Ashtead, Surrey War Memorials - WWII - St George’s Christian Centre, Barnett Wood Lane

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1939-1945

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Name: ARNOLD, ROBERT CYRIL
Initials: R C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Unit Text: 1/5th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 08/09/1941
Service No: 6087504
Additional information: Son of James and Maria Arnold, of Hartley Wintney.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot G. Row T. Grave 8.
Cemetery: HARTLEY WINTNEY (ST. MARY) OLD CHURCHYARD
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2438248
connection with Ashtead not yet evident. He is the only Private RC Arnold in CWGC

BARTON, DCP - AC1 in CWGC, AC2 on memorial

BLUNT, A - on the memorial he is AC, in the CWGC record he is just A

Name: BOXALL, ALBERT ROY LEONARD
Initials: A R L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Trooper
Regiment/Service: Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
Unit Text: 7th
Age: 27
Date of Death: 26/06/1944
Service No: 7904690
Additional information: Son of Albert William and Francis Daisy Boxall; husband of Hermy Boxall, of Brixton Hill, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XIII. B. 6.
Cemetery: ST. MANVIEU WAR CEMETERY, CHEUX
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2060729
connection with Ashtead not yet evident: just AR on memorial, not ARL

Name: BRENNAN, PETER
Initials: P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps
Unit Text: 1st Armd. Div. Troops Coy.
Age: 37
Date of Death: between 31/01/1942 and 20/05/1942
Service No: T/263573
Additional information: Husband of K. Brennan, of Leatherhead, Surrey.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 74.
Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2119839
connection with Ashtead not yet evident: wife lived in Leatherhead

BULLOCK, SIDNEY - Date of Death: 24/10/1942. Son of Henry and Alice Bullock, of Leatherhead, Surrey; husband of Winifred Bullock.
16 Feb 09: Ann Williams has established that Sidney's wife Winifred was Winifred Haynes, daughter of William Henry Haynes of Glebe Road, Ashtead. She re-married after the death of Sidney and after the war emigrated to Canada where all her descendants are.

Name: BURCH, CYRIL ROBERTSON
Initials: C R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 149 Sqdn.
Age: 22
Date of Death: 09/05/1941
Service No: 754234
Additional information: Son of Reginald Rout Burch and Sarah Catherine Burch, of West Worthing, Sussex.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 4. C. 14.
Cemetery: SAGE WAR CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2073596
connection with Ashtead not yet evident - rank on CWGC is F/Sgt, on memorial is Sgt

Name: CHALK, CHARLES FRANK
Initials: C F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 29
Date of Death: 24/08/1944
Service No: 111202
Additional information: Son of Charles Frederick and Nellie Chalk; husband of Barbara Winifred Chalk, of Hampton.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Row O.D. Grave 28.
Cemetery: HILLINGDON AND UXBRIDGE CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2433301
connection with Ashtead not yet evident

Name: CREESE, MERVYN
Initials: M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Manchester Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 30
Date of Death: 21/09/1944
Service No: 3526175
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 76.
Memorial: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=4017430
connection with Ashtead not yet evident: he is the only Pte M Creese on CWGC

Name: DEEDES, JOHN DAVID BOUVERIE
Initials: J D B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Midshipman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Intrepid
Age: 18
Date of Death: 26/09/1943
Additional information: Son of Comdr. Hugh Bouverie Deedes, R.N. (Retd.), and Monica Mary Deedes, of Chislehurst, Kent.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 67, 3.
Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2466686
connection with Ashtead not yet evident: he is the only JDB Deedes on CWGC

Name: EDGAR, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M. Submarine Thunderbolt
Date of Death: 28/03/1943
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 72, Column 8.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2669255
The only Lt in the J Edgar listing on CWGC: connection with Ashtead not yet evident: JO on memorial, just J in CWGC

FARQUAR, IC - IC on memorial, IG on CWGC (Ian Gordon)

FRAY, RW - link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record

Name: GATHERCOLE, WALTER CHARLES
Initials: W C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Unit Text: 1/5th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 28/09/1943
Service No: 6140775
Additional information: Son of John Thomas Gathercole and Emily Florence Gathercole.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. B. 6.
Cemetery: SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=208263
the only CWGC entry for this name; link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record

GOODFELLOW, LHJ - the only CWGC entry for this name; link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record

Name: GOODRICH, DOUGLAS
Initials: D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Age: 26
Date of Death: 26/09/1943
Service No: 235653
Additional information: Son of George and Florence Goodrich; husband of Jeanne Ellen Goodrich, of Streatham, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. F. 36.
Cemetery: SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=208295
link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record

GRITT, EF - Initials in CWGC are EE

Name: HOYLE, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 234 Bty., 89 H.A.A. Regt.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 20/05/1941
Service No: 1441581
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Face 2.
Memorial: ATHENS MEMORIAL
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2106614
link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record: John Hoyle is the only Gunner listed by CWGC

ISAAC, A - CPO on memorial, Chief Stoker in CWGC

Name: KNIGHT, HERBERT
Initials: H H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Chief Stoker
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Penelope.
Age: 36
Date of Death: 08/10/1943
Service No: P/KX 76430
Additional information: Son of Henry Richard and Ellen Maria Knight, of Epsom, Surrey; husband of B. M. Knight.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 5. F. 2.
Cemetery: ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2110831
connection with Ashtead not yet evident; his parents lived in Epsom

Name: LANE, SYDNEY DAVID
Initials: S D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 57 Sqdn.
Date of Death: 16/07/1941
Service No: 627829
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Square 38. Grave 11810.
Cemetery: WOODGRANGE PARK CEMETERY, EAST HAM
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2833388
connection with Ashtead not yet evident

MARRACK, PR - Major Philip Roland Marrack, RA, died at Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, following an accident. The address in Ashtead was Cullompton, Northfields.

OLIVER, WE - Flight Sergeant on the memorial, Sgt in CWGC

PARNABY, R - only two Parnabys fell in WWII. Only one was a Sergeant, Roy Ernest George Parnaby, he was an Air Gunner on 150 Squadron.

Name: PRITCHARD, WILFRED PRESTLEY
Initials: W P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Secondary Regiment: Commando
Secondary Unit Text: and No. 3
Age: 21
Date of Death: 17/01/1942
Service No: 1462653
Additional information: Son of Wilfrid P. Pritchard and Edith Annie Pritchard; husband of Betty Jane Matheson Pritchard, of Bedford.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot P. Row 7. Grave 5.
Cemetery: LYNESS ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2460651
connection with Ashtead not yet evident

RILEY, JF - his parents lived in Devon but he is buried in St Giles' churchyard: in CWGC his rank is Captain, on the memorial it is Major.
26 May 09 Brian Bouchard adds: Having picked up a reference in the Leatherhead Advertiser, 5/7/1940, to the death of "a local man, Captain J F Riley - of wounds in Belgium" I looked for an obit in The Times. On 1/7/1940 one finds "30/6/1940. As the result of wounds sustained in action in Belgium, Captain John Francis Riley, R. A., younger son of Captain G. Riley, R. N. and Mrs Riley, of Ituna, Ashtead, Surrey, aged 23." His father was Gerard B. Riley who reached the rank of Acting Commander in WWI. He married Margery E. Polwhele, registered Hardingstone, Northants., 6/1914. A first-born son, Paul B., arrived to be registered Brentford 9/1915 and John F.'s birth was reg. Hendon 9/1916. If the latter was invalided back to Ashtead it would explain burial at St Giles.

Apparently there was a proposal to move the St Georges War Memorial nearer to the recreation ground, beside the pond, but nothing came of it."

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN WILLIAM
Initials: J W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps
Age: 21
Date of Death: 16/04/1943
Service No: T/268783
Additional information: Son of John William and Florence May Robinson, of Ilkley, Yorkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 12. J. 4.
Cemetery: EL ALIA CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2151641
link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record; he is the only Driver in the JW Robinson listing

RUXTON, PR - September 1941. Missing on active service in the Middle East, Thomas Ross Ruxton, younger dearly loved son of the late A F Ruxton of Wallop House, Stockbridge, Hants and Mrs Ruxton, Ardlee, Ashtead, Surrey.

SAINSBURY, MWG - listed as a Driver by CWGC, Despatch Rider on the memorial

Name: SAUNDERS, VICTOR LEWIS
Initials: V L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Able Seaman
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Argus.
Date of Death: 24/01/1942
Service No: P/JX199232
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. F. Grave 178.
Cemetery: EPSOM CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2434469
connection with Ashtead not yet evident: note VF on memorial, VL in CWGC

Name: SHEPPERSON, BERTRAM DAVID
Initials: B D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 51 Sqdn.
Date of Death: 19/03/1940
Service No: 561926
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 19.
Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1807045
He is the only Sgt Shepperson with an initial D listed by CWGC; note that they have his initials as BD, it is D only on the memorial; link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record.

STREET, ECJ CWGC record states: Son of Charles Harvey Street and Susan Charlott[sic] Street; husband of Matilda Annie Street, of Leatherhead, Surrey.
24 Apr 09: via Ann Williams: Charles Harvey Street (a baker, born in Ireland) was living in Ashtead by 1897.  He married Charlotte Susan Hatton at St. Giles in 1905 and by 1911 the family were living at 23 Caenwood Road.  Their son Eric CJ Street was born in 1915.

Name: TATE, ALBAN EDWARD TREVOR
Initials: A E T
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Unit Text: H.M.S. Wildfire.
Age: 53
Date of Death: 05/09/1943
Awards: D S C
Additional information: Son of Admiral Alban Giffard Tate and of Clara Tate (nee Trevor); husband of Millicent Helena Tate, of Burley, Hampshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Naval Reservation. Grave 1502.
Cemetery: GILLINGHAM (WOODLANDS) CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2361577
link with Ashtead not evident from CWGC record

Name: TROWBRIDGE, FRANK WILLIAM NOEL
Initials: F W N
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Air Bomber)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 432 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn
Age: 30
Date of Death: 25/06/1943
Service No: 658650
Additional information: Son of Harry and Emmaline Trowbridge; husband of Madeline Ivy Trowbridge, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 25. C. 4.
Cemetery: BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2034424
connection with Ashtead not yet evident: FWM on memorial, FWM in CWGC

WHIFE, GSJ
His father, Archibald ET Whife is listed in the Kelly's Directory of 1950 at 3 Ashley Cottages, Crampshaw Lane, Ashtead.

If you can add further information such as good images of the war memorials in Ashtead, information about individual casualties or details that might help identification of more of these names in the CWGC records, please contact the editor of this page, Frank Haslam

Principal CWGC research and website editing by Frank Haslam of Leatherhead & District Local History Society.
Assistance provided by Brian Bouchard of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society (who provided the WW1 names to start this site) and Ann Williams (née Astridge) in Canada.
page last updated 11 Apr 2010