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20th October 1944 On this day:  Arrival  On the Move  Holding the Line  Reliefs  Quiet  On the Move  In Support  Harrassing Fire  Positions Recced  In Action  Accidental explosion  Bridge  Skill at Arms competition  Support  Mosquito shot down  Prisoner  Orders  Flooding  At Rest  Training  Patrols  On the Move  Attack on Siam  Award  Illness  Escort to photographic sortie  Preparations  Troop positions attacked   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Remembering those who died this day. Evans Ernest Richard. Cpl. (d.20th Oct 1944 ) Hawgood Edwin. SW1 (d.20th October 1944) Lake Edward John Albert. Rfn. (d.20th Oct 1944) Lake Edward John Albert. Rflmn. (d.20th October 1944) Tatterson Carl Edward. PFC. (d.20th October 1944) Vouk Stanislav. PO (d.20th Oct 1944) The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 22nd April 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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There are:29 items tagged 20th of October 1944 available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. Stories from 20th October 1944 Cpl. Ernest Richard Evans. British Army, 2nd Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps . (d.20th Oct 1944 ) My brother Ernie Evans was with the 2nd KRRC, after being with the 8th army in the North African Desert came home in 1944 to prepare for D Day leaving for France in June 1944. It appears that during a battle at a place in Holland Tilberg my brother was wounded in the abdomen, he returned to base with his men then for some unknown reason was last seen heading back to where the battle took place. I assume to perhaps help a comrade whom he had left there. The next news we received his grave was in Leopoldberg cemetery Belgium. The mystery was if the action took place in Holland why was he buried in Belgium. On a visit to the cemetary I spoke to a man who with his father created the cemetery, he told me that during the war that area had a German field hospital and my brother was wounded in Tilberg and possiblly captured and brought down to the hospital for treatment. In the cemetary where my brother is buried, the grave just behind him is the grave of his friend Rfn Gavin. Could my brother gone back to the action to help him and been taken prisoner? That we will never know. Frank Evans Add to this record. PO Stanislav Vouk. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 351 (Yugoslavian) Sqdn. . (d.20th Oct 1944) Pilot Officer Stanislav Vouk is buried in the Dunta Doli Civil Cemetery in Croatia. S Flynn Add to this record. SW1 Edwin Hawgood. Royal Navy, H.M.S. Pembroke . (d.20th October 1944) Shipwright 1st Class Hawgood is buried in the Upper Aghada Cemetery, Aghada, Co. Cork, Ireland. sflynn Add to this record. PFC. Carl Edward Tatterson. United States Army, B Coy. 116th Infantry Regiment. (d.20th October 1944) Carl Tatterson was with the 29th Infantry Division, 116th Infantry Regiment, Company B. He was reported Missing in Action on 30th of September 1944 near Moenchengladbach, Germany. He was taken by train to Stalag VIIA, Moosburg, Germany. He had a leg wound that required surgery to amputate. Carl died on 20th October 1944. Joelle Garlow Add to this record. Rfn. Edward John Albert Lake. British Army, 2nd Btn. 8 Platoon. Kings Royal Rifle Corps. (d.20th Oct 1944) My father Edward Lake landed in France on D Day + 4 and was seconded to escort a tank regiment, The Royal Scots Greys to give them ground cover. He saw action right through France including the Falaise Gap, into Belgium and was killed on a night raid to capture prisoners for interrogation about 5 miles south of Tilburg. He now lays in his final resting place in a cemetery in Bergen Op Zoom Holland. Daniel Lake Add to this record. Rflmn. Edward John Albert Lake. British Army, 2nd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps . (d.20th October 1944) Edward Lake is my father who was killed approx 5 miles south of Tilburg and is buried in a war grave in Bergen Op Zoom. Daniel Lake Add to this record.

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