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BOSTON SPA WW2

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LANCE SERJEANT FREDERICK WALTER DIXON.

 

SERVICE NUMBER: 10601821

UNIT:   3rd 8th Bn. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 30/03/1945.  AGED: 22.

CEMETERY:  Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Germany. GRAVE:  62. K. 12.  

LOCAL MEMORIAL:  Boston Spa.

CWGC States:

"Son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Dixon, of Boston Spa, Yorkshire."

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SERJEANT OBSERVATION WILLIAM HEBDITCH.

 

SERVICE NUMBER: 1101203. UNIT: 42 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 07/10/1941. AGED: 30.

CEMETERY:  Easington All Saints Church, County Durham.  GRAVE:   47.  

LOCAL MEMORIAL:  Boston Spa.

CWGC States:

"Son of Charles and Ann Elizabeth Hebditch, of Loftus (Cleveland),

 Husband of Margaret Jane Hebditch, of Boston Spa. B.A. (Oxon.)."

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CORPORAL JOHN FREDERICK  MISON.

 

SERVICE NUMBER: 4387848. UNIT:  5th East Yorkshire Regiment.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 24/05/1940.  AGED: 35.

CEMETERY:   Beja War Cemetery Tunisia. MEMORIAL: 2. O. 1.

LOCAL MEMORIAL:  Boston Spa.

CWGC States:

"Son of Frederick John and Daisy Mison.

 Husband of Jane Mison, of Boston Spa, Yorkshire Sp. Mem. 'C'."

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W O DONNELL.

 

LOCAL MEMORIAL:  Boston Spa.

Help needed, there is a William Orlando Donnell parents living in Middlesex, it could be O' Donnell.

 On the Boston Spa Memorial a cross was placed giving details as Duke of Wellingtons, the only Duke of Wellingtons is Reginald Walter O' Donnell, no connection again to Boston Spa.

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PRIVATE HENRY READ.

 

SERVICE NUMBER: 7609772.  UNIT: 14 Army Field Workshop Royal Army Ordnance Corps

GAVE HIS LIFE: 23/05/1940. AGED: 23.

CEMETERY: Zutkerque Churchyard France. (On road from St Omar to Calais)  GRAVE:   6.  

LOCAL MEMORIAL:  Boston Spa.

CWGC States:

"Son of William and Jessica Read.

 Husband of Elsie Read, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire."

 

Henry lies at peace 20 Kms from Calais with 12 other Royal Army Ordance Corps men and one man from the Royal Air Force.

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FUSILIER PETER JEFFREY SCOTT.

 

SERVICE NUMBER: 14317394. UNIT:  9th Bn Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 07/11/1943. AGED: 19.

CEMETERY:   Dunkurke Minturno War Cemetery Southern Italy. GRAVE:  III, J, 14..  

LOCAL MEMORIAL:  Boston Spa.

CWGC States:

"Son of Archibald and Dora Scott.

 Husband of Monica Lilian Scott (nee Huby)  of Boston Spa, Yorkshire."

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S THOMPSON.

 

LOCAL MEMORIAL:  Boston Spa.

CWGC States: Memorial shows RAF, Cannot identify details from CWGC with man from Boston Spa.

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