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10-06-2008, 03:43 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | What happened to this RAAF lad? We know when he died. Does anyone know where he was or should have been when he was killed. Posting at death was given as 75sq RAF. He was the only RAAF death listed in the European theatre for that date. Those on the 4th all have a grave. He is listed on Runnymede. Any more info? I was looking at a grave photo from Overijssel General Cemetery in Belgium where: Quote:
MOORE, CYRIL JAMES Sergeant 410555 75sq RAF 5/07/1943 25
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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10-06-2008, 07:29 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Stirling EF436 (AA-A) Gardening (mining) Mission off Friesian Islands T/O 23.45 from Mepal. Lost without trace. All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. F/Sgt R Thomas RNZAF Sgt A Lackenby Sgt W E Stobbs Sgt D A A A Taylor Sgt J B McLoughlin Sgt C J Moore RAAF Sgt L O Lewington Some have claimed that it was shotdown by Hpt Georg-Hermann Greiner of 11./NJG 1 but this doesn't fit with his claims sheet: Aces of the Luftwaffe - Georg-Hermann Greiner As to the Unknown Airman, it couldn't be Moore as he would have been lost on the morning of the 6th Aug. Even if his body did turn up and couldn't be identified it would have taken at least a day or two, because he would have been lost over the water.
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10-06-2008, 10:49 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | No direct, indexed mention of the crew in Lambert's Night after Night - New Zealanders in Bomber Command.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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10-06-2008, 11:21 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Quote:
I may have a look at the Runnymede for a few days before and see what I come up with. There were only three deaths from the 4th and they were all interred. Thanks for the info Kyt!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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10-06-2008, 11:31 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Runnymede listing of RAAF 21/06/1943 to 3/7/1943 Thought I would add the list of dates back a couple of weeks. (thank God for computers and spreadsheets. CROXTON-DAVIS, ROBERT Flight Sergeant 412128 118sq RAF 21/06/1943 HEFFERNAN, ROBERT JARVIS Flying Officer 409544 460sq 22/06/1943 BROWN, LEO FREDERICK JOSEPH Pilot Officer 416018 156sq RAF 24/06/1943 HUDSON, RICHARD JULIAN Pilot Officer 403742 156sq RAF 24/06/1943 SAVAGE, JOHN RONALD Squadron Leader 402882 7sq RAF 25/06/1943 AIRY, ANDREW BASIL REGINALD Warrant Officer 406634 466sq 26/06/1943 MATTRESS, CHARLES ALFRED Warrant Officer 402531 166sq RAF 26/06/1943 NAILE, LESLIE JACK Flight Sergeant 415174 100sq RAF 26/06/1943 YOUNG, ALFRED MARKHAM Squadron Leader 36135 106sq RAF 26/06/1943 GATES, ROBERT INGERSOLE Flight Sergeant 415132 467sq 29/06/1943 COLLESS, GORDON SYDNEY Flight Sergeant 413826 466sq 30/06/1943 CONROY, BERNARD KEITH Flight Sergeant 420152 466sq 30/06/1943 DUNN, DOUGLAS ASHTON Flight Sergeant 413555 466sq 30/06/1943 GREGORY, ERIC OTHO Sergeant 401503 466sq 30/06/1943 EDWARDS, CLIFFORD Pilot Officer 411885 460sq 3/07/1943 FRAZER, LANCELOTT JAMES Flight Sergeant 420653 460sq 3/07/1943 SPIER, WALTER FRANK Flying Officer 421093 460sq 3/07/1943 TRUSCOTT, CYRIL FRANCIS JOSEPH Flight Sergeant 22378 460sq 3/07/1943 Theoretically it would not be Squadron Leader Young of 106sq as he was an Aussie in the RAF and would have been identified with his uniform however I have read that others were RAF and still wore the darker Aussie uniform.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 10-06-2008 at 11:37 AM.. |
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10-06-2008, 12:01 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | CROXTON-DAVIS, ROBERT Flight Sergeant 412128 118sq RAF 21/06/1943 Spitfire W3901 shotdown by flak from ships 11 km NW of Texel (which is part of the above islands) HEFFERNAN, ROBERT JARVIS Flying Officer 409544 460sq 22/06/1943 Lancaster EE166 Crashed near Mulheim, near Essen F/O L E Harrison RAAF Sgt J S Callcut Sgt W H Bartlett P/O R J Heffernan RAAF Sgt S K Browm Sgt K A C Cotton Sgt R J Lockrey RAAF
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10-06-2008, 12:19 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | While Heffernan is on Runnymede, Lockley & Harrison were interred at Reichswald Forest.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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10-06-2008, 12:45 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | BROWN, LEO FREDERICK JOSEPH Pilot Officer 416018 156sq RAF 24/06/1943 Lancaster EE127 Mission to Wuppertal T/O 23.13 from Warboys. Lost without trace. All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. P/O L F J.Brown RAAF Sgt I H Bradley F/Sgt A V Newall Sgt R F Worthington RCAF Sgt J Malpass Sgt R Gilbert Sgt C Easton HUDSON, RICHARD JULIAN Pilot Officer 403742 156sq RAF 24/06/1943 Lancaster ED858 T/O 2319 from Warboys. Crashed in the vicinity of Cologne, where burials are reported for 29th June 1943. Three have been subsequently re-interred in Rheinberg War Cemetery, the others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. P/O R J Hudson RAAF Sgt H Jones Sgt R Brown Sgt A T Barlow Sgt W S Brooks Sgt K Richards Sgt K C C Adams
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