Daphne May Catlow - Cremated 16th November 2001 - Manukau Memorial Gardens, New Zealand
The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery. Alamein is a village, bypassed by the main coast road, approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the road to Mersa Matruh. The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main road onto the parallel old coast road. The cemetery lies off the road beyond the ridge, and road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of the access path into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road.
Historical Information: The campaign in the Western Desert was fought between the Commonwealth forces (with, later, the addition of two brigades of Free French and one each of Polish and Greek troops) all based in Egypt, and the Axis forces (German and Italian) based in Libya. The battlefield, across which the fighting surged back and forth between 1940 and 1942, was the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria in Egypt and Benghazi in Libya. It was a campaign of manoeuvre and movement, the objectives being the control of the Mediterranean, the link with the east through the Suez Canal, the Middle East oil supplies and the supply route to Russia through Persia. The ALAMEIN MEMORIAL forms the entrance to Alamein War Cemetery. The Land Forces panels commemorate more than 8,500 soldiers of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19 February 1943, who have no known grave. It also commemorates those who served and died in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. The Air Forces panels commemorate more than 3,000 airmen of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar, who have no known grave. Those who served with the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave are also commemorated here. EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY contains the graves of men who died at all stages of the Western Desert campaigns, brought in from a wide area, but especially those who died in the Battle of El Alamein at the end of October 1942 and in the period immediately before that. The cemetery now contains 7,239 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, of which 814 are unidentified. There are also 102 war graves of other nationalities. The ALAMEIN CREMATION MEMORIAL, which stands in the south-eastern part of El Alamein War Cemetery, commemorates more than 600 men whose remains were cremated in Egypt and Libya during the war, in accordance with their faith.
Burnley Express and News, March 24, 1945 (there is a photo of Harry Swain with the news article)
CORPORAL KILLED LEADING ASSAULT
Mrs. H. Swain of 42, Harold Avenue, Burnley, has this week been informed that her husband, Corporal Harry Swain, has been killed in action in Western Europe.
His commanding officer has written to Mrs. Swain: “Please accept on behalf of the whole battalion the deepest sympathy over the loss in action of your husband, Corpl. Swain. He died leading his section in a final assault on a German position. He showed the magnificent courage, and through his example enabled the position to be captured. He was killed instantly and suffered no pain.”
Corporal Swain joined the Army five years ago and served in France at the outbreak of the war. He returned to France shortly after D-Day. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Swain, live at 5, Stanworth street, Worsthorne.
60. Ethel CATLOW
Last Will and Testament:
In the High Court of Justice
The District Probate Registry at Liverpool be it known that Ethel Dargue of Westend Villa Padiham Road Burnley Lancashire formerly of 11 Earl Street Burnley aforesaid died on the 11th day of November 1983 domiciled in England and Wales and be it further known that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of the said deceased was proved and registered in the said registry of the High Court of Justice and Administration of all the Estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representatives of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to HARRY DUERDEN of 6 Arkwright Street Burnley aforesaid the sole executor name in said will.
It is hereby certified that it appears from information supplied on the application for this grant that the gross value of the said Estate in the United Kingdom does not exceed £40000.00
And does not exceed £10000.00
Dated the 20th day of December 1983
Extracted by Donald Race and Newton, 4 Nicholas Street, BurnleyThis will dated 20th February One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy Five is made by me Ethel Dargue of 11 Earl Street Burnley Lancashire widow
1. I Revoke all former wills
2. I Appoint my son Harry Duerden as sole executor of this will
3. I Give to my cousin Edith Ormerod of 5 St Johns Road the legacy of Ten Pounds
4. My executor shall hold the residue of my estate upon the following trusts:-
(a) To pay debts estate duty and executorship expenses
(b) To pay the residue to my sons Harry Duerden and Frank Duerden in equal shares or to the survivor PROVIDED that if either of them shall die in my life time leaving children such children shall on attaining the age of Eighteen years take equally between them the share which their parent would have taken if such parent had survived me.
The mark X Ethel Dargue
Signed by the said Ethel Dargue the testatrix with her mark as her last Will the same having been read over to her by me the undersigned Wilfred Horace Garratt Newton when she seemed thoroughly to understand the same in our joint presence and by us together in her presence.
Last Will and Testament:
Be it known that William Duerden of 13 Nichol Street Burnley in the County of Lancaster who died on the 13th day of August 1936 made and duly executed his last will and testament and did not therein name any Executor- and be it further known that the date hereunder written letters of Administration with the will.
(a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of all the Estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the deceased were granted by his Majesty's High Court of Justice at the Principal Probate Registry thereof to Ethel Duerden of 13 Nichol Street Aforesaid widow the relish of deceased the residewary legalee named in the said will-
And it is hereby certified that on Affidavit for inland Revenue has been delivered wherin it is shown that the gross value of thse said Estate in Great Britain.
(exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee and not beneficially) amounts to £352-7-6 and that the said Affidavit bears a stamp of £2-10-0
Dated the 1st day of October 1936
Extracted by Lambert & Parker, BurnleyAugust 12th 1936
The last will & Testament of William Duerden, 13 Nichol Street BurnleyI hereby bequeath all my properties, etc. to my wife, Ethel Duerden, also of 13 Nichol Street, Burnley.
Signed William DuerdenWitnesses o the above signature and signed in the presence of each other-
Herbert Edward Rawson, 12 Anthony Street Burnley, Loom Overlooker 12th August 1936George Howarth, 21 Ribblesdale Street, Datalber, August 12/36
Express and News, August 15, 1936
DUERDEN, - On the 13th inst., at 13 Nicholl street, William, the dearly loved husband of Ethel Duerden.
Interment, Monday, Burnley cemetery, cortege leaving home 1-30. -Burnley Co-op. Soc., Tel. 2785.
74. Alan CATLOW
Year. 2007
Probate No. 2588673
Surname of Deceased. CATLOW
Forename of Deceased. Alan
Date of death. 16 September 2007
Probate office name. Manchester
Address of deceased. 1 Harold Street, Burnley
Postcode. BB11 1NU
Date of issue of grant. 19 November 2007
Gross estate. £300,000
Net estate. £93,000
Type. Probate
Extracted by. Catlow, 25 Boars Head Avenue, Standish, Wigan, WN6 OBH
Grantees. Peter Anthony Catlow, 25 Boars Head Avenue, Standish, Wigan, WN6 OBH