
VETERANS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT SERVICE UK
Supporting the Armed Forces, Merchant Navy and Emergency Services since 2013
Roll of Honour 2019 - 2021
July to December
The names on this roll of honour are those whose families we have supported through the grief process in various ways and also whose memory we have honoured at their funerals and in the silence across all our supporters
JULY
Serifo Jaclay aged 65 who served in the Royal Tank Regiment
George Buchanan who served in the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Military Police for many years
John Cogan aged 79 who served in REME 1957 -1967
Chief Petty Officer Vincent Sheridan aged 95 who served in the Fleet Air Arm 1945-1967
John Ballam aged 96 served in 75 Squadron Royal Air Force
Richard Duncan served in the RAF Fire Service for 22 years
John Sime aged 85 who served in the Merchant Navy for many years
Trevor Carpenter who served in the Royal Air Force for 30 yrs.
AUGUST
John Dawson aged 89 who served in the Merchant Navy for many years
William Harrigan aged 84 who served in the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment for 25 yrs.
Lt. Col JFS Bidgood who served in the 10th Royal Hussars and REME for 30 yrs.
Arthur Fiest BEM aged 79 who served in the Royal Air Force for 22 yds
George Hannah who served in the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards
Philip Jolly aged 67 who served in the Worcester and Sherwood Foresters for 5 years
Alexander Dunn aged 89 who served in the Royal Army Catering Corps for 22 yrs.
Group Captain Nigel Pearson MA, FRAeS, who served in the RAF for many years
James Boreham aged 81 who served in the Grenadier Guards
George Kimber aged 101 who served in the Royal Navy in WW2 and then Merchant Navy after
Dennis Shields who served in REME in the 1950s
Harry Nockerman who served for 25 years in the Royal Air Force
Eric Price aged 90 who served in the Royal Navy on HMS Bulwark
Denis Evans aged 101 who served in the Royal Air Force 1940 – 1954
Robert Green aged 77 who served in the Royal Air Force for 40 years
James McLoughland aged 96 served in the RASC during World War Two
Chief Petty Officer Pete Hughes aged 63 who served 40 years in the Royal Navy
Edward Juniper served in the Durham Light Infantry and was a D Day Veteran
SEPTEMBER
Warrant Officer Bryn Williams BEM who served for 40 yrs. in the Royal Air Force
James Jennings aged 94 who served in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers and a Normandy Veteran
Henry Baker aged 97 served in the Royal Hampshire Regiment during WW2 and beyond
Reginald Mattingley aged 98 who served in the Royal Navy
George Bland aged 85 who served in the Royal Navy for 22 yrs.
Alan Midgley who served for 12 years in the Royal Marines
Philip Booth aged 83 who served in the Royal Navy 1955- 1965
John Holmes aged 59 who served in the Royal Navy
Geoffrey Corrigan aged 86 who served in the Royal Air Force
Lt Col Richard Pearson who served in the Royal Artillery
Gerald Burgin who served in the Royal Navy 1940 – 1950
Harry Bridge aged 51 who served in the Army for many years
OCTOBER
S/Sgt JD Groves who served in the RAOC Bomb Disposal 1954 -1972
Lionel Belsten aged 93 who served in the Submarine Service for many years
Jonathan Summerfield who served in the Royal Air Force for many years including the RAF Police and the Queens Flight
Lt. Commander William Hutt who served in the Royal Navy for many years
Graham Hastings aged 60 who served in the 1st Battalion Royal Horse Artillery
Major General Matt Holmes DSO, CBE aged 54 who served for 33 years in the Royal Marines
John Kalsen aged 78 who served in the Royal Navy
Wing Commander J Field who served in the Royal Air Force
Albert Baseley aged 95 who served in the Royal Navy during World War Two
Laurence Walter aged 82 who served in the Royal Signals
Alfred Spearman aged 96 who served in the Royal Signals
John Smart who served the the RN Air Sea Rescue 1968-1975
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NOVEMBER
David Gilfillen who served in the Royal Signals
Frederick Watkins aged 86 who served in the Royal Air Force
Captain George Barry aged 82 who served in the Merchant Navy for many years
Malcolm Waller who served in the Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)
Cecil Harris aged 98 who served in the Royal Marines during World War Two. President of 47 Commando Association
Clifford Clark BEM served in the Royal Air Force
William Helm served in REME
John Mack served in the Royal Navy 1955-1971
Des Wyatt who served in the Royal Air Force
Austin Norfolk aged 88 who served in the Royal Welch
David Wilkinson BEM who served in the Grenadier Guards
Sgt Major Karl-Heinz Dyer who served in the Royal West Kent Regiment
Major Peter Nordmann who served in the Royal Corps of Transport 1959-1975
George Bashford who served in the Royal Navy as a Stoker Engineer for many years
Carol Morris who served in the WRAC for many years
Gregory Williams who served in the Royal Air Force
John Farnham who served in the Parachute Regiment as a PTI for many years
Edward Woolley aged 79 who served in REME
Horice Hodgson who served in the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
Wing Commander Graeme Booker aged 72 who served in the Royal Air Force
George Wade aged 81 who served in the Royal Artillery
John Wolfe MBE who served in the Royal Air Force 1954-1976Terence McCunne served in the Royal Navy for 9 years
Alan Smith served in the Royal Navy 1958 – 1972
Gordon Fisher aged 89 served in the RAOC
William Brace aged 93 served in the Royal Navy during World War Two
Bernie Gibbons aged 90 served in the Royal Navy during World War Two and beyond including with the Duke of Edinburgh. President of RNA Camberwell
Terence McCunne who served in the Royal Navy for 9 years
DECEMBER
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Brian Hall aged 93 served in the Royal Navy during World War Two
Leonard Bunting aged 76 who served in the Royal Air Force for 9 years
Brian White aged 85 who served in the Parachute Regiment in the 1950s
Bernard Thornton aged 84 who served in the Parachute Regiment in the 1950s
Lt. Commander Raymond Hick MBE who served in the Royal Navy
Michael Cannon who served in the Royal Navy for many years
William Sargott aged 90 who served for 22 yrs. in the Royal Navy
George Chandler aged 90 who served for 19 yrs. in the Royal Marines
Anthony Martin aged 80 who served in the Royal Anglian Regiment for 11 yrs.
Anthony Cook aged 73 who served in the Merchant Navy
Thomas Meager aged 69 who served in 22 Engineers
Audrey Williams aged 95 who served as a Wren during World War Two
Henry Marshall aged 96 who served in the Royal Navy during World War Two
Alexander Rogers aged 81 who served in the Royal Marines
Stanley Wells aged 90 who served in the Merchant Navy for 40 yrs.
Kenneth Hales aged 98 who served in the Royal Navy during WW2 and beyond
John Price aged 87 who served in the Royal Air Force for 22 yrs.
Harold Brown aged 103 who served in the Royal Engineers
Dave Carnell who served in 41 Commando Royal Marines from 1967 – 1982
Staff Sergeant John McClean who served in the Royal Artillery for 22 yrs.
Squadron Leader Richard Hewitt aged 81 who served in the RAF for 27 years