Second World War - Lynsted Memorial Project
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On the 75th Anniversary of VE and VJ Day, also 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain we remember the men and women of Lynsted, Kingsdown, Norton, Teynham, Newnham, Doddington, Wychling, Oare and Luddenham who lost their lives.
Sadly, Covid-19 coronavirus prevented our Remembrance Exhibition for those listed below.
Names | Villages | Death Dates | Theatre |
1940 |
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Gordon Richard HOPPER | Oare | 5th February | Home |
Sydney Philip GREGORY | Oare | 21st July | Home |
Louisa BANFIELD | Teynham | 11th September | Civilian |
Elsie May CASTLE | Teynham | 11th September | Civilian |
Roy Achilles MARCHAND | Lynsted | 15th September | Battle of Britain Death |
John Greer BOYLE | Lynsted | 28th September | Battle of Britain Death |
Charles Henry APPS | Newnham | 16th November | Home |
1941 |
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Frederick Charles RUCK | Lynsted & Teynham | 26th February | Home |
Richard BEACON | Teynham | 17th April | Civilian/Fireman |
Robert Henry ('Bertram') MILLS | Lynsted | 23rd May | Naval Action - Mediterranean |
Arnold Edward TAYLOR | Doddington | 24th May | Naval Action - North Sea (Bismark action) |
Peter George HILLS | Newnham | 2nd November | USA (RAF training) |
Ernest Charles BAKER | Teynham | 26th November | Western Desert |
Edward George POST | Teynham | 18th December | Far East |
1942 |
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Leslie Frank BURFORD | Luddenham | 1st March | Merchant Navy, North Sea |
Charles Henry GRANSDEN | Lynsted | 4th March | Home |
Harry Stephen AMOS | Lynsted | 2nd June | Home |
Frederick PAYNE | Norton | 6th June | Home |
Philip William PHILLIPS | Doddington | 29th June | North Africa |
Archibald GILBERT | Lynsted | 30th June | Home (sickness) |
Alan Douglas COMYN | Wychling | 19th August | check updated text |
John Vivian SHARP | Lynsted | 18th November | Naval Action, HMS Arethusa |
Walter Edgar WATSON | Teynham | 30th November | North Africa |
1943 |
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Francis Henry CLAPP | Lynsted & Norton | 25th January | North Atlantic |
Robert Charles ELSTON | Teynham | 28th February | North Africa |
George Ivan DRURY | Teynham | 31st March | Mediterranean |
Frank Robert HORSNAIL | Teynham | 9th August | Mediterranean |
John Darrell JEFFREYS | Doddington | 16th August | Mediterranean |
Cuthbert William Prideaux SELBY | Lynsted & Teynham | 27th August | Coastal Command (off Portugal) |
Edwin Dennis KITE | Doddington | 22nd September | Europe (Germany) |
Donald Leonard Seagar SMITH | Doddington | 28th September | Home (Accident) |
Herbert Bertie PARRISH | Teynham | 21 October | Home (Accident) |
1944 |
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Albert ANDREWS | Doddington | 1st February | Italy |
James William ALLEN | Teynham | 4th February | Italy |
Winifred Mary Clarace GAMBELL | Lynsted | 14th March | Home |
Edric Albert HUTTON | Lynsted | 8th June | Home |
Edmond Henry JEFFREYS | Doddington | 10th June | Europe (Northern France) |
Robert Richard HODGES | Norton & Teynham | 26th June | Europe (Northern France) |
Bertram Charles HEATHFIELD | Teynham | 21st July | Italy |
Jack Victor HORSNAIL | Teynham | 2nd September | Italy |
Ernest Harry BRANCH | Lynsted | 6th September | Northern Europe, Belgium |
Kenneth Whigham STEVENS | Newnham | 21st September | Far East, Japan |
George Edward AMOS | Teynham | 2nd October | Europe, France |
Edith Caroline BAILEY | Lynsted | 24th October | Civilian (V1 - 'doodlebug') |
William HOLTUM | Newnham | 20th November | Netherlands |
Harold Lewis WILLIS | Luddenham | 23rd November | Home |
1945 |
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Hubert Frank HIGGINS | Doddington | 18th-19th January | Killed in Action (off Holland) |
Leslie Frank BOORMAN | Teynham | 1st-2nd February | Burma |
Alfred Henry Daniel FISHER | Lynsted | 1st April | Germany |
Albert PRICE | Teynham | 5th April | Germany |
Edwin J MOODY | Wychling | 11th April | Italy |
Cecil William POWELL | Oare | 4th August | Home (accident) |
(James) Percy DALE | Oare | 11th October | Home (accident) |
1946 |
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Geoffrey Sydney BUTTON | Teynham | 18th January |
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them