What Squadrons were these RAF Aussies in when they died.

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Fantastic Kyt,

Great info.


cheers

Geoff

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Originally Posted by Kyt

No details yet but a picture of his grave, plus a numer of other RAAF in this cemetery:

The Scottish War Graves Project :: View topic - Dunure Cemetery ***Complete***

Dr Jon did a great job with these Commonwealth flyers.

He sent them to me a few weeks ago. Great photos.

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Originally Posted by Kyt

Name: TILL, ERNEST FLEETWOOD STREET
Initials: E F S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Age: 34
Date of Death: 20/06/1944
Service No: 157020
Additional information: (Served as TRAVIS). Son of Pte. Alan Gordon Till, Australian Infantry (killed in action at Gallipoli 6th/9th August, 1915) and Mabel Till; husband of Elizabeth Everard Travis, of Formby.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. K. Grave 144.
Cemetery: SOUTHPORT (BIRKDALE) CEMETERY

Interesting story:



Hunt to trace tragic airman (Look Back)



Formby airman’s identity a mystery (Formby Times Past)



RAF Redhill

Do we call him being 16 EFTS or a myriad of other squadrons?

Difficult assignment.


Cheers

Geoff

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The other thread has been referenced with this so ignore the other until these are completed and I can delete the other.

Cheers

Geoff

[Kyt]

I have posted the uncompleted list on Rafcommands. I'll post any details that are forthcoming:

Australian Casualties - RafCommands Forums

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Thanks Kyt.

[Kyt]

Thanks to the guys on rafcommands:


WARD, MAURICE Sergeant 641509 28/11/1940
20 OTU Wellington N2884 (I shall look up the exact details later)

REYNOLDS, MICHAEL VINCENT Pilot Officer 41617 2/01/1940
1 Air Armament School Westland Wallace K3911

JOSEPH, HAROLD WALTER HARRIS Leading Aircraftman 956834 17/12/1940
5 FTS. Killed in Master N7591 which crashed on take off at 0950 hours, 17/12/1940. The aircrafts wings had not been covered by frost covers during the night and resulted in a sluggish take off and then a side slip into the ground at Tern Hill. This pilot was Jewish

COOGAN, JAMES STEPHEN Leading Aircraftman 1252908 7/03/1941
5 FTS. Master T8570. Crashed during an overshoot at Driffield (the unit operated a detachment there for a short while). His death is registered in Buckrose which confirms a death near Driffield.

and Tome (Thorne83) has added another name

Another Australian i have in my records that was serving with the RAF and killed in Shropshire was:
- LAC Colin Harry John Clements (643076), aged 25, No 10 Squadron, RAF. Son of Harry and Mabel Clements, of South Perth, Western Australia. He is buried in Aireborough (Yeadon) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

He was killed in a motorbike crash near Wem, Shropshire on the 29th September 1942. I'm not sure why he was in Wem

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Originally Posted by Kyt

Thanks to the guys on rafcommands:



and Tome (Thorne83) has added another name

Please thank all those who contributed Kyt as it is a great help.

That cuts the list down nicely.

I already had Clements as 10sq. The only ones I referenced out of the 202 "Aussies in the RAF" were those I did not have a squadron for. The others I gleaned from the CWGC site after sourcing them from Geoffs search engine.

Cheers

Geoff

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Originally Posted by Kyt

Blenheim R3753 114 Squadron
Mission against airfields

T/O from Oulton. Shot down by fighters off the Dutch coast, may have been claimed by Uffz Ludwig Zweigart, 9./JG545. All killed

F/O E H Dawson
Sgt J R G Lamb
Sgt W White

Kyt,

do you have the date of the R3753 crash

Thanks Leospitcon

[Kyt]

It was the night of 10/11th November 1940