MINTER, Maurice Donald

Ranville War Cemetery, Normandy FranceCredit: Gary Newman

Private
12th Battalion Devonshire Regiment
Airborne Division

Maurice was born 1925 in Newport to Robert Dadswell & Alice Stainer (nee ELKINS) MINTER who were living at 129 Carisbrooke Road in Newport around the time of Maurice’s death. He was one of five brothers serving in the Army.

Maurice, aged 18, was Killed in Action on the 12th of June 1944 during the D Day landings having parachuted into France ahead of the main invading force. Maurice was originally buried close to where he fell & was later exhumed by the 48th Graves Registration Unit, & reburied at the Ranville War Cemetery, Normandy France, known as the ‘Airborne Cemetery’, on the 14th of August 1945. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 2,235 of his Second World War comrades, 90 of whom remain unidentified.

Maurice is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.