Crawley Down Debt of Honour


The names shown below are those of Crawley Down who gave their lives during the 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 wars.
Click on a highlighted name to open a new window into the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website entry for that person. This will enable you to access information regarding the particular cemetery or memorial where that person is buried or commemorated. Where the name has not been highlighted this implies that we were unable to establish the correct entry. You may also click on the cemetery or memorial name to see the record for that location.
First World War 1914-1918
Lance Corporal Frank Oswald Ansell The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Private Basil Ansell Royal Sussex Regiment St Sever Cemetary, Rouen
Lieutenant Richard Edward Kynaston Bradshaw London Regiment (The Rangers) Thiepval Memorial
2nd Lieutenant William Douglas Bradshaw Royal Field Artillery Aveluy Communal Cemetary Extension
Lance Sergeant Oliver Brackpool Royal Sussex Regiment Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Private Sidney Edward Brackpool Royal Sussex Regiment Le Touret Memorial
Private Charles Croucher Royal Sussex Regiment Loos Memorial
Lieutenant Bruce Frands Sholto Douglas South Staffordshire Regiment Bethune Town Cemetery
Private Ernest Funnell Royal Sussex Regiment  
Private Frederick Funnell Queens Royal West Surrey Arras Memorial - Bay 3
Private John Funnell Durham Light Infantry Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamari
Lance Corporal Frederick William Kingsland Royal Fusiliers Courcelette British Cemetery
Private Alfred Mitchell Northamptonshire Regiment Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension
Private William Mitchell Royal Sussex Regiment Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval
Private Thomas Millyard Queens (Royal West Kent Regiment) Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery
Private Henry Albert Page The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Thiepval Memorial
Private Herbert John Phillpot Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension
Mechanic Stewart Plaws British Red Cross  
2nd Lieutenant Paul J Rodocanachi Royal Flying Coprs Torreken Farm Cemetery No.1
Private Frederick Sargent Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment) Vimy Memorial
Private Thomas William Searle Royal Sussex Regiment  
Lieutenant James John Scaramanga Royal Air Force Aire Communal Cemetery
Gunner Gilbert Arthur Simmonds Royal Garrison Artillery Crawley Down (All Saints') Churchyard
Private Frank Simmonds Royal Sussex Regiment Thiepval Memorial
Lance Cpl Harry Slater Royal Garrison Artillery Crawley Down (All Saints') Churchyard
Company Serjeant Major George Spencer Leicestershire Regiment Bienvillers Military Cemetery
Private Frederick Stedman Royal Sussex Regiment Thiepval Memorial
Sapper Frank Stevens Royal Engineers Albert Communal Cemetery Extension
Private Leonard Streeter The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Private Stanley Terry Royal Sussex Regiment Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe
Private James Tester Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
Private Alfred Towes Royal Engineers Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
2nd Lieutenant Alfred Waite Royal Berkshire Regiment Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert
Private Charles Waite Grenadier Guards Albert Communal Cemetery Extension
2nd Lieutenant Richard Alured Waller Royal Fusiliers Tincourt New British Cemetery
Gunner Ernest Richard (known as Joseph) Whitman Royal Garrison Artillery Aire Communal Cemetary
Second World War 1939-1945
Leading Aircraftman Reginald George Billings Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Eindhoven (Woehsel) General Cemetery
Driver Crystel Herbert Botting Royal Army Service Corps Benghazi War Cemetery
Sergeant (Air Gnr.) George Buckland Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve East Grinstead (Mount Noddy) Cemetery
Private Alfred Burtenshaw Royal Sussex Regiment Cassino War Cemetery
Flying Officer (Pilot) John Frank Chandler Royal Air Force Honington (All Saints) Churchyard, Suffolk
Captain Frederick James Colville Gordon Highlanders St. Valery-en-Caux Franco-British Cemetery
Private Charles Henry Dawson Royal Sussex Regiment Abbeville Community Cemetery Extension
Bombardier Ernest Dawson Royal Artillery Tilly-Sur-Seulles War Cemetery
Corporal Frank Edward John Foster The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) Sfax War Cemetery
Private Phillip Halfhead Royal Hampshire Regiment Hottot-Les-Bagues War Cemetery
Sergeant (Air Gnr) Royston Elvin Keel Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Leopoldsburg War Cemetery
Private William Nicholas Law Royal Army Medical Corps Crawley Down (All Saints') Churchyard
Sergeant (Nav.) Michael John MacNaughton-Smith Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Schoonselhof Cemetary
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Murray Pirie Royal Engineers Tourlaville Communal Cemetery and Estension
Sapper Edwin Arthur Leonard Pollard Royal Engineers Crawley Down (All Saints') Churchyard
Captain Peter de Lannoy Paxton Watson Royal Sussex Regiment Basra War Cemetery
  Kenneth Frank Wheeler Queens Westminster Rifles Cassino War Cemetery
You may also like to look at www.roll-of-honour.com/Sussex/CrawleyDown to see further research on the Crawley Down war casualties.
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