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2nd World War Service Biographies

  • Arthur Charles Wright

    Arthur Charles Wright

    Major, service number 116787, Prisoner of War 1940-1945 (also served in First World War, 1914-1918)
  • Charles Janson Smith D.S.C.

    Charles Janson Smith D.S.C.

    Commander, HMS Aurora, killed 30th October 1943 in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Colin Reeves

    Colin Reeves

    Aircraftman/2 1441963, RAF VR
  • Ernest Huckerby Philpotts

    Ernest Huckerby Philpotts

    Gunner 962990, Royal Artillery, Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Prisoner of War (Stalag 344, Silesia)
  • Frederick Bert Turner

    Frederick Bert Turner

    Stoker Petty Officer Royal Navy, Service no. C/K 65698, died on HMS Electra, 27th February 1942
  • Frederick James Greasley

    Frederick James Greasley

    Gunner 1593590, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Prisoner of War
  • Frederick Kenneth Bend

    Frederick Kenneth Bend

    326530, 'A' Sqn. Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps: killed 24th October 1942, El Alamein
  • Herbert Canham

    Herbert Canham

    Private 4803539 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, died in Tunisia 4th March, 1943
  • Ian Lennard Mould

    Ian Lennard Mould

    14419262 Lance-Corporal, 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. Died of wounds 17th August 1944.
  • John Francis Tufnell Barrett, D.F.C., D.S.O. and bar.

    John Francis Tufnell Barrett, D.F.C., D.S.O. and bar.

    Group Captain, RFC 1916-1918; RAF 1918-1941
  • Phillip Brewster

    Phillip Brewster

    AB A/SG DEMS Gunner P/JX335909, Royal Navy - SS Oporto
  • Richard Edward Walford

    Richard Edward Walford

    Major, Warwickshire Regiment and Queen's West Surrey Regiment, killed in Italy, 1943.
  • Sidney Damms 1915 - 2010  Survivor of the Burma Railroad

    Sidney Damms 1915 - 2010 Survivor of the Burma Railroad

    Remembering Bottesford Men Imprisoned by the Japanese
  • Walter Jesson

    Walter Jesson

    Private, 4857399, 1st Battallion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, died 21st September, 1944
  • War’s pain never went away

    War’s pain never went away

    Remembering Troopers Harry Richmond Daybell and Frederick Kenneth Bend 2nd World War service
Bottesford Parish 2nd World War
  • An Evening to Commemorate VJ Day
  • Bottesford VE & VJ Day
  • Bottesford War Memorials - St Mary's Church
  • Muston War Memorial - St John the Baptist churchyard
  • 2nd World War Service Biographies
  • On the Wings of the Morning, by Vincent Holyoak
  • Bottesford in Wartime
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  • Mrs Ruby Norris

    Mrs Ruby Norris

    Attending The Women's Institute Golden Jubilee at Buckingham Palace 1965
  • Bottesford Parish Remembers - Exhibition 5th -12th November

    Bottesford Parish Remembers - Exhibition 5th -12th November

    St Mary's Church
  • Lieutenant John "Jack" George Swain of Long Clawson

    Lieutenant John "Jack" George Swain of Long Clawson

    With a curious question about his will
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