This page contains a list those members with the Audley surname that fought in WW2. Unfortunately WW2 service records and medal records are currently not in the public domain. This list has been created from those records that are in the public domain and is therefore far from complete.
Royal Artillery |
{AB59} Alexander Edwin Audley
The Liverpool Scottish Territorial Regiment, Service Number 2931140 |
4th (Queens Own) Hussars |
{AB80} Alexander Leslie Audley (1911 – 1986)
Sergeant Service No 7927819 Awarded the following medals: |
Air Training Corps |
{V66} Alfred James Audley (1925-2003}
Service No 3007281 |
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{U143} Arthur Alfred Audley (1903 – 1940)
Died 28th May 1940 |
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force |
{V77} Beatrice Audley (1923 – ????)
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
{U149} Charles Henry Audley {1907 – 1956}
Service Number 7521108 Reported in Casualty lists: |
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{AC2} Denis James Audley (1922 – 1943)
Died 30th July 1943 Details of last flight: |
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{J184} Dennis Sydney Audley (1923 – 1943)
Died 3rd September 1943 Details of last flight: Flying out of RAF Winthorpe (Newark Nottinghamshire) undertaking night flying exercises the plane was shot down by friendly fire and crashed 3/4 mile S W of Exeter Fighter Command airfield. |
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{AC74} Derek Dundonald Audley (1921 – 1942)
Died 24th October 1942 Details of Last Flight See the biography about Derek Dundonald in the biography section of this website |
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Women’s Auxiliary Air Force |
Possibly {AC9} or {J89} Doreen Audley Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Service Number 484116 She enlisted in Gloucester after January 1943 |
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Royal Army Medical Corps |
{AA104} Eric Audley (1921 – 1989)
Awarded: the 1939 -1945 Star; the France and Germany Star; the defence; the War; the Efficiency (with Territorial Scroll) Medals |
Royal Air Force |
{V38} Frederick Robert Audley (1922 – ????}
Royal Air Force Service No 1296449 |
Royal Armoured Corps |
{F63} George Bernard Audley Royal Armoured Corps King’s Dragoon Guards Emergency Commission 2nd Lieutenant (War Substantive) |
Royal Corps of Signals |
{AC11} George Stanley Audley (1920 – 1999)
Royal Corps of Signals |
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{J98} Harry Audley (1914 – 1945)
Died 21st January 1945 |
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Royal Air Force |
{N162} James Lewis Audley Royal Air Force Service Number 1612770 He enlisted at RAF Staton, Cardington, Bedfordshire after October 1941.On the WW2 ‘Bletchley Park Roll of Honour’ he is noted as having served in the ‘RAF’ as a Leading Aircraftman. (LAC) Intercept Operator, in North Africa and Italy during 1942 – 1945. (The Bletchley Park Roll of Honour lists all those believed to have worked in signals intelligence during WW2, at Bletchley Park and other locations)Note: we have from other records that {N162} was called James Louis Audley and yet the RAF records AIR 76/6/6 refer to this person as James Lewis Audley |
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve |
{AC53} John Edmund Audley (1901 – 1980)
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
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{HC9} Laurence Geoffrey Audley- Charles
Died 18th February 1941 At 06.33 hours on 17 Feb 1941 the Edwy R. Brown (Master Andrew Chalmers), a straggler from convoy HX-107, was hit amidships by one torpedo from U-103 in bad weather southeast of Iceland. The U-boat had missed the zigzagging tanker with a first torpedo at 06.15 hours. The ship continued after being hit and only stopped after two torpedoes struck behind the bridge at 06.40 hours and set her on fire. The Germans observed how the crew abandoned ship in two lifeboats and waited for the ship to sink, but she remained afloat even after being struck amidships by a fourth torpedo at 07.58 hours. U-103 gave up further attacks when a coup de grâce fired at 08.33 hours failed to detonate and left the burning wreck in a sinking condition. The master, 47 crew members and two gunners were lost |
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{M119} Leo Francis Audley (1918 – 1939)
Died 23rd September 1939 |
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Royal Air Force |
{V14} Owen Vivian Audley (1912 – 1980)
Royal Air force; Service Number 1180473 |
Suffolk Regiment |
{N100} Percy R Audley (1919 – 1968)
Suffolk Regiment 2nd Battalion He was a member of the Territorial Army, and on the outbreak of War he enlisted in the British Army, firstly in the Essex Regiment, he moved to the 4th Battalion, Royal Suffolk, Regiment. He was captured by the Japanese Army in Singapore, and later forced to work on the Japanese ‘Thai-Burma Railway’. |
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Suffolk Regiment |
Probably {N101} but {AA124} & {F114} have similar initials R W Audley Suffolk Regiment Warrant Officer Class 2; Service No 5933019 He was awarded the ‘Efficiency Medal’ in 1945/46 |
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Royal Artillery |
S Audley
Royal Artillery |
| {AA103} Samuel Audley. (1896 – 1964) Awarded the Defence and War Medal (in addition to his WW1 medals)In the 1939 registers he s recorded as a Lieutenant and his address is recorded as ‘Officers Quarters 68th High A.A Bty RA TAR c/o Lobitos Oil Fields, Ellesmere Port Cheshire. He has also been recorded as a member of 18th Cheshire (Ellesmere Port) Battalion. He also spent time at Milford Haven during WW2 |
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{N146} Samuel Edward Audley (1915 – 1941)
Died 24th September 1941 |
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Royal Artillery |
T Audley
Service Number 921278 |
Cheshire Regiment |
T Audley
2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment |
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{M117} Thomas Audley (1916 – 1947)
Died 11th April 1947 |
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Royal Air Force |
Thomas Audley
Royal Air Force, Service Number 1225126 |
Worcester Regiment |
{ZC96} Thomas Percy Henry Touchet- Jesson (1913 – 1963) He became 23rd Baron Audley of Heleigh in 1942. Worcester Regiment 1st Battalion Ranks: 2nd Lieutenant Service number 193752 Lieutenant 01/10/1942 Service number 193752 Acting Major 29/04/1943 Service number 193752 Awarded MBE (Military Division) London Gazette issue 37119 page 2944. |
Royal Engineers |
W Audley
Royal Engineers |
| Either {AC38} or {AC40} W D Audley British Army Regiment: Indian Army 2nd Lieutenant It should be noted that there were two brothers {AC38} William Dundonald Audley and {AC40} Walter Donald Audley it is difficult to distinguish between then from their initials. |
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| {AC87} W H Audley (1923 – 1998)
British Army His Grandson believes he was a paratrooper in the Gurkah Regiment and part of the Special Operations Executve. His service record is currently closed at The National Archives HS9/63/3 |
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{U125} William Audley (1918 – 1944)
Died 30th July 1944 |
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Royal Air Force |
William Henry Audley
Royal Air Force Service No 1295982 |
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Royal Air Force |
{AA97} or {AA118} William Joseph Audley
Royal Air Force Service No 1072214 |
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