Index F

The information here displays the name, service number and memorial
page they are listed on, which can be accessed via the home page

Fairweather, Gordon Melville Ruchet - 567309 - Royston
Fallon, Timothy - 4615137 - Wombwell
Fallon, Timothy - 4615137 - Wombwell - St. Mary's Church - Roll of Honour Book
Farley, Thomas - D/KX83419 - Thurnscoe
Farrimond, Leslie - 7382261 - Wombwell
Farrimond, Leslie - 7382261 - Wombwell - St. Mary's Church - Roll of Honour Book
Faulkner, Frederick Herbert - 1686676 - Penistone
Fawcett, Jack - 14228503 - Barnsley Grammar School
Fawcett, Jack - 14228503 - Wombwell
Featherstone, Geoffrey - D/JX 197822 - Barnsley Grammar School
Fenton, Harrold - P/JX 290769 - Cudworth
Fevers, J. - Unk - Wombwell -  St. Mary's Church - Roll of Honour Book
Finney, Alfred - 5948609 - Darfield
Fisher, Frederick William -  1896156 - Dodworth
Fisher, Harry - 639435 - Worsbrough
Fisher, J - Goldthorpe
Fisher, J - proposed Dearne Towns
Fitzpatrick, John - 4619101 - proposed Dearne Towns
Fletcher, George - 1595386 - Kingstone - St Edward the Confessor
Fletcher, George Frederick - 1383620 - Barnsley Grammar School
Fletcher, George Frederick - 1383620 - Hoyland
Fletcher, Leslie - 151050 - Barnsley Grammar School
Fletcher, William Henry - 4539363 - Thurnscoe
Flower, Norman - 1081246 - Mapplewell
Foster, Arthur - 2664177 - Wombwell
Foster, Arthur - 2664177 - Wombwell - St. Mary's Church - Roll of Honour Book
Foster, Guy - D/JX 237677 - Goldthorpe
Foster, Guy - D/JX 237677 - proposed Dearne Towns
Foster, Jack - 4688536 - Wombwell
Foster, Jack - 4688536 - Wombwell - St. Mary's Church - Roll of Honour Book
Fox, George - 123109 - Barnsley Grammar School
Foy, John - 6102736 - Barnsley Holy Rood Church
France, Alan - P/JX 296185 - Royston
Francis, Charles Kenneth -  6088714 - Wortley
Franks, John Thomas - 4396940 - Monk Bretton
Frogson, Frank - 1538347 - Barnsley British Co-operative Society
Frogson, Frank - 1538347 - Hoyland
Frudd, Albert - 2764220 - Darfield

Additional Casualties not listed on a memorial

Harry Falkingham (1466305)
Royal Artillery - 68 Anti Tank Regt
17 July 1944, aged 31
Son of George William and Sarah Ann Falkingham, of Halifax, Yorkshire; Husband of Florence Falkingham,  of Thurnscoe East, Yorkshire. 
Fontenay-Le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel
Died during the Normandy Campaign
  
George Falloon (14238471)
Royal Engineers - 585 Corps Field Park Coy.
7 January 1943, aged 21
Brookwood Memorial
Lost when transport ship SS Benalbanach, part of convoy KMS 6, was sunk in the Mediterranean by torpedo aircraft
  
Peter Felix Falwasser (952126)
Royal Horse Artillery - 1 Regt.
22 December 1942, aged 26
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Falwasser.
Heliopolis War Cemetery
Died in Egypt after apparently making a recovery from wounds sustained months before

Leonard Farmery (1104885)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 80 Sqdn
15 October 1942, aged 22
Son of James C. and Ada Farmery, of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
El Alamein War Cemetery
Died of Wounds or Injuries Received on Active Service
 
Edmund Rawlinson Fawcett (14394187)
Royal Engineers
3 March 1947, aged 23
Son of Arthur and Hilda Fawcett; Husband of Emma Fawcett, of West Ardsley, Yorkshire.
Klagenfurt War Cemetery
Died in Austria
 
Fred Fawcett (1483880)
Royal Artillery - 106 Bty., 27 Lt. A.A. Regt.
20 November 1939, aged 45
Son of William and Eliza Elisebeth Fawcett; Husband of Aileen Fawcett, of Manningham, Bradford.
Darfield Cemetery
Died at R.A.F Station, Digby, Lincolnshire
 
Herbert Fawden (1782191)
Royal Artillery - 89 Bty., 35 Lt. A.A. Regt.
5 March 1943, aged 39
Son of William and Louise Fawden; Husband of Ida Fawden, of Pontefract, Yorkshire.
Singapore Memorial
Among possibly 600 PoW executed by the Japanese on Ballale Island in the Solomons
 
John Keith Percy Featherstone (3320061)
Royal Army Service Corps -  attd. H.Q. 15th Inf. Div.
12 August 1944, aged 26
Son of Wilfred and Jane Irene Featherstone; husband of Norma Featherstone, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
St Charles De Percy War Cemetery
Died during the Normandy Campaign
 
Arthur Fielding (14391431)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 5th Bn.
20 January 1944, aged 23
Son of Edward and Harriet Fielding, of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Cassino War Cemetery
Died in Italy
 
Hugh Brown Findlay (945208)
Royal Artillery - 138 Field Regt.
4 May 1943, aged 24
Son of James and Kathleen Findlay, of Wembley, Middlesex.
Massicault War Cemetery
Died in the final few days of the war in North Africa
 
Horace William Fisher (4540052)
Royal Armoured Corps - 13th/18th Royal Hussars
24 February 1945, aged 26
Son of Horace Fisher, and of Sophia Elizabeth Fisher, of Radford, Coventry.
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Died on the borders of Germany
 
Joseph Fitzhenry (13005993)
Pioneer Corps
12 June 1946, aged 42
Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Sarah Fitzhenry, of Barnsley.
Barnsley Cemetery
Died at Mount Vernon Sanatorium
 
John Fitzpatrick (4619101)
Duke Of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) - 9th Bn.
11 September 1941, aged 24
Son of John and Mary Fitzpatrick, of Goldthorpe.
Bolton-Upon-Dearne Cemetery
Electrocuted in an accident in Gloucestershire
 
Brian Fletcher (1113150)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 216 Sqdn
4 December 1946, aged 26
Son of Joseph Henry and Ellen Fletcher, of Scarborough. Scholar of Barnsley Technical College
Darton (All Saints) Churchyard
Died in Scarborough



Gordon Fletcher (1008482)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 10 Sqdn.
23 August 1941, aged 22
Son of Raymond W. Fletcher and Elizabeth A. Fletcher, of Wallasey, Cheshire.
Gawber (St Thomas) Churchyard
Fletcher and the pilot were killed from the five man crew of Armstrong Whitworth Whitley T4234 crashed on return to a
mission to Le Havre. Airborne at 20:02 22 Aug 41, and crashed 0141 into high ground on Widdale Fell, 2,031 feet amsl, 2 miles NE of Dent, an isolated Westmoreland village, 12 miles E of Kendal.

John Forster (4697189)
Royal Armoured Corps - 149th (7th Bn. The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) Regt.
4 May 1944, aged 34
Son of William and Annie Forster, of Barnsley, Yorkshire; Husband of Lena Forster, of Barnsley.
Kohima War Cemetery
Died during the Battle of Kohima
 
Kenneth Forster (985822)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve - 15 Sqdn
16 September 1942, aged 24
Son of Harold Cawthorne Forster and Olive Forster, of Pontefract, Yorkshire.
Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery
Short Stirling BF353 coded LS-E airborne at 20:25 from Bourn on a mission to Essen. Crashed in the IJsselmeer, 10 km NW of Harderwijk. The area where the Stirling fell is now the Oosterlijk-Flevoland, an area of reclaimed land.
 
Jack Foster (822839)
Royal Artillery - 12 Field Regt.
26 April 1941, aged 28
Son of James and Edith Mary Foster, of Thornes, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Imtarfa Military Cemetery
Died on Malta

Samuel Byers Foster (14225867)
King's Own Scottish Borderers 
26 May 1946, aged 36
Son of James S. and Margaret B. Foster; Husband of Beatrice Foster, of Grimethorpe, Yorkshire.
Munster Heath War Cemetery
Died in Germany
 
Thomas Foster (4748100)
York and Lancaster Regiment - 6th Bn
Between 27/05/1940 and 28/05/1940
Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery
Died in France with the BEF
 
John Hartley Scriven Fox (4687358)
Royal Armoured Corps - 145th (8th Bn. The Duke of Wellington's Regt. [West Riding] Regt.)
2 August 1943, aged 32
Son of Ernest and Mary Georgina Fox, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire.
Bone War Cemetery, Annaba
Died in North Africa
 
Albert Francis (P/LX 23978)
Royal Navy - HMS Emerald
15 June 1941, aged 31
Son of George and Alice Francis, of Ward Green, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Killed when the light cruiser HMS Emerald was in collision with HM Cruiser Dauntless in Malacca Straits, Malaya and sustained major damage. It was partially flooded in the of forward engine room and structural damage amidships with 14 of ship’s company killed or missing and five injured.
 
James Jackson Francis (T/4753077)
Royal Army Service Corps
1 February 1944, aged 24
Son of Arthur and Emily Francis, of Worsborough Dale, Yorkshire.
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
Died in Egypt
 
Gerald Wilson French (85635)
Gloucestershire Regiment - 2nd Bn.
29 May 1940, aged 21
Son of Charles Henry and Isabel Lucie French, of Bristol.
Cassel Communal Cemetery Extension
Died in France with the BEF
 
Desmond Fretwell (4758406)
Sherwood Foresters (Notts And Derby Regiment - 5th Bn
2 October 1945, aged 23
Klegenfurt War Cemetery
Died in Austria
 
George Fretwell (4691576)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 1st Bn.
13 July 1943
Syracuse War Cemetery, Sicily
Died on the fourth day of the invasion of Sicily
 
James Fretwell (13012872)
Pioneer Corps
22 March 1942, aged 46
Son of John and Caroline Fretwell, of Darton; Husband of Harriet Fretwell, of Darton.
Darton (All Saints) Churchyard
Died in Barnsley
 
Kenneth J Frost (4689767)
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - 2nd Bn.
23 February 1942, aged 25
Rangoon Memorial
Died in Burma
 
Thomas William Furniss (D/JX 140384)
Royal Navy - HMS Matabele
17 January 1942, aged 23
Son of William Henry and Elizabeth Furniss; husband of Elizabeth Furniss, of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.
Plymouth Naval Memorial
Lost when the destroyer HMS Matabele was sunk in the Barents Sea. On 8 January 1942, HMS Matabele and another ship were ordered to join the escort of convoy PQ-8. On 17 January, just off Kola Inlet,
HMS Matabele was torpedoed by the German submarine U-454 and sank in two minutes in position 69º21'N, 35º27'E. Even in that short  time, many had managed to abandon ship only to be frozen to death in the icy waters.

Cyril Fletcher (4396335)
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - 4th Bn
1 October 1941, aged 21
Son of Albert and Elsie Fletcher, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Pembroke Military Cemetery
Died on Malta