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World War II
CASUALTIES NOT IN THE BOOK
OF REMEMBRANCE Surnames G
Gawling, T.
Thomas Gawling or Gowling, 1734427, lived at 66 Astley
Avenue, Dover. He was a Gunner in the Royal Artillery,
142 battery, 45 Light AA Regiment. He was 35 when he
died on 13 January 1943
He is buried at the Medjez El Bab War Cemetery,
Tunisia. 5
F 4
"He died that we might live" - remembered by his
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Geard, F. W. J.
Frederick Wilfred John Geard, C/KX 86860, was a Stoker,
1st Class, in the Royal Navy. He was lost at sea with
H.M. Submarine Thames on 3rd August 1940. He is
commemorated on the Chatham Naval memorial. Panel 38.2
He was the "dear and only" son of Mr and Mrs Geard,
who had lived at Folkestone Road, and brother to Winnie
and Mollie
"For ever in our thoughts" |
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Gearing, C. T.
 Charles Thomas Gearing ("Sonny") was the son of Charles
Thomas Gearing and Frances Emily, nee Parsons. He had a
brother and a sister christened at St James; Louis
William Edwin, born in 1910 and Violet Helen, born in
1913. Then the family was living at 12 Trevanion Street,
with Charles senior employed as a car man and then a cab
washer
Charles served as a Bombardier in the
Royal Artillery, 9 Coast Regiment, and was 39 when he
died. He is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery,
Thailand. 2 H 35
The headstone is at St James, and
reads:
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In Ever Loving Memory
Of
Our dear Mum
and Dad
Frances Emily Gearing
Died 5th October 1946
Aged 70 years |
Charles Thomas Gearing
Died 22nd Feb 1947
Aged 73 years |
Also our Dear Brother
Charles “Sonny”
Died 7th July 1943
While a P O W
Aged 42 years
Interred at Siam
Life fades but memory clings |
1948 - "Not just today, but every day, in silence we
remember our dear mother, .... father, ... also our
brother Sonny, who died whilst a prisoner of war in
Japan" - From all at Sutton, Ashford, Dover and Londonwith
thanks to Joyce Banks |
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Gillman, E. E.
Ernest Edward Gillman was a Fireman with the Merchant
Navy, on the Maid of Orleans. He was killed at sea on
28th June 1944, aged 42, and is commemorated on the
Tower Hill Memorial. Panel 66
He was the "beloved husband" of
Beatrice Gillman, from Harwich (formerly of Limekiln
Street, Dover), and the fourth son of Mrs Gillman and
the late Mr T Gillman, from 46 Ropewalk, Dover |
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Glass, W. T.
William Tait Glass, D/12969, was a Corporal in The
Buffs, in the 6th battalion (HD). He lived at 2 Waterloo
Crescent, Dover, and died at the Shorncliffe Hospital,
aged 54, on 20 January 1940.
The first part of
his funeral was held at St James(?) in Dover. The hymn "Abide with
Me" was sung, and as the cortege left the church for the
cemetery, "O rest in the Lord" was played on the organ.
The coffin was draped with the Union Flag and borne by
six men from the Buffs. At the graveside a volley was
fired by the regiment. Section G S, Grave 2
He left a widow,
Agnes, and children, Claude, Bob, Jock, and Doreen
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January 1941
In ever loving
memory of my dear father, William Tait Glass,
NDC, who died on active service, 20th January
1940
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow
old,
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn,
But at the going down of the sun and in the
morning,
We will remember them.
His loving daughter, Doreen |
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In ever loving
memory of a dear husband and father, William
Tait Glass, NDC, who died on active service
January 20th 1940. Always in our thoughts. He
died that we might live, his memory hallowed in
the land he loved. His loving Wife, Sons, and
Daughters, and granddaughter Mavis
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