Remembrance Day - November 11

[jericho]

            In Rememberence of My Great Uncle

          Private EUGENE FRANCIS McCARTHY
   25279.  2nd Battalion,Canterbury Regiment,NZEF
                who died age 31
                on 7th June 1917
   Son of Late Patrick and Minnie McCarthy,
           Native of Glenavy,Timaru.N.Z.

           Remembered with honour
          MESSINES RIDGE(N.Z.)MEMORIAL   

never found
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never forgotten
jericho

[Zelley]

Flying Officer Larkins was employed as a pilot serving with No. 115 Squadron RAF, which was based at RAF East Wretham, Norfolk.  He was detailed to take part in an attack on Mannheim on 6 December 1942 in Wellington Bomber off
The names of the crew were:
122145 Flying Officer Harry William Larkins – Pilot
120353 Flying Officer Jack Sydney Abel – Navigator
1262068 Sergeant Richard Edwards Hayman – Air Bomber
R59841 Flight Sergeant Ernest Frank Stammers RCAF – Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
R77986 Sergeant David Garth Williams RCAF – Air Gunner
Harry William Larkins was my mum’s youngest brother who was only 21 years old.
In memory of them all.

Thanks for the detail, feel free to mention the names in the guest book  at
http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/lostchildren

[Zelley]

Some names of the ships and crew of the lost Merchant Marine ships would be welcome.

A quote from poet/songwriter & singer
Phil Ochs:
"Where are my shipmates, have they sunk beneath the sea....?" (i hope the quote is correct).

[jinks]

I Memory of my Great Uncle

Able Seaman ERNEST JENKINSON

H.M.S. Delight Royal Navy
who died aged 22 on Tuesday 30th July 1940

Buried at Portland Royal Navy Cemetery

Jinks

[Headbanger Veron]

In remembrance of my great uncle

2nd Lt. Cecil Robert George ABRAHAMS
99th Squadron, RAF
who died 26th September 1918, age 23
on his first raid across enemy lines.

Also of his observer, 2nd Lt Christopher Harold SHARP, age 27
Lt. Leopold Grahame STERN, age 18
Lt. Frederick Oliver COOK, age 23

All remembered with honour
French National Cemetery, Metz

and the 4 other pilots and observers who died on the same raid and who are buried nearby. It was the last raid 99th Squadron ever made.

I shall not forget them.
Veron

[Zelley]

    A collexction of odds & ends from different messages in 2003 and 2004:

From my "A lost Wiles of Cherry Burton" (Yorkshire:
"In 1915, when the telegraph boy knocked on the door of the old widow Mary WILES, it wa time to take a trip to the Weeping Tree....Alfred Ernest WILES...

From my "From the Brass Works to the Weeping Tree"
...all family stories must end with sorrow and pain and a trip to the weeping tree (symbolic)....The NUTT families would hear the brass trumpet blow no more for George Edward NUTT of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1917.
...Others to fall...J. J. RUANE, J. H. ASHBOURNE...

Elsewhere, I mentioned the case of Patrick M. NUTT, the 17 year old mess
boy of the Merchant Navy.

From the "Lost Trawler Cana"
The trawlers "Cana", "Bengali" and "Spaniard" were lost like a flash of a spark with the explosion...lost shipmates...Walter Joseph GODBOLD, Edward Cross WALKER and Tudor Alec WILLIAMS.

From "The Knock of the telegraph boy",,,Some Devon connected names
were brothers William Walter & Ernest Albert ZELLEY, William P. PARKHOUSE,
and Charles P. SOUTHCOTT...

[Zelley]

I Memory of my Great Uncle
Able Seaman ERNEST JENKINSON
H.M.S. Delight Royal Navy
who died aged 22 on Tuesday 30th July 1940
Buried at Portland Royal Navy Cemetery
Jinks

A few of the lost shipmates of the "Delight" were
Leslie J. ATKINS - Ernest S. HOMBURG - Harold MILLER

[Mobo]

 

In Memory Of
Arthur WILLIAMSON (Royal Engineers)
who died on the 20 May 1945 in Algeria, North Africa

 

[Llwyd]

                  Samuel Ellis,Private 19527,
                  A Company,Machine Gun Section,
                  16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Died 10th March, 1916,aged 21yrs, and buried in Bethune town cemetery.