Wimborne St Giles

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Burials at Wimborne St Giles Churchyard
Research by Richard Smith into the lives and deaths of the CWGC War Casualties buried in Wimborne St Giles.

Burials from CWGC at Wimborne St Giles Churchyard

GLOVER Maurice Charles Sergeant No. 567204 76 Squadron Royal Air Force.

Born in Hardley, Hampshire on 12th July 1918 son of John Glover a plumber (in 1911 he was Troop Quarter Master Sergeant in the Royal Engineers), and
his wife Annie Sophie Lee who died in 1926. Maurice was educated at King's School, Grantham where in August 1934 he passed the apprenticeship examination for the
R.A.F. In January 1940 he married Helen Edith Cutler at Lewisham, Surrey - she was born at Wimborne St. Giles in 1919. On 24th June 1942 he was the
flight engineer/air gunner in a Halifax bomber flying on a training exercise from RAF Middleton St. George, Durham when it collided with Airspeed Oxford
No. V 4140 near the airfield and crashed. His widow Helen was living at Letterewe, Ross and Cromarty (per CWGC).

SNELLGROVE Fred Private No. 10656 6th (Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion Wiltshire Regiment.

Baptised as "Fred" on 12th March 1898 at Fawley, Hampshire son of Charles, a labourer and farm carter, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Fidler. In 1911 the
family were living at Lower Barn Cottages, Winterslow, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Fred was posted to France on 11th December 1914, but died of war wounds in a
military hospital (possibly at Bradford, Yorkshire) on 8th June 1918, and was buried on the 13th. The Snellgroves had four sons serving in the Great War.
Alfred born 1892 died on 26th August 1918 serving with the Machine Gun Corps. Brother Henry came home on leave on 21st December 1915 bearing part of a German
shell which he had been carrying about for three months. His brother Simon aged 15 took it outside the house on the 24th and it exploded. He was very badly
wounded and died in hospital on Christmas Day.

April 2025

Richard Smith

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