George Phipps Asher
In the 1939 England and Wales Registered he is listed as a Police Constable living in Worksop.
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His mother was Florence Asher and in 1921 she is listed as single living with her step father William Wright and mother Emma Wright at 18 Silverdale Road, Basford, along with her son George Phipps Asher whose father is listed as dead.
On the 1939 register she is married to Horace Deacon (they married in 1922) and she is still living at 18 Silverdale Road.
On the CWGC George's father is listed as George Thomas Phipps Asher and mother is Florence Asher. There is no George Thomas Phipps Asher in the records but there is a George Thomas Phipps from Stapleford who was killed in Gallipoli on 14th November 1915 whilst fighting with the Howe Batallion Royal Naval Division. It seems likely that George Thomas and Florence had not married before his death and that there was some fudging around young George's birth status in the records.
George married Jessie Cullumbine in the summer of 1940. Jessie was born 23rd April 1912 and in 1939 she was living with her parents at 80 Broxtowe Drive, Mansfield and she was working has a gown and blouse machinist. When she died in 1999 her death is recorded under the name Phipps Asher.
Their daughter, Andrea, was born in late 1940.
H.M.L.C.S.(L), (Landing Craft Support (large)) 256 was lost during Operation Infatuate (1/11/1944-8/11/1944) as part of the Battle of The Scheldt.
The Allies took Antwerp in early September 1944 but they had not cleared the sea route into the port of Antwerp as the focus had been on Operation Market Garden, the taking of Arnhem. The island of Welcheren in the Scheldt estuary was still garrisoned by a strong German force, so plans were drawn up to take the island. No 4 Commandos landed on the island at Flushing at 06:30 hrs and a futher landing was made further along the coast at the village of Westkapelle at 09:30 hrs. This leg of the invasion had set sail from Ostend at 03:15 hrs. They came under sustained attack and several landing craft were sunk. At least 24 landing craft were lost in the operation.
102 Royal Marines died on 1st of November 1944 about 75% were Landing Craft crew.
Also known as Phipps-Coker.
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