North Cemetery, War Graves
They shall not grow old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them
Darlington Borough Council, and The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, have both approved for Darlington Branch of The Royal British Legion to publish photos and information of War Graves and Memorials within the Darlington area
(Updated 02/12/2025)
Please Note
- War Graves may not be shown in full. Sometimes access was obscured by trees and other graves
- War Graves are not shown in any Country, Date, Rank, Corps, Unit, Organisation or Regimental order
- This is an on-going project, where further information and records are still to be found by the RBL Darlington Branch Project Team
There are 48 War Graves within North Cemetery. They are all servicemen, and servicewoman, from:
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R/KX 162732 Stoker 1st Class William Adam Scott - Royal Navy (HMS George Bligh) - Died 11/05/1945 Aged 32
Born: 1912/1913 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
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751899 Sergeant George Stoddart Gates - 59 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) - Died 26/03/1941 Aged 21
Born: 1919/1920 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Walter and Bessie Preston Gates, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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655851 Sergeant Kenneth Milburn - 141 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Pilot) - Died 05/11/1942 Aged 22
Born: 18/09/1920
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Charles and Winifred Milburn, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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13064498 Corporal George McKenzie Dodds - Pioneer Corps - Died 04/06/1942 Aged 31
Born: 1910/1911 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Joseph William and Margaret Elizabeth Dodds, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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1133975 Gunner Edward Keenlyside - 20 Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery - Died 03/05/1942 Aged 20
Born: 1921/1922 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
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P/JX325448 Able Seaman Thomas Jackson - Royal Navy (H.M.L.C.M 104) - Died 13/09/1943 Aged 20
Born: 1922/1923 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Thomas and Isabella Jackson, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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1495200 Sergeant Joseph William Bell - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Pilot) - Died 08/03/1944 Aged 20
Born: 18/05/1923
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Joseph William and Lilian Mary Bell. of Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, Wales
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4122688 Sergeant Walter George Burwell - Cheshire Regiment - Died 17/12/1944 Aged 27
Born: 1917 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Elnora Burwell, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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11262943 Gunner Walter Lambert - 64th (Northumbrian) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Died 28/04/1942 Aged 25
Born: 05/09/1916
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Charles Henry and Ellen Lambert, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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1057094 Lance Serjeant Herbert Frederick Stanley Manning - 10 Battery, 7th (Northumbrian) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Died 16/04/1943 Aged 33
Born: September 1909 (Exact date unknown)
From: Warley, Brentwood Borough, Essex, England
Son of John Frederick and Florence Louise Manning, of Brentwood, Essex, England
Husband of Rachel Annie Manning, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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13102649 Corporal Albert Bertie Taylor - Pioneer Corps - Died 05/06/1944 Aged 42
Born: 1901/1902 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of George and Minnie Jane Taylor, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of May Mary Taylor, of Harrowgate Hill, Darlington, County Durham, England
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P/JX628341 Able Seaman Robert Edmund Eyles - Royal Navy (HMS Hornet) - Died 22/03/47 Aged 21
Born: 1926/1927 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of M. U. E. Eyles, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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2577888 Signalman George William Treslove - 50th (North) Division Signal Company, Royal Corps of Signals - Died 05/09/1939 Aged 16/17
Born: 1922 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of John and Eliza Treslove, of Harrowgate Hill, Darlington, County Durham, England
Died in an accident at a quarry at Barmpton, near Darlington, County Durham, with Signalman Joseph Hinnigan and Signalman Sidney Case during a sandbag filling operation. After a first sand-slide had almost buried the three men, a second slide entombed them and two local workmen; the two local workmen were dug out and survived
The other signalman who also perished in this accident were:
2581135 Signalman Joseph Hinnigan - 50th (North) Division Signal Company, Royal Corps of Signals - Aged 26 - Also buried within Darlington at West Cemetery, (See West Cemetery War Graves web page)
Born: 1913 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of James and Charlotte Hinnigan, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Euphemia Lillian Hinnigan, of Darlington, County Durham, England
2573318 Signalman Sidney Case - 50th (North) Division Signal Company, Royal Corps of Signals - Aged 20 - Also buried within Darlington at West Cemetery, (See West Cemetery War Graves web page)
Born: 1919 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Albert and Laura Case, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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4455126 Gunner Robert Newton Whitfield - Royal Artillery, 54th Searchlight Regiment (Lately 1/5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry) - Died 08/11/1945 Aged 38
Born: 03/01/1907
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Robert Thomas Whitfield and Jane Whitfield of Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Elsie May Whitfield, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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T/241545 Driver George Tait - Royal Army Service Corps - Died 25/10/1946 Aged 29
Born: 1917 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Louisa Innes, of Haughton-le-Skerne, Darlington, County Durham, England
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547006 Aircraftman 1st Class John Bell Greenall - 61 Squadron, Royal Air Force (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) - Died 01/05/1940 Aged 22
Born:1917 or 1918 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Joseph Proctor Greenall and Mary Eliza Greenall, of Darlington, County Durham, England
John was one of four aircrew, whom were crewing Handley Page Hampden Mk 1 (#L4119) (QR-F) on a combat operation on 01/05/1940.
that were lost on combat operations
Their aircraft crashed at Croxton Kerrial, 6.6 miles (10.6 km) south-west of Grantham, Lincolnshire (on the Lincolnshire/Leicestershire borders, at approximate co ordinates 52.856625°N 0.758997°W) on return from an operational flight, 01/05/1940
The Hampden had taken off from RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire, with the target being Aalborg, Denmark. All four aircrew were killed
The other three aircrew who also perished:
39659 Flying Officer Charles William Glover - 61 Squadron, Royal Air Force (Pilot) - Died 01/05/1940 Aged 27
Born: 01/05/1913 (Killed in action on his 27th Birthday)
From: Canada (Travelled to England to join RAF in 1936
Killed in Action; Buried St Chad's Churchyard, Harpswell, Lincolnshire, England
40818 Pilot Officer Jack Ernest Anthony Friend - 61 Squadron, Royal Air Force (2nd Pilot) - Died 01/05/1940 Aged 25
Born: 18/12/1914
From: Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Killed in Action; Buried St Margaret of Antioch Churchyard, Stradishall, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk, Endland
580650 Sergeant Charles Frost - 61 Squadron, Royal Air Force (Observer) - Died 01/05/1940
Born: Unknown
From: Unknown
Killed in Action; Buried Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, Birkenhead, Wirral, Liverpool, England
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542887 Captain Alan "Big Al" Hewett - Green Howards - Died 17/03/2000 Aged 45
Born: 24/07/1954
From: Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England
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27611 Guardsman Robert William Dickinson - 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards - Died 18/04/1919 Aged 26
Born: March 1893 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Thomas and Mary Dickinson, of 6 Salisbury Terrace, County Durham, England
The CWGC lists him as "Guardsman", an anachronism
The rank "Guardsman" has been used in The Foot Guards since 1920; so at the time of Robert's death he was a "Private" as inscribed on his headstone
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WD/254880 Sapper John Gilfellan - 12th B.G Company, Royal Engineers - 26/02/1919 Aged 31
Born: 1887/1888/1889 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
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9120 Private Arthur Tinkler - Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) - 20/04/1919 Age Not Recorded
Born: 1895 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
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191252 Private Bertram Whitfield - D Training Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) - 11/11/1918 Aged 19
Born: 1898/1899 (Exact date unknown)
From: Colburn, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England
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J/27591 Ordinary Seaman Alfred Stacey Charleton - Royal Navy (HMS Lion) - Died 26/02/1916 Aged 18
Born: 1898 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
Died: Alverstoke, Gosport Borough, Hampshire, England
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5/290 Corporal Thomas William Foster - 1st/5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry - Died 31/12/1914 Aged 25
Born: May 1889 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Robert and Mary Jane Foster, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Thomas does not have a British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Card, so it appears that he died in Darlington without having served overseas
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375369 Private George Henry Bowes - 25th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry - Died 13/07/1918 Aged 17/18
Born: 1900 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
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626746 Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Harold Smith - Royal Air Force - 16/06/1940 Aged 18/19
Born: 1921 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Died: Gosport, Gosport Borough, Hampshire, England
Son of Henry and Kate Smith, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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1035927 Sergeant William Stanley Humphreys - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Flight Engineer) - Died 16/04/1943 Aged 20
Born: 1923/1924 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of William Henry Stanley and Eva Humphreys, of Darlington, County Durham, England
He was one of the aircrew of a Lancaster II Bomber, (#DS603), killed when the aircraft crashed during a training flight
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267694 Private David Sawers Clark - 1st/6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders - Died 10/07/1918 Aged 21/222
Born: 1896 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Died: Darlington, County Durham, England
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1131 Private Joseph William Pinder - Royal Army Medical Corps - 17/09/1917 Aged 22
Born: 1895 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of James Henry and Margaret Pinder, of 22 Farrer Street, Hopetown, Darlington, County Durham, England
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190737 Private 2nd Class Thomas Richmond - No 9 Aircraft Repair Depot (Edmonton), Royal Air Force - Died 14/10/1918 Aged 26
Born: 1892 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Thomas and Mary Richmond, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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SS/2386 Able Seaman John H Bloomer - Royal Navy (HMS Crescent). Secondary Unit: Royal Fleet Reserve (RFR. Dev. B.5020) - Died 19/07/1918 Aged 28
Born: 26/08/1889
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Annie Raine Bloomer, nee Cossins (1895-1957), of 14 Grasmere Road, Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of James, (1867-1940), and Bridget Bloomer, nee Dwyer (b 1869), of Darlington, County Durham, England
John father was an ironwork's labourer from Darlington. His parents married around 1887 and had eight children, made up of six girls and two boys. John was their second eldest child. In 1891 the Bloomer family lived at 7 Farrer Street, Hopetown, Darlington. By 1901 they had moved to 27 Sheraton Street, Darlington
John, who had been working as a driller, joined the Royal Navy on 7th May 1908, planning to serve five years full-time plus seven years in the Royal Fleet Reserve (RFR). He was initially rated as an ordinary seaman with the service number SS/2386. He was rated an able seaman on 25 August 1910. At the time of the 1911 census John was living in the Royal Naval Barracks in Devonport, Devon. He was demobilised to shore on 3rd May 1913 when he completed his short service period
John was transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve (RFR) as an able seaman with the new service number B/5020. He was called back into active service on 2 August 1914 on the outbreak of war and served on HMS Crescent, a protected cruiser.
He married Annie in Darlington during 1915. They had one son named Herbert Raine Bloomer, born in 1916. John died from pneumonia on 19th July 1918 at the Royal Naval Hospital Granton in Edinburgh. He was buried in North Cemetery, Darlington
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202895 Serjeant Francis Milton Tasker - 20th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade - Died 14/10/1918 Aged 46/47
Born: 1871 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
Died: West Lothian, Scotland
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W/97125 Corporal Annie Murphy - Auxiliary Territorial Service - Died 28/10/1945 Aged 35
Born: 1910 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Died: Darlington, County Durham, England
Daughter of Bernard and Mary Murphy, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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W/167724 Private Doreen Agnes Ball - Auxiliary Territorial Service - Died 01/09/1944 Aged 21
Born: 1923 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Wife of Private Reginald Ball, The South Staffordshire Regiment, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Daughter of Thomas J. Mellor and Margaret Ann Mellor, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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14732242 Sapper John Raymond Longthorne - Royal Engineers - Died 24/09/1946 Aged 21/22
Born: 1924 (Exact date unknown)
From: Unknown
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4469906 Private John Kelly - The Durham Light Infantry - Died 25/09/1947 Aged 29/30
Born: 1917 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Died: Consett, County Durham, England
Son of John and Mary Kelly, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Winifred Kelly, of Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England
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3449 Corporal Thomas Wiliam Wilson - Coldstream Guards - Died 05/04/1919 Aged 37/38
Born: November 1881 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
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3041 Lance Serjeant Joseph Bennett - 11th Battalion, Royal Scots - Died 25/07/1916 Aged 36
Born: 1880 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Mary Ann Bennett, of 1 Sheraton Street, Rise Carr, Darlington, County Durham, England
Brother of 46526 Private Charles Henry Bennett - 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers - Died 23/04/1917 Aged 33. Died of Pneumonia. Buried - Saint-Pol-Sur-Ternoise, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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200416 Private Levi Sutton - Durham Light Infantry - Died 20/04/1916 Aged 36/37
Born: 1879 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Mary H Sutton, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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29196 Private James William Garvey - 25th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry - Died 25/09/1916 Aged 19
Born: 1896 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Formerly 31808 The Yorkshire Regiment
Enlisted Darlington
Died Military Hospital Lichfield City
Son of John and Mary Garvey, of 9 Allan Street, Albert Hill, Darlington, County Durham, England
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1824102 Gunner James McGee - 198 Battery, 83 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - Died 23/07/1943 Aged 29
Born: 1913 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Alice McGee, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Hugh and Ann McGee, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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21137 Private Thomas William Reed - 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment - Died 15/08/1917 Aged 22
Born: 1895 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of George M. and M. J. Reed, of 80 Prescott Street, Albert Hill, Darlington, County Durham, England
Enlisted Darlington, County Durham, England
Accidentally drowned while saving a comrade at Hartlepool. County Durham, England
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D/MX673927 Wireman Titus Wilfred Ridsdale - Royal Navy (HMS Dundonald) - Died 17/08/1944 Aged
Born: 1923 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Wilfred and Margaret Ridsdale, nee Mason, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Accidentally killed as the result of a road accident
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O/7514 Private Arthur Smith - Army Ordnance Corps - Died 10/12/1916 Aged 25
Born: 1891 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of Charles and Susie Smith, of 21 Brougham Street, Darlington, County Durham, England
Died Stirling, Scotland
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88887 Bombardier William Henry Tweddall - "Y" 12th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery - Died 19/02/1919 Aged 28
Born: 1890 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Son of John and Emma Maria Tweddall, of 19 Japan Street, Darlington, County Durham, England
Died Warrington, Cheshire, England
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3/10398 Private John Thomas Tyson - 3rd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry - Died 11/10/1914 Aged 37
Born: 1877 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Husband of Clementina Tyson, of Darlington, County Durham, England
Father of Eric Norman Tyson, of Darlington, County Durham, England
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649 Lance Corporal Ernest William Waters - Royal Army Medical Corps - Died 18/09/1916 Aged 25
Born: 1891 (Exact date unknown)
From: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
Son of William and Mary Waters, of 78 Cartmell Terrace, Darlington, County Durham, England
Died in Norfolk War Hospital from wounds
Brother of 242307 Private Herbert Waters - Lewis Gun Section, 1st/5th Battalion, Yorkshire and Lancaster Regiment - Died 21/10/1917 Aged 23. Killed in Action in Belgium. Buried - Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Arrondissement Leper, West Flanders, Belgium
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200080 Private John William Watling - 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry - Died 03/03/1919 Aged 23
Born: November 1895 (Exact date unknown)
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Youngest Son of Edmund and Sarah Ann Watling, of 15 China Street, Harrowgate Hill, Darlington
He was christened at St Paul's Church, Darlington, on 24th November 1895
John's father was a fish dealer in Darlington. In April 1911, he and his older brother, Robert, had joined their father working in the family business. He had another brother, Matthew, who worked as an "iron turner" and a sister, Sarah Ann
When the war began, he had been serving as a Territorial Soldier in the 5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry for over a year and volunteered for overseas service. He sailed with the battalion's Transport Section from Southampton and landed in Le Havre in France on 17th April 1915. A little over a week later, the 5th Battalion took part in the Second Battle of Ypres
Details of his service are unknown, but he died on 3rd March 1919, at Yarm Road Hospital, Darlington. He is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's web site, so, presumably he died from illness or wounds received while serving in the army
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2049717 Leading Aircraftwoman Elleen Dawson - Women's Auxiliary Air Force - Died 28/09/1942 Aged 20
Born: 17/06/1922
From: Darlington, County Durham, England
Daughter of Robert William and Mary Ann Dawson of Darlington, County Durham, England
