The Welney Website
Roll Of Honour, WW2, 1939-1945
page created July 2005, amended/updated Thursday, 31 March 2011
information by kind permission of
"Lest We Forget" Compiled and copyright © 2000 Cliff Brown © Roll-of-Honour.com 2002 always check origin source for updates |
| The memorial tablet inside St. Mary's Church, Welney.  (click tablet for larger view) |
| Note: Kenneth Johnston above is listed on the Roll of Honour website as
'Johnson'. There were Johnsons in Welney during WW2 but note that the Rector then was Rev. A.B. Johnston. It seems (to me) more likely for the son of a Rector to be commissioned than for a son of the normal village family. |
| John Thorley is not shown on the memorial tablet. He is buried in St. Mary's Churchyard, Welney, area D, plot 23 |
| Surname | First Names | Service details, date killed, age, NOK, place of burial |
| CORNWELL | Walter | L/Cpl, 5770547, 2nd Royal Norfolk Rgt. 27-5-40, age 29. Hinges Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. |
| CROUCH | Frank William | Pte, 5932908, 1st Suffolk Rgt. 29-5-40, age 19. Son of Arthur & Ethel Crouch, of Tip's End. Wulpen Churchyard, Jabbeke, Belgium. |
| CURTIS | Stanley | Private, 5826650, 1st Bn., Suffolk Regiment who died on Monday, 3rd June 1940. Age 24. Son of Henry and Ada Curtis.
Roeselare Communal Cemetry, Roeselare, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot 1. Row AA. Grave 4. |
| FULLER | [John Edward] Kitchener | T/64412 L/Sgt, Royal Army Service Corps. 2-4-45, age 30. Husband of Sarah Alice Fuller. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany |
| JOHNSTON (Johnson on ROH website) |
Kenneth | Probably Flt-Sgt 1853631, Air gunner, 570 Squadron RAFVR. 23-4-45, age 22. Son of Cecil Ernest Johnson & Jessie Evelyn Johnson,
of Wisbech. Aarhus West Cemetery. or Flying Officer, 133426, 198 Sqdn., RAF. Died 31-12-43, age 20, in a suspected mid-air collision, flying a Typhoon out of RAF Manson, Kent. Son of William and Ethel Emma Johnson, of Blackpool, Lancs. Runnymede Memorial, Surrey. Webmaster's note these details may be incorrect, see comment on left. |
| LAUGHLIN | Horace | 5773951 Pte, 4th Royal Norfolk Rgt. 11-2-42, age 24. Son of Mary Ann Sarah Laughlin, Welney. Singapore Memorial, Singapore. |
| POPE | Gordon Douglas | Pte. No information currently. |
| THORLEY | John | 885364 Gnr, Royal Field Artillery. 7-9-17. Husband of A M Thorley, 39 St John St, Norwich. Welney (St Mary) churchyard. |
In addition to these eight young men of Welney who were killed in action abroad during WW2, there were a number of RAF crew from other parts of the UK (and elsewhere) who died in or around Welney, some victims of a German "intruder" aircraft, some in a crash due to thick fog, and others through accidents during training flights.
The accounts of the crashes, the men who died, and those who survived and what happened to some of them and their aircraft afterwards, are told in a series of pages via the link on the right. Among them are some remarkable stories.
Many of the pages are still "work-in-progress".
| Related pages on this website |
| St. Mary's Church history |
| Welney Roll of Honour WW1 |
| WW2 aircraft crashes around Welney |
| Welney in Wartime (not yet posted) |
| Related External websites |
| Roll of Honour UK website |