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    ELDER, ALEXANDER GRAEME Initials: A G Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Sergeant (Pilot) Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 214 Sqdn. Age: 19 Date of Death: 13/03/1941 Service No: 754780 Additional information: Son of Alexander and Drusilla Elder, of Westminster, London.(?Trinidad connection) Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot RP. Row Class 2. Coll. grave 25. Cemetery: GRONINGEN (ESSERVELD) GENERAL CEMETERY,NETHERLANDS
    13-14 March 1941

    214 Squadron

    Wellington IC N2746 BU-

    Op. Hamburg

    Took off 2000 hrs Stradishall. Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed in the vicinity of Groningen, Holland.

    BCL Vol.2 W R. Chorley.

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    ETIENNE, HUGH TERENCE Initials: H T Nationality: St Lucia Rank: Flying Officer Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 214 (F.M.S.) Sqdn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 05/03/1943 Service No: 129058 Additional information: Son of Auguste and Rosetta Etienne, of Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 124. Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL,UK
    5-6 March 1943

    214 Squadron

    Stirling III BK662 BU-K

    Op. Essen

    Took off 1935 hrs Chedburgh. Hit by flak and crashed into the sea west of Ijmuiden, Holland

    BCL Vol.4 W R. Chorley

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    FAIRWEATHER, GILBERT WALTER Initials: G W Nationality: British Honduras Rank: Flying Officer (Nav.) Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 83 Sqdn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 22/06/1944 Service No: 128618 Awards: D F C Additional information: Son of Maj. Donald Norman Albert Fairweather, M.B.E., and Ethel Louise Fairweather, of Belize, British Honduras. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave 7. B. 8-13. Cemetery: RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY,GERMANY


    21-22 June 1944

    83 Squadron

    Lancaster III JB180 OL-T

    Op. Wesseling

    Took off 2321 hrs Coningsby. Picked up by a night-fighter which came upon the Lancaster over the target area.

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    FLANDERS, DENIS BERNARD Initials: D B Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Sergeant (W.Op.) Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 77 Sqdn. Age: 19 Date of Death: 03/03/1941 Service No: 976088 Additional information: Son of Robert John William and Louisa Elizabeth Flanders, of North End, Portsmouth.(?Trinidad connection) Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot M. Row 17. Grave 35. Cemetery: PORTSMOUTH (MILTON) CEMETERY,UK
    1-2 March 1941

    77 squadron

    Whitley V Z6463 KN-

    Op. Cologne

    Took off Topcliffe. Ordered to divert to Benson in Oxfordshire, but reported crashed after hitting telegraph poles in Dunstable Road, Catterick, Yorkshire, while trying to land at the nearby airfield. Details of this incident are omitted from the Squadron record.

    BCL Vol.2 W R. Chorley

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    FONSECA, DONALD EVERTON Initials: D E Nationality: Jamaica Rank: Pilot Officer (Nav.) Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force Unit Text: 207 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 21/04/1944 Service No: J/85529 Additional information: Son of Rupert Everton Fonseca and Bertha Ann Catherine Fonseca, of Crossroads, Jamaica. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 16. Row 8. Grave 5. Cemetery: CLICHY NORTHERN CEMETERY,FRANCE
    20-21 April 1944

    207 Squadron

    Lancaster III ND564 EM-H

    Op. la Chapelle

    Took off 2212 hrs Spilsby to bomb railway yards.

    BCL Vol.5 W R. Chorley

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    GILKES, LESLIE FRANCIS Initials: L F Nationality: Trinidad Rank: Sergeant Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 9 Sqdn. Date of Death: 03/08/1943 Service No: 1810281 Additional information: Son of Joseph and Octavia Gilkes, of Siparia, Trinidad, West Indies. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 150. Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL,UK
    2-3 August 1943

    9 Squadron

    Lancaster III ED493 WS-A

    Op. Hamburg

    Took off 2326 hrs Bardney. Believed shot down by a night-fighter (Ofw Karl-Heinz Scherfling, IV./NJG1) and crashed 0333 hrs into the sea NW of Bergen aan Zee on the Dutch coast.

    BCL Vol.4 W R. Chorley

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    GONSALVES, FRANK WINSTON Initials: F W Nationality: British Guiana Rank: Flight Sergeant Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 356 Sqdn. Age: 28 Date of Death: 18/08/1945 Service No: 605687 Additional information: Son of Deogo Aloysius and Anita Marie Louise Gonsalves, of Georgetown, British Guiana. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 450. Memorial: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL,SINGAPORE
    18 August 1945

    356 Squadron

    Liberator VI KH218

    The aircraft was engaged on a special duties sortie at night. The crew broadcast a 'Mayday' message stating that they were ditching and gave their position. A subsequent search found no trace of the aircraft or its crew.

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    GOODING, ARTHUR WINFIELD Initials: A W Nationality: Barbados Rank: Flying Officer Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 1602 Flight Age: 21 Date of Death: 09/08/1943 Service No: 136840 Additional information: Son of Winfield Ulrich Gooding and Dorothy Grace Ensor Gooding, of St. Philip, Barbados, British West Indies. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 124. Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL,UK
    9 August 1943

    1602 Flight

    Hawker Henley Target Tug III L3292 of 1602 Flight from RAF Cleave dived into the sea off Penhale Point.

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    Great stuff Peter. I have passed on the info to Caribbean Aircrew and will incorporate same in my site as well.

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