Our 10 Local Men remembered from WW2
SLHG is grateful to the students of Stowupland High School for their initial research with the help of Mike Jessop.
Much of the background information has been obtained from Commonwealth War Grave Commission and some from relatives.
Roy Frederick Clements – Private 14406177. 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment.
b. 1925
d. 16th March 1944, age 19
Buried in grave 2.A.1 Kohima War Cemetery, India.
He was the son of Baden and ivy Clements of Stowupland.
Cyril Girling – Flying Officer Air Gunner 173147 RAF Volunteer Regiment,10 Squadron.
b. 1921
d. 24th March 1944, age 23
He is buried in 10.C.44 Rheinberg War Cemetery, Nordrhein, Westfalen, Germany. He died when the plane he was in, a Halifax B111 LV 859 was shot down on a night flight near Koblenz.
He was the son of George and Florence Girling of Stowupland Green.
Arthur Albert Horrex – Guardsman 2625114 1st Battalion Grenadier guards.
b.1927
d. 30 March 1945, age 18
He is buried in a joint grave 587/2 Aalton Berkenhove cemetery, Netherlands.
Charles Housego – Private 5826753, 5th Battalion Suffolk Regiment.
b. 1914
d. 16th May 1943, age 29.
He was a Japanese P.O.W captured in Singapore in February 1942, and died just over a year later. He is buried in grave 6.9.1-67 Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.
Wilfred Charles Scarlett, Flight engineer567762 RAF, 149 Squadron,
b. 13/11/1918, Saxham Street, Stowupland
d. 30 June 1942, age 24.
His plane crashed on a night mission to Bremen all crew were killed and buried in Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery. his grave is plot 69, row E5. Read some details of The loss of flight BF310.
His parents were Charles and Ethel Scarlett and the family were neighbours of the Gyfords.
Wilfed and recently married.
Walter John Thorpe – Private 5833142. 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment.
b. 1921
d. 11th August 1943, age 23
He was a Japanese P.O.W, captured at Singapore in February 1942 and died 18 months later. He grave is SP Mem 9.M.9 Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.
?His parents may have been William and Mary, and he may have had a wife Ella B from Bury St Edmunds?
Dennis William Tricker, Private 14310573. Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.
b.unknown
d. 22nd March 1943,
He is buried in Stowupland Cemetery, adjacent to family members. He was not killed in enemy action but due to illness was sent home. He is the only WW2 serviceman to be buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in Stowupland’s cemetery
His grandparents were William and Harriett(nee Berry) Tricker. They were married in the 1880s and lived in Gipping Road, Stowupland.
He is commemorated on Panel 12 of the Cassino Memorial Italy.
he was married to Sylvia and the son of Eldred and Gertrude Wilden.
He was on the H.M.S Janus, a J Class destroyer which sank on January 23rd 1944 off the Anzio beachhead, due either to a glider bonb or torpedo. There was a heavy loss of life when the magazine exploded.
His parents were Edward and Elizabeth Wilden of Stowupland.
John W. Wilkinson
Nothing more is known
