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AVENING HOLY CROSS WAR MEMORIAL
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND
Located in The Holy Cross, the parish church
World War 2
FLETCHER Joseph L It is the following. Trooper 788682 Leslie Joseph Fletcher 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Royal Armoured Corps died 3/10/1942 aged 31. Native of Gloucestershire Son of George and Elizabeth (Lizzie) nee Caudle of Avening Gloucestershire Fletcher Buried at Hadra War Memorial Cemetery Alexandria.
GRAHAM-JAMES Patrick Arthur Gore Mentioned in Despatches. Major 6859, 4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry died 30th May 1940 (Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Sandford House, Avening, Gloucestershire. His effects went to his mother, Isabel Margaret Graham, widow, attorney of Barbara Elizabeth Gore Graham, spinster. (Newspaper Index Cards, Ancestry) GRAHAM, Previously reported miss, now known to have been killed in action on the 30th May 1940 near Hondschute, Belgium. Major James Patrick Arthur Gore Graham, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, elder son of the late Perceval Gore Graham and Mrs Graham of Sandford House, Avening, Glos. Commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial, France
HILL Percy Charles 3rd Radio Officer, M.V. British Dominion [London] Merchant Navy died 10/1/1943 age 20. Son of John Wakefield and Henrietta Hill of Avening. Wills and Admin Ancestry.co.uk) He lived at Paradise Avening Gloucestershire died at sea His effects went to his mother Henrietta Lavinia. Commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London
HILL Percy Charles, lost at sea 10 January 1943 aged 20, 3rd Radio Officer, Merchant Navy M.V. British Dominion [London] Born on the 12th October 1922 to John Wakefield and Henrietta Lavinia. Commemorated on his parents memorial in the Holy Cross Churchyard, Avening, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial
PEARSE Robert William Pte 223710, 54 Infantry Brigade Group Transport Coy, Royal Army Service Corps. Born 1908 at Gloucestershire to Walter Henry and Nellie Rose Pearse, nee Watts, baptised on the 31 January 1909 at St George, Nailsworth, home address, Market Street, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Died 16th December 1942 aged 34. He was the husband of Norah Evelyn Mary Pearse, nee Bingham of Spondon, Derbyshire. She was married in 1941 at the Holy Cross, Avening, Gloucestershire. At rest in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery , Thailand. (Memorial has Pearce, true surname is Pearse)
PORTER Percy Norman. Gunner 1714689 7/4th Martime Regiment Royal Artillery died 21/10/1941 aged 33. Son of Arthur Samuel and Florence Maud Porter; husband of Iris May Porter, of Avening, Gloucestershire. Commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.
RICHINGS Frank Cecil. Lance Sergeant 802962 Royal Artillery died 23/8/1940 aged 26. Son of Harry and Emily Ellen nee Franklin. Buried at Colchester Cemetery, Essex.
ROBINS Arthur. Private 5677852 6th Royal West Kent Regiment died 11/8/1943 aged 26. Son of Thomas and Harriet Robins husband of Phyllis Robins, of Frampton Mansell, Gloucestershire Buried at Catania War Cemetery Sicily, Italy
ROBINS (ROBBINS) Kenneth John Born in 1924 at Thornbury, Gloucestershire He may have been the son of Alfred C Robbins and Mabel B Parsons. (No Kenneth J Robins listed with the CWGC, only Kenneth Thomas ROBBINS.
STEVENSON Robert Allan Norris. Captain 114092, Gloucestershire Regiment attached to 1st Parachute Regiment, died 8th March 1943 aged 22. Born 1920 at Upton on Severn Worcestershire Captain Allan Frederick Martin Stevenson, M.C. , and Barbara Joan Stevenson, of Woodhouse Farm, Avening, Gloucestershire.
At rest in Tabarka Ras Rajel War Cemetery, Tunisia
London Gazette dated 5th January 1940.
The undermentioned Cadets (ex-Gentlemen Cadets, Royal Military College) from Officer Cadet Training Unit, Sandhurst, to be 2nd Lieutenant. 31st December. 1939. Gloucestershire Regiment. Robert Allan Norris STEVENSON (114092). Plus three others.
WHITE Donald Howarth Private S/935701 Royal Army Service Corps formerly Royal Artillery died 26/11/1942 aged 24 Native of Gloucestershire lived at Leeds. Son of George and Mabel White, of Leeds, Yorkshire. Buried 1/12/1942 at Holy Cross Churchyard, Avening.
