J M Briscoe WWII Service Deaths in Lochaber Area Please send any errors or omissions to [email protected] Date of Service Name First Name Rank Regiment Age Serving Cause of Death Died Buried Death Number Commando Basic Training Royal Welch Fusiliers and BLEAKLEY Charles 18-Sep-42 Fusilier 4208516 20 Centre Gunshot Bunarkaig, Achnacarry Ince-in-Makerfield No.1 Commando Achnacarry Commando Basic Training COOK Herbert 13-Sep-43 Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 14419989 18 Centre Mortar shell wound Achnacarry Islington Achnacarry Commando Basic Training DOOLEY Arthur 19-Sep-43 Marine Royal Marines EX 4045 26 Centre Multiple injuries Achnacarry Liverpool Achnacarry Drowning Lance Commando Depot River Arkaig Cremated DREW Norman 04-Oct-42 Scots Guards 2697714 27 Found 23rd October Corporal Achnacarry Achnacarry Paisley 1942 Commando Basic Training DRYSDALE Kenneth J. H. 04-Jul-44 Private KOSB 3191996 27 Centre Drowning Mucomir Wigtown Achnacarry 44th Royal Naval CH/X11223 Commando Depot FARRELL William Henry 30-Sep-43 Marine 19 Gunshot wound Onich Military Hospital Ilford Commando 3 Achnacarry Commando Basic Training GIBSON Eric Hookway 19-Sep-43 Sergeant Royal Marines PLY/X3404 23 Centre Multiple injuries Achnacarry Bideford Achnacarry Royal Marines Commando Depot Explosion of GOMM Arthur George 23-Nov-44 Sergeant EX/4520(T) 25 Achnacarry Glen Nevis RM Engineer Commando Achnacarry demolition charge Commando Basic Training Not found on Not found on Scotland's HAYDON Alan Albert 28-Nov-41 Gunner Royal Artillery 998913 29 Centre Glen Nevis Scotland's People People Achnacarry Commando Basic Training Ranger Battalion, HOCTEL Lamont Durward 12-Jul-42 Private 35170079 25 Centre Drowning Bunarkaig, Achnacarry Indiana, USA US Army Achnacarry Commando Basic Training HUGHES William Nicol 04-Oct-42 Guardsman Scots Guards 2698261 55 Centre Drowning Bunarkaig, Achnacarry Ardrossan Achnacarry Commando Basic Training Loch Lochy LEES Archibald 03-Sep-42 Private General Service Corps 14241677 25 Centre Drowning Skerton Achnacarry Achnacarry Commando Basic Training McCARTHY Patrick 28-Nov-41 Private West Yorkshire Regiment 5509745 18 Centre Drowning River Lochy Glen Nevis Achnacarry Explosion causing Lance McLEAN George 31-Aug-42 Seaforth Highlanders 2828784 36 Achnacarry disintegration of Achnacarry Glasgow Corporal person
J M Briscoe - Fort William Page 1 of 4 DRAFT 20:33 21/06/2017 J M Briscoe WWII Service Deaths in Lochaber Area Please send any errors or omissions to [email protected] Date of Service Name First Name Rank Regiment Age Serving Cause of Death Died Buried Death Number Fusilier / Drowning Commando Depot SCULLION James 28-Nov-41 Lance Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 6983742 18 Found 2nd June Loch Eil Culnady Achnacarry Corporal 1942 Commando Basic Training STOCKBRIDGE William Nicol 13-Sep-43 Rifleman Rifle Brigade 14411910 18 Centre Mortar shell wound Achnacarry Ruislip Achnacarry Commando Basic Training Royal Warwickshire SWEENEY Charles Henry 04-Jul-44 Private 328576 26 Centre Drowning Mucomir Caverswall Regiment Achnacarry Commando Basic Training Frederick Gloucestershire Regiment TURNER 28-Nov-41 Corporal 4203290 27 Centre Drowning Loch Linnhe Glen Nevis William Morgan and No.12 Commando Achnacarry No. 46 Royal Marine Commando Depot North British Aluminium WOOLLAM George Arthur 07-Jun-45 Lieutenant - 21 Fractured skull Glen Nevis Commando Achnacarry Company's Works 2nd Polish Camp ZAKRZEWSKI Staniskan Jerzy 17-Feb-47 Polish Resettlement Corps 35 Polish Army Heart Failure Cille Choirill Lieutenant Achnacarry Glasnevin Cemetery ASHLEY Pierce 17-Sep-43 Private King's Royal Regiment 14430189 26 Unknown Gunshot wound Onich Military Hospital Dublin
2nd Bn. CAIRNS John O. 12--4-43 Rifleman 7021078 20 Unknown Gunshot wound Onich Military Hospital Donaghcloney Royal Ulster Rifles
79 Field Regt. FRYER Wilfred Wain 17-Dec-42 Gunner 1103493 21 Unknown Smallpox Onich Military Hospital Glen Nevis Royal Artillery 1st Bn Major HAMILTON Donald George 15-Feb-42 King's Shropshire Light 64623 26 Unknown Gunshot wound Onich Military Hospital Churchill (Captain?) Infantry Second Royal Fusiliers Special Training Centre Mountaineering HARE Owen Stewart 06-Jan-41 129412 24 Ben Nevis Loose Lieutenant (City of London Regiment) Lochailort accident Bilateral pneumothorax due HENNESSY William James 15-Dec-42 Driver Royal Army Service Corps T/10701375 24 Not indicated Belford Hospital Merthyr Tydfil to multiple fractures of ribs Acute duodenal ulcer. General LAPWORTH Horace 22-Jun-41 Lance Corporal Royal Berkshire Regiment 5332748 32 Unknown Belford Hospital Coventry Peritonitis. Bronch Pneumonia
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Head injury dur to McKINLAY William Turnbull 11-Jun-43 Corporal Royal Scots 2762683 29 Unknown Onich Military Hospital Lochgelly explosion
Tubercolous Broncho MUNRO John 02-Sep-47 Private General Service Corps 19192691 18 Unknown Raigmore Hospital Glen Nevis Pneumonia James Internal injuries NEILSON Fotherington 05-Nov-40 Corporal RASC T/69962 39 192 Company Belford Hospital Dunfermline Motor cycle accident Catho PARRY Gwilym Jones 02-Mar-44 Gunner Royal Artillery 1722141 23 199 Bty 81 LAA Regt Appendicitis Belford Hospital Criccieth
2nd Bn SMART Albert Harcourt 18-Aug-43 Private 4865124 31 Unknown Gunshot wound Onich Military Hospital Leicester Lincolnshire Regiment
Second Royal Tank Regiment, Multiple injuries in St Andrew's STAPLETON Hubert Monro 23-Jan-42 170966 25 Unknown Belford Hospital Lieutenant R.A.C. an accident Fort William Queen's Royal Regiment WELCH Frederick Edward 14-Sep-43 Private 14604147 27 Unknown Gunshot wound Onich Military Hospital Mitcham (West Surrey)
Charles Sinclair Highland Light Infantry WILSON 13-Dec-42 Captain 64639 27 Not indicated Multiple Injuries Belford Hospital Haddington Hugoin (City of Glasgow Regiment)
2nd Bn Milburn BARNARD George Edmund 17-Apr-45 Serjeant Parachute Regiment 6402811 26 Inverailort Gunshot wound Brighton Arisaig A.A.C. Royal Armoured Corps Multiple injuries PHILLIPS Albert Henry 16-Feb-41 Corporal No.2 Commando 7885644 24 S.T.C. Inverailort Lochailort West Bromwich Falling over precipice 11 Bn, Special Air Service
The Queen's Royal Special Training Centre Special Training Centre SMITH Andrew Henry 01-Jun-42 Captain 67373 25 Bullet wound Glen Nevis Regiment (West Surrey) Lochailort Lochailort
Ordinary Acute Bowel RN Sick Quarters Creagdhu MAY Francis 06-Nov-42 HMS Dorlin D/JX363503 18 HMS Dorlin Glen Nevis Seaman Meningitis Onich
Attachment to Queen's Death certified by Arisaig CAREW John Stanislaus 28-Dec-43 Lance Corporal 2937073 31 Drowning Mallaig Harbour Morar Own Cameron Highlanders House Medical Officer Czeckoslovakia Army SOE STRANKMULLER Josef 12-Aug-42 Nadporucik 30 Drowning South Morar Pinner SOE Arisaig
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BLEAKLEY Stanley Edward 14-Sep-42 Able Seaman Royal Navy C/JX 140663 24 HM MTB 46 Drowned Loch Eil Tottenham
Leading Coastal Forces Repair Base, COURTNELL Herbert Joseph 14-Nov-43 Royal Navy P/J 106638 36 HM MTB 48 Myocarditis Ashampstead Telegraphist Corpach
Chief Petty Camusnagaul Bay HOPKINS Frank Edward 11-May-43 Royal Navy P/J98427 38 HMML 133 Fractured skull Glen Nevis Officer Loch Linnhe
Chief Engine Drowning. Fort WilliamPier St Andrew's PARKS Harry Herbert 28-Nov-40 Royal Navy P/M1531 46 HMS St Christopher Room Artificer Fell off pier Loch Linnhe Fort William
HILL Francis 07-Sep-43 Able Seaman Royal Navy C/X202902 23 HMS Primrose Accidental drowning Corpach Pier Glen Nevis Foreman WARBURTON Leonard 15-Jun-45 Admiralty - 51 Admiralty Corpach Intra cranial tumour Corpach Pier Unknown Engineer Skilled Loch Linnhe WRIGHT George Easton 18-May-44 Admiralty Service 56 Admiralty Corpach Drowning Unknown Labourer Corpach Sudden failure of SUTHERLAND Joseph 27-Dec-44 Ship's Cook Merchant Navy 41 SS Glen Nevis Loch Eil Unknown cardiac conv. ….
Flight Sergeant Crash of Liberator BZ910 Wireless 120 Squadron off the Irish coast. BLAIR John Arthur 13-Jul-44 1105608 22 RAF Ballykelly Aircraft crash Roshven Operator / Air RAF Body found 13th August Gunner 1944 Sergeant 228 Squadron CASTLE Charles Frederick 05-Sep-42 1386747 27 RAF Oban Aircraft crash Near Tiree or Coll Twickenham Air Gunner RAF Alexander Aircraftman Coronary FOSTER 17-Mar-42 RAFVR 1554873 35 General Staff Fort William Kilmonivaig MacGregor 1st Class Thrombosis RCAF No. 8c OTU Multiple injuries, Achintee Farm McDONELL John Donald 16-May-43 Flying Officer RCAF J/13408 21 Tomnahurich RAF Dyce disintegration Fort William Flight RNZAF 516 (RAF) Sqdn Aircraft crash Glenloch WOODGATE Arthur John 06-Feb-44 412300 21 Troon Lieutenant 516 (RAF) Sqdn Dundonald Fractured skull Kilchoan Found SCHENK Alfred 04-Apr-45 Officer Kriegsmarine 1941 42 Kriegsmarine Drowning Unknown Glasnacardoch Bay, Mallaig
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