The Fallen Remembered

Second World War · 1939–1945

Twenty-one years after the end of the Great War, the nation was once again called to arms. Men from Natland served in all branches of the armed forces and in theatres of war across the globe.

The names recorded here are those of Natland men who gave their lives in the Second World War and are commemorated on the village war memorial.

Alan Raymond Hodgson

Signaller, Royal Navy, HMS Royal Oak

Died: 14 October 1939, aged 20

Elwin Sedgwick Ferguson

also Elwyn Sedgwick Ferguson

Lance Corporal, 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment (later attached to 23rd Brigade Chindits)

Died: 4 July 1944, aged 26

Ernest Mark Cecil Maples

Acting Sub Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Fleet Air Arm

Died: 23 May 1944, aged 19

George William Armer

Sergeant, 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Stirling Bombers)

Died: 2 March 1943, aged 30

Harry King

Private, 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment

Died: 8 June 1940, aged 20

John Howard Keesey

Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, 16th Parachute Field Ambulance, 1st Airborne Division

Died: 2 October 1944, aged 28

John Hudson

Lance Corporal, 4th Battalion, The Border Regiment

Died: 4 December 1941, aged 21

John Miles Fothergill

Pilot Officer, 53 Squadron, Royal Air Force (formerly 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment)

Died: 27 March 1941, aged 23

William Johnson Howson

Warrant Officer, 550 Squadron, Royal Air Force (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)

Died: 3 February 1945, aged 25

Where they rest

Burial and memorial locations of the WW2 fallen, from Plymouth to Imphal, Tobruk to Becklingen. Click a pin for the men resting there and a link to the cemetery's CWGC record.

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