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World War Two Memorials & Rolls of Honour


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On 13/10/2009 at 09:27, dunsbyowl1867 said:

Hamburg Cemetery

Hamburg War Cemetery

 

Names Recorded

 

ATKINSON, H CWGC Website - Hamburg Cemetery BUTLER, H CWGC Website - Hamburg Cemetery BUTTERFIELD, L CWGC Website - Hamburg Cemetery GREGORY, R CWGC Website - Hamburg Cemetery VARDY, E CWGC Website - Hamburg Cemetery CLAY, W CWGC Website - Hamburg War Cemetery

Could you please also add my great Uncle who was a Sheffield resident and is buried in Hamburg CWGC . His details are:-

Sgt Harold Cammidge - 1st Btn KOYLI - KIA 1/5/45 Potrau

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Private. John Charles Christopher  1921 - 1941

2nd Battalion 
York and Lancaster Regiment

John Charles Christopher of 98 Upwell Street Sheffield (previously of 146 Worksop Road Darnall) was 20 years when he was killed in action.

Below is an account from his regiment during his final days, along with a photograph with his brother Albert, the last photograph of them both together before departing.

In July 1940, the York and Lancasters were moved to Egypt, and then to Palestine, where they became part of the 14th Infantry Brigade. The battalion was again part of the 6th Infantry Division. In May 1940 the 14th Infantry Brigade moved to Cairo and was then broken up. The 2nd Battalion, York and Lancasters went to Alexandria, Egypt. The battalion, now on loan to the Royal Navy was moved to Crete in the cruiser HMS Ajax, arriving at Suda Bay, Crete on the 2nd November 1940. Their arrival was met by an attack from the Italian Air Force. The 14th Infantry Brigade was reformed around the 2nd Battalion, Yorks and Lancs and the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch. The reformed brigade spent its time building defences on the island, but these were limited. Little happened on Crete until April 1941 when the Allied forces in Greece were evacuated.
With the surrender of Greece in 1941 Crete was thrust into the war. The 2nd Battalion, Yorks and Lancs along with the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch and 2nd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment were tasked with the defence of Heraklion airfield. From the middle of May 1941, air attacks against Heraklion increased to four or five a day, but the RAF 33 Squadron had been withdrawn from the island on the 19th May, so there was no air defence other than AA batteries. On the 20th May 1941, troop carriers dropped German paratroopers at Maleme airfield on the west of the island.
Warning reached Heraklion as their own share of German Ju52 troop transports were spotted arriving at a height of about 400 feet, four abreast, in long columns that stretched out of sight. This was the largest of the German parachute formations made up of the 1st Fallschirmjager Regiment, 2nd Battalion from the 2nd Fallschirmjager Regiment and an AA Machine Gun Battalion under the command of Col. Bruno Brauer.

The memorial is located at 

Phaleron War Cemetery and Athens

Memorial

Athens, Regional unit of Athens, Attica,

Greece.

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