Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6470012
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Alfred and Rose Rebecca Dean; husband of Sarah Elizabeth Dean, of Bethnal Green, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5681983
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Foster-son of Agnes Howis, of East Grinstead, Sussex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860604
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Jenkinson, of Pilling, Lancashire: husband of Jenny Jenkinson, of Pilling.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6403015
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Arthur and Hetty Twiss; husband of Margaret Patricia Twiss, of Tooting, Surrey.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7019829
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mrs. Burges Percival, of Sculthorpe, Norfolk.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6107023
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Thomas Frederick and Mary Robinson; husband of Maud Elsie Robinson, of Camberwell. London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3774443
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James and Elizabeth Parker, of West Derby, Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047583
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Ernest and Elizabeth Bedford, of Wem, Shropshire.
Rank: Second Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 297246
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Alfred and Jane Elizabeth White, of Tooting, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14211645
Date: 06.10.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Moffat and Jane McCormack, of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire; husband of Margaret McCormack, of Kilmarnock.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4188233
Date: 08.10.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Roger and Jessie Jones; husband of Sarah Ellen Jones, of Moss, Denbighshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6095090
Date: 10.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Bari
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6976912
Date: 11.10.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Cornelius and Elizabeth O’Regan, of Ballylinch, Baltimore, Co. Cork.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3863095
Date: 12.10.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Rourke, of Warrington, Lancashire; husband of Annie Rourke, of Warrington.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6475457
Date: 15.10.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of William and Mary Arm Freshwater; husband of G. Freshwater.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6148195
Date: 05.10.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Francis and Lucie Belmar, of Wimbledon, Surrey.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3783369
Date: 17.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of F. and Mary Clinch, of West Derby, Liverpool.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022247
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Catherine Byrne; husband of Elizabeth Winifred Mary Byrne.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5831786
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3861569
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John William and Annie Slinger, of Accrington, Lancashire; husband of Elizabeth Slinger, of Accrington.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4201827
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of David Owen, and stepson of Margaret Owen, of Cwm-y-Glo, Caernarvonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022659
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Francis E. and Lettie Bass, of Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860395
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James Lee Allison and Lena Allison; husband of Fanny Allison, of Harle Syke, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6466944
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Robinson, and stepson of Mary Robinson; husband of Clementina Florence Robinson, of Luton, Bedfordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047755
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Walter Douglas Brown and Gladys Brown; husband of Constance Esther Edith Brown, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7020049
Date: 23.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Edward and Ellen Bill, of Belfast; husband of Lily Bill, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5391179
Date: 26.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Bari
Son of Thomas Addis and of Elizabeth Addis (nee Watson), of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7018898
Date: 26.10.1943 Age: 18 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Fred and Sarah Cussell, of Newcastle, Co. Down.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022264
Date: 26.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Walter F. Donnelly, and of Cecilia Donnelly, of Balham, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045472
Date: 26.10.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James and Henrietta Meadows, of Fulham, London; husband of Emily Elizabeth Meadows, of Fulham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5681954
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of James and Caroline Fanny Broadbridge, of Pulborough, Sussex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043573
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Husband of Sarah Orr, of Belfast.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 276398
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Moro River
Lt Marmorstein, an F Company platoon commander, was killed in the assault on San Salvo leading an assault on a machine gun post. He was the son of Rabbi Arthur (Avraham) Marmorstein and Antonia Marmorstein of Golders Green. Rabbi Marmorstein was born in Miscolcz in Hungary and died in London in 1946. He and his wife, who was born in the Ukraine and died in 1969, appear to have arrived in London some time before the start of the First World War.
Son of Arthur Marmorstein and of Antonia Marmorstein (nee Gaster), of Golders Green, Middlesex, England. B.A. (Oxon.).
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3862915
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Bolton Lightburn and Jane Elizabeth Lightburn, of Wallasey, Cheshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3771986
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985763
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Sancton John Brown, and of Caroline Brown, of Desborough, Northamptonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3783558
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Margaret Walls, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5057975
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Plant; husband of B. S. Plant, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046603
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Charles and Alice Ann Cooke, of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Ester Maria Cooke, of Bucknell, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7014099
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mary E. Curran, of Belfast.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6458261
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Charles and Ethel Maud Elizabeth Kidd; husband of Amelia Louisa Kidd, of Camberwell, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7021977
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Charles Edward and Eleanor Warren. of Custom House, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3601141
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Nellie Johnston; husband of Ethel Johnston, of Todmorden, Yorkshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047789
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Charlotte Kelly, of Belfast; husband of Annie Kelly, of Belfast.
Rank: WO II Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3966302
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Robert and Janet Keir, of Cardiff; husband of Eileen Ellen Keir, of Canton, Cardiff.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3973191
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Sydney John and Elizabeth Ruth Lloyd, of Cardiff; husband of Margaret May Lloyd, of Cardiff.
551 Beauchamp Henry Butler DSO
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 17713
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 41 Place of burial: Sangro River
Lt-Col Butler, commander of 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, was killed during the night attack on San Salvo. Butler’s DSO was announced on 18 November 1943.
Son of Charles R. and Ethel E. J. Butler; husband of Vera May Butler, of Clogher, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 268966
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Lieutenant Glennie was shot in the arm when he and his close friend Lawrie Franklyn-Vaile were caught in an exposed position during the Faugh’s unsuccessful attack on Salvo on 27 October. After dressing Glennie’s wound, Franklyn-Vaile was trying to get him back to the rear when Glennie was hit by machine gun fire in the chest. Trapped by machine gun fire, Franklyn-Vaile stayed with Glennie until he died 90 minutes later.
Son of John S. and Dorothy F. Glennie, of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh.
You can read more details here.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Royal Ulster Rifles Service number: 214654
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Sangro River
Major Paddy Proctor of A Company and all his platoon commanders were killed by a mortar bomb during the night attack on San Salvo.
Son of Edward and Martha Proctor; husband of Mary F. Proctor, of Mayford, Woking, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044105
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Albert and Helen Stone, of Bristol; husband of Violet Edith Stone, of Hotwells, Bristol.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022674
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Ernest William and Minnie Childs, of Hackney, London.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7011135
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Samuel and Mary Jackson; husband of Florence May Jackson, of Northfleet, Kent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7014393
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Robert and Mary Shuttleworth, of Alfreton, Derbyshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4341734
Date: 27.10.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of George William and Catherine Smith, of West Hartlepool, Co. Durham; husband of Mary Agnes Smith, of West Hartlepool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6984785
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Bari
Son of Enoch and Harriet Allen; husband of Daisy Allen, of Derby.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7048085
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of Henry and Mary Jane Sharp, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018706
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of Michael and Maud Ryan, of Whitechapel, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3656587
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of William and Elizabeth Clarke, of Liverpool, England.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6350195
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Moro River
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019010
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Moro River
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019086
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of Robert and Rachel Glass, of Belfast.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14418330
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of Archibald Johnston, and of Margaret Johnston, of Glarryford, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020155
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of David and Isabella King, of Moira, Co. Down.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14411470
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Moro River
Foster-son of Michael and Mary Redmond, of Sandycove, Co. Dublin.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3606624
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Wignall, of Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986257
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Charles and Mary Alice Cockayne, of Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3777031
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Henry and Margaret Pritchard; husband of Mary Elizabeth Pritchard, of Orrell, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5439050
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Edward Henry and Sarah Rosetta Gallop, of Cowes, Isle of Wight.
573 Arthur Patrick Kevin O’Connor
Rank: Major Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from KOYLI Service number: 100526
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Educated at Ampleforth and Jesus College Cambridge, Major Arthur (Kevin) O’Connor was appointed second-in-command of the London Irish Rifles in March 1943 following the battalion’s battles in the Bou Arada area. He temporarily took over command of the battalion in August 1943 due to the sickness of its commanding officer Rogers. He was killed at 1000 on 28th Oct by shells during the battle for the River Trigno as he had brought up supplies to the Irish Brigade bridgehead north of the river. The official history of the London Irish Rifles described him thus: “Fearless, a charming and delightful personality, he was held in high esteem by everyone. The great work he did for the battalion he loved so much will live after him. The cross on his soldier’s grave beside the banks of the Trigno bears the simple epitaph: “A Gallant Gentleman.”
Son of Bernard M. and Teresa O’Connor. B.A. (Cantab.): Jesus College.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6092514
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Thompson, of Leatherhead, Surrey. His brother, Frank Richard J. Thompson also fell.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7048080
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6409522
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mathew and Elizabeth Delaney, of Dolphins Barn, Dublin, Irish Republic; husband of Kathleen Delaney, of Crumlin, Dublin.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7017678
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William Jack and Ada Maud Webster, of Highgate, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044773
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Albert John and Mary Ellen James, of Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044583
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Alfred Timothy and Winniefred Esther Farbrother, of Edgbaston, Birmingham; husband of Evelyn Mary Farbrother, of Edgbaston.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 247069
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Sangro River
Major Dennis Dunn of B Company was killed by a shell in the San Salvo bridgehead during the same battle in which Lieutenant John Glennie died (see above).
Son of William and Isabella Dunn, of Belfast; husband of Lucinda Dunn, of Belfast.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3783411
Date: 28.10.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Joseph William and Charlotte Ada Johnson, of Eccleston, Lancashire.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 268967
Date: 29.10.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Charles and Ann Hutchison, of Glasgow.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6472451
Date: 29.10.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4458921
Date: 30.10.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of William and Margaret Ann Oldham; husband of Bessie Oldham, of Church, Accrington, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6479968
Date: 30.10.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William John and Louisa Anscombe, of Northampton.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14414076
Date: 30.10.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Hugh and Mary Henderson, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14379912
Date: 31.10.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of G. P. and Annie Awcock, of Southwick, Sussex.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3604818
Date: 31.10.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Ole Andreas Gilberg and Edith Margaret Gilberg, of Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Marie Cathrine Gilberg, of Gosforth.
November 1943.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3460574
Date: 02.11.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Dinah Thornton, of Blackburn, Lancashire; husband of Betty A. Thornton, of Ewood, Blackburn.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3606735
Date: 02.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James Henry and Florence Hackett, of Turton, Lancashire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044035
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Harry and Alice Jones, of Stafford.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4460407
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John William and Sarah Hannah Slack, of Winsford, Cheshire; husband of Mary Alice Slack, of Winsford.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981365
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of George and Olive Nellie Bishop, of Leicester; husband of Rose E. Bishop, of Leicester.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045009
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Arthur and Henrietta Camp; husband of Eileen Mabel Camp, of Thornwood, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985405
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Patrick and Margaret Byrne, of Dublin City.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 52604
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Brigadier General George Delamain Crocker, C.B., and of Norah Crocker, of Chelsea, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3976749
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14340983
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Albert John and Emma Maud Stanley, of West Heath, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14360249
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Prudence Elizabeth Cooper; husband of Hilda Maud Cooper, Carshalton, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4757736
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William and Selina Wild, of Carlton, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14226110
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Jane Ann Bain, of Burnhaven, Aberdeenshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021409
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Robert and Martha McKimm, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986086
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 180163
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of the Revd. James Marshall Hewitt and Alice Evadne Louise Hewitt, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4209457
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jackson, of Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14415058
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Alexander and Annie Jeffers, of Coagh, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3976765
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William and Mary Jones, of Bodffordd, Anglesey.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045440
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James George and Elizabeth Frances Law; husband of Cecilia Sheila Law, of Bromley, Kent.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7020231
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4458995
Date: 03.11.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Percy and Annie Richardson, of Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire; husband of Irene Richardson, of Hyde.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5954860
Date: 04.11.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Charles Samuel and Jessie Maud Mary Cooper; husband of Ivy May Cooper, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14227372
Date: 04.11.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7047688
Date: 05.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Frederick William and Elsie Harrison, of King’s Norton, Birmingham.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6475368
Date: 05.11.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William H. and Elizabeth Byard, of Abertillery, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3195877
Date: 06.11.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Jessie Jane Reid, of Edinburgh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5682011
Date: 06.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Richard and Catherine Goggin, of Stepney, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14528959
Date: 07.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James John Payne, and of Mary Ann Payne, of Lambeth, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986022
Date: 12.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Hill, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14359289
Date: 12.11.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Padua
Son of Harold and Mabel Lillian Cullern, of Welling, Kent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7019935
Date: 16.11.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Daniel and Annie Mary Daly, of Blaugh, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982317
Date: 20.11.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of George and Lavina Eliza Young; husband of Florence Mary Young, of New Lenton, Nottingham.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14293526
Date: 26.11.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Bone
Son of Michael and Mary Doheny, of Palmers Green, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14218195
Date: 28.11.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860520
Date: 28.11.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Henry and Sarah Samson, of Bolton, Lancashire.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 255823
Date: 28.11.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Lt “Swinger” Smyth was killed by shelling of an ‘O’ Group prior to the Sangro crossing.
Son of William and Flora West Smyth, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 2190664
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Thomas Henry and Florence Roberts; husband of Josephine Roberts, of Limavady, Co. Londonderry.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4745144
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Henry and Francis Broadley, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Thora Broadley, of Leeds.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4192520
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14200801
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 297251
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. George William Feirn; husband of Joyce Feirn, of Flixton, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981579
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John H. and Elsie A. Brown, of Burton-on-Trent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6482151
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Flewers, of Stoke Newington, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5124372
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Maggie Swift, of Wythenshawe, Cheshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021381
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5111287
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Richard James Stallard and Ada Ann Stallard, of Perry Bar, Birmingham. His brother, Pte. Ernest James Reed Stallard, died in England.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7010670
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Joseph and Emily Lindsay, of Lisburn, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045579
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William Fawcett, and of Elizabeth Jane Fawcett, of Sibsey, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985792
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Albert Gordon Lawrence and Mary Lavinia Lawrence, of Ashby, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3718685
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3393995
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James and Sarah Jane Mainwaring, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046784
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Richard Tudor Lewis and Margaret Lewis; husband of Margaret Mary Hilda Lewis, of Handsworth, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7676504
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Husband of Eva May Petford, of Moseley, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14528696
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14537480
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044376
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Edith Ashton; husband of Mary Ashton, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860592
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Henry and Sarah Gossley, of Burnley, Lancashire; husband of Doris Crossley, of Burnley.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14584233
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Sarah Danks; stepson of Kathleen Danks, of Smethwick, Staffordshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3535252
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14397848
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Selina Hemming, of Alcester, Warwickshire; husband of Kathleen Violet Hemming, of Alcester.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045603
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of George Henry and Rose Emma Heppenstall; husband of Doris Edna Heppenstall, of Boston, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3913841
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 32 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William Henry and Ethel Nicholas, of Newport, Monmouthshire; husband of Caroline Ivy Nicholas, of Newport.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3240113
Date: 29.11.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7044490
Date: 30.11.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanton, of Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3783037
Date: 30.11.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Walter and Mary Ann Hall, of Horwich, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016294
Date: 30.11.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Waillaim and Margaret Ann King, of Fordyce, Portsoy, Banffshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981860
Date: 30.11.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John George and Beatrice Huntingdon, of Sheffield; husband of Irene May Huntingdon, of Darnall, Sheffield.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14200872
Date: 30.11.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Thomas and Hannah Jones, of Llanelidan, Denbighshire.
December 1943.
Rank: Private Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached from ACC Service number: 6981834
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Edward Herbert and Ethel Chinn; husband of Frances Annie Chinn, of Stretton, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6979828
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mark and Margaret Duff, of Belfast.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached from Lincolnshire Regiment Service number: 65774
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of the Revd. Joseph Arthur Bunch and Lila Bunch, of East Twickenham, Middlesex husband of Vera Evelyn Bunch, of Congleton, Cheshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022493
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 18 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Robert George and Eliza Jane Coggle, of Belfast.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14409976
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Thomas J. and Elizabeth Coughlan, of Paddington, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3915518
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Husband of Rachel Eleanor Jones, of Consett, Co. Durham.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014833
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Ernest and Ivy Oakley, of Clapham Common, London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6980029
Date: 01.12.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Moro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3393949
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of William Anderson, and of Rhoda Anderson, of Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 13053095
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mawhinney, of Greyabbey, Co. Down.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7959570
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Moro River
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5834380
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14380041
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Francis Samuel and Rose Emily Kingston; husband of Kathleen Kingston.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14316863
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Thomas Ward and Ethel Ward, of Bradeley, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Company Quarter Master Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018576
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020131
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Joseph Best and of Margaret Best (nee Nelson), of Lisburn, Co. Antrim; husband of Georgina Best (nee Dodds), of Lisburn.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022214
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Bingham, of Belfast.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021412
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Thomas and Elisabeth Hull; husband of Barbara Hull, of Ivybridge, Devon.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14580308
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Frank and Florence Cowan, of Edmonton, Middlesex; husband of Ivy Lillian May Cowan, of Edmonton.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6020264
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 26 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Thomas and Esther Grace Storr, of Boston, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982454
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James and Fanny Martin, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Jessie Collinson Martin, of Grimsby.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045181
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Joseph and Maggie Bennett, of Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047854
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Sangro River
Husband of Evelyn Anthony, of Selly Oak, Birmingham.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6974833
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 37 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James and Fanny Martin, of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; husband of Jessie Collinson Martin, of Grimsby.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860472
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Pte. Henry Maden, Canadian Inf. (New Brunswick Regt.), died of wounds in France, 8th October, 1918, and of Sarah Maden, of Bacup, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5954971
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Winston Holmes; husband of Joan Holmes, of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 265919
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Lt Day was killed at St Vito. He was recommended unsuccessfully for a posthumous VC.
Son of Richard and Agnes Day; nephew of Mrs. C. N. O’Brien, of Epsom Downs, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14588742
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14552025
Date: 02.12.1943 Age: 19 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Samuel and Lily Roberts, of Salford, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3195650
Date: 03.12.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John Thomas Smith and Sarah Ann Smith; husband of Gladys Smith, of Bramley, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3776463
Date: 03.12.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Grange and Ethel Carter, of Stacksteads, Bacup, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 2721340
Date: 03.12.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Owen and Rose Treanor, of Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4205660
Date: 03.12.1943 Age: Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982760
Date: 03.12.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Lewis and Cathleen Porter, of Upper Ballysillan, Belfast.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982297
Date: 03.12.1943 Age: 30 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Charles and Ethel Watts, of Staveley, Derbyshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019584
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 35 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William John Smillie and of Mary Smillie (nee McGowan), of Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5340322
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Henry and Emily Morris; husband of Ivy Morris, of Stoke, Kent.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 130174
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 27 Place of burial: Sangro River
Major “Tommy” Wood was killed in the advance to the Moro River.
Son of Brigadier-General Philip Richard Wood, C.B., C.M.G., and Ethel Wood; husband of Jocelyn Maud Wood, of Hemsworth, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14579002
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Charles Robert and Ruth Lane; husband of Doris Rose Lane, of Islington, London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7048077
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047855
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 23 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Thomas Lawrence Aston and Hilda Jane Aston, of Foleshill, Warwickshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046340
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 34 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7364848
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Hilda Margaret Watson, and stepson of Henry Jones, of Wavertree, Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022813
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 36 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William and Amy Eliza Cooper; husband of Winifred Maud Cooper, of Wood Green. Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 13011982
Date: 04.12.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Robert and Edith Henderson, of Belfast; husband of Henrietta Grace Henderson, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3777322
Date: 05.12.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Hans Christopher and Elizabeth Johansen, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985959
Date: 05.12.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Mrs. L. B. Richmond, of Holbeach, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Service number: 14220205
Date: 05.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Cornelus Henry and Florence Barfoot, of Enfield, Middlesex.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046200
Date: 10.12.1943 Age: 33 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of James and Lily Bird; husband of Bridget Bird, of Coventry.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from RAMC Service number: 239142
Date: 17.12.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Douglas H. and Agnes M. Lang, of Glasgow. M.B., Ch.B.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015915
Date: 28.12.1943 Age: 24 Place of burial: Bari
Son of Frederick John and Violet Chance; husband of Dorothy Evelyn Chance, of Southall, Middlesex.
Roll of Honour – The Apennines to Trasimene.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6348958
Date: 28.12.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of James and Mary Ann Adamson, of Hampstead, London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: 2nd Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 13095559
Date: 28.12.1943 Age: 29 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of John and Julia Hammond; husband of Eliza May Hammond, of Mackworth, Derbyshire.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 249845
Date: 30.12.1943 Age: 31 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Nicholas and Anastatia Beglin, of Dublin City.
To read Captain Beglin’s story, please click here.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Service number: 7020110
Date: 30.12.1943 Age: 25 Place of burial: Moro River
Husband of Lillian Marshall, of South Shields, Co. Durham, England.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14414720
Date: 31.12.1943 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of William and Ellen Carter; nephew of Mary Giff, of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021542
Date: 31.12.1943 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of Walter George and Annie Amelia Frost, of Forest Gate, Essex.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045159
Date: between 31/12/43 and 04/01/44 Age: 28 Place of burial: Moro River
Cpl Paddy Sullivan died at Capracotta.
Son of John and Mary Sullivan, of Glengarriff, Co. Cork.
January 1944.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860470
Date: 13.01.1944….listed as 13.01.1943 Age: 28 Place of burial: Massicault
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Border Regiment Service number: 240676
Date: 17.01.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Bari
Capt Wilkins died from wounds suffered in the advance to the Moro river. He had previously earned a DSO when he managed to get a mule train with ammunition through despite being wounded himself.
Son of John George and Gertrude Margaret Wilkin, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5886994
Date: 19.01.1944 Age: 32 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Rifleman Bradbury, a member of E Company, was killed in the surprise German attack near Montenero on the morning of 19 January 1944 (see full account in war diaries).
Son of Frances Bradbury; husband of Kathleen Bradbury, of Spondon, Derbyshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14217299
Date: 19.01.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Rifleman Cullen, a member of E Company, was killed in the surprise German attack near Montenero on the morning of 19 January 1944 (see full account in war diaries).
To read Rifleman Cullen’s story, please click here.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5954980
Date: 19.01.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rifleman Slevin, a member of E Company, was killed in the surprise German attack near Montenero on the morning of 19 January 1944.
Son of Thomas and Kathleen Slevin; husband of Marjorie Slevin, of Watford, Hertfordshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020963
Date: 19.01.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Rifleman Smith, a member of E Company, was killed in the surprise German attack near Montenero on the morning of 19 January 1944.
Son of William and Rachel Smith, of Dagenham, Essex.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7017676
Date: 19.01.1944 Age: 30 Place of burlal: Sangro River
Lance Corporal Webb, a member of E Company, was killed in the surprise German attack near Montenero on the morning of 19 January 1944.
Son of Harry and Elizabeth Webb, of Mill Hill, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020219
Date: 20.01.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Sangro River
Son of William and Elizabeth Kirkland, of Collone, Co. Armagh.
February 1944.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6982367
Date: 23.02.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Naples
Son of Walter and Emma Todd; husband of Irene L. Todd, of Lewisham, London.
March 1944.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14400875
Date: 13.03.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Caserta
Son of Robert and Eleanor Nugent, of Birkenhead.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14434909
Date: 23.03.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6480244
Date: 24.03.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Geoffrey Clifford Tyndale and Adelaide Tyndale, of Kensington, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7045003
Date: 30.03.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Henry James Bryan and Florence May Bryan; husband of Betty Doris Bryan, of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981943
Date: 30.03.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Edward and Mary Delaney.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7013179
Date: 30.03.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
Husband of R. McWilliams, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044297
Date: 31.03.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hawkes, of Swindon, Wiltshire.
April 1944.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14600086
Date: 01.04.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of John Andrew and Emily Wasley; husband of Doris Evelyn Wasley, of West Molesey, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14568367
Date: 05.04.1944 Age: 35 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Robert and Annie Douglass; husband of Alexandra May Douglass, of Streatham, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5669638
Date: 05.04.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Durbin and Beatrice Wyatt, of Bath, Somerset; husband of Violet Irene Sylvia Wyatt, of Widcombe, Bath.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14528719
Date: 17.04.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3132822
Date: 07.04.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of George William and Margaret Jane Ann Barrett, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3783539
Date: 08.04.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Thomas and Frances Gilliland, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14424520
Date: 08.04.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of George and Christina Habington, of Dublin; husband of Annie Habington, of Dublin.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044990
Date: 08.04.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Eli John and Elizabeth Henrietta Apling, of Bow, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7015490
Date: 08.04.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Husband of Margaret Lyttle, of Portadown, Co. Armagh.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3915515
Date: 08.04.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Richard William and Ethel Margaret Hull, of Cardiff.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018439
Date: 10.04.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14571496
Date: 16.04.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of John William and Jane Williamson, of Acton, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7047929
Date: 16.04.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Ashfield; husband of M. R. Ashfield, of Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986279
Date: 16.04.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Giuseppe Primo Marzorati and Ida Maria Marzorati; husband of Muriel Marzorati, of Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7044926
Date: 17.04.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of John William and Elizabeth Jane Hollinshead, of Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Elizabeth Hollinshead, of Tunstall.
Rank; Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7016884
Date: 17.04.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Albert and Rosina Howard, of Wood Green, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14202593
Date: 17.04.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of William Henry and Adelaide Maude Heaton, of Armley, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14236142
Date: 17.04.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of William Alfred and Edith Emmie France, of Clive, Shropshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14228364
Date: 24.04.1944 Age: 32 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Peter and Sara Dorriss; husband of Julia Mary Dorriss, of Tralee, Co. Kerry.
May 1944.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043810
Date: 08.05.1944 Age: 37 Place of burial: Caserta
Son of Joseph and Catherine Montague, of Belfast; husband of Kathleen T. Montague, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3195580
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Bainbridge was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Benjamin and Isabella Bainbridge, of Chirnside, Berwickshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3524671
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Southworth was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Arthur and Ellen Southworth, of Blackburn, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 1500074
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Ellison was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Thomas and Frances Ellison, of Hyde, Cheshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7021109
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Cpl Allen was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Ernest Robert and Florence Roberta Allen, of Woodford Green, Essex
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14401888
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Johnston was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Samuel and Phoebe Johnston, of Belfast, Northern Ireland; husband of Agnes Johnston, of Belfast.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers attached from The Middlesex Regiment Service number: 255800
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Lt Milner was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Joseph William and Elizabeth Jane Milner, of Harrow, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6980314
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 26 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Cormican was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Andrew and Mary Cormican, of Crumlin, Co. Antrim,
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14588748
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Moore was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983246
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Elliott was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Thomas H. and Margaret Elliott, of Belfast.; husband of Jennie Elliott, of Belfast.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14418439
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Cassino
L/Cpl Rollins was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of George and Lena Rollins, of Ardtrea, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7018185
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Cpl Milligan was killed in the assault on Monte Tamburrini and Point 86.
Son of Francis and Sarah Milligan; husband of Lily Doreen Milligan, of Stonehouse, Plymouth.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3775900
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino
Harold Henshaw was in E Company and killed in the battle for Sinagoga on 15 May 1944.
Son of Charles and Martha Jane Henshaw, of Dingle, Liverpool.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14215600
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Rank : Company Sergeant Major Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7011863
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016254
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of William H. and Mary A. Roberts; husband of Beatrice Lilian Roberts, of Ashton Gate, Bristol.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021698
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Corporal Williams was in E Company.
Son of Joseph John and Agnes Octavia Williams, of Acton, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6204277
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14381453
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of John and Agnes Hutt; nephew of Mrs. Law, of Desford, Leicestershire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7012007
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Trotter; husband of Mary Elizabeth Trotter, of West Brompton, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021058
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Samuel George and Agnes Jackson, of Bally Duff, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 177895
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Lieutenant Michael Clark was a platoon commander in H Company in its attack on Sinagoga on 16 May 1944 where he died.
Son of Thomas John Chown Clark and Catherine Clark, of Northend, Turville, Buckinghamshire. B.A. Hons. (Cantab.) Christ’s College.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3783833
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of George and Ellen Dean, of Liverpool.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14397137
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Thomas George and Eleanor Spain; husband of Maud Amelia Spain.
Rank: Lieut Colonel Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from Kings (Liverpool) Regiment Service number: 111
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 42 Grave: Cassino
Commander of the 2nd Battalion. Lt-Col Goff was killed by shells while holding an operations group on the afternoon of 15 May in preparation for the attack on Sinagoga. The attack was postponed until 9am the next day. In Fling Our Banner to the Wind (1978), John Coldwell-Horsfall provided a vivid description of Goff’s character, based on his perspective in March 1944 soon after he was appointed second-in-command of the 2nd battalion: “Ion was a lot older than the rest of us, and was a pre-war regular several years beyond Pat’s (Brigadier Scott’s) vintage. Aged forty-two, he had, I think, the wretched assignment of being on the staff in Malta until recently, and in consequence had missed the experience so far of more active operations. He was a very charming man and no one could have given a kinder welcome than he did to me that evening (16 March 1944). In his person, he possessed the ideal temperament for coping with our riflemen.”
Son of Ewen Cameron Goff and of Ellen Clara Goff (nee Constable); husband of Dorothea June Goff (nee Taylor), of Kensington, London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3909409
Date: 15.05.1944 Age: 26 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of George Crossley Harrison and Beatrice Louise Harrison.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14309952
Date: 16.5.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Ernest William and Edith Farmelo, of Purton, Wiltshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3194789
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Elizabeth Connell; husband of Grace Miller Connell, of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6980688
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Charles and Mary Smith, of Londonderry.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14336751
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 37 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Jim and Elizabeth Meldrum; husband of Irene Meldrum, of Greenford, Middlesex.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7014328
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of John and Bridget O’Reilly, of Arva, Co. Cavan.
Click here to read Corporal O’Reilly’s story.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14581978
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Mrs. E. Wilson, of Holloway, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14622920
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Richard and Mary Anastasia Duncan; husband of Elizabeth Duncan, of Plumstead Common, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6200158
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7015959
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Henry and Deborah Mayo; husband of Mary Elsie Mayo, of Dagenham, Essex.
You can read Sgt Mayo’s story here.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020813
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022637
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of David and Catherine Fitzgerald, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022505
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial.
Son of George and Elizabeth Ann Barnes, of Three-Mile-House, Co. Monaghan.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021342
Date: 16.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial.
Son of Edmund and Maria Bell, of Belfast.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981916
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
L/Cpl Williamson was killed in the assault on Piumarola.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982623
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Cassino
Fusilier Moss was killed in the assault on Piumarola.
Son of Samuel and Ellen Moss; husband of Babs Moss, of Balham, London.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981913
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Cpl Williams was killed in the assault on Piumarola.
Son of William and Alice Williams; husband of Annie Williams, of Newtownards, Co. Down.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14200837
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of William Thomas Hill and Catherine Hill, of Buckley, Cheshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6096721
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Nephew of J. Wratten, of Folkestone.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022224
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Joseph and Catherine Brodie; husband of Louise May Brodie, of Norwich.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3862537
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Joseph and Mary Jane Stoddart, of Burnley, Lancashire.
Rank : Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 149084
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 33 Place of burial: Cassino
Major Franklyn-Vaile, CO “C” Company, was killed during the advance to Piumarola.
Son of Thomas Guy Vaile and Violette Beryl Jane Vaile; husband of Olive Franklyn-Vaile, of Blackburn, Victoria, Australia.
To read Major Franklyn-Vaile’s story, please click on the link here.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14379094
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Herbert Vincent and Rose Hilda Dugdale of Bognor Regis.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3860474
Date: 17.05.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3910646
Date: 22.05.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Ernest and Hannah Bowen, of Newport, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14203073
Date: 22.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Gerard Keegan was promoted to platoon sergeant in E Company following the fighting for Sinagoga and Piumarola. He was killed by German shellfire during a halt in the Irish Brigade advance along the Liri Valley.
Son of Thomas and W. Keegan, of Heywood, Lancashire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14203191
Date: 22.05.1944 Age of Date: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Robert and Emily Gadd, of Harpurhey, Manchester.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14381009
Date: 22.05.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of James William and Bridget Duckworth, of Liverpool.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14359742
Date: 23.05.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of John Clifford and Alice Lilian Smith, of Epsom, Surrey.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14280625
Date: 25.05.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Eva Maud Snelgrove, and stepson of Charles William Tucker, of South Norwood, Surrey.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3711835
Date: 25.05.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Robert and Hilda Clarke; husband of Elsie Clarke, of Heysham, Morecambe, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021802
Date: 25.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Thomas Alfred and Alice Beatrice Fry, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047746
Date: 25.05.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Mrs. R. Francis, of Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047113
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of John Henry and Elizabeth Ann Ravenscroft, of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Millicent Ravenscroft, of Fenton.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044456
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Reuben and Mary Gertrude Lowe; husband of Florence Lowe, of Quarry Bank, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045675
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 32 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Griffith and Annie Edwards, of Coytrahene, Glamorgan; husband of Annie Irene Edwards.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045615
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Herbert and Beatrice Johnson, of Nottingham; husband of Kathleen Johnson, of Nottingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5341868
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7016078
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of David and Janet Cameron; foster-son of Barbara Robinson, of Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044319
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Richard and Elizabeth Wilson, of Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14512173
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Robert Walter and Victoria May Elizabeth Ferchal, of Carshalton, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5672388
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of William and Gertrude Davis, of Dorchester, Dorsetshire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14304468
Date: 27.05.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of William John and Charlotte Marchant, of Hessle, Yorkshire. B.A.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047726
Date: 29.05.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Arthur and Jennie Storer, of Sparkhill, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985836
Date: 29.05.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of William and E. Wright, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7012887
Date: 30.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Patrick J. Byrne, and of Brigid Byrne, of Dublin City.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983631
Date: 30.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Naples
Son of Robert and Agnes McGaw, of Ballyward, Co. Down.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 1773951
Date: 30.05.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Cassino
Husband of Constance Bignell, of Isleworth, Middlesex.
June 1944.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6976967
Date: 01.06.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Cassino
Son of Matthew and Mary A. Girr, of Omagh, Co. Tyrone; husband of Kathleen Girr, of Omagh.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14639395
Date: 07.06.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino
Rifleman Smoothy was killed when his jeep was blown up by a mine in the advance north of Rome.
Son of Alfred and Emma Elizabeth Smoothy, of Finsbury, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7013397
Date: 07.06.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Cassino
Rifleman Long was killed when his jeep was blown up by a mine in the advance north of Rome.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016785
Date: 07.06.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino
L/Cpl Isley was killed when his jeep was blown up by a mine in the advance north of Rome.
Son of Walter Oliver Isley and Ada Frances Isley; husband of Genevieve Mary Isley, of Whitby, Yorkshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3663305
Date: 07.06.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Cassino
Rifleman Edwards was killed when his jeep was blown up by a mine in the advance north of Rome.
Son of William and Kathleen Edwards, of Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6148440
Date: 13.06.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of Ellen Cullagh; husband of Mary Cullagh, of Newtown, Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7020426
Date: 14.06.1944 Age: 39 Place of burial: Bolsena
Husband of Kathleen Ellen Finch, of Chelsea, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14437314
Date: 14.06.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of William James Crumley and Rachel Crumley, of Currin, Co. Fermanagh.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14243939
Date: 14.06.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of James and Johanna Mahoney, of Toem, Co. Limerick.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 1687795
Date: 14.06.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of John Alfred and Elizebeth Young, of Romford, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7042958
Date: 19.06.1944 Age: 40 Place of burial: Bolsena
Son of Charles and Eliza Hallett, of Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, husband of Muriel Grace Hallett, of Lyme Regis.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6978669
Date: 19.06.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of William John and Mary Bovaird, of Belfast; husband of Margaret Mary Bovaird, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14568122
Date: 19.06.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of Albert and Ann Taylor; husband of Nellie Taylor, of Emscote, Warwickshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6481598
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Assisi
Rifleman Jones was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Charles Arthur and Florence Jones; husband of Kathleen Jones, of Lincoln.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 994914
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Assisi
Rifleman Coster was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of William and Charlotte Coster, of Stepney, London; husband of Elizabeth Coster, of Stepney.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 15266788
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Assisi
Rifleman Sharpe was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Ernest and Lucy Sharpe, of Driffield, Yorkshire; husband of Dorothy Sharpe, of Driffield.
Rank: Private Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached from ACC Service number: 6337461
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 38 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14553528
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached from Royal Ulster Rifles Service number: 304137
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: Place of burial: Orvieto
Lt Roche was killed in the attack on Pucciarelli.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7047714
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: Place of burial: Orvieto
Cpl Onions was killed in the attack on Pucciarelli.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3912044
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Orvieto
L/Cpl Wanklyn was killed in the attack on Pucciarelli.
Son of George Wanklyn, and of Emma Wanklyn, of Trinant, Crumlin, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984348
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier McLaughlin was killed in the attack on Pucciarelli.
Son of Mrs. E. McLaughlin of Coleraine, Co. Londonderry.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7014089
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier McCreary was killed in the attack on Pucciarelli.
Son of James and Margaret McCreary, of Dublin.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 5674895
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier England was killed in the attack on Pucciarelli.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14339212
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier Algar was killed in the attack on Pucciarelli.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020667
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Wilson was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of John Wilson and of Sarah Wilson (nee Hayes), of Rasharkin, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 1695075
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Higginson was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Tom and Mary Higginson, of Widnes, Lancashire; husband of Lilian Higginson, of Widnes.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6473719
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Lewis was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Walter and Annie Lewis.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 1775337
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Burt was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14209959
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Woods was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Alfred Sidney and Edith Rosina Woods, of Horfield, Bristol.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14336418
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Godfrey was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of William Albert and Lilian Godfrey; husband of Elsie Godfrey, of Clapton, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14373685
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Marsden was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of James and Kathleen Marsden, of Southey, Sheffield.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 1786301
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Boston was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Arthur John and Daisy Elizabeth Boston, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020431
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Swallow was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. V. W. R. Swallow, of Combe Down, Bath, Somerset.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022387
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Orvieto
Cpl Roberts was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of William Morris Roberts and Annie Roberts, of Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 56883105
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Griffiths was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Ellen Griffiths, of Washford, Somerset.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5834397
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 33 Place of burial: Orvieto
L/Cpl Marsh was killed in the attack on San Fatucchio.
Son of Renford John and Rhoda Marsh, of Cherry Hinton, Cambridge; husband of Beatrice Amy Marsh, of Cambridge.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers attached to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 300366
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: Place of burial: Orvieto
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached to the London Irish Rifles. Service number: 100468
Date: 21.06.1944 Age: 26 Place of burial: Orvieto
A Lieutenant in H Company of the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles, Lt Dunseath was killed at the head of his platoon in the attack on the crossroads north of Sanfatucchio.
Son of William Thomas Dunseath, and of Margaret Jane Dunseath, of Woodford Green, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14222176
Date: 22.06.1944 Age: 35 Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier Murray was killed on Pucciarelli ridge.
Son of John and Nora Murray, of Cork.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6975426
Date: 22.06.1944 Age: 37 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Merron was killed on Pucciarelli ridge.
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Rank: Company Sergeant Major Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7010877
Date: 23.06.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Bolsena
Son of Robert and Mary Ann Gordon; husband of Olive Gordon, of Strabane, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14435402
Date: 23.06.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier Nelson was killed on Pucciarelli ridge.
Son of James and Margret Nelson, of Upperlands, Co. Londonderry,
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14416549
Date: 23.06.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Orvieto
Rifleman Neill was killed on Pucciarelli ridge.
Son of William and Annie Neill, of Mountpottinger, Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14574460
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier McDonnell was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of Patrick McDonnell, and of Margaret McDonnell, of Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7021922
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of Frank Harvey Verrinder and Isabella Verrinder, of Croydon, Surrey.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14335101
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Orvieto
Son of Thomas and Priscilla Parsons, of West Molesey, Surrey; husband of Florence Alice Ethel Parsons, of West Molesey.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6476827
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Orvieto
Husband of N. D. Pearce, of Romsey, Hampshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14584287
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier Williams was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of Norman Richard and Margaret Ellen Williams, of Harlescott, Shropshire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044565
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Orvieto
Cpl Clement was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of Harry and Marion Clement, of West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044545
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier Allen was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of William and Gertrude Allen; husband of Frances Annie Allen, of Swindon, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3608103
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Orvieto
Fusilier Marsh was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of Frederick Sutton Marsh and Jane Marsh, of Morecambe, Lancashire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046094
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 33 Place of burial: Orvieto
L/Cpl McMullan was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of Mathew and Elizabeth McMullan, of Saintfield, Co. Down; husband of Alice McMullan, of Saintfield.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14222205
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 33 Place of burial: Orvieto
Cpl Tuffey was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of James and Jane Tuffey; husband of Ethel Frances Tuffey, of Ruislip, Middlesex.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047534
Date: 24.06.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Orvieto
Cpl Brown was killed in the attacks on Pescia and Ranciano.
Son of Alice Mary Brown, and stepson of John Collier; husband of May Brown, of Welford, Northamptonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14565824
Date: 25.06.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Bolsena
Son of William Horace and Matilda Taylor, of Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
July 1944.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 996739
Date: 05.07.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Naples
Son of Eber and Elizabeth Edwards, of Blaenavon, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047367
Date: 07.07.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Naples
Son of James and Ellen Kennedy, of Lisnaskea. Co. Fermanagh.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984215
Date: 11.07.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Caserta
Son of Edith Pidgeon; nephew of Mrs. E. J. Cooper, of Portadown, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Roll of Honour – High Apennines.
October 1944.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046077
Date: 08.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of William and Maria Hall, of Portadown, Co. Armagh.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14416962
Date: 08.10.1944 Age: 18 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of William and Mary Cairns, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981965
Date: 09.10.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Husband of Emily Jones, of Bangor, Co. Down.
Rank: Company Sergeant Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5723977
Date: 19.10.1944 Age: 35 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
CSM Crowley of B Company was killed during the Faughs’ night attack on Monte Spaduro. A regular, he had served through all the 1st Battalion’s campaigns in Belgium and France, Tunisia, Sicily and Italy.
Son of Patrick and Mary Crowley; husband of Lily Crowley, of Ashley, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14596331
Date: 19.10.1944 Age: 36 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of George and Eliza Hodson; husband of Irene Beatrice Hodson, of Perry Barr, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14203845
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Bologna
Son of Frederick Walter and Louisa Jane Turner, of Enfield, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983712
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of John and Mary McCabe, of Castle Clayney, Co. Monaghan.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5052885
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Husband of Violet Evans, of Erdington, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7023038
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of James and Rose Johnston, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046696
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of Michael and Bridget Muldoon, of Long Lawford, Warwickshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5682839
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of George Richard and Mabel Winder; nephew of Mrs. E. Winder, of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022324
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Charles Martin Murphy and Alice Eleanor Murphy, of Carshalton, Surrey.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5834087
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Harry and Emily Fisher; husband of E. Joan Fisher, of Coggeshall, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046190
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 36 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Batty was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of George and Anne Batty; husband of Jessie Batty, of Yoxall, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 13030073
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Webber was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of William James Webber and Selina Webber, of Bristol; husband of Marion Webber, of Lower Easton, Bristol.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047788
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Jones was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of Harold Norman Joseph and Florence Melita Jones, of Aldridge, Staffordshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14379106
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Holmes was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of Henry and Gertrude Holmes; husband of Frances Patricia Holmes, of Worcester Park, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 1813331
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier White was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of George and Rose May White, of Lower Edmonton, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14440500
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Haveron was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of Dorothy Elizabeth Haveron, of Larne Harbour, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6981901
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Cpl Smith was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14425414
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 19 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Smith was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of Joseph and Ann Jane Smith, of Belfast; nephew of Agnes Ritchie, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14381399
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Baird was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of Harold James Baird and Mary Baird.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14227778
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 32 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
A bren-gunner in A Company, Fusilier Royle was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro. Colin Gunner in his book ‘Front of the Line’ described him as “small and bespectacled” and a Geordie.
Son of John and Mary Royle, of Sale, Cheshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 11269356
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier McCulloch was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of William Francis and Hannah McCulloch, of Liverpool.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7046131
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Sgt Elliott was killed with Major Crehan in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro. He was found later with nine others of A Company – fighting to the last.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Service number: Cdn/121
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 35 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Major Crehan was transferred from The Irish Fusiliers of Canada to command A Company of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the summer of 1944. He was killed in a German counterattack during the Irish Brigade’s first attack on Monte Spaduro.
Son of Matthew Joseph and Mercy Ellen Crehan, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; husband of Pamela Crehan, of Vancouver.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 5953364
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Burchett was killed in the initial attack on Monte Spaduro. The stretcher bearer in B Company of the Faughs later wrote: “We had a very rough time, my mate Fusilier Burchett while carrying a wounded comrade was hit by shellfire only to die in a few minutes…” (Fling Our Banner to the Wind, Page 207).
Son of Henry Charles and Harriet Jane Burchett.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022827
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 37 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Cpl Gallagher was killed in the initial Faughs’ night attack on Mt Spaduro. He was member of D Company and a veteran of all the Faughs’ campaigns.
Son of Patrick James Gallagher and Mary Gallagher, of Inver, Co. Donegal.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6469376
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Manning was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of Harry and Annie Manning, of New Maldens Surrey.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047274
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Cpl Murphy was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro. He was a veteran of all the Faughs’ Second World War campaigns, and was a member of D Company.
Son of William and Sarah Louise Murphy; husband of Jenny Murphy, of Workington, Cumberland.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14205074
Date: 20.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Fusilier Jenkins was killed in the initial attack on Mt Spaduro.
Son of David Charles and Winifred Ethel Jenkins, of Caerleon, Monmouthshire.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14205733
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Lance Sergeant Janes was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) Service number: 334481
Date: 21.10.44 Age: 29 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Lt Thompson was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Son of Charlie and Dorothy Thompson; husband of Margaret B. Thompson, of Didsbury, Manchester.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6460643
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Cpl Gage was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 992905
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Rifleman Galligan was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Son of Thomas and Mary Galligan; husband of Helen Caroline Galligan, of Runcorn, Cheshire.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles, seconded from South African Armoured Corps Service number: 250904V
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Lieutenant Cramb, a South African volunteer and university graduate, was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944. He was standing by Lieutenant Nicholas Mosley when he called out: “God have mercy on my soul,” and then fell and died (Time at War, Nicholas Mosley). He was the son of Percival and Olga Cramb of Pretoria.
Son of Percival W. W. and Olga V. R. Cramb, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. B.A.
Rank: Second Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles attached from The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) Service number: 334482
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Second Lieutenant Bryning was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Son of James and Jane Bryning, of Fallowfield, Manchester; husband of Janet Bryning.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7019574
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Rifleman Blair was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Blair, of Larne, Co. Antrim.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14437714
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Rifleman Murphy was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Son of Harry and Emily Fisher; husband of E. Joan Fisher, of Coggeshall, Essex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14334661
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Rifleman Eaton was killed in a night attack on Casa Spinello on 21 October 1944.
Son of Frederick and Lilian Eaton, of Devonport.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7022662
Date: 21.10.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
L/Cpl Borrett was killed in the attack on Mt Spaduro. After being wounded, he crawled two miles to return, but died a few hours later, according to Fling Our Banner to the Wind (page 208).
Son of Thomas and Florence Maud Borrett, of Haggerston, Shoreditch, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6482037
Date: 22.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Rifleman Collins was killed in the attacks on Hill 387/Casa Spalara/Casa Spinello.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Collins, of Harringay, Middlesex.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018766
Date: 23.10.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of John and Annie Long; husband of Gladys Ivy Long, of Wallington, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981167
Date: 23.10.1944 Age: 26 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Charles and Della Hughes, of Hollywood, Worcestershire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5672564
Date: 23.10.1944 Age: 24 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of George P. and Mary Ellen Birkett, of Limehouse, London.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3782728
Date: 23.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Thomas Frederick and Sarah Anne Ward, of Kelsall, Cheshire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14639387
Date: 23.10.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Frederick Thomas Pritchard and Jessie Lydia Victoria Pritchard, of Walworth, London.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: London Irish Rifles, seconded from South African Armoured Corps Service number: 20288V
Date: 23.10.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
A South African officer, Lieutenant Bruckmann was killed in a minefield with his company commander Ronald Boyd (see below) while advancing to Casa Spinello which had been taken the previous day by an E Company platoon the previous day.
Son of Henry O. and Eva D. Bruckmann, of Cape Town, South Africa.
Rank: Major Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 62663
Date: 23.10.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Major Boyd joined the London Irish Rifles from the Royal Ulster Rifles following the Battle of Cassino. He was appointed commander of E Company to replace Mervyn Davies, who had been wounded in the left arm and in the leg in the successful attack on Casa Spinello the previous day.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981644
Date: 24.10.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of George William and Ada Riley; husband of Winifred Riley, of Tibshelf, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6983043
Date: 24.10.1944 Age: 32 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of George and Mary Kinsman; husband of Ivy Brenda Kinsman.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020308
Date: 25.10.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
E Company Sergeant Farthing died of his wounds after an attack on Spinello during the Battle for Monte Spaduro.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6980139
Date: 30.10.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Connelly, of Radford, Nottinghamshire.
November 1944.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3771910
Date: 03.11.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Florence
Son of William and Eliza Grey-Allen.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14512215
Date: 04.11.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Edward James Spice and Emily Spice, of Mitcham, Surrey.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7020431
Date: 07.11.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Rome
G Company Lance Sergeant Sye died of wounds suffered during the attack on Spinello during the Battle for Monte Spaduro. He had been lying wounded for 36 hours but had refused the aid of stretcher bearers.
Son of Robert and Elizabeth Sye.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7046535
Date: 12.11.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Arezzo
Son of John and Sarah Warden, of Newtownards, Co. Down.
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Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6985648
Date: 16.11.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Lance Sergeant De Negri was on observation duty in the roof of a farm house on Monte Spaduro when his position was hit by German mortars. He was killed instantly. Details of this can be found in Colin Gunner’s ‘Front of the Line’.
Son of Victor A. and Lillian M. De Negri, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Service number: 7044849
Date: 22.11.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Moro River
Son of James Alan Eastwood and Charlotte Eastwood, of The Scotlands, Wolverhampton.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 1792006
Date: 23.11.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14625235
Date: 24.11.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982528
Date: 24.11.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Naples
Son of Harry and Florence Whitby, of Nottingham; husband of Dora Mary Whitby, of Nottingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4202410
Date: 28.11.1944 Age: 31 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of William and Alice Blackmore; husband of Frances Blackmore, of Washington, Sussex.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3773902
Date: 29.11.1944 Age: 26 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Joshua and Elizabeth Ann Smith, of Moss Bank, Lancashire; husband of May Smith.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7044121
Date: 29.11.1944 Age: 28 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of William Beresford Howell and Lilian Elizabeth Howell; husband of Mary Josephine Howell, of Easton, Wells, Somerset.
December 1944.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981583
Date: 01.12.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of John Frederick and Miriam Cartledge, of Derby.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5674611
Date: 01.12.1944 Age: 25 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Edwin and Elizabeth White, of Bridgwater, Somerset.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6982654
Date: 01.12.1944 Age: 29 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Albert and Louisa Rudd; husband of Gladys Daisy Rudd, of Woolwich, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14525206
Date: 04.12.1944 Age: 21 Place of burial: Bologna
Son of William and Eliza Plunkett, of Harlesden, Middlesex.
Rank : Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 289889
Date: 04.12.1944 Age: Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Lieutenant Brady was attached to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the Tunisian battles in 1943 and fell into a slit trench during darkness on the night of 20 January. He broke his leg. Brady was promoted to the temporary rank of assistant captain on 19 January 1943.
Son of Terence Brady, and of Eva Christina Brady, of Holloway, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984998
Date: 04.12.1944 Age: 23 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of William and Esther Hickey, of Dublin.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986023
Date: 05.12.1944 Age: 22 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Reginald James Hilliam and Ada Gertrude Hilliam, of Sutton Bassett. Northamptonshire.
Rank: Captain Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, seconded from South African Armoured Corps Service number: 250903V
Date: 07.12.1944 Age: 34 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Jan H. and Anna S. Coetzee, of The Gem, Transvaal, South Africa. B.A., LL.B., Advocate.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14617699
Date: 12.12.1944 Age: 32 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Francis John and Martha Ann McLernon; husband of Jean McLernon, of Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7043745
Date: 19.12.1944 Age: 30 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Hugh and Minnie Niblock, of Belfast; husband of Gladys Niblock, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 1297083
Date: 19.12.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Richard and Rebecca Dickson, of Dunfermline, Fife.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached from Gloucestershire Regiment Service number: 292941
Date: 19.12.1944 Age: 27 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Lieutenant Albert Parish was accompanying commander of the Faughs John Coldwell-Horsfall after a night raid on 19 December 1944 when a mortar bomb exploded close by. Parish was killed, and Coldwell-Horsfall suffered serious leg injuries. When he recovered, he was posted to the staff of Army HQ. Coldwell-Horsfall returned to the Irish Brigade as commander of the 2nd Battalion of the London Irish Rifles when it took up occupation duties in southern Austria after the end of the war.
Son of Albert John and Florence Parish; husband of Barbara Parish.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6981504
Date: 23.12.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Sutcliffe, of Keighley, Yorkshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983099
Date: 23.12.1944 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Linton Thompson Russ and Lily Russ; husband of Vera Annie Russ.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985162
Date: 23.12.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Santerno Valley
Son of Elizabeth Conley, of Castlerock, Co. Londonderry; husband of Mary Conley.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14570754
Date: 27.12.1944 Age: 20 Place of burial: Arezzo
Son of Joseph Abraham and Ann Louisa Bussey, of Holloway, London.
January 1945.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3774330
Date: 03.01.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Bari
Son of William and Catherine Woodward, of St. Helens, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6411750
Date: 06.01.1945 Age: 22 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Cornelius O’Mara, and of Rose Violet O’Mara, of South Acton, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14310243
Date: 06.01.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3909939
Date: 06.01.1945 Age: 26 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Foley, of Bolton, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7010933
Date: 11.01.1945 Age: 48 Place of burial: Rome
Son of Hugh and Mary Foley, of Killanne, Co. Wexford; husband of Annie Foley, of Killanne.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 13030544
Date: 21.01.1945 Age: 28 Place of burial: Cassino Memorial
Son of George and Ada Caves, of Kempston, Bedford; husband of D. Caves, of Kempston.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7046470
Date: 26.01.1945 Age: Place of burial: Santerno Valley
February 1945.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7022597
Date: 01.02.1945 Age: 22 Place of burial: Arezzo
Son of George James Warren and Edith Warren, of Chingford, Essex.
Rank: Private Unit: London Irish Rifles, attached from ACC Service number: 70145404
Date: 03.02.1945 Age: 37 Place of burial: Haldenleeben, Germany
Husband of Mary Minnis Baxter, of Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6976463
Date: 17.02.1945 Age: 37 Place of burial: Florence
Son of James and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, of Mohill, Co. Leitrim.
Roll of Honour – The Senio to the River Po.
March 1945.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 327466
Date: 11.03.1945 Age: 26 Place of burial: Faenza
Lieutenant Bartlett was shot in the head by a German sniper when he raised his head above the south bank of the Senio.
Son of Robert James Bartlett and Florence Bartlett; husband of Eirene Margarita Bartlett, of Georgeham, Devon.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 3663317
Date: 11.03.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of George and Alice Pottinger, of Anfield, Liverpool.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7045679
Date: 12.03.1945 Age: 30 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Michael and Elizabeth Fahy; husband of Kate Fahy, of Kilkenny.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7018844
Date: 15.03.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Henry and Elizabeth Johnston, of Bloomfield, Belfast.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14380621
Date: 15.03.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Clarence and Eliza Kirkham, of Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983183
Date: 17.03.1945 Age: 32 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Lancelot and Mary Severn; husband of Gladys Severn, of Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6955484
Date: 18.03.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 309868
Date: 19.03.1945 Age: 27 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of George Henry and Susan Murray, of Belfast.
Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 296607
Date: 20.03.1945 Age: 24 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Edward Anderson Young and Matilda Elizabeth Young, of Bangor, Co. Down.
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Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14516398
Date: 22.03.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Harold James Pywell and Susannah Pywell; husband of Laura Irene Pywell, of Derby.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14417552
Date: 22.03.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Robert and Daisy Evelyn Irwin, of Belfast.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14605207
Date: 22.03.1945 Age: 19 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Milly Nixon, of Warrington, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5679506
Date: 26.03.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of William George and Rosa Hewlett; husband of Gladys Lillian May Hewlett.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6983443
Date: 29.03.1945 Age: 27 Place of burial: Forli
Son of Ellen Masters, of Northampton.
April 1945.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4394237
Date: 04.04.1945 Age: 29 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Richard and Anne Elizabeth Ord; husband of Louisa Ord, of Owlerton, Sheffield.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 1801309
Date: 07.04.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of John and Louisa Howarth, of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 4130995
Date: 08.04.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Edward Lloyd Hughes and Bertha Hughes; husband of Hilda May Hughes, of Stoneycroft, Lancashire.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14381465
Date: 13.04.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Edgar and Jemima Maddison, of Whitwick, Leicestershire.
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14222433
Date: 13.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Jeremiah and Honora O’Farrell; husband of Christine O’Farrell, of Bayswater, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6459782
Date: 13.04.1945 Age: 26 Place of burial: Faenza
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7019957
Date: 13.04.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Faenza
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5671415
Date: 14.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Sidney John and Kate Caines, of Southampton; husband of Kathleen Mary Caines, of Scholing, Southampton.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 6481488
Date: 15.04.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Charles Walter and Lucinda Phyllis Edland, of Edmonton, Middlesex.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7016116
Date: 15.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Storrar, of Upper Holloway, London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7017677
Date: 15.04.1945 Age: 30 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of William John and Elizebeth Webb, of Herne Hill, London; husband of Doris Lilian Webb, of Herne Hill.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3245895
Date: 16.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Rome
Son of James and Elizabeth Devlin, of Glasgow.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14336994
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 29 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Louis and Alice Hyde, of Birmingham; husband of Theodora Hyde, of Winson Green, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985269
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of William John and Sarah Carlin, of Redcastle, Co. Donegal.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14232780
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Sydney Alfred and Daisy Knapp, of Harlesden, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14381011
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of John Joseph and Marie Edith Edwards, of Old Swan, Liverpool.
Rank: Sergeant Unit : Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3880481
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 29 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of William and Mary Neary, of Coppull, Lancashire; husband of Margaret Mary Neary, of Coppull.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 1472432
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 36 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Matthew and Isobella McAllister, of Larne, Co. Antrim; husband of Agnes McAllister, of Larne.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6029460
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Leigh William Levis, and of Amelia Florence Levis, of Romford, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 7047720
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 22 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Elliot and Lilian May Rogers; husband of Mavis Olga Rogers, of Keresley, Warwickshire.
Rank: Lance Serjeant Unit : Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6979751
Date: 17.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Hugh and Ellen Dysart; husband of Dilys Dysart, of Portmadoc, Caernarvonshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4394321
Date: 18.04.1945 Age: 30 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of John William and Edith Kay, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; husband of Gwendoline Kay, of Middlesbrough.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6984401
Date: 18.04.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of James Gardiner Meredith and Mary Jane Meredith, of Newtownards, Co. Down.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14214770
Date: 18.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Charles Henry and Annie George, of Custom House, Essex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6980438
Date: 18.04.1945 Age: 27 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Margaret Kavanagh, and stepson of John Hutton, of Londonderry.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6985801
Date: 18.04.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Robert and Florence Ellen Parkin. of Skillington, Lincolnshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14549891
Date: 18.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of Samuel and Mary Bunn, of Manchester; husband of Winifred Bunn, of Manchester.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6104423
Date: 18.04.1945 Age: 22 Place of burial: Faenza
Son of John and Rose Nelly Quinney, of Birmingham.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3775114
Date: 19.04.1945 Age: 26 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 5680281
Date: 19.04.1945 Age: 33 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Annie Susie Gainey, of Pill, Somerset.
Rank: Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14205727
Date: 20.04.1945 Age: 22 Place of burial: Caserta
Son of Albert George Hipkin, and of Daisy H. Hipkin, of Welling, Kent.
Rank: Lance Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6982333
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 30 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Charles Harry and Rose Kate Sharman, of Wealdstone, Middlesex; husband of Dorothy Sharman.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6986248
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Biggs, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14712740
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Albert Fredrick and Maud Alice Essling, of Notting Hill, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4397694
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 32 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Rank: Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3772664
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 26 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Charles and Mary Cornwall, of Liverpool; husband of Mary Cornwall, of Liverpool.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4752450
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of John Thomas Barron and Mary Elisabeth Barron, of Sheffield.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7014323
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7019762
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 25 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horton, of Islington, London.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7043715
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 26 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of William and Kathleen Geoghan, of Ashford, Co. Wicklow.
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Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 4199315
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 28 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of David and Nell Roberts; husband of Eleanor W. Roberts, of Buckley, Flintshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6151488
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Alexander and Martha Wyllie, of Southwark, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14307295
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Robinson, of Dartford, Kent.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 7018267
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 30 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Hubert and Florence Furmage; husband of Daisy Furmage, of Kentish Town, London.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 5782669
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Alfred and Dorothy Standish, of Mitcham, Surrey.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3195596
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 31 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of David and Catherine Burrell; husband of Janet Burrell.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14217986
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Albert Edward and Eva Florence Tilson. of Millwall, London.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 14324363
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 19 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of George Frederick and Florence May Packham, of Brixton, London.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 3909624
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 19 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Samuel and Gertrude Irlam, of Bolton, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14714024
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of John and Emma Lee, of Eckington, Derbyshire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 14560072
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of William and Gladys G. Boddis, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6410456
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 32 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Frederick and Bridget Duffy; husband of Margaret M. Duffy, of Ardrahan, Co. Galway.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Irish Fusiliers Service number: 6460234
Date: 21.04.1945 Age: 23 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of William Samuel and Elizabeth Chandler; husband of Betty May Chandler, of Tottenham, Middlesex.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6977517
Date: 24.04.1945 Age: 35 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of John and Isabella Lunn; husband of Dorothy Gertrude Lunn, of Ballyculter, Co. Down.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14202837
Date: 24.04.1945 Age: 21 Place of burial: Argenta Gap
Son of Walter H. and Hilda Yates, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 14582681
Date: 26.04.1945 Age: 20 Place of burial: Ravenna
Son of George James Hunt and Catherine Teresa Hunt, of East Ham, Essex.
Roll of Honour – Austria.
May 1945 onwards.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3129599
Date: 13.05.1945 Age: 30 Place of burial: Klagenfurt
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 3768494
Date: 23.06.1945 Age: 36 Place of burial: Klagenfurt
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6979960
Date: 21.07.1945 Age: 24 Place of burial: Klagenfurt
Son of Daniel and Violet Mingle; husband of Mary Josephine Mingle, of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone.
Rank: Major Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 66685
Date: 21.07.1945 Age: 32 Place of burial: Klagenfurt
Son of Sir Ernest Cochrane 2nd Bt., J.P., and of Lady Cochrane (nee Schumacher), of Coggeshall, Essex.
Rank: Sergeant Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Service number: 6975565
Date: 01.10.1945 Age: 34 Place of burial: Klagenfurt
Husband of Dorothy Irene Gilligan, of Swindon, Wiltshire.
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Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6978953
Date: 19.12.1945 Age: 31 Place of burial: Padua
Son of James and Maria Trainor; husband of Margaret Trainor, of Handsworth, Birmingham.
Rank: Fusilier Unit: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Service number: 6983683
Date: 30.03.1946 Age: 28 Place of burial: Klagenfurt
Son of James and Mary McCullough.
Rank: Lance Corporal Unit: London Irish Rifles Service number: 7047823
Date: 03.04.1946 Age: 25 Place of burial: Florence
Son of Thomas and Mary Louisa Smith, of Church Lawford, Warwickshire.