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Old Spring Grovians’ Roll of Honour - WW II Compiled in 2005 by Peter Salter (1958)
One thing which struck me as quite strange whilst a young lad at Spring Grove was the absence of any memorial to those Old Spring Grovians who made the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War; particularly odd when I knew that Isleworth County had honoured their boys who were killed. I have often wondered why this might have been. After much research, together with help and encouragement from several seniors, the list below has been drawn up as an attempt to right a wrong, especially as we approached sixty years since the end of the war. |
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Name and Unit
Sgt (Pilot) Charles Cunningham Adams RAFVR, 605 Sqn
Sgt (Pilot) Frederick Thomas Allen RAFVR, Sqn ? Plt Off Norman Lewis Ballamy RAFVR, 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn WO II (CSM) David Geoffrey Barden Intelligence Corps Sgt (Obs) John Leslie Barden RAFVR, 101 Sqn
Wren Hazel Mary Batten WRNS, HMS Assagi Sgt Albert Robert George Boothby RAC, Recognisance Regt Flg Off (Obsvr) Richard Job Thomas Brown RAFVR, 39 Sqn Sap Charlie Buckland RE, 255 Field Coy Sap Charles Samuel Burge RE, 172 Field Coy Sgt (Air Gnr) Charles Frederick Castle RAFVR, 228 Sqn Pte Sidney Arthur Chennel,1st Airborne Div, 3rd Bn Para Regt
Sig Richard Frederick Walter Collier Royal Corps Signals, Trp Frederick William Donhou RAC, 6th RTR Cpl Cyril Albert James Eckert, 6th Airborne DIV, 13th Bn Para Regt L/Cpl Stanley George Thomas Eckert 6th Airborne Div, 9th Bn Para Regt Sgt (Obs) John Hartas George Garrick RAFVR, Sqn ?
Sgt Alexander Joseph Giles RAF, 144 Sqn Lt Ernest Walter Gill RA, 306 Bty 27 Searchlight Regt Sgt (Pilot) John Eric Goodrich RAFVR, Sqn ? Trp Cecil John Gough RAC, 13/18 Roy Hussars Sgt William Roy Govett RAF, 50 Sqn Sgt Leslie Charles Gray RAFVR, 150 Sqn Cpl Gerald Percival Seth Harris 1/4th Bn Essex Regt Cpl Stephen George Harrold 6th Bn Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt Flt Sgt (Nav) Ronald Patrick Grenville Hill RAFVR, 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn Rifleman Ernest John King 9th Bn Cameronians Plt Off Horace Gordon James RAFVR, 145 Sqn D W Jean RAF Sgt (Air Gnr) Erod Gordon Johnson RAFVR, 101 Sqn Shipw’t Walter Thomas Charles Jordan RN, HMS Barham Sgt Victor George Knighton RAFVR, 150 Sqn Flt Sgt (Pilot) Arthur Walter Lynch, RAFVR, Unit ? Sub Lt (A) Derek John Theobald Marais RNVR, HMS Sparrowhawk Flg Off (Pilot) Victor McConnell RAFVR, 83 Sqn Air Fitter (A) Norman Frederick Matthews RN, HMS Landrail L/Sgt George John Lionel Meadows MM, Royal Canadian Regt Flt Sgt (Nav) Wilfred William Murdoch Milne RAFVR, 248 Sqn ? Sgt (Air Gnr) Edward Henry John Morgan RAFVR, 576 Sqn
Sgt Jesse Morris RM, HMS President III Flt Lt (Pilot) David William Hew Owen RAF, 102 Sqn Plt Off (Pilot) Leslie William Parfitt RAFVR
Sgt (Pilot) Herbert William Parry RAFVR, No 1 PRU |
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Date, age and grave/memorial
21.5.1943 Age 21. Grandcourt War Cemetery, Seine Maritime, France 12.5.1943 Age ? Feltham Cemetery 15.6.1943 Age 21. Runnymede Air Force Memorial
25.6.1946 Age 23. Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma 31.1.1943 Age 24. Amsterdam New Cemetery, Holland. Brother of David G Barden above 12.2.1944 Age 23. Chatham Naval Memorial 19.1.1944 Age ? Minturno War Cemetery, Italy 30.11.1942 Age 26. Catania Cemetery, Sicily 18.4.1945 Age 34. Faenza War Cemetery, Italy 5.3.1943 Age 25. SFAX War Cemetery, Tunisia 5.9.1942 Age 27. Twickenham Parochial Cemetery 17.9.1944 Age 18. Arnhem Oosterbeck War Cemetery, Holland 29.5.1940 Age 23. III Corps unit ? Dunkirk Memorial 21/22.11.1941 Age 21. El Alamein Memorial, Egypt 23.8.1944 Age 22. 13th Bn Para. Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France. See notes 6.6.1944 Age 19. Ranville War Cemetery. Brother of Cyril A J Eckert 31.5.1942 Age 24. Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, Holland 21.7.1940 Age ? Runnymede Air Force Memorial 28.12.1943 Age 32. Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel 1.7.1942 Age 26. Kidlington Burial Ground, Oxon 15.2.1945 Age 24. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 16.4.1941 Age 20. St Leonard's Churchyard, Heston 9.6.1942 Age 21. Runnymede Air Force Memorial 6.4.1943 Age 31. SFAX War Cemetery, Tunisia 26.10.1944 Age 29. Santerne Valley War Cemetery, Italy
31.3.1944 Age 23. Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
8.2.1945 Age 25. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 5.7.1942 Age 27. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt 1941 No info available from War Graves Commission 31.3.1944 Age ?. Hanover War Cemetery, Germany 25.11.1941 Age 21.Chatham Naval Memorial 8.11.1941 Age 22. Runnymede Air Force Memorial 5.7.1941 Age ? St Leonard's Churchyard, Heston 22.9.1940 Age 21. Lady Old Churchyard, Orkney
11.4.1944 Age 23. Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerp, Belgium 30.1.1942 Age 21. St Leonard’s Churchyard, Heston 15.12. 1944 Age 22. Gradara War Cemetery, Italy 11.4.1944 Age 23. Heston & Isleworth (Hounslow) Cemetery
17.6.1944 Age ? Arnhem (Moskova) General Cemetery, Holland 11.4.1943 Age ? Portsmouth Naval Memorial 20.5.1940 Age 22. Hamegicourt Churchyard, Aisne, France 16.7.1941 Age 29. Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland 19.6.1941 Age 19. St Helen's Churchyard, Benson, Oxon |