Stratford on Avon WW2 War Mem (Post 1945 deaths)

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Stratford on Avon WW2 War Mem (Post 1945 deaths)

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WW2 War Memorial Wall

Those killed on active service of a war like nature since 1945.

COLEMAN, Frederick. Sergeant 556741, Royal Warwickshire Regiment died on active service on the 13th May 1956 aged 40. He accidentally shot himself in the stomach while boarding a military vehicle in Nicosia. He is at rest in Waynes Keep Cemetery, Nicosia, Cyprus.

CHAMP, David Michael. Private 23968644 Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters, attached to the Devon and Dorset Regiment killed in action on the 10th February 1972 aged 23 by a landmine at Freeduff, South Armagh, Northern Ireland while on patrol. He is at rest in Stratford-on-Avon Cemetery, Warwickshire.

OWEN, Jonathan Huw. Flying Officer 8304202B Royal Air Force, stationed at RAF Lyneham. Died on the 19th November 1993 aged 23. He was killed with eight others in a Hercules crash. It was flying from RAF Lynham to RAF Lossiemouth on a routine training flight when it crashed. It normaly has an operational crew of five but there were an additional four people on board. The plane did not have a black box. He is at rest in St Michaels and All Angels, Calne Road, Lyneham, Wiltshire. SN15 4PR.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ft-was-not-fitted-with-black-box-2316568.html
http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/hercules_glen-loch.htm

MUIRHEAD, Paul Brian. Lance Corporal 25127170, Royal Irish died on the 6th September 2006 aged 28. He is at rest in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Church Lane, Bearley, Stratford on Avon. He volunteered to go to Afghanistan alongside his fellow Rangers, it was whilst defending his fellows Rangers that he was killed. After the attack he had been receiving specialist medical care, and his parents were with him when he died.
https://army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/13064.aspx

WHITTAKER, Joseph John. Private 25219363, 4th Parachute Regiment died 24th June 2008 aged 20. He died when he was caught in an explosion from an IED in the Upper Sangin Valley in Helmand on 24 June 2008. Sgt Major Williams, of 2 PARA was also killed that day.
http://www.paradata.org.uk/people/joe-whittaker

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