1945. In March 1946, he was posted as a Signaller to HQ Company 7th Battalion The Worcestershire Regiment in Muzaffarpur in India. He was keen on football and cricket. After being demobbed in Aldershot on 6 February 1948, he became a storekeeper and continued his passion for sport, playing football and cricket and taking up golf. He listed painting and gardening as his hobbies.
PARTINGTON Albert
On 6 February 2010. He served in The Staffordshire Regiment.
PAYNE Harold Frederick Of Wollaston on 9 December 2009. He served in The Worcestershire Regiment.
PENDLETON Edric Wallace “Eddie” Pte 4985559
Of Worksop on 26 November 2009 aged 86. He enlisted into 70th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters on 8 February 1941 and remained with the Battalion when it was re-designated 16th Battalion and then 1st Battalion. He was transferred to The King’s Own Scottish Borderers on 1 November 1944 serving with them in Burma until the end of the war. On leaving the Army, he became a Plasterer, then a salesman for KleenEzy and, later on, he worked on motorway maintenance as a ganger. From 1985 to 1993, he was car park attendant for The Royal British Legion, Mansfield.
PITCH Alan
Of Lichfield on 24 February 2010. He served with 1st Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment and then 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment after amalgamation between 1958 and 1964. This included a spell with the MT Platoon. He was a popular member of Lichfield Branch of the Regimental Association.
POTTER Sydney
Of Tunstall on 24 January 2010 aged 88. Sid enlisted into The North Staffordshire Regiment and fought in Normandy with the 6th Battalion, who were part of 59th Division. He later joined the Stoke-on-Trent Branch of the Regimental Association.
PREECE Gordon Robert Pte 22398076
Of Great Barr on 25 March 2010 aged 77. In 1951, he transferred from REME to 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters in Goslar and served in Support Company as a driver. On leaving the Army, he joined the Territorials and worked as a neon signs electrician. He moved to Dunlop where he manufactured aircraft tyres and progressed to Aircraft Tyre Inspector, a position he held for 32 years before he retired. In retirement, he was involved with the Market Garden Association and he was also an active member of The Royal British Legion.
RAMSDEN David “Lizard” LCpl 25122827 YORKS
Of Leeds on 23 June 2010 aged 26. He joined the Army in January 2002 and, following attendance at the Army Training
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Regiment, Glencorse, and the Infantry Training Centre in Catterick, joined 1st Battalion The Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire in July 2002. He served in the United Kingdom and Belize and on operations in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He was promoted to LCpl in October 2005 and left the Army in 2007. Following mobilisation as a Regular Reservist, LCpl Ramsden chose to join 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment in January 2010 and completed Mission Specific Training in readiness for a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. He deployed to central Helmand in April 2010 and joined the Police Advisory Team, working from the Afghan National Police headquarters in Gereshk, southern Afghanistan. His team was responsible for advising the Afghan police in the area in order to ensure that they were better able to deliver more effective security to the city, whilst reinforcing Afghan rule of law and creating the conditions for economic development. On 23 June 2010, following an incident at a nearby police checkpoint, LCpl Ramsden’s Police Advisory Team, with the Afghan National Police, deployed as a Quick Reaction Force to provide support. The vehicle in which he was travelling overturned into the Nahr-e Bughra canal and, at approximately 2208 hrs local time, LCpl Ramsden was killed in the incident with three of his colleagues from the Police Advisory Team. As a proud Yorkshireman, he told it the way it was but he fitted in well with his newly-adopted regiment. Known as “Lizard” in both regiments for keeping Iguanas, he will never be forgotten: he lived the values of the Yorkshire Regiment, being honest, fair, gritty and proud; he was always the joker and always up for a laugh.
REYNOLDS Barry “Jack” Sgt 22522274
Of Mickleover, Derby, on 19 July 2010 aged 77. He served with 1st Battalion The Sherwood Foresters in Germany, Egypt and North Africa and was discharged from the Regiment in 1955.
REYNOLDS Dennis James Pte 22627655
Of Doveton, Victoria, Australia, on 30 June 2010 aged 77. He joined The Worcestershire Regiment in January 1952 at Norton Barracks and served with the 1st Battalion in Malaya and Bulford. He left the Army in 1955 and later emigrated to Australia finding employment with the Sara Lee Corporation as an Administrator.
ROBERTS Frank CSgt
Of Burton upon Trent in 2010. He served with D Company 1st Battalion The Mercian Volunteers from its inception helping to build the Company to full strength. In civilian life, he worked for the Forestry Commission.
SANDERSON John Charles Lt 30056327
Of Windlesham, Surrey, on 11 August 2010 aged 29. Born in Oklahoma, USA, on 23 April 1981, he was educated at Bradfield College and Exeter University where he read history and was a member of the University Officer Training Corps. Immediately after university, he joined the Royal Marines and began training on the Young Officers’ Course at Lympstone in September 2002, although he was forced to withdraw from the course having broken his ankle. Following this, he had a brief foray into the world of finance before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, commissioning into the Mercian Regiment in April 2009. Following the Platoon Commanders’ Battle Course, he joined the 1st Battalion in time to assume command of 1 Platoon A Company and deploy to Kenya to take part in Ex Grand Prix. He led his Platoon successfully through pre-deployment training and, shortly before deploying to Afghanistan, moved them to the newly re-formed B Company in readiness for its deployment with 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles Battlegroup on Op Herrick 12. The Company deployed to Patrol Base 1 in the Nahr-e Saraj (South) District of Helmand Province improving the quality of life for hundreds of local Afghans around the villages of Enezai and Char Coucha in the Nahr-e Saraj District of Helmand by providing much needed security and reassurance to the community in the area. On 13 July 2010, during an operation to the north east of Char Coucha, close to Patrol Base 1, Lt Sanderson’s 12-man multiple patrol was occupying a compound in order to provide security for an IED clearance operation. At 0626 hrs local time, an explosion occurred, injuring Lt Sanderson. He was treated at the scene before being flown to the UK for further treatment but he succumbed to his injuries.
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