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British forces

South African and related defence-force eras recorded on the roll. SAP, SAPS, and SWAPOL are tagged as Forces. Merchant navy and civilian war-dead are left blank. Foreign and Boer units are tagged when the regiment name is unambiguous (e.g. Australian Field Artillery → AUS).

BOER — Boer forces 5,172 COLONIAL — Colonial forces (pre-Union) 60 UDF — Union Defence Force 24,794 SADF — South African Defence Force 3,692 RSF — Rhodesian Security Forces 2,789 CDF — Ciskei Defence Force 8 SANDF — South African National Defence Force 985 SAP — South African Police 3,730 SAPS — South African Police Service 1,739 SWAPOL — South West African Police 158 AUS — Australian forces 164 UK — British forces 4,055 CAN — Canadian forces 58 NZ — New Zealand forces 43 IND — Indian forces 36 IDF — Israeli Defence Forces 81 US — United States forces 7 GER — German forces 4
UK 4,055 records

British Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps, and British colonial African regiments administered as Imperial forces (King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Rhodesia Native Regiment, wartime Southern Rhodesian units before the Rhodesian Security Forces). Not used for South African or Bush War Rhodesian records.

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# Last Name First Name Initials Rank Regiment Unit Date of Death
28880 Wright George Drennan Cron G D C Second Lieutenant Bedfordshire Regiment 2nd Bn. 1914-10-23
28890 Wright John J Sergeant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 97 Squadron 1941-07-07
28896 Wright Leslie L Pilot Officer Royal Air Force 151 Squadron 1940-06-18
28897 Wright Russell Albert R A Pilot Officer Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1942-11-01
28906 Wright William W Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery 175th Army Bde. 1918-08-08
28907 Wright William W Lance Corporal Northern Rhodesia Volunteer Defence Force 1942-02-10
28864 Wrey-Wathen Neville Anthony N A Trooper Royal Armoured Corps 11th Hussars 1940-12-25
28860 Wrenford Arthur Leonard A L Lieutenant Colonel Worcestershire Regiment 1918-03-21
28859 Wren Herbert H Sergeant Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 2nd Bn. 1915-03-14
28857 Wraith Alfred Osborn A O Major Royal Engineers 254th Tunnelling Coy. 1917-06-13
28854 Worthington Ralph R Major Cheshire Regiment 16th Bn. 1917-05-17
38449 Worthington Robert Bell R B Warrant Officer Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Police Anti Terrorist Unit 1943-04-26
28847 Worrall Charles C Flying Officer Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 44 Squadron (RAF) 1945-02-02
28841 Woolley Wilfrid Edwin W E Second Lieutenant Middlesex Regiment 3rd/10th Bn. 1917-07-11
28831 Woodvine Arthur Bradley A B Sergeant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 61 Squadron (RAF) 1944-04-11
28824 Woods Jackson F J F Private Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st/8th Bn. 1918-03-21
28829 Woods Walter James W J Captain King's African Rifles 1st/2nd Bn. 1917-04-24
33906 Woods Timothy Richard T R Flying Officer Royal Air Force 7 South African Infantry Battalion 1952-01-04
28815 Woodrooffe Starr Reade Winton S R W Lieutenant Royal Artillery 1944-06-01
28812 Woodland Herbert Lancelot H L Second Lieutenant The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 10th Bn. 1916-08-09
28798 Woodall Ernest E Lance Sergeant South Staffordshire Regiment 1st Bn. 1915-05-18
28799 Woodall Jack William J W Sergeant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 144 Squadron 1941-12-28
28762 Wood Charles Campbell C C Lieutenant Royal Air Force No. 1 Technical Wireless School 1920-01-10
28763 Wood Clement Percy C P Second Lieutenant East Lancashire Regiment 2nd Bn. 1917-11-21
28765 Wood David Alexander D A Rifleman Northern Rhodesia Rifles 1915-06-28
28767 Wood Henry H Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1945-01-15
28770 Wood Henry Stewart H S Lieutenant Dorsetshire Regiment 3rd Bn. 1918-08-11
28775 Wood John Claude Hudson J C H Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Reserve H.M. Submarine Utmost 1942-11-25
28784 Wood Norman Collins N C Sergeant Rhodesia Regiment 1942-07-14
28796 Wood Wilfred Thomas W T Second Lieutenant Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 3rd Bn. 1917-08-09
40592 Wonyana Manfred Josef M J Private Rhodesian African Rifles 1st Battalion 1956-07-19
28747 Wolfe Victor V Private Royal Army Medical Corps 1915-12-13
28711 Wisfohle Private Northern Rhodesia Regiment 1943-05-27
28707 Wise Lancelot Charles L C Lieutenant North Irish Horse 1917-05-02
28703 Winthrop-Andrews John J Lieutenant Royal Air Force 80th Squadron 1918-10-04
28697 Winter Alfred Paul De Laffe A P D L Sergeant Rhodesia Native Regiment 1918-12-20
28699 Winter Robert Harold R H Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment 10th Bn. 1915-12-17
28693 Winnicott Richard George R G Squadron Leader Royal Air Force 248 Squadron 1943-08-07
28687 Wingfield-Stratford Esme John Richard E J R Lieutenant Royal Navy H.M. Submarine D.3. 1918-03-15
28671 Winder Basil Wilfred B W Lance Corporal King's Royal Rifle Corps 1st Bn. 1942-06-15
28572 Wilson Corporal Rhodesian African Rifles 1943-12-11
28577 Wilson Arthur Alexander A A Second Lieutenant Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 3rd Bn. 1917-04-23
28586 Wilson Albert William A W Boy 2nd Class Royal Navy H.M.S. "Impregnable" 1918-10-22
28587 Wilson Belford Alexander Wallis B A W Second Lieutenant Hampshire Regiment 2nd Bn. 1917-09-26
28599 Wilson Donald Jack D J Sergeant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 15 Squadron (RAF) 1944-05-12
28600 Wilson David Leslie D L Private Royal Flying Corps 26th (South African) Squadron 1917-04-09
28610 Wilson Gavain Colborne Campbell G C C Private Norfolk Regiment 1st Bn. 1916-09-04
28614 Wilson Hamish Blacklock Bowen H B B Lieutenant Royal Air Force 1918-07-18
28618 Wilson James J Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Bn. 1916-07-23
28623 Wilson Joseph J Sergeant King's Royal Rifle Corps 3rd Bn. 1915-05-08