SECOND WORLD WAR
Below are some details of five men from Tugby who gave their lives for King &
Country in WW2
DENNIS CLARK– private T/159226 Royal Army Service Corps. He died on May
27th 1941 aged 24 and is buried at the Suda Bay War Memorial Crete. There are
1,502 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated
in the cemetery.
He had married Vera Benning at the village church on April 20th 1940
THOMAS CLARK- petty officer D/JX 128549 serving on HMS Penylan in the Royal Navy
was aged 31 when he died on December 3rd 1942.His name is recorded on the Plymouth Naval
memorial. He had married Dorothy Whittingham in Tugby on January 11th 1941
PLYMOUTH WAR MEMORIAL
SUDA BAY WAR CEMETERY
Dennis & Thomas were the sons of Thomas & Annie Clark
PHILIP.C.Y.FOWLER –lieutenant 267212 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment died aged 20
on July10th 1944 and is buried at St Manvieu War Cemetery Cheux .The Allied offensive in
north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. Those buried in St.
Manvieu War Cemetery died for the most part in the fluctuating battles from mid June to the end
of July 1944, in the region between Tilly-sur-Seulles and Caen. The cemetery contains 1,627
Commonwealth burials, 49 of them unidentified. There are also 555 German burials there
Philip’s parents Richard & Annie Fowler lived in Skeffington
ST MANVIEU
CLAUD WILFRED HARCOURT -sergeant 4394837 12th Battalion Parachute Regiment
A.A.C. was born in Yorkshire in 1914, the son of Jack & Ethel May. His wife Moya was living
in Tugby when he died on June 12th 1944. He is buried in Ranville War Cemetery.
Ranville was the first village to be liberated in France when the bridge over the Caen Canal was
captured intact in the early hours of June 6th by troops of the 6th Airborne Division, who were
landed nearby by parachute and glider. The cemetery contains 2,235 Commonwealth burials of
the Second World War. There are also 330 German graves in the cemetery.
RANDOLF PARKER- private 14541921 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment died on
June 14th 1944 aged 21 and is recorded on the Rangoon Memorial which stands in Taukkyan
War Cemetery. The memorial bears the names of almost 27,000 men of the Commonwealth land
forces who died during the campaigns in Burma and who have no known grave.
His parents were John & Francis Parker of Foxton
RANGOON MEMORIAL
RANVILLE CEMETERY