Full Name: Walter John HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Chief Engineer Officer Service: Merchant Navy Vessel: S.S. Maid of Kent (London) Age at Death: 54 Date of Death: 21 May 1940 Cemetery: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2789926/HOPPER,%20WALTER EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2789926/ Walter was born in 1894 in Margate, Kent and was the only child born to Charles Hopper and Rose Huxstep. In the 1911 Census Walter (aged 17) is described as a solicitor’s clerk. In 1916 Walter married Elizabeth Ford…
Full Name: Archibald Gordon WILLIS Nationality: British Rank: Sergeant (Air Gunner) Service: Royal Air Force Vessel: 48 Squadron Age at Death: 20 Date of Death: 31 July 1940 Service Number: 568341 Cemetery: Carew (St Marys) New Churchyard, Pembrokeshire, Wales Reference: Row C, Grave 3 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2965510/WILLIS,%20ARCHIBALD%20GORDON Born in the Kent village of Barham in 1920, Archie was the only son of Archibald Frank Willis and Nellie Flack. His father served in the Great War as a Corporal of Horse in the…
Full Name: William Ernest Sydney SHEPHERD Nationality: British Rank: Boatswain Service: Merchant Navy Vessel: Cable Ship “Alert” (UK) Age at Death: 34 Date of Death: 24 February 1945 Service Number: 402063 Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK Reference: Panel 5 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2796820/SHEPHERD,%20WILLIAM%20ERNEST%20SYDNEY William Shepherd was born on 30 November 1908 in Plumstead, Kent – the only child of William James Shepherd and Olive Camilla Hopper. He married Winifred Imrie in December 1938 and a son was born to them…
Full Name: David Keith O’DONNELL Nationality: New Zealand Rank: Flying Officer Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force Unit: 214 FMS Squadron Age at Death: 21 Date of Death: 15 January 1943 Service Number: 402063 Memorial: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK Reference: Panel 197 View David’s details on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database CWGC Certificate:http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/1803537/O’DONNELL,%20DAVID%20KEITH David O’Donnell was born on 21 July 1921, the son of David and Esther O’Donnell (nee Collard), of Aramoho. David was Navigator aboard Stirling…
Full Name: Basil NUTLEY Nationality: British Rank: Sergeant (Air Gunner) Service: RAF Volunteer Reserve Unit: 61 Squadron Age at Death: 22 Date of Death: 31 March 1944 Service Number: C/KX 93531 Cemetery: Heverlee War Cemetery, Belgium Referenc: Coll grave 2. B. 3-7 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2777817/NUTLEY,%20BASIL Basil Nutley was born in 1921, the youngest of three children born to Edwin Nutley and his second wife Amelia Hanks. His mother died in 1922 aged 40, so Basil was brought up by his…
Full Name: John Henry Thomas HOGBEN Nationality: British Rank: Stoker, First Class Service: Royal Navy Unit: HMS Imogen Age at Death: 20 Date of Death: 16 July 1940 Service Number: C/KX 93531 Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, UK Reference: 38, 2 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2468693/HOGBEN,%20JOHN%20HENRY%20THOMAS John Hogben was born in 1920 in Dover, the eldest of eight children born to John and Alice Hogben (nee Willis). On July 16th 1940 HMS “Imogen” was in collision with HM Cruiser “Glasgow” in thick fog…