Name
Randolph Leonard Raban
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
29/03/1945
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Fusilier
14689823
Royal Welch Fusiliers
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
47. H. 19.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Mark’s Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Sussex but at the time he enlisted was resident in Hertfordshire. His Service Number was 14689823. At the date of his death, he was in the 6th Battalion which was part of the 53rd Infantry Division in XII Corps of the 2nd Army fighting about twenty miles north of Wesel in the Battle for the Rhineland.
He was buried in Plot 47, Row H, Grave 19 in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany. There is a private inscription on his gravestone reading "Ever in our thoughts".
His parents, William Thomas Hart and Elizabeth Stokes Raban of 26, Bearton Rd, Hitchin received a letter from a Dutch family to say that Randolph bad been billeted with them and that they bad learned to love him. They did not know that by the time they had written the letter he had already been killed in action. He also bad a sister named Sylvia.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Mrs D.E. Webb, ‘Victory in the West’ by L.F. Ellis, Herts Pictorial dated 28th August 1945
