WWII War Dead - 37 souls and counting
George Andrew Atkinson born circa 1918 son of John and Wilhelmina Atkinson, of Blackrock, Co
Dublin. He was a pilot with the 61 Squadron RAF; Service number 42329 with the Observer/bomber
unit and was killed 13 Jun 1940.
Francis (Frank) Byrne of Galloping Green died at Formosa Internment Camp on 5 May 1943.
James Clarke born circa 1887. Husband of Fernande Louise Aline Clarke, of 9 Main Street, Dundrum,
Dublin. Civilian killed 30 Apr 1942
Private John Cyril Davey died on Active Service 30 July 1941 at Dorchester as a result of an accident.
Eldest son of Mr & Mrs H W Davey, 34 Green Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was interred at
Dorchester cemetery on 5 Aug 1941.
William Horatio Donald born circa 1918 in Stillorgan son of George Matthew and Margaret Florence Donald
of Stillorgan. He was a pilot with the 66th Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Lost off Noup
Head on the northern tip of the island of Westray, Orkney in a snowstorm during a sector recce. Killed in
Action on 12 Mar 1943 and remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Lieut Martin Fitzgerald born 7 Jun 1917 son of Martin Fitzgerald and Kathleen Fogarty at Ardilea. He
was educated at Trinity. He enlisted at the start of the war, service no 245398 he was with the Royal
Armoured Corps of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. He married Rosaleen Dunn, daughter of
Andrew E Dunn of Springfield, Co Derry on 26 Mar 1941 at Portrush. He was awarded the Military Cross
for his actions at the liberation of Geffen, Holland in October 1944. Lieut Fitzgerald was killed in action
on the Western Front in Germany on 4 Apr 1945. He is buried and commemorated at the Reichswald
Forest War Cemetery in Germany.
Douglas Moore Foster born 17 Mar 1921 at 7 Milmount Terrace, Dundrum. He was the son of James
Foster, and asylum attendant and his wife Mary Wilkinson. He was with the 34 Squadron, RAF and
presumed to have been killed during the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Malaya on 26 Jan 1942.
Einri Geoghegan born 29 May 1913 at Ballinteer Villa, Dundrum. He was the son of Joseph Aloysius
Geoghegan, an architect and his wife, Elizabeth Hayes. He was a civilian and was killed at at 55
Livingstone Street, Norwich.
Lieut Arthur Myles Jackson Lieut. Sub Officer (A) R.N.V.R. Son of Arthur and Lilian May Jackson, of
Douglas, Isle of Man. Married to Daphne Jackson. Killed in Action 23rd Jul 1944 age 23.
Thelma Daphne Jackson, 3rd Officer, W.R.N.S. Daughter of Charles Trench Stewart and Norah Eileen
Trench Stewart, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Married to Myles Jackson Killed in Action 23 Jul 1944
aged 23.
William Anthony Kavanagh Service Number: 2223365. Born in Dundrum circa 1920, son of William
and Mary Kavanagh, of Dundrum.He was a sergeant in the 4 Operational Training Unit and was killed
23 Sep 1944. He is remember at St Nahi's, Dundrum.
Patrick Laurence Kelly, Somerset Light Infantry Killed in action in Italy on 19 Jul 1944 aged 22.
Second youngest son of James and the late Bridget Kelly of Springfield, Stradbrook, Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
Robert George Marks born 11 Apr 1912, son of Robert Marks, and of Adelaide Marks, of Blackrock,
Co Dublin. He was Aircraftman 1st Class with the153 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Taken prisoner on 8 Mar 1942 when Java fell and died in a POW camp in Labuan, Borneo.
Robert Gladstone Marsh born circa 1888 son of Lewis and Eleanor Marsh. He was the husband of
Marguerita Mary Marsh, of Dundrum, Co Dublin. He was the chief engineer on the S S Colborne (Montreal)
and was killed 1 Feb 1944 . He is remembered Suez War Memorial Cemetery.
Alfred Anthony Henry Miller Son of Alfred and Beatrice Miller and the husband of Mary Miller of
Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a gunner with the 37th Regiment Royal Artillery - Service Number 99894.
He was killed on 6 Jun 1943. Remembered at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
P J McGee service No 2723758 Guardsman of the Irish Guards, 2nd Battalion son of John and
Margaret McGee, of Blackrock, Co. Dublin killed 9 May 1945 remembered at Venray War Cemetery
Netherlands.
Henry Claud McComas born circa 1913 in Blackrock, son of Cyril Henry and Hilda Mary Claude McComas,
of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a pilot with the 26 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was
killed in action 16 Jul 1942. He is remembered at the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France
The McCrea Family of Altona Stillorgan, civilians killed 22 Dec 1940.
Dr Edward d'Arcy McCrea - Civilian
Dr Florence McCrea - Civilian
Patrick McCrea aged 13 - Civilian
Bridget McCrea aged 10 - Civilian
Roy Vivian Murray son of Edward James Murray and Maud Murray, of Dundrum, Co. Dublin. He was a
retired major of Netherwood, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. He was injured at Regent Palace Hotel on
19 Oct 1940 and died same day at Charing Cross Hospital.
Robert Edward Hamilton Northridge, RAF, killed on active service 7 Nov 1943 aged 30. Lived at
Chesterfield on Cross Avenue and Hawthorn, Blackrock. Memorial at St Columba's College.
Private Cecil Edward Poulter. He was underage when he enlisted and survived WW1. He
emigrated to South Africa and enlisted in the British Army again for WWII with the Natal
Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces and served with the 1st Regiment. He was killed in Egypt on
22 Jun 1942 at the battle of Tobruk and is remembered at Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery.
William Norman Pratt born circa 1917 Son of George Pratt, and of Florence Pratt, of Blackrock,
Co Dublin. He was a sergeant and an observer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Service No 990739, he was killed 15 Sep 1941 and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
William Paston Purnell-Edwards born circa 1925 son of John Purnell Purnell-Edwards and of
Gwladis Ruth Liddon of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a sergeant and air gunner with the Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Service number 605673. He was killed on 15 Oct 1944 and is
remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Robert Joseph Redmond born circa 1914, son of J P Redmond of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was
a captain, leading aircraftsman 208 Squadron Royal Air Force. He was killed 26 Jun 1943 and
remembered at the Tripoli War Cemetery.
John Hubert Alastair Scott-Kerr born circa 1920, son of John and Helen Scott-Kerr, of Blackrock,
Co Dublin. He was a Sub-Lieutenant on the HMS Hood. He was killed on 24 May 1941 and is
remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Robert Hugh Innes Scott-Kerr born circa 1920 son of John Scott-Kerr, JP and Helen Scott-Kerr, of
Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a sergeant with the 10 Elementary Fts, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. He died 30 Mar 1940 after he stalled and dived into the ground 2 miles northeast of
Avebury, Wilts during a solo training flight. He is remembered at Yatesbury (All Saints) Churchyard.
Jeremiah Sheehan born circa 1916 son of Edward and Catherine Sheehan. He was a captain in
the the Royal Army Medical Corps and husband of Julia Sheehan, of Dundrum, Co Dublin. He
was killed on 26 Jun 1943 and remembered at the Tripoli War Cemetery.
Nicholas Smyth born circa 1920 in Blackrock. Aircraftman 1st Class in the RAF and was lost in the
SS Lancastria which was bombed by Ju88s in the Charpentier Roads off St Nazaire when about to
evacuate troops from France on 17 Jun 1940.
James Butler Ormond Staveley born 30 Jun 1903 in Limerick son of Arthur Staveley and Ada
Butler Hodges. He was a radio officer on the SS Nagpore (Hull) and husband of Kathleen Butler
Staveley, of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was killed 5 Aug 1940 and is remembered on the Dundee
Eastern Necropolis.
Surgeon Lieut Harold Fitzgerald Storm RNVR, HMS Javelin, only son of the late Harold Alexander
Sloan of Blackrock and Mrs Sloan, Churchill, Kilmainham Killed on Active Service 29 Nov 1940.
Arnold Edward Desmond Twamley born 22 Jul 1920 at Kingstown. He was the son of William
Twamley and Minnie Cheetham, of Anglesea Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a sergeant/
observer with the RAF, service number 580573. He was killed 28 May 1940 and is remembered
at the De Panne Communal
Cemetery .
Pilot Officer Donald Moffat-Wilson service Number 17344 of the 165 Squadron. He attended
Sherborne School in England from 1937 -1941 and his family lived at Trentham on Leopardstown
Road from 1930 to 1939. He was born 14 Feb 1923 and killed in action over France on 12.06.1944
aged 21 years. He is commemorated on the Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados, France, XVIII. F. 4.
Inscription on his headstone: ‘BELOVED SON OF GUY AND EDITH MOFFAT-WILSON. IN PROUD AND
LOVING MEMORY.'
Samuel A W Waters, Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve, who served and was killed aboard HMS
Implacable on 27 Oct 1944, while taking part in anti-shipping operations off Norway, during the Second
World War. Son of J A H Waters who founded the Scout troop in Stillorgan and resided at Woodview,
Main road, Stilllorgan.
Katherine Frances Mary White, daughter of Matthew O Byrne and May White, of Stillorgan, Co Dublin. She
was a sister in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. She was lost on passage to
Capetown when the Ceramic was attacked by a U-Boat on 7 Dec 1942. She is remembered on the
Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial
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Dublin. He was a pilot with the 61 Squadron RAF; Service number 42329 with the Observer/bomber
unit and was killed 13 Jun 1940.
Francis (Frank) Byrne of Galloping Green died at Formosa Internment Camp on 5 May 1943.
James Clarke born circa 1887. Husband of Fernande Louise Aline Clarke, of 9 Main Street, Dundrum,
Dublin. Civilian killed 30 Apr 1942
Private John Cyril Davey died on Active Service 30 July 1941 at Dorchester as a result of an accident.
Eldest son of Mr & Mrs H W Davey, 34 Green Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was interred at
Dorchester cemetery on 5 Aug 1941.
William Horatio Donald born circa 1918 in Stillorgan son of George Matthew and Margaret Florence Donald
of Stillorgan. He was a pilot with the 66th Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Lost off Noup
Head on the northern tip of the island of Westray, Orkney in a snowstorm during a sector recce. Killed in
Action on 12 Mar 1943 and remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Lieut Martin Fitzgerald born 7 Jun 1917 son of Martin Fitzgerald and Kathleen Fogarty at Ardilea. He
was educated at Trinity. He enlisted at the start of the war, service no 245398 he was with the Royal
Armoured Corps of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. He married Rosaleen Dunn, daughter of
Andrew E Dunn of Springfield, Co Derry on 26 Mar 1941 at Portrush. He was awarded the Military Cross
for his actions at the liberation of Geffen, Holland in October 1944. Lieut Fitzgerald was killed in action
on the Western Front in Germany on 4 Apr 1945. He is buried and commemorated at the Reichswald
Forest War Cemetery in Germany.
Douglas Moore Foster born 17 Mar 1921 at 7 Milmount Terrace, Dundrum. He was the son of James
Foster, and asylum attendant and his wife Mary Wilkinson. He was with the 34 Squadron, RAF and
presumed to have been killed during the Japanese occupation of Singapore and Malaya on 26 Jan 1942.
Einri Geoghegan born 29 May 1913 at Ballinteer Villa, Dundrum. He was the son of Joseph Aloysius
Geoghegan, an architect and his wife, Elizabeth Hayes. He was a civilian and was killed at at 55
Livingstone Street, Norwich.
Lieut Arthur Myles Jackson Lieut. Sub Officer (A) R.N.V.R. Son of Arthur and Lilian May Jackson, of
Douglas, Isle of Man. Married to Daphne Jackson. Killed in Action 23rd Jul 1944 age 23.
Thelma Daphne Jackson, 3rd Officer, W.R.N.S. Daughter of Charles Trench Stewart and Norah Eileen
Trench Stewart, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Married to Myles Jackson Killed in Action 23 Jul 1944
aged 23.
William Anthony Kavanagh Service Number: 2223365. Born in Dundrum circa 1920, son of William
and Mary Kavanagh, of Dundrum.He was a sergeant in the 4 Operational Training Unit and was killed
23 Sep 1944. He is remember at St Nahi's, Dundrum.
Patrick Laurence Kelly, Somerset Light Infantry Killed in action in Italy on 19 Jul 1944 aged 22.
Second youngest son of James and the late Bridget Kelly of Springfield, Stradbrook, Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
Robert George Marks born 11 Apr 1912, son of Robert Marks, and of Adelaide Marks, of Blackrock,
Co Dublin. He was Aircraftman 1st Class with the153 Maintenance Unit, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Taken prisoner on 8 Mar 1942 when Java fell and died in a POW camp in Labuan, Borneo.
Robert Gladstone Marsh born circa 1888 son of Lewis and Eleanor Marsh. He was the husband of
Marguerita Mary Marsh, of Dundrum, Co Dublin. He was the chief engineer on the S S Colborne (Montreal)
and was killed 1 Feb 1944 . He is remembered Suez War Memorial Cemetery.
Alfred Anthony Henry Miller Son of Alfred and Beatrice Miller and the husband of Mary Miller of
Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a gunner with the 37th Regiment Royal Artillery - Service Number 99894.
He was killed on 6 Jun 1943. Remembered at Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery.
P J McGee service No 2723758 Guardsman of the Irish Guards, 2nd Battalion son of John and
Margaret McGee, of Blackrock, Co. Dublin killed 9 May 1945 remembered at Venray War Cemetery
Netherlands.
Henry Claud McComas born circa 1913 in Blackrock, son of Cyril Henry and Hilda Mary Claude McComas,
of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a pilot with the 26 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was
killed in action 16 Jul 1942. He is remembered at the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France
The McCrea Family of Altona Stillorgan, civilians killed 22 Dec 1940.
Dr Edward d'Arcy McCrea - Civilian
Dr Florence McCrea - Civilian
Patrick McCrea aged 13 - Civilian
Bridget McCrea aged 10 - Civilian
Roy Vivian Murray son of Edward James Murray and Maud Murray, of Dundrum, Co. Dublin. He was a
retired major of Netherwood, The Ridge, Hastings, Sussex. He was injured at Regent Palace Hotel on
19 Oct 1940 and died same day at Charing Cross Hospital.
Robert Edward Hamilton Northridge, RAF, killed on active service 7 Nov 1943 aged 30. Lived at
Chesterfield on Cross Avenue and Hawthorn, Blackrock. Memorial at St Columba's College.
Private Cecil Edward Poulter. He was underage when he enlisted and survived WW1. He
emigrated to South Africa and enlisted in the British Army again for WWII with the Natal
Mounted Rifles, S.A. Forces and served with the 1st Regiment. He was killed in Egypt on
22 Jun 1942 at the battle of Tobruk and is remembered at Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery.
William Norman Pratt born circa 1917 Son of George Pratt, and of Florence Pratt, of Blackrock,
Co Dublin. He was a sergeant and an observer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Service No 990739, he was killed 15 Sep 1941 and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
William Paston Purnell-Edwards born circa 1925 son of John Purnell Purnell-Edwards and of
Gwladis Ruth Liddon of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a sergeant and air gunner with the Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve - Service number 605673. He was killed on 15 Oct 1944 and is
remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Robert Joseph Redmond born circa 1914, son of J P Redmond of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was
a captain, leading aircraftsman 208 Squadron Royal Air Force. He was killed 26 Jun 1943 and
remembered at the Tripoli War Cemetery.
John Hubert Alastair Scott-Kerr born circa 1920, son of John and Helen Scott-Kerr, of Blackrock,
Co Dublin. He was a Sub-Lieutenant on the HMS Hood. He was killed on 24 May 1941 and is
remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Robert Hugh Innes Scott-Kerr born circa 1920 son of John Scott-Kerr, JP and Helen Scott-Kerr, of
Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a sergeant with the 10 Elementary Fts, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. He died 30 Mar 1940 after he stalled and dived into the ground 2 miles northeast of
Avebury, Wilts during a solo training flight. He is remembered at Yatesbury (All Saints) Churchyard.
Jeremiah Sheehan born circa 1916 son of Edward and Catherine Sheehan. He was a captain in
the the Royal Army Medical Corps and husband of Julia Sheehan, of Dundrum, Co Dublin. He
was killed on 26 Jun 1943 and remembered at the Tripoli War Cemetery.
Nicholas Smyth born circa 1920 in Blackrock. Aircraftman 1st Class in the RAF and was lost in the
SS Lancastria which was bombed by Ju88s in the Charpentier Roads off St Nazaire when about to
evacuate troops from France on 17 Jun 1940.
James Butler Ormond Staveley born 30 Jun 1903 in Limerick son of Arthur Staveley and Ada
Butler Hodges. He was a radio officer on the SS Nagpore (Hull) and husband of Kathleen Butler
Staveley, of Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was killed 5 Aug 1940 and is remembered on the Dundee
Eastern Necropolis.
Surgeon Lieut Harold Fitzgerald Storm RNVR, HMS Javelin, only son of the late Harold Alexander
Sloan of Blackrock and Mrs Sloan, Churchill, Kilmainham Killed on Active Service 29 Nov 1940.
Arnold Edward Desmond Twamley born 22 Jul 1920 at Kingstown. He was the son of William
Twamley and Minnie Cheetham, of Anglesea Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. He was a sergeant/
observer with the RAF, service number 580573. He was killed 28 May 1940 and is remembered
at the De Panne Communal
Cemetery .
Pilot Officer Donald Moffat-Wilson service Number 17344 of the 165 Squadron. He attended
Sherborne School in England from 1937 -1941 and his family lived at Trentham on Leopardstown
Road from 1930 to 1939. He was born 14 Feb 1923 and killed in action over France on 12.06.1944
aged 21 years. He is commemorated on the Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados, France, XVIII. F. 4.
Inscription on his headstone: ‘BELOVED SON OF GUY AND EDITH MOFFAT-WILSON. IN PROUD AND
LOVING MEMORY.'
Samuel A W Waters, Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve, who served and was killed aboard HMS
Implacable on 27 Oct 1944, while taking part in anti-shipping operations off Norway, during the Second
World War. Son of J A H Waters who founded the Scout troop in Stillorgan and resided at Woodview,
Main road, Stilllorgan.
Katherine Frances Mary White, daughter of Matthew O Byrne and May White, of Stillorgan, Co Dublin. She
was a sister in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. She was lost on passage to
Capetown when the Ceramic was attacked by a U-Boat on 7 Dec 1942. She is remembered on the
Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial
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