2RUR Headstones

Cambes En Plaine Cemetery






2nd Battalion (Infantry)















1st Battalion (Airborne)


Douvres-La-Delivrande Cemetery
(Stones allocated to, cared for and visited by local school children)




2nd Battalion (Infantry)

















































  1st Battalion (Airborne)









Hermanville Sur Mer Cemetery

2nd Battalion (Infantry)









1st Battalion (Airborne)





Banneville-la-Campagne Cemetery (courtesy of Alan Holmes)

Section of cemetery containing graves of twenty 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles members including: 

Lance Serjeant JAMES ADAIR McBRIDE, Service Number: 7012157
Died 19 July 1944, 30 years old, I. A. 26.
 
Corporal WILLIAM THOMAS MILLAR, Service Number: 7011756
Died 20 July 1944, 29 years old, I. A. 28.
 
Rifleman THOMAS WILLIAM KING, Service Number: 841864
Died 09 July 1944, 30 years old, IX. B. 24.
 
Corporal FRANCIS McSPERRIN, Service Number: 7011222
Died 19 July 1944, 33 years old, I. B. 26.
 
Rifleman GEORGE ALEXANDER MARTIN, Service Number: 7021483
Died 20 July 1944, 21 years old, I. A. 27.
 
Lance Serjeant JAMES ERNEST STEVENSON, Service Number: 7011810
Died 19 July 1944, 32 years old, I. A. 30.
 
Rifleman CLAUDE JAMES STOCK, Service Number: 7016953
Died 20 July 1944, 26 years old, I. B. 20.
 
Corporal FRANK THOMAS GEORGE WALLIS, Service Number: 7019327
Died 19 July 1944, 29 years old, I. A. 25.

Rifleman BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Service Number: 14220974
Died 27 July 1944. 20 years old, I. A. 21.

Rifleman WALTER GEORGE CROMPTON, Service Number: 6405699
Died 19 July 1944, 21 years old, I. A. 29.
 
Rifleman STANLEY HOLDEN, Service Number: 3782973
Died 19 July 1944, 20 years old, I. A. 20.
 
Lance Corporal WILLIAM SAMUEL HOLMES, Service Number: 7045707
Died 21 July 1944, 29 years old, I. A. 24.
 
Rifleman JAMES SYLVESTER McCABE, Service Number: 14407007
Died 19 July 1944, 20 years old, I. B. 29.

Rifleman CHARLES ROWLAND PARKIN, Service Number: 14655349
Died 19 July 1944, 19 years old, I. A. 22.
 
Corporal ARTHUR LAWRENCE STEWART, Service Number: 7010811
Died 24 July 1944, 34 years old, I. B. 25.
 
Rifleman THOMAS HENRY WILLIAMSON, Service Number: 7019939
Died 04 August 1944, 22 years old, XVI. C. 28.

Rifleman GARRETT WOLFE, Service Number: 6409448
Died 24 July 1944, 30 years old, I. B. 24.
 
Second Lieutenant BRIAN RAVENSDALE BURGES, Service Number: 308423
Died 19 July 1944, 19 years old, I. B. 28.
 
Rifleman WILLIAM BURGESS, Service Number: 1607298
Died 19 July 1944, 31 years old, I. B. 23.

Rifleman GEORGE HENRY BALL, Service Number: 7044397
Died 21 July 1944, 25 years old, I. A. 23.


Leopoldsburg War Cemetery - Belgium 

2nd Battalion (Infantry)

CAPTAIN LESLIE FREDERICK LAVING Service Number: 233304
2nd Bn. The London Irish Rifles
Died 19 September 1944 Age 31 years old
IV. D. 1.
Son of John and Ellen Laving; husband of Janet Muriel Laving, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire.




Lance Serjeant DANIEL McMICHAEL Service Number: 7009901
Died 26 September 1944 Age 34 years old
V. C. 2.
Son of Alfred and Mary McMichael, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.




Corporal HENRY SMITH STEADMAN Service Number: 5341308
2nd Bn. The London Irish Rifles
Died 19 September 1944
IV. D. 3.




Overloon Cemetery (courtesy of Gerard Berkers)


Bert Weymans' November 1944 drawing of Field Graves of Dutch Interpreter Sergeant W.C. van der Burgt and six 2 RUR Rifleman who were subsequently re-buried at Overloon War Cemetery.











7020024 Rifleman Kenneth Erskine, 
2nd Bn. Royal Ulster Rifles, 
KIA 14th October 1944. Age 22
Son of Hamilton and Sarah Freeburn Erskine and husband of Agnes Elizabeth Furr of Worth, Kent.
Kenneth Erskine was hit by shrapnel and died on 14th October 1944 on the battlefield of Overloon in the direction of Merselo. 






Venray Cemetery (courtesy of Caspar Meulenbeld)









2nd Battalion














RIFLEMAN WILLIAM FRED GRINDROD
Service Number: 3778633
Died 30 November 1944 Age 25 years old
VI. D. 5.
Son of Fred and Annie Grindrod, of Bury, Lancashire; husband of Lillian Grindrod, of Bury.


















1st Battalion (Airborne)













Mierlo Cemetery

2nd Battalion (Infantry)

Rifleman JOHN YOUNG AUBNE, Service No: 14730889
Died 1st December 1944, Age: 18
Grave Reference: III. F. 12.
Son of John Young Aubne and Elsie Aubne, of Billingham, Co. Durham.

Rifleman ALAN CECIL JOHNSON, Service No: 14423673
Died 18th October 1944 Age: 19
Grave Reference: I. D. 2.
Son of Cecil and Gertrude M. Johnson, of Catford, London.

Rifleman JOHN CHARLES LEWIS, Service No: 14437073
Died 1st December 1944 Age: 19
Grave Reference: III. F. 13.
Son of Thomas Lewis, and of Mary Jane Lewis, of Sparkbrook, Birmingham.
His brother Samuel also fell.

Lieutenant HUGH MACLEOD SHEANE, Service Number: 176459
Died 27 November 1944, Grave Reference: III. F. 11.



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