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1st June 1940On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Blackall Sergaent Alfred. Pte. (d.1st Jun 1940)
- Blaney Arthur. Cpl. (d.1st June 1940)
- Bowater Frank Leslie. Pte. (d.1st June 1940)
- Froud William Frederick George. L/Cpl. (d.1st Jun 1940 )
- Graham Richard. Pte. (d.1st June 1940)
- Hoggarth Frederick James. CQMS (d.1st June 1940)
- Judd Ernest Charles. Rfmn. (d.1st Jun 1940)
- Lillington Ivor Leonard. WOII. (d.1st Jun 1940)
- Miller Joseph. Pte. (d.1st Jun 1940)
- Millner Wilfred. Sgt. (d.1st Jun 1940)
- Olsen Alan. Pte. (d.1st Jun 1940)
- Quirk Ernest. ERA3. (d.1st June 1940)
- Simcox John Thomas. Pte. (d.1st Jun 1940)
- Wood Leslie Thomas. Pte. (d.1st Jun 1940)
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Cpl. Arthur Blaney. British Army, 17th Field Coy. Royal Engineers . (d.1st June 1940) Arthur Blaney was the son of Charles and Margaret 'Maggie' (McGlade) Blaney. Born 13th of April 1920 he was 19 years of age when word came that he was missing in action after he was trapped on the Dunkirk Beaches. His body was never found and family verbal history tells that the information given is that Arthur was lost at sea. He is remembered on the Dunkirk War Memorial. Rosetta McGlinchey
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Pte. Frank Leslie Bowater. British Army, 9th Bn. Durham Light Infantry. (d.1st June 1940) My Great Uncle Frank Bowater was killed on Dunkirk Beach by enemy air action (See page 148 of The Gateshead Ghurkas, Harry Moses). He has no known grave but is commemorated on the memorial at the CWGC Cemetery, Dunkirk. I wish I knew more.
Geoff English
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CQMS Frederick James Hoggarth. British Army, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards. (d.1st June 1940) My father, Jim Hoggarth enlisted 9/3/32. He married Stella Mawston 26/1/35 and I was born two years later. He was killed during the retreat at Dunkirk. No known grave, and is on the Dunkirk memorial. I have a photo of Cpl. T. Baker's Squad Coldstream Guards July 1932
and another Warrant Officers, Staff Sergeants and Sergeants, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards Wellington Barracks 1938. If any one would like me to check names or would like a copy please contact me.Brian Hoggarth
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Pte. Joseph Miller. British Army, 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry. (d.1st Jun 1940) Joseph Miller served with the 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry during WW2 and was killed in action on the 31/05/1940 or 01/06/1940 aged 31. He is buried in the Annoeullin Communal Cemetery and German Extension in France.
Joseph was the son of Edward and Ethel May Miller, of Gateshead, Co. Durham also husband of Blanche Velyn Alderson Miller, of Gateshead. S Flynn
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Pte. Alan Olsen. British Army, 2nd Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment. (d.1st Jun 1940) Alan Olsen joined the Army as an 18 year old in 1932 and saw service at home, India and as part of the BEF from 1939 with 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment in 2 Corps, 3rd Infantry Division. He was part of the last line of defence and is buried in De Panne in Belgium. He was 27 when he was killed.
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ERA3. Ernest Quirk. Royal Navy, HMS Ivanhoe. (d.1st June 1940) I have been researching those killed on HMS Ivanhoe on the 1 Jun 1940 at sea. Most of these who died are Commemorated on the Naval Memorial in Woodlands Cemetery, Gillingham, Kent.
I was searching particularly for Ernest Quirk, because his son served with my husband in Libya in the Royal Military Police No.1 Dog Company.
- Allison, William Edwin, age 27
- Balls, Edward age 18
- Brice, Edgar
- Cheape, Thomas Russell age 37
- Coleman, Eric
- Cruickshank, John Cameeron
- Dutson, Hubert
- Walker, George
- Ward, Ralph
- Wood, Henry
- Griffin, Ernest
- Hacker, Peter
- Miller, Victor
- Philpot, Leslie
- Quirk, Ernest,age 30. Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class, C/MX 49923. Born 1910 in Liverpool.
- Reece, Ronald
- Richards, Sydney
- Rogerson, John
- Simpson, Robert
- Tibbals, John
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Pte. John Thomas Simcox. British Army, 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters. (d.1st Jun 1940) grandfather
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Rfmn. Ernest Charles Judd. British Army, 2nd Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps. (d.1st Jun 1940) Ernest Judd was my mother's brother.
I visited Etaple Cemetery many years ago and was wandering with my late wife.
We stopped, looked down at a stone and it was Ernest.
I had no idea that he was buried here.
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L/Cpl. William Frederick George Froud. British Army, 2nd Btn. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry. (d.1st Jun 1940 ) William Froud was my grandfather.
He died at Dunkirk when my mother was young.Stef Bloffwitch
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Pte. Leslie Thomas Wood. British Army, 1st Btn. Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment. (d.1st Jun 1940) Leslie Wood is my great-grandad, whose name wasn’t actually Leslie, but George. George used his younger brother's name to join the Army, and he is also buried in a war grave under the name Leslie. I have managed to get his military records, which make interesting reading. He admitted his real name well before the war, yet was still known in the Army as Leslie. I’ve never been able to find much on Leslie himself, but he was in a reserved occupation. Liam Montgomery
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WOII. Ivor Leonard Lillington. British Army , 18th Field Regiment Royal Artillery. (d.1st Jun 1940) Ivor Lillington was born in 1902 in Combe, Hungerford. In 1911 he was living in Baker Street in Aston Tirrold, Berkshire with his father Albert and mother Charlotte Ann (nee Gifford) and 5 siblings. His elder brother Claude Lillington would be killed in WW1 on 31st of July 1917 in France.
In WW2, Ivor was serving with the 18th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. He had been sent to France with his regiment at the start of the war and in 1940 his unit was trapped and he made his way to Dunkirk where he was evacuated.
Whether he was badly injured before getting on a ship or whilst on a ship, he was treated in hospital in Dover for injuries and died there on 1st of June 1940. Judy Barradell-Smith
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