WHITTINGTON, Raymond

Raymond was born 1911 in Newport to William & Elizabeth (nee COURTNEY) WHITTINGTON. He married Ellen Elizabeth MACPHERSON in 1932 at St Mary’s Church, Carisbrooke & they lived at 20 Collingwood Road, Newport.

Raymond, aged 33, Died of Wounds in Normandy on the 19th of July 1944. He had been in the army for two years, & prior to joining was employed by REED (late Quintons) builders of Newport as a bricklayer. For five years he had been a cub master at Carisbrooke, & was a member of Newport Trojans A.C. He left a wife & a little daughter aged 10. Originally buried close to where he fell on the battlefield, his body was later exhumed & reburied at Bayeux on the 26th of December 1944. Raymond rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription "WORTHY OF EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE".

Within Bayeux War Cemetery in France lie the men of the Commonwealth land forces who died in the early stages of the campaign during the landings in Normandy, during the intense fighting in Normandy itself, & during the advance to the River Seine in August.

Raymond is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.