Meysey Hampton, near Fairford UK
 

Does anybody from the UK who reads this board live anywhere near Meysey Hampton?

Guess who is on the war memorial?

JOHN WALLACE LINTON. V.C.

Never been there, but Google is my friend :O)

http://www.xnm15.dial.pipex.com/meysey.jpg

Lesrae,you are correct.I am trying to obtain a photograph of that memorial and was hoping that if somebody from this board lived near there that they would go and take a picture of it for me.

There's a photo of the memorial on wikipedia, Linton.

I saw that, but it's not the grave, it's another memorial elsewhere.

Nice pic linked from the wiki site though:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/t.../INF3_0475.jpg

It's not too far from me, I'll take the wife for a drive on a nice day in the next week or two and get a few pics for you mate, have you still got the same hotmail address you sent me the Belgrano stuff from?

Clive the memorial shown on his wiki entry is the portsmouth Naval memorial.

Linton,

Do you want a photo of the grave headstone for JOHN WALLACE LINTON. V.C. found at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in the village of Meysey Hampton?

Yes please,though it is a war memorial rather than grave stone.Linton and his submarine were lost in 1943 and nobody has ever proved exactly where that submarine now is!he and his crew have never been found.

Sent you a link via PM to some shots I took today

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h2...Hampton008.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h2...Hampton007.jpg

Thank you for doing that.:D:D:D
It would be nice to learn a little more about what Mrs.Linton was doing there whilst her husband was away but I think that is going to take a serious amount of digging!She was originally from Cardiff so she was either evacuated there or had relatives in the village.Linton himself was from Malpas,near Newport Monmouthshire.The memorial was obviously post war so I wonder if she stayed there after the war.Her eldest son was lost in the submarine HMS Affray in the early 1950s.

An interesting and brave man. I love the fact that several trains are listed amnogst his 'kills'! Pretty good for a sub commander...he knew how to use that deck gun...