Nash, F.
Frederick Nash, 1387959, was a Leading Aircraftman in the RAFVR. He was 24 when he was killed as the result of an aircraft accident on 10th April 1942. He is buried in the Montgomery (Oakwood) Cememtery Annexe, USA.

His mother was Mrs. H. Nash, of Dover

Neill, W. S.
William Stanley Neill,  2665325, was a Guardsman in the 4th battalion of the Coldstream Guards. He was 20 when he died on 31st October 1944, and is buried in the Mierlo War Cemetery, Netherlands, VII F 9.

His parents were Roland Percy and Florence Nix, from Dover.

His parents were William John and Alice Maud Norley, from Dover.

Norton, G.
Leslie George Norton, 1469218, was a Gunner in the Royal Artiller, from the 233 battery of the 75 HAA Regiment. He was 23 when he died on 5th June 1943, and is buried in the Habbaniya War Cemetery, Iraq, 2 A 4.

His parents were Harold Nowill and Louisa Margaret Norton, from Ashford, Kent.

Oates, J. G. B.
John Gerald Beveridge Oates was born on 13th December 1907. He was the Master of the Cable Ship Alert, in the Merchant Navy. With ten years service, he had been awarded the DSC. He was lost on 24th February 1945, when he was 37, and is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London, United Kingdom.

His mother was Mrs V Oates, from Flat 31, Waterloo Mansions, Dover, who, on 13th September 1905, had married John Valentine Oates, son of the Reverend William Oates.  They had two children; sadly John's brother, Thomas Herbert Beveridge Oates, also lost his life in World War II.  He is commemorated on the Fleet Air Arm Memorial at Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, having died on 8th December 1941, at the age of 31, while serving at a Lieutenant with the Royal Navy at HMS Condor.

Tm Oates was born in South Africa in 1910, and was a student at Kingswood College, Grahamstown, South Africa from April 1916 until June 1921, when he and John came with their mother to England.  Tom continued his education in London, and then went to sea, being later awarded the Polar Medal for his five years of work with the Antarctic. He had also survived the wreck of the Garthpool on 11th November 1929 in the Cape Verde Islands, during a voyage to Adelaide, Australia. 

Mrs Oates, nee Beveridge, was born on 13th January 1867 at Portland, England, and sadly also lost her parents, who were missionaries in Madagascar, and two of her siblings, when the SS Cashmere was wrecked on 5th July 1877 near Cape Guardafui. She also lost at sea in 1894 her first husband, Captain Thomas Tillock Hunter, whom she had married on 22nd August 1893. 

with grateful thanks to Patricia Burgess, who in 2004 published "Bearing the Heart of a Sailor: letters from the Antarctic and other Faraway Places from Tom Oates to Elizabeth Eadie, 1936-1938"

The 1923 book, "The Story of the Beveridge Families of England and Scotland", written by their uncle, Stanley Alexander Beveridge, also refers to Tom and John Oates

O' Connor, R. W. A. G.  
Robert W. A. G. O'Connor,  T/2063261, was the "dearly loved and only son" of Robert William and Eliza Emily O'Connor, and the "beloved husband" of Sarah E. O'Connor of Sandwich.

He was in the Royal Army Service Corps, and he died suddenly at the age of 25 on 28th September 1940, at a hospital near Basingstoke, while undergoing an operation. His body was brought home by motor hearse, and on the day of his funeral, his Union Flag-draped coffin left from the home of his father at 73 Wyndham Road. His funeral was military, and buglers and a firing party were present when he was buried at Charlton cemetery in Dover, United Kingdom. 

Among the wreaths were:

"His loving Wife, Sally"
"To dear Daddy, from Bobby, David, and Raymond"
"To our dear only son, Mum and Dad"

"Ever in our thoughts"

The words at the foot of his headstone read:

Beautiful Memories
As precious as gold,
Linger with us,
As the days unfold.

*O'Keefe, J. J. H.
John James Henry O' Keefe, 2756230, was Coporal in the 5th battalion of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders). He died when he was 22 on 28th August 1944, and is buried at St Desir War Cemetery, France. 

He was the son of Florence Beatrice O'Keefe, of Buckland, Dover.

Onslow, G. H.
Geoffrey Harold Onslow, 67120, was a temporary Captain in the 2nd battalion of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. He was 28 when he died in action on 1st June 1940, and is buried at the De Panne Communal Cemetery, Belgium, plot 2, row C, grave 23 

He was the son of Brigadier-General Cranley Charlton Onslow, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, and of Sydney Alice Onslow (nee Franklin), from Henry VIII Gateway, Windsor Castle, formerly Leyburne Road.   General Onslow had been a member of the Dover Town Council in 1926. He was an old boy of Dover College, as had also been his son, who was born in 1912.