D’ALCORN Oscar Sgt 4974132
were marched eastwards but American forces caught up with them in April 1945. They were sent by truck to Hildesheim and then flown to England in Dakotas to a camp near Amersham. John was later moved to Quorn and discharged in March 1946 as unfit for any form of military service. He could not settle for several years but took various gardening jobs which lead to his becoming a gardener/groundsman at a girl’s school in Aylesbury from 1959 until 1973. He was then employed in a similar capacity with Reader’s Digest until 1980, joining Royal Hospital Chelsea as an In-Pensioner in May 1999.
DICKENS Clive Patrick Cpl 22817118
Of Nairn, Invernessshire, on 14 October 2009 aged 93. He enlisted into 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters on 15 November 1934 and served in 11 Platoon, C Company in Bermuda, Palestine, Cyprus and Egypt. He was promoted to Sgt in March 1942 in El Kassassin and was taken prisoner at the Fall of Tobruk in June 1942. He was held in Camp 65 at Altamura and then in Camp 73 at Carpi, Italy. From here, he was sent to Stalag XVIIIA, Markt Pongau, and then to Stalag XVIIIB at Spittal am Drau and finally to Stalag AK2048 at Schladming. He was discharged in 1946.
DEAN John Frederick Pte
moved to 2nd King’s African Rifles (Uganda) and went with them to India in April of that year. He was posted to GHQ Middle East Land Forces: he remained there until 1948 when he joined 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters. In 1954, he moved to the War Office before returning to the 1st Battalion in 1956. In 1958, he moved to the 5th Battalion which he commanded from 1960 to 1961. He returned to the 1st Battalion as 2ic and then transferred to the Jungle Training Centre in Australia from 1962 until 1965. After this, he held various appointments before retiring from Regular Service in 1974. He was Regimental Secretary WFR from 1974 until 1984.
DONO David
Of Stoke-on-Trent on 9 January 2009 aged 57. Dave served with 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment in D Company and the MT Platoon and at the Depot, Lichfield from 1973 until the 1980s.
DONOVAN John “JD” Pte 23315699
Of Royal Hospital Chelsea on 6 March 2010 aged 92. Born on 1 March 1918 at Huyton, John Dean left school aged 14 years and worked as a general labourer in a granite quarry and building sites until enlisting into The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment in March 1937. After basic training, he joined the 2nd Bn at Aldershot. He volunteered to join the 1st Battalion in Khartoum in November 1938 and, shortly after he arrived, he moved to Atbara and became the Company Commander’s driver. In mid 1940, he moved to Mersa Matruh in the western desert via Suez and Cairo. He was soon sent back to GHQ and employed as a messenger. He remembered Anthony Eden visiting the HQ. He rejoined the 2nd Battalion during 1942 and he moved to El Gaza near Tobruk. Whilst on patrol before the siege of Tobruk, he was cut off and surrounded by German forces and taken prisoner in June 1942. He spent several moths in a German POW transit camp in Libya where conditions were atrocious – lice, dysentery, bad food. In due course, he was admitted to hospital in Tripoli and thence to Casseria in Italy on a hospital ship via Naples. He was well looked after by Italian nurses in Parma hospital and he was discharged to POW Camp PG73 and thence to Stalag XIA in Germany, travelling for 5-6 days in cattle trucks in September 1944. Towards the end of the war, the POWs
The Mercian Eagle
Of Batchley, Worcestershire, on 12 June 2010 aged 74. He enlisted into The Worcestershire Regiment in 1953 and served with A Company in Bulford; he transferred to the Training Company at Norton Barracks until 1957 when he moved to B Company and saw service in the West Indies. Clive was a marksman on the Bren Gun and also the Lee Enfield rifle and he became a member of the Depot Shooting Team. After discharge from the Army, he was employed for 20 years by High Duty Alloys in Redditch as a night shift supervisor. Clive was particularly interested in military history especially the Zulu War and he visited Rorke’s Drift on many occasions: he was a moderator on the Worcestershire Regimental website. His other passion was football and he was a season ticket/shareholder in Aston Villa Football Club for over 40 years.
DODD George Maj
Of Sutton in Ashfield on 12 August 2009 aged 77. He joined The Sherwood Foresters in 1950 and, in 1951, he transferred to The Royal Warwickshire Regiment with whom he saw service in Korea. After leaving the Army, returned to his previous occupation of painter and decorator and then became a miner rising to the supervisory posts of Overman and Pit Deputy until his retirement 30 years later.
Of Southwell, Nottinghamshire on 12 April 2010 aged 91. He was commissioned into 8th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters in January 1939 and served with them in Ireland and England in 1941/42. He then went with the 5th Wiltshire Regiment to France and Germany. In January 1945, he
EASTER George BEM WO1 (Supt Clerk) 14441378
Of Portishead on 1 Nov 10 aged 86. George enlisted in The General Service Corps in October 1943 and was transferred to The Gloucestershire Regiment. He was posted to The Buckinghamshire Regiment and then to The Worcestershire Regiment in Trieste
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Of Stourbridge on 27 August 2009 aged 71. Born in Barking on 4 December 1937, he enlisted into The Worcestershire Regiment in Worcester on 7 June 1956 and served with the 1st Battalion in Germany, Jamaica and The West Indies as a BIII Clerk, finishing his Service on 5 June 1958 as Orderly Room Clerk. After leaving the Army, he became a Driving Instructor and then Steel Erector. He was keen on Archery and he loved gardening.
DOONEY John Sgt 22523717
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