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.