17th April 2025
Added page on the Cambridge American Cemetery at Madingley, near Cambridge.
Added biography pages for Lt Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr, US Naval Reserve and Lt Col Leon Robert 'Bob' Vance USAAF.
https://tellthemofus.uk/lieutenant-joseph-patrick-kennedy-jr-us-navy-
https://tellthemofus.uk/biography-lieutenant-colonel-leon-robert-bob-vance-us-army-air-force-
16th April 2025
Added sections on the 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 Memorials to The Missing on the Brookwood Military Cemeteries Page
12th April 2025
Updated biography page for Flying Officer John Northend to include information on his missions flown.
Biography page for F/O John Northend
Example
| 20 Nov 1942 |
Turin |
W4244 | PO RNG Barlow (future Dambuster) | PO Barlow bombed from 9,000 feet after pinpointing factory by road junction South West of town and by the river. On return the Starboard Inner engine gave trouble and had to be feathered |
11th April 2025
Added page for Lance Sergeant Charles Frederick Bristow GM Royal Engineers.
Bomb disposal hero of WW2, previously fought in WW1 and was evacuated from Dunkirk.
10th April 2025
Added page St. Andrews Parish Church, Cranwell.
1000 year old churchyard, used by Vikings and later used for burials of service personnel from Royal Naval Air Station, later Royal Air Force Station and RAF College, Cranwell.
9th April 2025
Buffalo LVT 'Conqueror' destroyed at Serooskerke
8th Nov 1944.
Lieutenant England was in command of the second of four amphibious Buffalo LVT (Landing Vehicles, Tracked) sent in convoy on a patrol to Veere on the North East of the island. His vehicle struck a submerged 11 inch shell rigged up to a post as a mine causing many casualties.
The incident occurred close to the Protestant Church in Serooskerke, where there is a memorial including the names of the casualties. Twenty men, including Lt England, were killed. Thirteen were Royal Marines and five were the Royal Engineers crew of the Buffalo. One of the casualties was a Medical Orderly, Private Walter Branch of the Royal Army Medical Corps. He had volunteered to act as Medical Orderly for the patrol. Lt England was the only Officer killed.
5th April 2025
Added a lot of detail and photographs to the biography page of Lieutenant Commander Nicodeme Guilonard, Royal Netherlands Navy.
https://tellthemofus.uk/biography-lieutenant-commander-nicodeme-guilonard-netherlands-navy-
4th April 2025
Added the biography page of Marine Byron Moses No 41 Royal Marines Commando.
2nd April 2025
Added page on Scopwick Burial Ground, near RAF Digby in Lincolnshire.
Including the grave of Pilot Officer John Magee Jr RCAF, poet and author of 'High Flight', and German War Graves.
1st April 2025
Added page on 6192346 Cpl William Jacobs, Belturbet Church of Ireland Churchyard.
Cpl Jacobs was tragically and accidentally shot and wounded by a junior soldier and succumbed to his injuries in the barracks at Belturbet.
Click here to go to the page Belturbet Church of Ireland Churchyard
31st March 2025
Added page on Nijmegen Jonkerbos Cemetery
Nijmegen was a front line town from 17 September 1944 until February 1945. An initial temporary cemetery was created by No. 3 Casualty Clearing station, in a wooded area known as Jonkers Bosch, from which it took its name. The war cemetery was established, after the war, nearby.
Jonkerbos War Cemetery contains 1,629 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 99 of them unidentified, and 13 war graves of other nationalities.
Click here to go to the Nijmegen Jonkerbos Page
30th March 2025
Added detail to the biography page of Captain Peter Haydon DSO Royal Marines.
Added the family's scrapbook commemorating Captain Peter Haydon DSO Royal Marines.
Click here to go to the biography page of Captain Peter Hillyard Haydon DSO Royal Marines.
25th March 2025
Added details of John Northend's crew members to the page
The Crew of Lancaster W4192 "QR-E"
Click here to go to the page of The Crew of Lancaster W4192 "QR-E"