The information listed below is from research by Nick Neve.
| CHARLES.G.ARROWSMITH | CHARLES GILBERT ARROWSMITH D/KX 75102 Chief Stoker, Royal Navy, son of LEONARD and MARY ANN ARROWSMITH. He was aged 38 when he died on 20/3/45. He was a Chief Stoker on board HMS Lapwing (U 62), an "I" class destroyer torpedoed and sunk in position 69.26N, 33.44E. off Northern Russia, there were 61 survivors, 158 men died. In the afternoon on 20 Mar, 1945, U-968 (Westphalen) attacked the convoy JW-65 and reported a destroyer and a Liberty ship sunk. HMS Lapwing of the 7th Escort Group was hit amidships at 13:25 and sank 20 minutes later. He is commemorated on Panel 94, Column 2 of the Plymouth naval Memorial. |
| WILLIAM.H.BINNS | WILLIAM HAROLD BINNS D/SSX 21350 Leading Seamam, Royal Navy, son of HAROLD and GLADYS MABEL BINNS of Colwall. He was serving aboard HMS Exeter when she was sunk by the Japanese at the battle of the Java Sea on 1/3/1942. He was reported missing presumed killed in action. His body was not recovered. He was born on 9 January 1920 and was aged 32 when he was killed. He is commemorated on Panel 63, Column 3. of the Plymouth Naval Memorial. |
| JOHN SEYMOUR MACLEOD CLARKE | He is the only casualty found in the Commomwealth War Graves Commission database with a similar name, recorded as JOHN SEYMOUR McLEOD CLARKE. His connection with Colwall has not been established. Pilot Officer JOHN SEYMOUR MACLEOD CLARKE, 177011, served with 158 Sqdn., Royal Air Force, based at Lisset, Yorkshire and equipped with Halifax bombers. He died, aged 25, on 25 May 1944. He was the son of Arthur Denison Macleod Clarke, and of Nancy Clarke (nee Woolcombe); husband of Mary Clarke, of Pilley Bailey, Hampshire. He is remembered with honour at Dongen Roman Catholic Cemetery. Dongen is a village 13.5 kilometres north-west of Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. |
| HORACE DENNIS ROY CLEE | HORACE DENNIS ROY CLEE, 4105332 Corporal 2nd Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, died aged 25 on 30/07/1944. He was the son of Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Clee; husband of Mona Clee, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire. He is commemorated at RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY, II. F. 30.. Caen, France. At one time the CLEE family farmed Glebe Farm and Luggs Mill. |
| MICHAEL JOHN HEDLEY COOKE | MICHAEL COOKE, 182730, Flying Officer 207 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve based at RAF Spilsby and equipped with Lancaster bombers. He died age 23 on 15 March 1945. He was the son of John Hedley Cooke and Dora Cooke; husband of Phyllis Eva Cooke, of Colwall, Herefordshire. Remembered with honour at OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY. |
| GEORGE HECTOR DALLEY | GEORGE HECTOR DALLEY D/KX 75927 Leading Stoker, Royal Navy, son of GEORGE and LETITIA DALLEY of West Malvern, Worcestershire and husband of EDITH ROSE DALLEY.
He was aged 32 when he was killed on 22nd May 1941. He was a Leading Stoker on board HMS Gloucester. He is commemorated on Panel 52, Column 1 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial. |
| WILLIAM F EDWARDS | Not positively identified on the CWGC database due to multiple entries of the same name. |
| ALFRED HERMAN MAURER | ALFRED HERMAN MAURER, T/10672287, 18 Water Tank Coy., Royal Army Service Corps who died at sea. aged 32 on 07 January 1943. He was the son of John Jacob and Rosaline Maurer. Remembered with honour on the BROOKWOOD Memorial. The connection with Colwall has not been established. |
| JAMES REVILL MOODY | JAMES REVILL MOODY son of CHARLES REVILL and EDITH ANN MOODY of Colwall. Sergeant 1576882, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. He was killed on Wednesday 19th July 1944, aged 20. On the night of 18/19 July 1944 he was a member of the crew of Halifax bomber LL364-NF-B of 138 Squadron RAF which collided over the drop zone with a B-24 of 801st Bomber Group, USAF whilst on operation DICK 89 whose aim was to drop supplies to the French Resistance. The seven crew members were buried at Marigny-l'Eglise (Nievre) near to the crash site. |
| WILLIAM SAMUEL MORRIS | WILLIAM SAMUEL MORRIS, Mess Room Boy, S.S. Embassage (Newcastle-on-Tyne). Merchant Navy. 28th August 1941. Age 16. Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Morris, of Colwall. On August 27, 1941, SS Embassage (with a cargo of 8540 tons of general cargo, including motor transport and aircraft ) was travelling in convoy OS.4 routing from Hull to Bathurst and Pepel. At 0426 hours, in position 54N, 13W (about 100 miles west of Achill Island) the Embassage was torpedoed and sunk by U-557. The master (Edward Kiddie), 32 crew members and six gunners were lost. Three crew members were picked up after four days by the Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine and landed at Greenock. The Captain, thirty-one crew and one gunner are commemorated on Tower Hill Panel 37 and one crewmember is buried on the Isle of Lewis. |
| JAMES SAMUEL GEORGE PRICE | Private JAMES SAMUEL GEORGE PRICE, 1701617, 2/4th Bn., King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, He was originally in the Royal Artillery in N.Africa. Born in Coddington, his brother-in-law was the nephew of Willie Goodwin. He died age 29 on 12 September 1944. On the night of 12 September 1944 the Eighth Army reopened its attack on Coriano Ridge, with the 1st British and 5th Canadian Armoured Divisions. This attack was successful in taking the Ridge, but marked the beginning of a week of the heaviest fighting experienced since Cassino in May, with daily losses for the Eighth Army of some 150 killed. Remembered with honour at the CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY, RICCIONE, ITALY. |
| JAMES NORMAN ROBERTS | Pilot Officer 124419 J.N.Roberts, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve died on 15 January 1943, aged 21. He was the son of Samuel Arthur and Margaret ("Rita") Sara Roberts, of Saxmundham, Suffolk. He is shown as 'buried' in the churchyard in the South West corner by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
An announcement in a January 1943 newspaper stated that he was to be cremated at Golders Green
Crematorium on Wednesday January 20, at 12:30 pm. His ashes were subsequently interred in Colwall churchyard on 2 September 1946.
He is commemorated as follows on the horizontal gravestone of his grandparents "In ever loving memory of James Norman, son of Samuel Roberts of West Bromwich and of Polly his dear wife, daughter of James Helme of Lancaster and in proud and loving memory of their grandson Pilot Officer James Roberts, who gave his life in 1943, son of Rita, nee Davison of Montymore and Arthur Roberts of Calcutta". |
| EVELYN IVOR RIDLER | EVELYN IVOR RIDLER, Corporal T/5183955, 1st Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment who died on 11 August 1944. He was the son of Richard Harry and Petronella Ridler and the husband of Violet Priscilla Ridler of Gloucester. Buried with honour in row VD9 in the Tilly-sur-Selles Calvados War cemetery. His connection with Colwall has not yet been established. Note that his name has been spelt "Rydler" on the Colwall War Memorial. |
| REGINALD F SMITH | Not positively identified on the CWGC database due to multiple entries of the same name. |
