Penmaenmawr Memorial SWW
Second World War
The following people from the Penmaenmawr area died in active service.
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- 1915783 Lance Corporal Albert Bees
Royal Engineers 681 General Construction Company
Died: 01/12/1940
Age: 37
Cemetery: Penmaenmawr (Dwygyfylchi) Cemetery.
Son of George and Emily Jane Bees; husband of Mary Bees, of Penmaenmawr. - LT/JX 183134 Ordinary Seaman Robert Cooper
Royal Naval Patrol Servicem HM Trawler Juniper.
Died: 08/06/1940
Age: 34
Memorial: Lowestoft Naval Memorial,Suffolk.
Son of Jack and Florence Cooper; husband of Violet Cooper, of Penmaenmawr - P/JX 127080 Leading Signalman Harold Davies
Royal Navy - H.M. Submarine Swordfish.
Died: 16/11/1940
Age: 30
Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Mentioned in Despatches.
Son of Wllliam and Anne Davies of 35 Erasmus Street; husband of Ethel Davies, of Sale, Cheshire. - 1802412 Aircraftman 2nd Class William Herbert Dyer
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died: 01/10/1943
Age: 20
Cemetery: Penmaenmawr (Dwygyfylchi) Cemetery
Son of Harold and Hilda Frances Dyer, of Penmaenmawr. - 1493224 Gunner Emlyn Evans
Royal Artillery
Died: 11/02/1944
Age: 25
Cemetery: Penmaenmawr (Dwygyfylchi) Cemetery.
Son of Robert John and Sarah Evans, of Penmaenmawr. - 1921594 Sapper Emrys Evans
Royal Engineers, 808 Road Construction Company
Died: 13/01/1943
Age: 40
Buried:DwygyfylchiCemetery
Son of Henry and Margaret Anne Evans, of Penmaenmawr; husband of Elizabeth Ellen Evans, of Capelulo, Penmaenmawr. - 133411 Flying Officer James Davies Spencer Goldring
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died: 18/07/1943
Age: 19
Memorial:RunnymedeMemorial
Son of Stephen Spencer Goldring and Joan Frances Goldring, of Penmaenmawr. Not named on Penmaenmawr war memorial - Carpenter Griffith J Griffiths
Merchant Navy, MV Lady Glanely (Cardiff)
Died: 02/12/1940
Age: 40
Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
Son of Griffith and Jane Griffiths; husband of Grace Griffiths, of Penmaenmawr - D/JX 142336 Leading Seaman Robert Hall
Royal Navy, HMS Gloucester
Died: 22/05/1941
Age: 21
Memorial:PlymouthNaval Memorial
Son of Edward and Annie Ruth Hall, of Penmaenmawr. - 7920351 Trooper Leonard Horton
Royal Armoured Corps, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
Died: 25/10/1942
Age: 31
Buried:El Alamein War Cemetery,Egypt
Son of George William and Mabel Horton; husband of Vera Horton, of Penmaenmaw - 3970029 Trooper Charles T Hughes
Royal Armoured Corps.
Died 24/07/1945 aged 30.
Buried: Rome War Cemetery, Italy.
Son of Hugh and Margaret Hughes of 10 Erasmus Street; husband of Mary Josephine Hughes of Gyffin, Conwy. He had married in January 1945. Brother of Ernest Hughes, below. - 1064231 Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest Hughes
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Died: 17/09/1941
Age: 28
Buried: Buried Benoni Cemetery, South Africa
Son of Hugh and Margaret Hughes of 10 Erasmus Street; husband of Muriel Hughes of Llandudno. Brother of Thomas Charles Hughes, above. - Kenneth R Johnson
- D/JX 170651 Leading Seaman Arthur Jones
Royal Navy, HMS Gloucester
Died: 22/05/1941
Age: 26
Memorial:PlymouthNaval Memorial.
Son of May Thomson Jones, of Penmaenmawr. - Bobbie Jones
- 1537023 Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber) Harold Elfed Jones
Died: 20/02/1944
Age: 21
Cemetery: Penmaenmawr (Dwygyfylchi) Cemetery.
Son of David John and Elizabeth Austin Jones, of Penmaenmawr. - John H Jones
- 1915735 Sapper John William Jones
Royal Engineers
Died: 13/05/1944
Age: 59
Cemetery: Penmaenmawr (Dwygyfylchi) Cemetery.
Husband of Margaret Jones, of Penmaenmawr. - Robert S Jones
- Thomas S Jones
- 1578097 Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber) Thomas John Jones
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 207 Sqdn.
Died: 26/08/1944
Age: 22
Buried:Durnbach War Cemetery,Germany.
Son of Thomas Michael and Hettie Jones, of Penmaenmawr. - 2331109 Signalman Eric Lee (or Eric Lea)
Died: 25/11/1941
Age: 23
Memorial:Alamein Memorial,Egypt
Son of Walter and Effie May Lea; husband of Mary Winefred Lea, of Penmaenmawr - 1106956 Leading Aircraftman Elfed Lewis
Royal Air Force
Died: 06/03/1942
Age: 31
Memorial:SingaporeMemorial
Son of Henry and Elizabeth Lewis, of Penmaenmawr - Joseph T Owen
- 971525 Sergeant Idris Price
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died: 12/07/1941
Age: 24
Memorial:RunnymedeMemorial
Son of David Daniel and Margaret Price, of Penmaenmawr - Lieut Michael Walter Ratcliff (or Michael Radcliffe)
Royal Navy
Died: 13/05/1941
Age: 22
Buried:Plymouth(Weston Mill) Cemetery
Son of James and Gertrude Ratcliff, of Penmaenmawr - T/145093 Driver Gwilym Roberts
Royal Army Service Corps
Date of Death: 09/09/1942
Age: 25
Buried:Basra War Cemetery,Iraq
Son of William and Laura Roberts, of Penmaenmawr - 2740276 Guardsman R Sambrook
Welsh Guards 1st Bn.
Died: 15/06/1947
Buried:Ramleh War Cemetery,Israel&Palestine
Son of Mr and Mrs John A Sambrook, of Penmaenmawr. Not named on Penmaenmawr war memorial - Trooper 7936438 James Donald Williams
Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. 42nd (23rd Bn. TheLondonRegt.)
Died: 13/02/1942
Age: 36
Buried:Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery,Egypt
Son of John and Mary Williams; husband of Annie Watson Williams, of Penmaenmawr. Not named on Penmaenmawr war memorial. - 1487670 Sergeant (Flight Engr) Kenneth Roberts
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 207 Sqdn.
Died: 29/07/1944
Age: 24
Cemetery:Durnbach War Cemetery,Germany
Son of Robert and Margaret Alice Roberts, of Penmaenmawr - 1380839 Sergeant (Air Gnr) Stanley W Roberts (or William Stanley Roberts)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died: 30/07/1943
Age: 22
Buried: Penmaenmawr (Dwygyfylchi) Cemetery
Son of William and Winnie Susie Roberts, of Penmaenmawr. - 152923 Lieutenant Harold Vaughan
Royal Army Pay Corps
Died: 13/03/1941
Age: 46
Buried: Cantley (St. Wilfred) Churchyard,Yorkshire
Husband of Mildred Vaughan, of Penmaenmawr - Nancy Williams
- D/JX 149672 Able Seaman Sydney Williams (or Ronald Sidney Harold Williams)
Royal Navy, HMS Glorious
Died: 08/06/1940
Age: 20
Memorial:PlymouthNaval Memorial
Son of Howard and Alice Williams, of Penmaenmawr - 1564075 Private William Williams
Gloucestershire Regiment, 10th Bn.
Died: 13/02/1945
Age: 24
Memorial: Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar