Commemorating Royal Signals War Dead – New Page, ‘K’
The Royal Signals casualties whose surnames begin with ‘K’ have now been included on the War Dead page on this website (the document opens as a pdf). The 118 casualties include 34 who were killed in action or died of wounds (the most recent being Sergeant B. R. Keen, 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare), who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2007), and 23 men who died as prisoners of war in the Second World War. As is the case across all of these pages over 12.5% of fatal casualties occurred in road traffic accidents, a figure that increases in the modern era reflecting the advances in medical care that reduce the number dying of disease.
Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial © CWGC
Commemorated on the memorial to the missing of the Second World war are:
Company Quartermaster Serjeant Albert Horace Kemp, 8th Anti-Aircraft Brigade Signal Section, killed with his family at Merstham near Reigate in a bombing raid on 19 April 1941; their remains were never found.
Captain Oliver Cecil Kisch, Air Formation Signals, killed in action and lost at sea on 17 June 1943 when the troopship SS Yoma was sunk on route from Tripoli to Alexandria.
Signalman Robert Wilson Kerr, who drowned in the Firth of Forth on 16 October 1946.
