Heaton Park Methodist RoH

The following is a list of names that appear on the Roll of Honour of the Heaton Park Methodist Church on Bury Old Road.

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In some cases the individual is also mentioned on other Rolls of Honour, or is memorialised/buried on family gravestones elsewhere.

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Surname	Forename(s)	Date of death	Age		UK Burial/Memorial Location	Rank & Medals	Regiment	Burial/Memorial Location	Roll of Honour
BAKER	ALAN C	1944/09/18	20	Info The airlanding brigade dug in to secure the landing & drop zones West of Arhem, North of the Rhine, after the initial landings on the 17th Sept. On the 18th the plan was changed and the RAC tried to link up with the Airborne troops to take and hold the northern end of Arnhem Bridge ready for the arrival of XXX Corps. On the 25th-26th Sept the surviving troops North of the river were evacuated. "SAPERE AUDE" ("Dare to know") A PURE AND GLORIOUS LIFE. HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. A KNIGHT WAS HE.		Lance Corporal	Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.	ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY	HP Methodists
BAGSHAW	ALAN	1944/06/15	22	Info On 15 June 1944, the frigate HMS Blackwood was on patrol as part of the 4th Escort Group in the west end of the English Channel to protect the ships of the Normandy landings, when she was hit by a Gnat from U-764 off Brittany, killing 57 of the crew. She was taken under tow, but foundered off Portland Bill the following day.	PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL	LDG SEAMAN	Royal Navy	PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL	HP Methodists
COLWELL	EDWARD	1915/11/05	19	Info Batallion had sailed via Egypt to land there in April 1915 . From there he would have been placed on a Hospital Ship but died of Typhoid on the way back to England. Edward is buried at Gibraltar.		Private	Lancashire Fusiliers	GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY	HP Methodists
DAWSON	GEORGE ARTHUR	1917/10/24	27	Info George died serving with the21st Manchester Regiment in the run up to the 2nd Battle of Passchendaele. He was reported missing and was not reported as Prisoner of War.	St Mary's CWGC	Serjeant	Manchester Regiment	TYNE COT MEMORIAL	HP Methodists
DEANE	HARRY	1942/10/02	19	Info Harry's ship HMS Curacoa escorted convoys in and around the British Isles for two years. In late 1942, during escort duty off the Irish coast, she was accidentally sliced in half and sunk by the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, carrying thousands of Americans of the 29th Infantry Division to join the Allied forces in Europe. Due to the risk of U-boat attacks, Queen Mary was under orders not to stop under any circumstances and steamed onward with a fractured stem. It is reported that other escorts rescued 99 men, with the loss of 337."HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. HE HAS REACHED HIS LAST PORT - HEAVEN. GOD'S WILL BE DONE"	PORTREE (STRONUIRINISH) CEMETERY	ABLE SEAMAN	Royal Navy	PORTREE (STRONUIRINISH) CEMETERY	HP Methodists
ECKERSLEY	JAMES HENRY	1917/07/31	21	Info James died along with 31 other men from 17th Battalion on the first day of the3rd Battle of Ypres in Belgium. He was reported as wounded and missing, with no known resting place, he is commemorated on the Mennin Gate at Ypres.		Private	Manchester Regiment	YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.	HP Methodists
EDWARDS	GLYN	1944/12/21	33	Info 67th Medium Regiment (TA)was raised in 1939. On the outbreak of war, the Regiment served in defence of south east England against enemy attack. The Regiment was sent to North Africa in July 1941 as part of the Operation Crusader. It served under the 8th Army in the Western Desert from November 1941 until June 1942. The entire Regiment was captured in Tobruk on 21st June 1942. The men became prisoners of the Italian army and were transferred to Italian POW camps, The majority of casualties in the Regiment from the sinking of the Italian merchant ship SS Scillin in November 1942. The Italian armistice on 3rd Sept. 1943 enabled some to escape back to Allied Lines or to Switzerland, most were transported to POW camps in Germany, Austria and Poland.	Brymbo War Memorial, Wrexham	GUNNER	Royal Artillery	NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY	HP Methodists
HALLIWELL	GEORGE R	1942/07/20	28	Info Wellington HX 518 of the 15 th Operating Training Unit, was based R.A.F. Harwell (Berkshire). On the 20th they took off from the R.A.F. Portreath (Cornwall) at 06:50, after 4 hours of flight in the company of the Wellington HX 423, they met a German Junkers Ju-88 C-6 20 miles from Sisargas. The German began the attack falling on the HX 518 in two passes, hitting the fuselage, the starboard engine and the wing broke, The plane caught fire and crashed in the water. There were no survivors and no bodies were recovered. The second Wellington (HX 423) managed to shoot down the German aircraft and returned to base. It so happens that this Wellington was the first allied aircraft shot down by a new version of the Ju-88, the C-6 Zerstorer type.	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	SERGEANT	Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	HP Methodists
HILTON	FRANK	1918/07/05	29	Info Frank had suffered a gunshot wound to his hand and face in 1916, and was declared missing in March 1918. He died from influenza in a German prisoner of War Camp 4 months later.		Bombardier	Royal Garrison Artillery	NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY.	HP Methodists
WHITTAKER	WILLIAM	1916/07/01	?	Info Died of wounds Killed during the battle for Montauban Village Montauban The Somme.		PRIVATE	Manchester Regiment	THIEPVAL MEMORIAL	HP Methodists