Ash next Ridley - Parish Information. Ash next Ridley War Memorial. Book compiled in Personal recollections by residents of Ash and Ridley. He appears In the Southfleet Census for aged 12 years old and living with his uncle. Cole Killed in Action 16th September No next of kin recorded. Hamilton lists three, none of which seem likely. However a search with just A.
Hamilton gives Alexander Hamilton Lieutenant. Royal Air Force Unit 3rd Sqdn. Aged 23, date of Death: 8th August Next of Kin: Parents, Thomas B. Son of Mrs L. James, of 15, Ewart Rd, Chatham. Buried in Ash Churchyard. No connection with Ash found todate.
Born about No likely candidate found in Census. Jenkins, mothers maiden name Ling - Ref Jun Willesden 3a Exmouth" that was torpedoed on 21st January in the North Sea, off the coast of Wick with the loss of all hands. Charles Frederick. Squadron equipped with Liberator Bombers, that was based Salbani, India.
Attacks on Japanese bases in Burma, Sumatra and Malaya were carried out. Alfreda died in the summer of , never having re-married. Ernest was a Flight Sergeant, Service No. Johnson on an air-raid on Nuremberg, Germany. There were very heavy losses that night and early in the morning of the 31st March, their plane was shot down by a German night-fighter about 20 miles north of Nuremburg.
Ernest A. Flying Officer Headlam, Sergeant Watts and another crew member survived the crash and were taken prisoner. He then went to the Far East as a war artist covering the campaign against the Japanese and was killed by terrorists in Indonesia on 5th November soon after the end of WWII. Frederick R. He served as a Captain, service number , with "A" Sqn. After Dunkirk he transferred to the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards the regiment in which his brother Tony Leavey was already serving.
