King died unexpectedly of cerebral oedema on 28 November 1941, aged 47. Survived by his wife and children, he was cremated at Fawkner Crematorium, Melbourne. His funeral service at South Yarra was attended by hundreds of mourners from the military and civil aviation world, including the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, and a representative of the Minister for Air; the pallbearers included Air Vice Marshal Henry Wrigley, Air Commodore Raymond Brownell, Group Captain Allan Walters, and Wing Commander Henry Winneke. Elwyn Roy King's name appears on panel 97 in the Commemorative Area of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Death and legacy
Elwyn Roy King
Elwyn Roy King | Death and legacy
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A fighter ace in the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) during World War I
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His youngest brother Francis, who served as a flying officer with No. 30 Squadron in New Guinea, died in an aircraft crash on 31 May 1943.
Elwyn Roy King | Death and legacy
King died unexpectedly of cerebral oedema on 28 November 1941, aged 47. Survived by his wife and children, he was cremated at Fawkner Crematorium, Melbourne. His funeral service at South Yarra was attended by hundreds of mourners from the military and civil aviation world, including the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett, and a representative of the Minister for Air; the pallbearers included Air Vice Marshal Henry Wrigley, Air Commodore Raymond Brownell, Group Captain Allan Walters, and Wing Commander Henry Winneke. Elwyn Roy King's name appears on panel 97 in the Commemorative Area of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Elwyn Roy King | Death and legacy
Elwyn Roy King, DSO, DFC (13 May 1894 – 28 November 1941) was a fighter ace in the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) during World War I. He achieved twenty-six victories in aerial combat, making him the fourth highest-scoring Australian pilot of the war, and second only to Harry Cobby in the AFC. A civil pilot and engineer between the wars, he served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) from 1939 until his death. Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, King initially saw service as a lighthorseman in Egypt in 1916. He transferred to the AFC as a mechanic in January 1917, and was subsequently commissioned as a pilot.
Elwyn Roy King | Introduction
He was also belatedly mentioned in despatches in July 1919 for his wartime service.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
Posted to No. 4 Squadron, he saw action on the Western Front flying Sopwith Camels and Snipes. He scored seven of his "kills" in the latter type, more than any other pilot. His exploits earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and a mention in despatches. Returning to Australia in 1919, King spent some years in civil aviation before co-founding a successful engineering business. He joined the RAAF following the outbreak of World War II and held several training commands, rising to the rank of group captain shortly before his sudden death in November 1941 at the age of forty-seven.
Elwyn Roy King | Introduction
Goodwyn died on April 29, 1961 and was buried in Emporia. A historical marker was erected in his memory.
Edward E. Goodwyn | Death and legacy
He was interred at Bardsdale Cemetery.
Roy H. Warner | World War II and death
Clifford died in 1970. His report on Royal Engineers' operations in Hong Kong, 1941, is held in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London.
Esmond Clifford | Death and legacy
He was also later awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal and Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.
Roy Inwood | World War II
After the war, King returned to the United States where he retired to a home in Georgia, devoting himself to many volunteer causes, such as the Red Cross. He died in 1958, and is buried at the Cemetery of St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church – Flat Rock, NC.
Edward P. King | Postwar
He died on July 4, 1958 in Washington, DC. White donated his papers for the Library of Congress.
Judson King | Death and legacy
5 Elementary Flying Training School at Narromine, New South Wales, on 21 December. Promoted to wing commander, he took over No. 1 Service Flying Training School at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, from Group Captain John McCauley on 7 July 1941. In October, King was promoted to acting group captain and posted to command the newly established Station Headquarters Point Cook.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
Ltd, King was reported as having safely flown 2,000 passengers and throughout Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. He soon left the aviation business to go into partnership with another pilot, T.T. Shipman, founding Shipman, King and Co. Pty Ltd. Importing and building machinery, the company was successful and allowed King to take up the restoration and racing of motor vehicles. He married Josephine Livingston, twenty, at St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell, on 31 March 1925. The couple had a son and a daughter. In December 1939, soon after the outbreak of World War II, King joined the RAAF as a squadron leader.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
In a letter to the AAC selection committee on 30 January 1920, he wrote "I feel I must forfeit my place in favor "(sic)" of this very good and gallant officer"; McNamara received a commission in the AAC that April. King's career with Larkin-Sopwith involved many pioneering flights. In 1920 alone, flying a Sopwith Gnu, he was credited with making the first aerial deliveries of mail and newspapers to various cities in eastern Australia, and with making the first aircraft landing at several townships in southern Queensland. He also competed in air races. By April 1922, working with Larkin-Sopwith's successor, Larkin Aircraft Supply Co.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
This second Fokker pulled up to avoid collision and toppled onto a third Fokker. One of the war's last air battles took place near Leuze on 4 November. King's destruction of two D.VIIs in the space of five minutes, the latter in flames, capped his combat career. His tally of seven victories with the Snipe in the closing days of the war made him the highest-scoring pilot in this type. King's final wartime score of twenty-six included six aircraft driven down out of control, thirteen aircraft and four balloons destroyed, and three other aircraft destroyed in victories shared with other airmen.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
71 (Australian) Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, by the British) as an air mechanic on 18 April. He was assigned to a training squadron for flying instruction in August. On 15 October, he gained his wings and officer's commission. Allocated to No. 4 Squadron in November 1917, King was posted to France for active duty on 21 March 1918. The same day, the Germans launched Operation Michael, the opening phase of the Spring Offensive.
Elwyn Roy King | Early service
Elwyn died on 13 November 1997, some three weeks after a fall in the garden of his Winchester home. In 2000, the National Library of Wales staged a Memorial Exhibition to coincide with the Scolar Press publication of Robert Meyrick’s monograph on John Elwyn.
John Elwyn | Honours
He was, accordingly, certain that Britain and Germany would never go to war against each other, and was in despair when World War I broke out. In the words of the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography": "During the war he watched a life's work of progress and education being wiped away as the male population, particularly the new fertile generation of composing talent—of the Royal College, dwindled." In the autumn of 1918 Parry contracted Spanish flu during the global pandemic and died at Knightscroft, Rustington, West Sussex, on 7 October aged 70. The death certificate says cause of death: 1.Influenza 2.
Hubert Parry | Last years
The award, promulgated in "The London Gazette" on 3 December, cited his "gallant and valuable service in bombing and attacking with machine gun fire enemy billets, trains, troops etc", during which "he ensure[d] success by descending to low altitudes, disregarding personal danger". On 16 September, following a lull in aerial combat in the region, King destroyed a Fokker biplane over Lille. Around this time he was promoted to captain and flight commander. He took over "A" Flight from Cobby, who had been posted to England. By the end of September, King's tally was eighteen. He registered his final victory in a Camel on 2 October, when he used bombs to send down his fourth balloon.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
Roy King was born on 13 May 1894 at The Grove, near Bathurst, New South Wales. He was the son of English-born Elizabeth Mary (Miller) King and Richard King, an Australian labourer. The youth attended public school, and further educated himself in mechanical engineering via correspondence. Having been employed repairing bicycles, automobiles, and farming equipment, he was living in Forbes and working as a motor mechanic when he joined the Australian Imperial Force under the name Roy King on 20 July 1915.
Elwyn Roy King | Early life
He was taken prisoner and died of pneumonia at Niederzwehren Prisoner of War Camp in Germany, aged 21. Although he died 14 days after the end of the war, systems were not yet in place to repatriate those held prisoner. He is commemorated on the War Memorial at Long Bredy in Dorset, close to Kingston Russell House, which had been purchased by his father in 1913. His sister Vivien designed a memorial window for him at Preston, Hertfordshire.
Julian Royds Gribble | Death
Ellet refused to consider amputation for his injury. His wound became infected and he died 15 days later of a blood infection in Cairo, Illinois. His body was taken to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, he was given a state funeral and interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Command of the ram fleet went to his brother Alfred W. Ellet. The U.S. Navy named a destroyer to honor the Ellet family. USS "Ellet" (DD-398) was in service in 1939-46 during World War II. In 1994, Stanford University received a gift of Ellet's Civil War letters from Elizabeth Ellet Nitz and Frances Ellet Ward.
Charles Ellet Jr. | Death and legacy
King retired in 1931 and was succeeded by Penrhyn Grant Jones. He died six years later at his home at Reigate, England at the age of 66 on 23 December 1937.
Gilbert Walter King | Retirement and death
Roy Elwood King (November 22, 1903 – August 29, 1986) was an American born sculptor, painter and civil engineer.
Roy King | Introduction
During World War II Roy was a Captain in the United States Army Air Forces. He was killed on May 5, 1945 while returning from active duty in Cuba. He is buried in Newark NJ. His survivors included six nieces and nephews.
Roy Fitzsimmons | Introduction
Edwin Rowlands died on 6 August 1939 in Rangoon in the arms of his wilf Thangkungi. He died of physical exhaustion. Thangkungi returned to Peletwa among her Khumi friends, and died there in 1948. Zosapthara Memorial Primary School was established in 2009 at Kauchhuah, Lunglei district. Zosapthara Building is located at Synod compound, Mission Veng, Aizawl.
Edwin Rowlands | Death and legacy
In mid-1941 Fern filed for divorce, and on June 16, 1941, her request was granted by the Reno, Nevada court system. Warner applied for a passport, which was approved on February 22, 1941. He then moved to Canada and began to fly for the Royal Air Force (RAF). While flying for the RAF Ferry Command in Canada, Warner was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, where he died July 11, 1942, of carcinomatosis (multiple cancer tumors). His body and personal effects were returned to the United States on July 31, 1942, to his mother, Sarah J Williams, in Fillmore, California.
Roy H. Warner | World War II and death
After the war he went back competing in tennis tournaments and was appointed the captain of the Great Britain Davis Cup team, while still serving in the army as a colonel. He married Marjorie Paton Hindley, daughter of Douglas C. P. Hindley, on 9 September 1919, and had two daughters Rachel and Marjorie and later a son David, who died on 5 September 1945 at age 20 at Burma, killed in action. At the age of 52 at the outbreak of World War II he was sent back to action again. He died on 21 December 1964 Woking, Surrey, Great Britain.
Algernon Kingscote | Personal life
Irwin died on 14 January 1969 in an Ottawa hospital. He was survived by his second wife Muriel Anne Storey 1904-1998 and his daughter Doreen. William Roy Irwin is buried with his second wife Muriel in Ripley-Huron Cemetery, Ripley, Huron Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
William Roy Irwin | World War II and beyond
However, he died of wounds received during the attack. On 20 October 1917, the King presented Corporal Davies’ Victoria Cross to his widow and his eldest son. His VC is now on display at the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Wales.
James Llewellyn Davies | Introduction
He died at Eastbourne in July 1956, exactly two weeks after his seventieth birthday.
Howell Moore-Gwyn | Later military career and life
Davies served as a corporal in the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) during the Second World War and was killed during the North African campaign on 17 August 1942. His body was never recovered, and he is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.
Ernie Davies | Personal life
During October 1918, King converted with the rest of No. 4 Squadron to the upgraded Sopwith Snipe, whose larger cockpit was a better fit for him. He scored with the Snipe on both 28 and 29 October, the latter over Tournai, in what is frequently described as "one of the greatest air battles of the war". At Tournai, amid a confrontation involving over seventy-five Allied and German fighters, King evaded five enemy Fokkers that dived on him, before destroying an LVG in a head-on attack. The next day, he downed three Fokker D.VIIs, two without firing a shot. As he zoomed up from shooting one out of control, he cut off another.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
King died on October 9, 1903, four days before the War Department mailed out a letter announcing the rejection of his medal nomination. Testimony submitted for his wife's widow’s pension blamed his death on heart troubles that originated with his wounding at Atlanta almost forty years prior. King is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Three Rivers, Michigan.
James W. King | Death
He died at Hawkhurst in May 1949. His brother Wilfrith was posthumously the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
Eric Elstob | Introduction
Novello died suddenly from a coronary thrombosis at the age of 58, a few hours after completing a performance in the run of "King's Rhapsody". He was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, and his ashes are buried beneath a lilac bush and marked with a plaque that reads "Ivor Novello 6th March 1951 'Till you are home once more'." He left an estate worth £160,000 (£ when adjusted for inflation). Only a few weeks before Novello's death, Coward had written of him: "Theatre – good, bad and indifferent – is the love of his life. For him, other human endeavours are mere shadows.
Ivor Novello | Death and legacy
He retired on December 1952 with the Legion of Merit and the Air Medal. He died on August 12, 1971.
Edwin Bowman Lyon | Post War era
H.K. Ellyson survived his wife, but died of heart failure at his son's house in Richmond on November 27, 1890, aged 67. After a large funeral at the Second Baptist Church, he was buried in Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) beside his wife, their son Luther in what had become the family plot. One of his grandson also had the same name, but added Cowardin as a second middle name; another grandson took his great-grandfather's name and became a preacher in Washington D.C. (Rev. Onan Ellyson died in 1901).
Henry K. Ellyson | Death and legacy
He was killed in battle at Pennant Melangell, in Powys, during the wars deciding the succession following the death of his father.
Iorwerth Drwyndwn | Death
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Roy Hamilton | Death
Kingwell died on 19 January 1947. Administration of his estate was granted to his widow, Jessie. He left an estate of £520.
William Evelyn Kingwell | Death
Initially considered for general flying duties, he was assigned training commands commencing in the new year. On 2 January 1940, he became the inaugural commanding officer of No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School (No. 3 EFTS) in Essendon, Victoria. Part of Australia's contribution to the Empire Air Training Scheme, No. 3 EFTS initially comprised a significant civilian presence, many of the aircraft and staff under King's control being from private airline companies and the Royal Victorian Aero Club; by July, all private machines had been pressed into RAAF service and the civilian element largely disappeared. King assumed command of No.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
He died at Ellenden Nursing Home in Sandhurst, Kent on 30 May 1951.
Reginald Tyrwhitt | After the war
King went on to fight in Europe against the Nazis and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. He also served in the Korean War in the 1950s and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order before moving to New Zealand where he died in a car crash in 1962. After serving his sentence, Cuthbertson was posted to active duty in wartime Europe. In later life, he became Deputy Lord Mayor of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. He died in 1995.
Two Men Went to War | Facts on King and Cuthbertson from the closing screen notes
Llywelyn invaded Powys, backed by other leaders of the Welsh alliance against the English. Gwenwynwyn, having been driven out of his lands, is believed to have died or been killed later that same year. He was succeeded by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, his son by Margaret Corbet, who was eventually restored to his lands after Llywelyn's death, and continued to feud with the princes of Gwynedd.
Gwenwynwyn ap Owain | Death and legacy
Kingwell later suffered from arthritis, requiring one stick, then two, then crutches, and ultimately confined to a bath-chair. He died on 10 November 1949 at The Nursing Home, Beech Hill, Hadley Wood. He left an estate of £22,611. Kingwell Road in Hadley Wood is named after him. Eva died on 16 January 1950 at 1 Crescent West, Hadley Wood. The house was demolished in the 1960s and replaced by other buildings.
Albert Kingwell | Health and death
On 5 October 1915, King embarked for Egypt aboard HMAT "Themistocles", as part of the reinforcements for the 12th Regiment of the 4th Light Horse Brigade. He joined the 12th Light Horse at Heliopolis in February 1916, as the unit was reassembling following its service in the Gallipoli Campaign. The regiment was engaged in the defence of the Suez Canal during May, and subsequently undertook patrols and sorties in the Sinai Desert. King transferred to the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) on 13 January 1917, and was posted to Britain to join No. 4 Squadron AFC (also referred to as No.
Elwyn Roy King | Early service
King died on July 22, 1950, at Kingsmere from pneumonia, with his retirement plans to write his memoirs unfulfilled. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
William Lyon Mackenzie King | Retirement and death
He died in Gorgas Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone on March 2, 1931, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
Edgar Jadwin | Death and legacy
King died in a midair collision on 24 January 1919 over Sedgeford, Norfolk, while serving as a combat instructor with 33 Squadron. His death notice stated his parents lived at Springfield Dukes, Chelmsford. He is buried at the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin at Docking, Norfolk.
Cecil Frederick King | Death
He felt obliged, however, to support his brother and a war began for which the Welsh were ill-prepared. Personal tragedy also struck him at this time when, on or about 19 June 1282, his wife, Eleanor de Montfort, died shortly after giving birth to their daughter, Gwenllian. Events followed a similar pattern to 1277, with Edward's forces capturing Gwynedd Is Conwy, Anglesey and taking the harvest. The force occupying Anglesey were defeated, however, when trying to cross to the mainland in the Battle of Moel-y-don. The Archbishop of Canterbury tried mediating between Llywelyn and Edward, and Llywelyn was offered a large estate in England if he would surrender Wales to Edward, while Dafydd was to go on crusade and not return without the king's permission.
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd | Last campaign and death
Pickings were scarce and No. 4 Squadron's only success came on the second day when King and his flight collectively destroyed a two-seat Albatros. On 16 August 1918, King participated in a major assault against the German airfield at Haubourdin, near Lille, that resulted in thirty-seven enemy aircraft being destroyed on the ground. During the action, described by the official history as a "riot of destruction", King set on fire a hangar housing four or five German planes. He also, according to No. 2 Squadron pilot Charles Copp, flew down Haubourdin's main street, waving as he went, his reason being that "the girls in that village must have had a heck of a time with all that bombing and must have been terribly scared so I thought I'd cheer them up a bit".
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
He died at his home in Knightsbridge, London, in 1946, aged 83. His son, Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Macready (1891–1956), was also a distinguished soldier and inherited the baronetcy on his father's death.
Nevil Macready | Death
1882), Elwyn (b. 1884), Edward (b. 1888), Cynthia (b. 1888) and Elizabeth (b. 1893). His wife and four of them survived him.
Elwyn Seelye | Personal life
He died in his home at Ton Pentre, Rhondda, aged 72, and was cremated at Pontypridd.
Maldwyn Evans | Death
He died suddenly there of a heart attack on 5 August 1965.
Cecil Thomas Weir | Post-war
He died suddenly at age 59 due to a complication following surgery. After his death, tributes flowed from the legal and political community. Famously, after his death, he was described by Senator Aden Ridgeway as "the great white warrior against racism".
Ron Castan | Death and Legacy
Following the end of hostilities, No. 4 Squadron joined the British Army of Occupation at Bickendorf, near Cologne, Germany, in December 1918. The unit returned to England in March 1919, and King sailed with it back to Australia aboard RMS "Kaisar-i-Hind" on 6 May. He left the AFC on 11 August 1919 in Melbourne, before gaining employment as an air courier for Larkin-Sopwith Aviation Co. of Australasia Ltd, which had been co-founded by fighter ace Herbert Larkin. While working for Larkin-Sopwith, King refused an appointment in the newly established Australian Air Corps (AAC)—forerunner of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)—because it had not then offered a commission to Frank McNamara, VC.
Elwyn Roy King | Interbellum and World War II
Flint died on 10 December 1983. 57 boxes of Flint's papers and his recordings of language variation in Indigenous communities are available through the University of Queensland Fryer Library.
Elwyn Flint | Legacy
His funeral procession took place in Neyland and for the event the town was closed to traffic. The procession was led by a full contingent of Welsh Guards, the streets were lined with silent well-wishers, and the Royal Air Force paid homage by a missing-man flyover at the cemetery. He was predeceased by his wife, Glenys, Lady Parry, and was survived by his daughter, The Hon. Cathy Parry Sherry.
Gordon Parry, Baron Parry | Legacy
Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. (October 3, 1841 – July 1, 1863) was a Confederate colonel in the American Civil War killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Henry K. Burgwyn | Introduction
Rees died at Colwyn Bay on Saturday 20 September 1924 aged 56 years.
Caradoc Rees | Death
Elfed died on 10 December 1953. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in Blaenycoed.
Howell Elvet Lewis | Death
By this time the Lille sector was largely clear of German fighters. The official history recorded that on 25 August, "King went out alone as far as Don railway station, bombed it, machine-gunned a train, and returned among the low clouds—all without seeing any enemy". The only contact around this time was on 30 August, when King, Thomas Baker and another pilot shot down two DFWs near Laventie. On 1 September, King destroyed an observation balloon over Aubers Ridge. Three days later he shot down an LVG after attacking a train near Lille with Cobby. He was recommended for the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) on 8 September.
Elwyn Roy King | Fighter ace
Waring's overall health declined very quickly after his retirement from the commentary box. He was diagnosed with dementia and died at High Royds Hospital in Menston, West Yorkshire in 1986.
Eddie Waring | Death
He died in 2004, aged 106. At the time, he was the oldest surviving veteran of the war.
Edward Smout | Death
At the time of his death his brother John was also serving with the Black Watch. His younger brother Michael was at home recovering from wounds and his eldest brother, Lord Glamis, had recently left the Black Watch after being wounded. His mother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was severely affected by the loss of her son, and after his death became an invalid, withdrawn from public life until the marriage of her daughter Elizabeth to the future king in 1923. Fergus's widow later married Captain William Frederick Martin (d. 6 October 1947). His widow died on 29 March 1959, aged 68.
Fergus Bowes-Lyon | World War I
He died after a long illness on February 3, 2017, aged 81.
Roy Heenan | Death
Following his retirement in 1970 Robinson continued to write about North Dakota history and remained active in the Grand Forks community. He died in March, 1985.
Elwyn B. Robinson | Retirement and Death
He had long suffered pain in his chest which he believed to be due to the bullet lodged there. On invitation of his older brother John to come to Canada, he decided to enter hospital to deal with the war injury which troubled him. It was discovered he had carcinoma, most likely the source of his pain. He died of bronchial carcinoma at Pavilion 11, Mearnskirk General Hospital, Renfrewshire, Glasgow on 22 February 1969. Writing of Jock Cunningham to "The New York Times" in April 1937 Ernest Hemingway said "For what he had done he would have had a V.C (Victoria Cross) in the last war.
Jock Cunningham | Death and legacy
Following the Japanese invasion of Burma in early 1942, Rushall evacuated from the country with his daughter Nancy. He stayed out the Second World War in Bombay, but eventually returned to Rangoon, where he died on 3 February 1953, at the age of 87. Upon his death, U Kyaw Tha—chairman of the Commissioners of the Port of Rangoon—commended him as a "born gentleman", and praised his work at the city's hospital and his "kindliness and infectious friendliness".
Richard Rushall | Later life and death
He is said to heve been buried at Cirencester. His heir was his daughter Dorothy Moreton and his manor of Butler's Court, Lechlade, passed to her son Robert Moreton (d. 1514).
John Twynyho | Death, burial & legacy
During the Second World War he held administrative posts with the French section of the Ministry of Information. In 1941 he was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps then worked in Winchester and York interviewing recruits and finally with the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section (MFAA) of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. He died in a shell-burst, while operating beyond the Allied front line at Kleve (Cleves), seeking out artworks to be protected from war damage. He is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Ronald Edmond Balfour | War service
McKelvie died on January 6, 1956 at his winter home near Mesa, Arizona after suffering two heart attacks. He is interred at Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest is named after him.
Samuel Roy McKelvie | Death and legacy
King died at the age 87, in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, California.
Emmett King | Biography
In January 1945 with Soviet forces only 16 miles away the camp was evacuated and the prisoners including Royle were marched west to Marlag und Milag Nord prisoner-of-war camp. He was finally liberated by British troops on 2 May 1945 and was flown to Britain where he was discharged from the RAF. He then attended the Royal School of Mines and worked in the mining and engineering industries upon his return to Australia. He married twice and celebrated his 100th birthday in January 2014. Royle died, aged 101, on 23 August 2015, leaving Dick Churchill as the only remaining survivor of the 1944 escape from Stalag Luft III.
Paul Royle | Later life
The French Government posthumously awarded him the Legion of Honour. His death in battle made more international impact than the death of any other British soldier in the Great War, except for Lord Kitchener.
Willie Redmond | Death
Disney-Roebuck died at Hindhead, Surrey in May 1947. He was survived by his wife, who died in 1966, and his daughter Nancy, who died in 1979.
Claude Disney-Roebuck | World War I and later life
The Independent Labour Party opposed Britain's involvement in the Second World War. He was very critical of the way the government ran the country during the conflict. Jowett claimed that the government's Equality of Sacrifice policy was just propaganda and pointed out that workers' wages were falling well behind increasing prices. Jowett died in Bradford on 1 February 1944, aged 80.
Fred Jowett | Death and legacy
Evans died at his home, Traethgwyn, Ffordd Tymawr, Deganwy, Caernarfonshire on 18 January 1965, aged 79.
Ernest Evans (politician) | Death
King Tenison died at Kilronan Castle in June 1878, while his wife died at Trieste, Italy in September 1882.
Edward King-Tenison | Death
Royal died on November 7, 2012, due to complications of Alzheimer's disease. He is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Royal was survived by his wife Edith (b. 1925), whom he married on July 26, 1944. They have a son, Sammy Mack, and two predeceased children, Marian Royal Kazen (1945–73) and David Wade Royal (1952–82), both of whom died in automobile-related accidents.
Darrell Royal | Death
Hubert Allison Allen died at the age of seventy-two on May 15, 1942. His papers are held by Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.
Hubert Allison Allen | Death and legacy
He married firstly Agnes Margaret Cooke, daughter of Canon George Albert Cooke and Frances Helen Anderson, in 1923. They had four children: Michael, Francis, Priscilla and Colin. He and Agnes Margaret Cooke were divorced. He married secondly Dame Ruth Railton in 1962, founder of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, daughter of Rev David Railton and Ruby Marion Wilson. In 1974, King moved from London to Dublin with his second wife. He died at his Dublin home, The Pavilion, 23 Greenfield Park, Donnybrook, following a long illness. He was survived by Dame Ruth as well as two children from his first marriage, his sons Michael and Colin having predeceased him.
Cecil Harmsworth King | Personal life and death
A Fellow of King's College, London he died on 9 October 1947.
Clayton Twitchell | Introduction
He died at age 66 on August 9, 1948 in Hospital in Westbrook, Maine, where he had been the last four months of his life and is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Kezar Falls. Surviving him were his wife, his daughter and his son.
Harry Lord | Death and legacy
Eric Fisher Wood, Sr. died in 1962, preceded in death by his eldest son, Eric Fisher Wood, Jr., who was killed during World War II at the Battle of the Bulge. His papers, consisting of 8 linear feet of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and photographs, are housed at the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library in Syracuse, New York. A finding aid is available on-line. Wood's best-known architectural work is the Harding Tomb in the former President's hometown of Marion, Ohio. Wood was co-designer of this massive classical white marble structure.
Eric Fisher Wood | Death and legacy
Duigan retired from the military in May 1941, having been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire the previous year. He died in Havelock North on 9 January 1950, survived by his second wife, who he had married in 1947, and two sons from his first marriage (which ended upon the death of his wife in 1940). A third son, also from his first marriage, was killed while serving with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
John Evelyn Duigan | Later life
William Herbert Allaire Jr. died at the age of seventy-five on May 1, 1933.
William Herbert Allaire Jr. | Death and legacy
Jones died in 1993 at Craig-y-Mor, the large coastal mansion inherited through his wife's family, in Treaddur Bay, Isle of Anglesey; he died at Headbourne Worthy. Sir Edward had three sons, one of them, Peter Warburton-Jones (died 2001), was also a barrister in England and, latterly, Northern Ireland.
Edward Warburton Jones | Death
After battling diabetes and other health problems, Lipscomb died in 2011 at the age of 86. Longtime friend Eddie Sewell called him his hero. “He was my Malcolm X. He was my Nelson Mandela. He was my Martin Luther King.” Fellow council member Diane Ragsdale noted that he “was one of the strong warriors and soldiers early on, and sometimes he was out there by himself…. You must have people like Al Lipscomb to push people forward.” His wife, Lovie, passed away in 2017.
Al Lipscomb | Death and legacy
He was dying, of course... There were stretcher bearers coming up behind us, you see. There was nothing – well, you'd be breaking the rules if you went to help someone who was injured when you were in an attack." Soon after being wounded, Hedd Wyn was carried to a first-aid post. Still conscious, he asked the doctor "Do you think I will live?" though it was clear that he had little chance of surviving; he died at about 11:00 a.m. Among the fatalities that day was the Irish war poet, Francis Ledwidge, who was "blown to bits" while drinking tea in a shell hole.
Hedd Wyn | Third Battle of Ypres and death
Lord Robinson died of pneumonia while attending a conference in Ottawa on 5 September 1952, aged 69. As his only son had predeceased him, the barony died with him. His ashes were scattered in Kielder Forest.
Roy Robinson, 1st Baron Robinson | Death
Irwin died on February 19, 1931 in Trinidad, West Indies. In 1942, the Mojave Anti-Aircraft Range (today: Fort Irwin National Training Center) was named in his honor.
George LeRoy Irwin | Death and legacy
He died on 5 November 2003, survived by his son and daughters.
Jan Aylen | Post war
He later died of the wounds in enemy hands.
Edward Colquhoun Charlton | Introduction
He died there in 1971.
Charles Findlay | Post World War I
This part of his career came to an abrupt end when commercial broadcasting from the continent was brought to a halt by World War II. Plomley and his new wife stayed on in Paris, only narrowly escaping back to the UK via a circuitous route through the chaos and panic of the Fall of France, losing all their possessions in the process, as German occupying forces approached the French capital in June 1940.
Roy Plomley | World War II
After months of ill health he committed suicide on 17 May 1904. He married Annie Elizabeth Wilson in 1866, a widow, and left no family.
Haynes King | Biography
Roy Kyle (1897-1996) was an Australian soldier who fought in World War I. He is known because he left a diary of his war experiences that was edited by the noted novelist Bryce Courtney and subsequently published. Kyle was born on 9 November 1897 in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia and died in October 1996. He fought in both Gallipoli and on the Western Front. At age 92, he returned to Gallipoli in 1990 for the 75th anniversary of the ANZAC landings. He died six years later.
Roy Kyle | Introduction