of 7th Loyals / 92nd (Loyals) LAA Rgt RA
FROM the formation of 7th Loyals on July 4, 1940, to D-Day, six men died while on duty in
England. The unit's first fatal casualty was a private killed by German bombing during the Blitz in
Liverpool in December 1940. Three more men were killed by mines during training. A further two
died in traffic accidents.
A total of 21 officers and men from the regiment, or attached to it, died during the 11 months from
D-Day to VE-Day. The largest toll for any one incident was on D-Day, when seven men were
killed in the shelling of the liberty ship Sambut in the Channel. An eighth man died three days later of
wounds. On July 18, four men were killed in the Orne bridgehead by German bombing, and on July
27 two men died in another bombing attack. Other deaths came singly.
Details of casualties are supplied by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Those who have
no known grave are honoured on the appropriate war memorial. The names are given here in
chronological order of death. Where several men died on the same day, the list is in alphabetical
order. Numbers at the end of each entry refer to positions on memorials or to grave plot numbers.
3863483 Private Albert Edward Stones, no age recorded (C Company, 7th Loyals)
Died December 21, 1940
No further personal information
St Pancras Cemetery, Middlesex, Joint Grave 69
Two Privates of 7th Loyals
Died April 5, 1941
Killed by a sea mine washed ashore in North Yorkshire.
No names recorded in battalion war diaries.
3862219 Private Sydney Taylor, aged 28 (A Company, 7th Loyals)
Died September 15, 1941
Son of George and Annie Taylor, of Openshaw, Manchester
Droylsden Cemetery, Lancashire, Section S, Grave 299
1836235 Gunner George Harry Albert Dansey, aged 20 (Battery unknown)
Died May 20, 1942
Son of Victor George and Florance Lavinia Dansey, of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex
Hertford Corporation Cemetery, Hertfordshire, Section D, Row D, Grave 45
3853592 Gunner Frederick Wilson, no age recorded (318 Battery)
Died June 21, 1942
No further personal information
Fulham New Cemetery, Surrey, Section CC, Grave 463
1506637 Serjeant Frederick Blaker, aged 25 (318 Battery)
Died June 6, 1944
Son of Edwin A and Beatrice M Blaker, of Worthing, Sussex
Bayeux Memorial, Panel 11, column 1
2343775 Corporal George Challinor, aged 28 (Royal Corps of Signals attached RHQ)
Died June 6, 1944
Son of Arthur and Emma Barlow Challinor, of Nantwich, Cheshire
Dover (St James's) Cemetery, Kent
Died June 6, 1944
Son of William George Crane and Hannah Crane (nee Marshall); husband of Ivy Winnifred Crane,
of Fulham, London.
Bayeux Memorial, Panel 11, column 1
3863578 Gunner Herbert Alexander Davies, aged 32 (RHQ)
Died June 6, 1944
Son of George and Maud Davies, of Liverpool; husband of Grace Elizabeth Davies, of Liverpool
Bayeux Memorial, Panel 11 Column 2
3862770 Gunner Wilfred Stanley Lever, aged 35 (318 Battery)
Died June 6, 1944
Son of James Albert and Alice Lever, of Northwich, Cheshire
Bayeux Memorial, Panel 11, Column 2
3862773 Serjeant Percy David Ring, aged 32 (318 Battery)
Died June 6, 1944
Son of Mr and Mrs John Ring; husband of of Jessie Ring, of Redhill, Surrey
Bayeux Memorial, Panel 11, Column 1
3862777 Bombardier John Thomas Wolfe, aged 32 (318 Battery)
Died June 6, 1944
Son of John and Elizabeth Wolfe; husband of Amy Wolfe, of Liverpool
Bayeux Memorial, panel 11, column 1