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This is very much a work in progress. The roll of honour for the Great War has been thoroughly researched. All 97 old boys who are known to have died have been identified, their places of burial or commemoration identified and for most of them we have extensive biographical information and photographs. The stories of many of them have been told on our annual battlefield tours. The situation for the 46 Second World War dead is very different. Admittedly I have not done as much research on boys from the Second War and most of it was carried out several years ago.

Although we have a lot of information on some boys, particularly RAF aircrew, not all of the boys have even been firmly identified on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Register and we have photographs of only a handful of them. The school, which maintained a detailed and updated roll of honour of every old boy who served in the First World War in the annual school calendar only kept haphazard records of those who served in the Second. Attempts to research a sample of the boys through the archives of the Bury Times has so far revealed little. This is in contrast to the BGS dead of the Great War, most of whom received extensive obituaries in the local press. This is where I would like the help of the alumni to try and fit together the missing pieces, and in particular put faces to as many of these names as possible. If you have any information, please contact Mark Hone, Head of History & Politics at mhone@bgsboys.co.uk.

1. Marine William Temperley Atherton, 46 Royal Marine Commando. Billy Atherton was the son of the Chairman of the Radcliffe branch of the Royal British Legion and chief warden of Radcliffe. 46 Royal Marine Commando landed at ‘Juno' beach on D-Day.They suffered heavy casualties in fighting on the eastern end of the allied beachhead, particularly when they liberated the villages of Rots and Le Hamel from SS troops on 11 th June 1944. Billy Atherton was sent to France in late June as one of the replacements for these losses. On his first patrol near the village of Sallanelles on 2nd July, the Germans spotted the commandos and opened fire with mortars. Billy was killed and three other marines were wounded. He was 19 years old. He is buried at Ranville Cemetery, Normandy, IIIA.G.7. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has his date of death incorrectly recorded as 30th June. School wreaths were laid on his grave during our 1995 and 2001 Normandy battlefield tours. On the latter occasion a special service was held involving members of the CCF, two Deputy Mayors of Ranville and local veterans. (Thanks to John Swain and former comrades of Billy in 46 RMC for providing additional information correcting my original entry)

2. Flying Officer Thomas Ralston Atkinson, 640 Squadron RAF. Navigator of Halifax LW505 from RAF Leconfield shot down during a raid on Stuttgart 20th/21st February 1944. Buried at Durnbach Military Cemetery, Germany Grave 11.D.9. Aged 21

3. Flight Sergeant Keith Barden, 78 Squadron RAF. Pilot of Halifax LW518 from RAF Breighton, shot down while returning from a raid on Berlin 24th/25th March 1944. Originally buried at Farlhorst, later reburied at Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery Grave 8.J.16-19 (Collective grave with other crew members). Aged 21. This was a costly raid for the RAF with 74 aircraft lost out of 811, six from 78 Squadron alone.

4. Flying Officer Clifford Bertenshaw, 105 Squadron RAF. Navigator of Mosquito ML993 from RAF Bourn sent with five others as a diversionary attack on Dusseldorf while major raids were launched on Stuttgart and Nuremburg. They took off from RAF Bourn at 6-52 pm on 19th October 1944 but experienced technical problems a few minutes into the flight and had to jettison their 4,000 lb bomb. Unfortunately they were flying so low that the blast tore off the Mosquito's tailplane and they crashed near Great Staughton in Hertfordshire. Clifford and the pilot Flying Officer L.P. Whipp from Chatburn were both killed. Cheetham Hill (St Luke's) Churchyard Row 70, Grave 42. Aged 30.

5. Lance Corporal Geoffrey Brook, Royal Corps of Signals, died on 5th September 1943 aged 24. Buried at Victoria (Mont Fleuri) Cemetery, Seychelles, grave N.17.20.

6. Serjeant Harold Walker Brooks, Royal Artillery, died on 28th February 1944 aged 25. Ainsworth Methodist Chapelyard Line E, Grave 403.

7. Arthur Butterworth: One of the ‘men of mystery'. There are several possible listings on the CWGC database, the most likely being Engine Room Artificer 4th Class Arthur Butterworth, HMS Mackay, who died on 13th march 1940 aged 29 and is buried at Bootle Cemetery in Liverpool. He came from Rochdale.

8. Sergeant John Butterworth, 49 Squadron RAF. Observer in Hampden AD719 from RAF Scampton. Returning from a raid on Hanover in the early morning of 11th February 1941 they were attacked by a German nightfighter piloted by Oberleutnant Karl Hermann and crashed at Sudbrooke near Lincoln. John and another crewmember were killed but the pilot and a gunner survived. Buried at Elton (All Saints) Churchyard, Bury, Section C, Grave 277. He was 24.

9. Flying Officer Arthur Calvert, Distinguished Flying Medal. Completed a tour with 37 Squadron flying Wellington bombers in the Middle East and Italy, where he gained his DFM. Killed while serving as an instructor at 21 Operational Training Unit, aged 23. He was the pilot of Martinet MS461 which crashed at Bampton, Oxfordshire on 27th March 1944 while participating in a practice attack on a Wellington bomber. Buried at Kersal (St Paul) Churchyard, Grave 3772.

10. Lieutenant Thomas Cartman Military Cross. Thomas Cartman won the MC as a Captain in the 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment (2nd Manchester Pals) during the Battle of Arras in 1917. His death at sea in the Second World War as a 47 year-old Lieutenant was a mystery only recently unravelled with the help of my friend Mr. Brian Cooke, a volunteer researcher at the Fusiliers Museum, Bury. Thomas Cartman was one of 254 soldiers serving on board the pre-war liner SS ‘Arandora Star' which was being used to transport German and Italian internees and prisoners of war to Canada. Many of the officers and NCOs used for this type of duty were First World War veterans in their 40s. On 2nd July the ‘Arandora Star' was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. 847 of the passengers and crew died, including 85 soldiers. Many victims were members of the large Italian community from Scotland. Thomas Cartman is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial to the Missing in Surrey, panel 21, column 3.

11. Seaman Leonard Vernon Clough, HMS ‘Shera', Royal Naval Patrol Service. The ‘Shera' was a small whaling ship commandeered by the Royal Navy in 1940. In February 1942 it was agreed to transfer her to the Soviet navy but she sank in the Barents Sea en route to Russia on 9th March 1942. Leonard Clough is commemorated on the Lowestoft Naval memorial, Suffolk Panel 8, Column 3. He was 22.

12. Sergeant James Frank Cowburn, 117 Squadron RAF. He was a pilot with 117 Squadron flying Hudson bombers during the Tunisian campaign. They flew supply missions for ground troops and suffered heavy losses. James Cowburn was killed in a flying accident at Monastir on 28th April 1943 whilst on operations in Hudson FK390. He was 21. Buried at Enfidaville War Cemetery, Tunisia , grave IV.E.5.

13. Pilot Officer Bryan John Ralph George, 220 Squadron, RAF. Died in a Hudson of Coastal Command based at RAF Thornaby. He was the pilot of Hudson P5151 which ditched in the North Sea off Redcar on 16th January 1941 after suffering engine failure. Runnymede Memorial, Panel 32. Aged 24.

14. Sergeant Ernest Edward Roberts Gommersall, 15 Squadron RAF. On the night of 27th/28th July 1943 he was a gunner in Stirling EH893 which took off from RAF Mildenhall in a massive 787 bomber raid against Hamburg. The aircraft was hit by flak over the target and then engaged by a night-fighter, crashing at Hamburg-Oschenwerder. Only the wireless operator survived and was taken prisoner. The other seven crew are buried at Hamburg Cemetery, Collective Grave 9A. B 10-13. This was the night of the infamous Hamburg firestorm in which 40,000 people died. Before BGS, Ernest Gommersall had attended Heath Grammar School, Halifax, where he was Junior Victor Ludorum in 1933. He was 19.

15. Private William Percy Goulding, 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment died on 9th January 1943 aged 25. He is buried at Madras War Cemetery, India, Grave 8.B.15. He is the most likely of several ‘William Gouldings' on the war graves database.

16. Pilot Officer Frederick Edward Greenhalgh, 106 Squadron RAF. He was the pilot of Hampden L4185 which took off from RAF Coningsby to attack Dortmund on 4th July 1941. The squadron sent three aircraft on the raid, all of which were lost. Two were shot down over the Continent and L4185 crashed at Half Acre Creek in the Thames Estuary after calling for help on the radio. All the crew were killed. He is buried at Prestwich (St Mary) Churchyard, Clough Section 5, Row 10, Grave 147.

17. Aircraftman 1st Class Harry Greenhalgh, 41 Air School RAF. ‘Tubby' Greenhalgh died in mysterious circumstances when he was accidentally shot whilst on guard duty on 21st September 1941. He was 19 and is buried at East London (East Bank) Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Section 11C, Grave 754W.

18. Driver John Hardacre, 463 Water Tank Company Royal Army Service Corps, died on 2nd March 1944, aged 41. As he is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, panel 16, column 3 he presumably died at sea, but I do not yet know further details.

19. Leading Aircraftman Harold Norman Hardacre, 252 Wing, RA. He died during an air raid on 28th April 1942 aged 30. He is buried at Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, 1.E. 17.

20. Gunner Tom Spencer Hopkinson, 84 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. He was an accountant from Tottington and died during Operation ‘Market Garden' on 28th September 1944, aged 22. He is buried at Jonkerbos Cemetery, Nijmegen, Holland, 23.B.3. A school wreath was laid on his grave during our October 2003 Arnhem battlefield tour.

21. Private Wilfred Howarth, Royal Army Service Corps. Died on 26th January 1947 aged 28. Buried at Bury Cemetery Section E.P. 152 Grave 6915.

22. Pilot Officer Basil Robinson Jardine, 102 Squadron RAF. The pilot of Halifax NZ644 which took off from RAF Pocklington on the night of 28th/29th June 1944 as part of a force of 230 aircraft attacking railway targets at Blainville and Metz in order to disrupt German reinforcements and supplies heading for the Normandy battlefields. The aircraft crashed in the Forest of Wassy in Haute-Marne. Basil Jardine and two of the crew were killed and are buried in Wassy Communal Cemetery, Collective Grave 1-3. The other four survived and managed to evade capture.

23. Flight Sergeant Thomas Jefferson, 576 Squadron RAF. He was the navigator of Lancaster PA997 which took off from RAF Elsham Wold on 16th June 1944 as part of a 321 aircraft raid on the synthetic oil plants at Sterkrade. They were hit by flak and crashed in the town of Rhade near Dorsten. Two of the crew escaped and were taken prisoner. The aircraft appears to have broken up in mid-air as Thomas Jefferson's body was found east of Dorsten at Hervest. He was 22. He and the other four dead crewmen were buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. His grave is located at 17.C.12.

24. Driver John Helm Lawrence, 703 General Construction Company, Royal Engineers. A qualified Civil Engineer, he died in an accident on 21st December 1940 aged 23, and is commemorated at Rochdale Crematorium, Panel 4.

25. Fusilier Norman Leak, 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, died in training on 14th November 1944 aged 17. Bury Cemetery Section D.P. 183, Grave 10057.

26. Trooper Thomas Heys Leigh, 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars. He died on 6th April 1945 aged 20. He had been discharged from the army on 2nd February 1944, while still in training. The reason for his discharge is not known and it is unclear why, as a civilian for over a year, he was then commemorated with a war grave.

27. Sergeant Jack Monks, 101 Squadron Royal Air Force. He was the rear gunner on Lancaster ED379 which took off on its fourth mission on the night of 16th/17th April 1943 from RAF Holme as part of a 327 aircraft raid on the Skoda armaments factory at Pilsen (Czechoslovakia). The raiders mistook a nearby asylum for the factory and no damage was done to the Skoda works, although 39 aircraft were lost. ED379 was shot down over Germany; only the wireless operator survived and was taken prisoner. The others are buried at Durnbach War Cemetery in southern Germany. Jack Monks is in grave 5.F.4. He was 22.

28. Pilot Officer John Robert Morton, 57 Squadron RAF. He was the navigator of Lancaster ED970 from RAF Scampton which was part of an 826 aircraft raid on Dortmund on the night of 23rd /24th May 1943. It was shot down by a night fighter and crashed into the North Sea off the coast of Holland. Three crew members' bodies were washed ashore and buried but John Morton is only commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 132.

29. Serjeant Harry Parkinson, F Squadron, 2nd Wing Glider Pilot Regiment Army Air Corps. He was originally in the Lancashire Fusiliers and took part in the airborne landings at Arnhem as 2nd pilot to Staff Sergeant ‘Syd' Dobbs. They took off from RAF Blakehill Farm on 17th September 1944 in a Horsa glider towed by a Dakota aircraft. They delivered their cargo safely and then, like all British glider pilots fought as ordinary infantrymen. During the defence of the 1st Airborne Division HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel at Oosterbeek, Sergeant Dobbs went away from the glider pilot lines to help man an anti-tank gun. On his return he found that Harry Parkinson and several others had been killed by two German FW 190 aircraft which had attacked their position. Harry Parkinson was 28 and is buried in Arnhem (Oosterbeek) War Cemetery. 16.C.12. A school wreath was laid on his grave during our 2003 Arnhem battlefield tour. Coincidentally another BGS old boy, Lieutenant Des Turner also served as a glider pilot at Arnhem and fought only a few yards away from Harry Parkinson at Oosterbeek. However they do not appear to have known one another.

30. Ordinary Seaman Geoffrey Peachment, HMS Whitaker, Royal Navy. The Whitaker was a lend lease frigate built by the Americans in 1943. She took part in the Normandy Landings in June 1944, and was acting as a convoy escort off the Northern Irish coast when she was attacked. According to the authoritative ‘U-Boat.net': ‘At 02.07 hours on 1 Nov, 1944, U-483 fired two FAT torpedoes at the convoy SC-159 off Matlin Head, heard two detonations and sinking noises and claimed hits on two steamers. In fact, HMS Whitaker (K 580) (Lt G.P.W. Edwards, RN) had been hit and lost the whole bow forward of the bridge due to the explosion of the forward magazine. The commander, all seven officers and 84 ratings were lost. The British rescue ship Aboyne from the convoy took care of the wounded crew members. In the next two hours, the crew extinguished the fires and stopped the flooding of the vessel, which was then towed to Londonderry and later to Belfast. The frigate was declared a total loss and returned to the US Navy on 3 Dec, 1945. On 9 Jan, 1947, the wreck was sold for scrap to John Lee, Belfast and was subsequently broken up in 1948.' Geoffrey Peachment is commemorated on the Plymouth Memorial in Devon, Panel 88, Column 1. He was 18 years old, the same age as his uncle Private George Peachment when he won a posthumous Victoria Cross at the battle of Loos in 1915.

31. Sub-Lieutenant Donald Platt, 801 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, HMS Furious. HMS Furious was an aircraft carrier supporting Operation ‘Torch' the allied landings on the coast of North Africa in November 1942. On the morning of 28th November Sub-Lieutenant Platt led a patrol of Supermarine Seafire fighters from 801 Squadron which spotted a Junkers 88 bomber with Italian markings shadowing the Fleet. Donald Platt fired a two to three second burst at the enemy aircraft before it dived into the clouds. It was seen to crash in flames but its return fire had damaged Platt's aircraft and he came down in the sea not far from his victim. He is commemorated on the Lee-on-Solent memorial Bay 4, Panel 1. He was 22.

32. Pilot Officer Edward Platt 78 Squadron Royal Air Force. A solicitor in Bury before the war, Edward Platt was the navigator of Halifax BB373 from RAF Breighton which took part in the famous Peenemunde raid to destroy the German V-bomb testing site on 17th/18th July 1943. On the night of 23rd/24th August they participated in the first big raid on Berlin. On their return to Breighton they were diverted to RAF Leconfield because of bad visibility. This airfield could not take them either and while they were in a holding pattern awaiting further instructions they collided with another Halifax, JB874. The aircraft crashed at Hull Bridge near Beverley in Yorkshire. All 8 men from BB373 were killed and only the rear gunner from the other Halifax, Sergeant Greet survived and he was so badly hurt it took him four and a half years to recover. When his wife gave birth to a daughter they called her Beverley. Edward Platt was 29 and is buried in Bury Cemetery, Section B.P.178, Grave 9468.

33. Leading Aircraftman John Heywood Potts, 19 Operational Training Unit, RAF. He was the flight mechanic on Whitley P5101 which overshot the runway and hit some trees near the Western Dispersal Site, RAF Forres on 22nd February 1942. He was 21 and is buried at Kinloss Abbey Burial Ground, Scotland, Grave 27, Row A.

34. Officer Cadet Edward Nash Reynolds, Royal Armoured Corps. ‘Josh' Reynolds was Captain of Bury Grammar School 1940-1942 and had won an exhibition to Emmanuel College Cambridge which he deferred until after the war. He was killed in a training accident near Alton Towers in Staffordshire. According to the evidence of a contemporary at BGS he was commanding a tank which overturned, crushing him in the turret. He was 19. He is buried at Cheadle Cemetery, near Stoke on Trent, grave A.M.2. A special visit was made to the grave by the School History Society in 1995 and a wreath laid by the then School Captain Steve Peet.

35. Flying Officer Colin Sacker, RAF. He was the navigator on Beaufighter KW129 which went missing whilst on a ferry flight from Portreath to Rabat Sale on 24th May 1944. He was 22. The fate of the aircraft has never been discovered and he is still officially listed by the RAF as ‘missing, believed killed'. He is recorded on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 209.

36. Sergeant Eric Sanderson, 1661 Conversion Unit RAF. Eric Sanderson was an air gunner on Stirling LK616 which crashed on a night navigation exercise near Hawton AA Camp, Syerston, Nottinghamshire on 27th August 1944. He was seriously injured and died on 31st August aged 24. Nottingham Crematorium, Panel 5.

37. Captain Kenneth H. Savin, Indian Army Ordnance Corps. He came from 416 Bolton Road North, Holcombe Brook. The family were coal merchants. His older sister Jennifer married a tea planter before the war and went to live in the Nilgiri Hills in India. This may partly explain why he ended up as an officer in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps. I do not know the full details but it appears that while being driven down a mountain side by a member of the Indian Army on 21st January 1946 their vehicle went over the side and both were killed. Ken Savin was 25 and is buried at Delhi War Cemetery, India, grave 6.A.8. He is also commemorated on the War Memorial at Greenmount Cricket Club.

38. Fifth Engineer Officer Walter Bentley Sharples, M.V. Arinia (London), Merchant Navy. ‘ARINIA 1936 8,024 gross tons, length 465ft x beam 59ft oil tanker, built 1936 by Lithgow's Ltd, Port Glasgow for Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. (Shell), London. On 19th Dec.1940 she was mined and sunk 5 miles ESE of Southend Pier while on passage Aruba to Isle of Grain with a cargo of aviation spirit. The Master, Capt. Bannister, the pilot, 54 crew and 5 gunners were lost. One man survived.' Walter Sharples is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London, Panel 10.

39. Sergeant Norman Frederick Smethurst, 207 Squadron RAF. He was rear gunner of a Lancaster bomber R5628 which took off from RAF Bottesford on 9th September 1944 to lay mines off Denmark. The plane is believed to have been shot down by a night fighter and crashed at 4-10 am on 10th September in the North Sea 10 km South West of Thyboron, Denmark. The bodies of three of the seven crew were washed up and buried in Lemvig Cemetery. Norman Smethurst has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, Panel 93. He was 20.

40. F.Smith. A ‘mystery man'. From the very scant records in the Clavian it appears that he died in 1942 but, needless to say, there are a large number of F.Smiths who died in that year listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, and none of them is an obvious candidate. Further research is necessary.

41. Flight Sergeant James Phillip Standring, 235 Squadron RAF. James Standring was the navigator/wireless operator of Beaufighter T5252 based at RAF Chivenor in North Devon. On 24th November 1942 they took part in a training exercise involving a German Junkers 88 bomber, which had force-landed at an RAF airfield in the Midlands some time previously and was now touring RAF bases to give pilots practice of attacking this type of aircraft. During the exercise the pilot, P/O Ronald Payne failed to pull out of a dive and crashed on the shore of the River Taw at Instow just across the bay from Chivenor. James Standring was 24. Manchester Crematorium Panel 21. A few months later another BGS old boy, Edgar Widdows was also killed in an accident at RAF Chivenor.

42. Aircraftman 1st Class William Ronald Stevenson, 83 Squadron RAF. William Stevenson from Whitefield was a member of the ground crew at RAF Scampton. In the early hours of 25th August 1941, Hampden bombers of 83 Squadron returned from a mission to attack a searchlight belt at Wesel in Germany with small bombs and machine guns. Hampden AE223 landed at 2-25 am and taxied to the hard standing where four ground crew members were waiting. The bomb doors were opened for inspection but one bomb had been ‘hung up' inside and fell to the ground. The explosion killed all four crew of the plane and the four ground crew, including William Stevenson. He was 21 and is buried at Stand (All Saints) Churchyard, Lower Ground Grave 1506.

43. Sergeant John Raymond Stott, 10 Operational Training Unit RAF. John Stott was the air gunner of Whitley bomber Z9472 which went missing on an Atlantic patrol on 21st September 1942. He was 20 and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 94.

44. Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Prestwich Taylor, Officer Commanding 4th Battalion 17th (Dogra) Regiment, Indian Army. Ronald Taylor was the most senior BGS old boy to die in the Second World War. He was from Rochdale and was killed on 16th March 1945 during the triumphant reconquest of Burma by Bill Slim's 14th Army. I hope to find out more specific details by further research. He is buried at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar (Burma) 17.F.11.

45. Sergeant Edgar Robert Howard Widdows, 172 Squadron RAF. Edgar Widdows was the pilot of Wellington MP 630 which was returning to its base at RAF Chivenor in North Devon after a patrol over the Bay of Biscay. 172 Squadron was equipped with the ‘Leigh Light', a powerful searchlight which allowed them to illuminate U-Boats travelling on the surface at night to and from their bases on the Brittany coast. On this occasion no U-Boats had been detected and the plane was returning to base with a full load of depth charges. As they neared Chivenor the weather worsened and visibility was poor. On final approach to the runway the aircraft hit a building and crashed, detonating its load of depth charges and killing all six crew. Edgar Widdows was 23 and is buried at Walshaw (Christ Church) Churchyard Grave 384. Four others, including an Australian from Queensland, are buried in the beautiful churchyard at Heanton Punchardon, overlooking the airfield. I laid a wreath on their grave while visiting the area a few years ago.

46. Second Lieutenant Robert Williamson, 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. In 1941 the Second Leicesters were sent to Palestine, then under British rule. They had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Crete and Robert Williamson was one of the reinforcements who joined them just in time to take part in the invasion of Syria and Lebanon in June 1941. This is one of the least known campaigns of the Second World War. The French in Lebanon and Syria had sided with the collaborationist Vichy Government and it was feared that they would allow the Germans to establish air bases there. To counter this, British, Indian and Australian forces invaded in June 1941. It was hoped that the Vichy French would only put up token resistance and to encourage this they were called ‘the opposition' rather than ‘the enemy'. In fact there was some fierce fighting before the two French colonies were secured. The Leicesters crossed into Syria on 20th June. Owing to a shortage of motor transport they were travelling in Palestine Police lorries. ‘B' company reached a wood south of Djeidet Aartouz and began to establish a road-block. They came under heavy shell-fire and a party unloading tools from their truck were caught in a bunch. Robert Williamson and two soldiers were killed and several others wounded. He was 25 and is buried at Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria, J.11.