This list contains the names of 66 men and women from Stillington and Marton cum Moxby who served their country during WW2.
Arthur Anderson
Squadron Sergeant Major
15/19 King's Royal Hussars
Enlisted 2/2/1926. Served Egypt, India, France, West Africa, East Africa, Burma, Seycelles, Ceylon, South and North Africa.
Medals: JGSM, Long Service, 39-45 Star, North Africa Star, Burma Star, Victory Medal, Defence Medal.
Robert Daykin Barningham
Corporal
Royal Armoured Corps
22/1/1921-1991
Enlisted 1941. Also served in 7th Queen's Hussars, 7th Army Brigade, RAIF 1942-43, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1943 and Central Mediterranean Force 1943-1945.
Before enlistment in 1942 was a joiner. Discharged due to illness.
Thomas (Tom) Barningham
Marine Coxwain
Royal Marines
11/8/1919-1998
Enlisted 5/12/1939. Served 5th RM Battery, 1st RMN Battery, 45 RM Commando, HMS 814 Flotilla, Southampton Harbour Patrol, LCVP. Served in West Africa, France and Germany.
Medals: DSM June 1944, 39-45 Star, France & Germany Star, Victory Medal, Defence Medal.
(Robert) Guy Bullen
Captain
Royal Artillery
Born 23/2/1911 Stillington-1969
Served AA Felixstowe. Schoolteacher before enlistment.
Married Margaret Mary Appleyard at Maidenhead in December 1939.
They had two children Richard and Anne.
Moved to Kenya after the war.
Olive Alice Bulmer
Corporal
Auxiliary Territorial Service
19/2/1918 - 1970
Enlisted 1942. Served Belgium and France. Olive married Tom Barningham in 1948.
Medals: 39-45 Star, France & Germany Star, Victory Medal.
Francis Burks
Private
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Born 11/12/1915 - 1967
Enlisted 11/12/1933. Served Burma and Gibraltar.
Medals: 39-45 Star, Burma Star 41-43, Defence Medal.
Frank Burnett
Sapper
Royal Engineers
5/2/1915 at Stillington - 1989
Enlisted 7/7/1942. Served Algeria, Italy and Austria. Was a joiner before enlistment.
Medals: 39-45 Star, Italian Star, Victory Medal, Defence Medal.
George Burnett
Gunner
Royal Artillery
13/12/1910 at Stillington-1999
Before enlistment on 17/10/1940 was a gardener. Served Egypt, Libya, Dodecanese Islands and Italy.
Medals: 39-45 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army Clasp, Italy Star, Victory Medal, Defence Medal.
Harry Burnett
Lance Corporal
Military Police
Born 15/12/1917 at Stillington.
Enlisted 6/8/1942 and served SE command. Harry was a policeman in civilian life.
Enlisted 6/5/1918. Served China, North America, West Indies, Mediterranean, Russia, Palestine, North Africa, Italy and 'D' Day.
Medals: 1914-1918 Medal, Palestine, 39-45 Star, Atlantic Medal, France/Germany Star, North Africa Star, Italy Star, Long Service and Good Conduct, Oak Leaf.
Noel Kay
RAF
28/11/1916-1984
George Albert Lambert
Sapper
Royal Engineers
1923-1998
Enlisted 1/7/1943. Served France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
Enlisted 16/9/1940. Served North Africa, where he was stationed when he sent the letter below back home to Mrs Sparrow, landlady of The White Bear. Also served Italy, Dalmatia, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
Medals: 39-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, France & Germany Star, Victory Medal, Defence Medal.
Herbert Ronald Thompson
Private
Duke of Wellington's
1913-1995
Enlisted 15/11/1940. Served India and Burma.
Medals: 39-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal.
Margaret Toase
Wren
WRNS
Born 1923.
Enlisted 19/8/1942. Served HMS Pembroke and HMS Gosling.
John William (Jack) Whitwell
Gunner
955494
Royal Artillery
1918-1986
Enlisted 11/10/1939. Served France (wounded at Dunkirk), France and Germany.
Medals: 39-45 Star, France & Germany Star.
Cecil Wood
Sapper
Royal Engineers
1918 at Stillington - 1977
Enlisted 19/10/1939. Served France, Belgium, Dunkirk, Persia, Cyprus, Iraq, Syria and Libya. POW from 29/6/1942 for 3 years in Italy, and Germany at Stalag IV-D/Z Annanburg in Saxony-Anhalt.
Medals: Mentioned in dispatches 1940, 39-45 Star, Africa Star, Victory Medal, Defence Medal.
