CWGC: Cremated Servicemen Wall WW2

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Reference WMO/76096

Address:

Bournemouth North Cemetery

Strouden Avenue

Bournemouth

BH8 9HX

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Wall
Materials:
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: From CWGC website: 'BOURNEMOUTH CREMATORIUM is situated in the Bournemouth North Cemetery and the names of 34 servicemen and women of the Second World War whose remains were cremated there are inscribed on a screen wall. BOURNEMOUTH NORTH CEMETERY contains 110 Second World War burials, 75 of them forming a plot to the right of the main entrance, the rest scattered. The war graves plot was used for the burial of airmen from various RAF stations in the area prior to the opening of RAF Regional Cemeteries and 23 of the 41 airmen who lie there were killed during an air raid on 23 May 1943.'
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Here are recorded the names of 32 members of His Majesty's Forces who died in the service of their country 1939-1947 and were cremated

P/O Pilot W W Adams RAF 9.8.1943; Craftsman J S Anderson REME 1.7.1943, Corporal Muriel Beazley ATS 2.4.1943; Ch Eng F M Bradbury Merchant Navy 2.11.1946, P/O Pilot J W Carr RAF 7.8.1941, LCpl M J E Clark Intelligence Corps 17.8.1943, Lieutenant A V Curry RAPC 30.8.1942, Private E K Curry RAPC 4.8.1947, Lieutenant T M Gower, R Berks 1/2/1944, Lieutenant J P Hodrill RE 17.11.1943, CQMS G E Hall Pioneer Corps 29.6.1944, Lt Col H W Hamilton 5th Dragoon Guards 22.12.1946, Petty Oficer A G Hartland Royal Navy 26.1.1946, Major J E Hopper REME 28.3..1946, S/Ldr P H Humphries DFC RAF 11.11.1947, AC2 N B Robertson RAF 7.12.1945, Private G R Jeffery Hampshire Home Guard 17 3 1943, Lieutenant j St A Jewell RNVR HMS President 23.5.1943, Private K M Kingswell, RAOC 4.1.1947, Sergeant V A L:ambert RA 8.10.1945, L/Bdr F H Pettifer RA 24.7.1941, 2/Lt R H Stillman 4/7th Dragoon Guards 16.4.1944, Craftsman T H Pollard REME 5.10.1944, F/O (Pilot) G M Sellar, RAF, 6.10.1943, F/O (Pilot) K G Smith RAF 10.11.1944, Captain H B Tanner Dorset Regt 13.6.1943, Flying Officer G Turton RAF 27.4.1944, Sergeant K A Virgo MM Royal Armoured Corps 31.10.1944, Corporal P W Wearn Hampshire Regt 30.12.1947, Major H J Williams RA 18.7.1947, Private E C Wyrill Pioneer Corps Corps 16.10.1945

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