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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 |
Kenneth |
Lieutenant, EC/5170 6th Rajputana Rifles. 10-03-44. Son of Revd
Alec Bowman Johnston and Agnes May Johnston. Buried Cassino War Cemetery Italy. Revd. Johnston was Rector of Welney from 1940-1957. |
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.
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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".
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