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Returned from Duty - WW2
Returned from Duty - WW2 including Home Guard and Civilian organisations
30 names so far
Richard Dean (Liz Dean info)
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2) Anthony Eastham (Greg Eastham info)
Drove an ambulance \ medical corps
Worked at Mount Street Hospital.
3) William Harrison
Preston Road
AFS
4) John Griffith
AFS
5) Kenneth Hodkinson
Home Guard
Later became an author. Writing about his youth and local history.
6) Sydney Tuson WW2
7) Dick Tuson "
8) David Tuson "
9) Harry B Waring
Living at Preston Road
He was a Joiner and an Air Raid Warden
10) Fred Green
AFS
11) Ann Prescott
ARP
12) Ronald Hodkinson
62 Search light Regiment, which was involved with the gun placement on Lucas lane
Living at Low Farm, Town Lane
13) Joseph Hodgkinson
14) Rex Almond
Civil Air Guard
15) Peter Croft
ARP
16) Sydney Pass
ARP Lorry Driver
17) Francis Kerfoot
Part time ARW
18) John Snape
ARP, Rescue and Demolition
19) James Livesey
of Spring Terrace Moss Lane in 1939
ARP Rescue and Demolition
20) Thomas Alker ?
Leatherlands Farm, Moss lane
ARP Warden in 1939
21) John Rigby
of "Greenfields" Town Lane, Whittle le Woods
Lt Colonel RAMC (TA) Retired
Senior Medical Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory
22) William Brindle
Town Lane
ARP Warden
23) Harold Slater
Halls Square, Whittle le Woods?
ARP ( Air Warden Post)
24) R H Chaplin
C Company, Home Guard
Whittle le Woods
Received a Home Guard Certificate for good service
(25) Joseph Edward Kane - new as of 21\11\2020
Born 1 December 1919, Lord Street Whittle le Woods
Reg no: 2000551
Rank: Lance Corporal
Singapore
560th Field Company
Royal Engineers
Believe he was captured on 15 February 1942
I have found him as a Prisoner of War (POW) at Malaya POW Camp as 1 November 1944
He was liberated on 2 September 1945 from (MA camp aka MALAY CAMP)
Augustine T Hunter
His Uncle's name is on the WW1 section of the memorial
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Andrew Lawson
Age: 28
Driver with the 8th Army to Tripoli
Son of Mr. and Mrs. A H Lawson of Nook Cottage, Town Lane, Whittle le Woods
His Fiancée was Pte Joan Tranter in the ATS, age 19 of 22 Gillibrand Street, Chorley also training to be a Driver.
A new person was discovered by chance on 3/1/2022 via a newspaper clipping
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Alan Lee Brown
Age 21
An Estate Labourer and conscientious objector
Lived at Shaw Brow, Whittle le Woods
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David George Tustin- More information to add!
Born 28 September 1916 at Crooke Hall Lodge
Service No: 764806
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Local Defence Volunteers later became the Home Guard
Low Mill on Waterhouse Green was then the HQ for the LDV.
15 Forward Trailer (?) Section
Served 5 years, 7 months
Demobilized in 1946?
Married Alice Pearson in 1942
Notes from his son-
David George, my father. George as he was known, lived with his parents in Kem Mill Cottages (part of the Crook Hall Estate); He was conscripted into WWII eventually serving as Brigade Ordnance Warrant Officer Class 1 in the 5th Indian Beach Army, recovering Malaya from the Japanese. My parents married in 1942 and after the war lived out their lives in Whittle.
His son has a website about George
https://sites.google.com/site/davidgeorgetustin/home
Died in 2006, Aged 89
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James Wood.
Date of Birth: 14 July 1914.
Place of Birth: Whittle Le Woods, Lancashire.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Lance Corporal.
Regiment: The South Wales Borderers
Service Number: 3912910.
Date of Capture: unspecified.
Theatre of Capture: unspecified
Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIIB at Lamsdorf.
PoW number: 80961.
Stalag Luft VIII-B camp was built within the existing Stalag Luft VIII camp in about 1943
In 1939, he lived at 1 Spring Well Terrace, Town Lane, Whittle le Woods, and was a Public Works Contractor Labourer
His parents are Frederick William. Wood (Served in WW1) and Bertha Braithwaite
Sister Elsie Wood
Frederick Riley aka Fred Riley
Born in 1920
Age:
Rank: Lance Bombardier
RA
Brother of Frank Riley KIA
Son of Peter Riley (Served in WW1) and Martha Thompson
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Jack Kerfoot- New as of 26\1\2024
Born
Age:
Rank:
Reg:
Found via Paul Forrest on the Facebook page Whittle le Woods Pics and Memorials Old and New
Japanese, Prisoner of War
31
Ernie Dixon- New as of 26\1\2024
Born
Age:
Rank:
Reg:
Found via Paul Forrest on the Facebook page Whittle le woods Pics and Memorials Old and New
Japanese, Prisoner of War
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