Philip Powell (OW1973) and Rod Thorpe (OW1973) have completed another tour of overseas cemeteries and memorials to locate and pay tribute to OWs who died during WWI or WWII.
This time, their tour was of England, especially the Midlands and coastal regions where air force men died - primarily in training accidents and navy and army servicemen lost at sea, are commemorated.
The locations visited included Cambridge, Lincoln, Duffield, Sheffield, Chester, Bath, Barnstaple, Plymouth, Chichester, Southampton, Oxford and Runnymede.
They located three WWI OWs and 17 WWII OWs graves and memorials. These are in addition to those in the London area that have been visited previously.
War Name Cemetery/Memorial
WWI Skidmore, L. (OW1906) Burngreave Cemetery Sheffield
WWI Tait, L. (OW1913) Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton
WWI Wall, A.G.N. (OW1907) Wallasey (Rake Lane) Cemetery, Cheshire
WWII Downing, J. J. (OW1938) Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge
WWII Jackson, F. R. (OW1935) Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge
WWII Peverill, R. G. (OW1931) St John the Baptist Churchyard, Scampton
WWII Horsfall, L. G. (OW1933) Kirton-in-Lindsey Cemetery, Kirton-in-Lindsey
WWII Sloggatt, W, K. (OW1932) Driffield Cemetery, Driffield
WWII Bolger, R, K. (OW1941) Blacon Cemetery, Chester
WWII Haynes, A. B. (OW1939) Haycombe Cemetery, Bath
WWII Warne, J.L. (OW1937) Haycombe Cemetery, Bath
WWII Little, K. T. (OW1932) St Augustine Churchyard, Heanton Punchardon
WWII Edgoose. J. F. (OW1940) Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth
WWII Kent, L. S. (OW1936) Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth
WWII Tregear, A. C. (OW1919) Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth
WWII Parkin, G. C. (OW1935) Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth
WWII McCormack, B. R. (OW1932) Chichester Cemetery, Chicester
WWII Greenhill, T. J. (OW1941) Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxford
WWII Bucirde, R.J. (OW1940) Runnymeade Memorial, Surrey
WWII Walker, C.E. (OW1938) Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
A side trip was made to Ventnor on the Isle of Wight to locate the grave of Dr Arthur Way, the fourth headmaster of Wesley College (1882-1892), who died in 1930.
After the tour, Philip travelled to Europe, visiting the grave of Flying Officer Andrew Scott (OW1929), who is buried with the rest of his Lancaster crew in the village communal cemetery of St Palais-sur-mer, about a 2-hour drive north of Bordeaux, near the mouth of the Gironde estuary.
In another tribute to WWII OWs, Leigh Treyvaud (OW1963) recently visited the beautiful Yokohama War Cemetery in Japan to visit the grave of Private John Redmond Hennessy (OW1937) 2/21st Battalion, who died in an accident while a POW on Hainan Island in July 1944.
