Brighton
50 veterans in the registry
Brighton is part of South East, one of the twelve regions of the United Kingdom, within the Immortal Regiment UK memory geography. Veterans, events and places of memory connected with Brighton are gathered here as the community records them.
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Veterans
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Townsend Peter
1914 – 1995
Group Captain
85 Squadron RAF
Holmes Ray
1914 – 2005
Sergeant
No. 504 Squadron RAF
Park Keith
1892 – 1975
Air Chief Marshal
No. 11 Group RAF
Szenes Hannah
1921 – 1944
Corporal
SOE / Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Fiske Billy
1911 – 1940
Pilot Officer
No. 601 Squadron RAF
Konev Semyon
1922 – 1945
Guards Lieutenant
3rd Guards Tank Army
Kantaria Meliton
1920 – 1993
Sergeant
150th Rifle Division, 756th Rifle Regiment
Fedorova Tatiana Pavlovna
1920 – 2002
Lieutenant
NKVD Communications Division
Chambers Ivy
1921 – 2012
Corporal
WAAF, Y Service (Signals Intelligence)
Zhukov Andrei
1920 – 1995
Guards Lieutenant
Soviet 2nd Guards Tank Army
Shaw Richard
1911 – 1942
Captain
HMS Repulse
Wright Charles
1911 – 1988
Warrant Officer
Royal Engineers, Bomb Disposal
Hart James
1910 – 1945
Chief Engineer
SS Empire Heritage
Morrison Sylvia Ann
1923 – 2014
Corporal
Women's Auxiliary Air Force — Fighter Command
Walsh Peter Anthony
1922 – 2011
Corporal
Royal Engineers — Bomb Disposal
Christodoulou Alexander Dimitri
1921 – 2003
Private
Royal Army Medical Corps
Jacobs Ruth
1920 – 2008
Ambulance Driver
British Red Cross, Brighton Division
Finkelstein Norman
1916 – 1944
Captain
Special Operations Executive
Barton Reggie
1917 – 1993
Flight Sergeant
No. 80 Wing RAF
Foster Hilda
1924 – 2016
Volunteer
Women's Land Army
Papadopoulos Stavros
1918 – 1995
Petty Officer
Royal Hellenic Navy — destroyer Adrias
Dupont Marguerite
1915 – 2003
Lieutenant
Free French Forces Medical Corps
Pascoe Reginald
1919 – 1998
Able Seaman
DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
Thornton Jack
1922 – 2004
Lieutenant
Coastal Forces, Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla
Walker Diana
1918 – 2008
First Officer
Air Transport Auxiliary
Papandreou Nikolaos
1917 – 2000
Petty Officer
Royal Hellenic Navy
Hargreaves Nancy
1919 – 2001
Ensign
Special Operations Executive, F Section
Nowak Kazimierz
1916 – 1997
Kapral
1st Polish Armoured Division
Clarke Henry
1923 – 2010
Trooper
7th Armoured Division — Desert Rats
Semyonova Lydia Alexandrovna
1921 – 2012
Captain
Leningrad Front — Military Hospital
Taylor Frank
1920 – 1985
Lance Corporal
3 Commando
Patel James
1916 – 1998
Sergeant
Royal Army Medical Corps
Novak Czeslav
1914 – 1988
Porucznik
Polish 303 Squadron RAF
Norris Vera
1920 – 2003
Petty Officer
WRNS, HMS Vernon
Hargreaves Leonard
1914 – 1944
Sergeant
6th Airborne Division, Glider Pilot Regiment
Kuznetsova Lydia
1920 – 2011
Senior Lieutenant
Red Army Signal Corps
Ashdown Robert
1922 – 2008
Lieutenant
Royal Sussex Regiment
Hamilton Vera
1919 – 2006
Leading Wren
Women's Royal Naval Service
Dunn Patricia
1925 – 2019
Private
Women's Land Army
Anand Derek
1920 – 1995
Lieutenant
Royal Sussex Regiment
Kemp Arthur
1912 – 1985
Warrant Officer
No. 51 Squadron RAF
Wood Charlie
1925 – 2018
Sapper
Royal Engineers
Kemp Albert
1912 – 1985
Chief Engine Room Artificer
Royal Navy
Marsh Freddie
1923 – 2001
Flight Sergeant
RAF Bomber Command
Holloway Vera
1919 – 2005
Third Officer
WRNS
Pearson Jack
1916 – 1943
Lieutenant
6th Royal Sussex Regiment
Sokolova Vera
1923 – 2007
Medical Sergeant
65th Army Field Hospital
Hartley Thomas
1921 – 2003
Flight Lieutenant
No. 151 Wing RAF
Mason Charles Robert
1924 – 2015
Marine
Royal Marine Commandos
Novikova Tamara Grigorievna
1919 – 2006
Captain
586th Fighter Aviation Regiment