Tutbury Remembers – D-Day 80

As we remember and commemorate those who fought and those who died on D-Day and in the Normandy campaign, we would like to Remember the men of Tutbury who died in WWII.
Thirteen WWII Fallen are listed on the Tutbury War Memorial – by June 6, 1944, nine men from the village had already died.
Three were buried in Cemeteries or Remembered on Memorials in the UK, one in France (St. Nazaire), one in Libya (Tobruk), one in Tunisia, one in Italy (Cassino) and two were buried in the Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand, having died on the infamous Burma Railway.
Two more were to die on the march to Berlin, another would be buried in Malta and the last would die two weeks before the end of the War on 1st August 1945, the 2nd man from Tutbury to be Remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, the Memorial for the Missing for the RAF.
Their names and details can be found below – please spare a moment to read their names and Remember their sacrifice.

Surname	Presumed First Names	Age	Date of Death	Rank	Regiment	Cemetery/Memorial	Country	CWGC Additional Information
JONES	Sydney (CWGC Sidney) Herbert	23	7/1/1940	Private	Royal Norfolk Regiment 6th Bn	Sheringham Cemetery	UK	Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Jones, of Aston, Birmingham.
FULLER	Richard Alfred	21	4/6/1940	Driver	Royal Army Service Corps	Escoublac-la-baule War Cemetery	France	Son of Ernest Alfred and Katherine Sophie Fuller, of Repton, Derbyshire.
SHIPLEY	Leonard Percy	30	11/9/1941	Private	The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), 1st Bn	Tutbury (St. Mary) Churchyard	UK	Son of John and Frances Clara Shipley, of Tutbury.
MILLWARD	George	22	20/6/1942	Bombardier	Royal Artillery, 95 Anti-Tank Regt.	Tobruk War Cemetery	Libya	Son of George Henry Leek Millward and Clara Millward, of Burton-on-Trent. Husband of Nellie May Millward of Bodelwyddan.
EATON	Arthur	28	19/8/1942	P/O	Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 61 Sqdn	Runnymede Memorial	UK	Son of Caroline Eaton.
WOOLLEY	Daniel Wilson	34	9/4/1943	Private	Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 1/5 Bn	Chungkai War Cemetery	Thailand	Son of James and Gertrude May Woolley, of Tutbury, Staffordshire.
CLEWS	Alfred	30	22/8/1943	Private	Pioneer Corps 822 Coy	Massicault War Cemetery	Tunisia	Son of George and Annie Clews, of Tutbury, Staffordshire; husband of Traphena Clews, of Tutbury.
SANDERS	Alan Tom	22	28/2/1944	Private	Cheshire Regiment, 6th Bn	Cassino Memorial	Italy	Son of Tom and Emily Sanders; husband of Margaret Ellen Sanders, of Bournemouth, Hampshire.
RATCLIFF	Frank Townsend	28	2/6/1944	Private	Royal Norfolk Regiment 5th Bn	Chungkai War Cemetery	Thailand	Son of William Francis and Fanny Ratcliff, of Tutbury, Staffordshire.
BULL	Charles William	29	7/9/1944	Serjeant	Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.	Gavere Communal Cemetery	Belgium	Husband of Peggy Bull, of Winshill, Burton-on-Trent.
OATES	Hector Frederick Michael	20	27/10/1944	Private	Leicestershire Regiment 1st Bn	Bergen-op-zoom War Cemetery	Netherlands	Son of Hector Macdonald Oates and Winifred Amy Oates, of Tutbury, Staffordshire.
WATSON	Raymond Charles	19	18/2/1945	Ordinary Seaman	Royal Navy, H.M.S. Quantock	Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery	Malta	Son of Harling Richard and Doris Victoria Watson, of Tutbury, Staffordshire.
THORN	Robert Cuthbert		1/8/1945	Flight Lieutenant	Royal Air Force	Runnymede Memorial	UK	N/A