Royal Air Force War Grave Photos for Reference.

Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) EDWARDS, WILLIAM ALFRED
Service Number 1261646

Died 05/12/1942

Aged 22

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Son of John Patrick Edwards and Gladys Edwards, of Fulham.


INSCRIPTION
HE DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS DUTY DONE. A GRAND-HEARTED FELLOW A MOST NOBLE SON. MUM
Buried at KENSAL GREEN (ST. MARY'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Location: London, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 420

Cemetery/memorial reference: Sec. X.K. Grave 89.

 

Pilot Officer (Observer) GIRAS, GEORGE CONSTANTINE
Service Number 106050

Died 02/04/1942

Aged 31

614 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Son of Constantine Hercules Giras and Dora Giras, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; husband of Edith Giras.
Buried at KENSAL GREEN (ST. MARY'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Location: London, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 420

Cemetery/memorial reference: Sec. X P Grave 1994.

 

Flying Officer (Navigator) VAN LEEMPUTTEN, WILLEBRODUS MARIA ANTOINE
Service Number 152444

Died 12/03/1944

Aged 27

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Son of Henri and Anna Van Leemputten; husband of Ellen Margery Van Leemputten, of Willesden, Middlesex.


INSCRIPTION
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND, TAKEN WHEN WE HAD SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR
Buried at KENSAL GREEN (ST. MARY'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Location: London, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 420

Cemetery/memorial reference: Sec. R.S. Grave 1287.

 

Flight Sergeant (Navigator) FENNELL, GEORGE THOMAS
Service Number 657399

Died 25/03/1944

Aged 26

271 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Son of George and Alice Margaret Fennell, of Marley, Devon.
Buried at KENSAL GREEN (ST. MARY'S) ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY

Location: London, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 420

Cemetery/memorial reference: Sec. R.S. Grave 989.

 

Albemarle Mk.II V1604, Ashbourne, Derbyshire

 

Sergeant 916680 ARTHUR JAMES VAUGHAN RAFVR



Casualty

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242 Squadron Hurricane IIa Z2666 Sgt. Vaughan

 

Pilot Officer (Pilot) MURRAY-SMITH, ALEXANDER GEORGE
Service Number 100080

Died 07/12/1941

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Buried at ST. ALBANS (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD

Location: Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 1

Cemetery/memorial reference: By West end of Church.

 

Remembered Leominster cemetery Herefordshire

Sergeant POWIS, TREVELYAN IVAN
Service Number 1813257

Died 26/11/1944

Aged 19

502 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Son of Frederick John and Frances Annie Powis, of Leominster, Herefordshire.
Commemorated at RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 20275

Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 236.

 

Remembered Leominster Cemetery,Herefordshire


Sergeant (Pilot) JONES, ROWLAND CLIFFORD
Service Number 748624

Died 05/02/1941

Aged 24

56 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Son of Rowland Harry and Charlotte Jones, of Purley, Surrey.


INSCRIPTION
BELOVED BROTHER OF DENNIS AND RUBY, BROAD ST., LEOMINSTER, HEREFORDSHIRE

 

Wing Commander Ivor Dale DFC taken at Sittard CWGC last week.



Casualty

 

Bexhill Museum Ltd :: Bexhill's Amiens Raid Air Ace

He was Wing Commander (Pilot) Ivor Gordon Easton Dale DFC, born 1905, who died on February 2, 1945. Nicknamed �Daddy� Dale, he was a pre-war flyer who returned to service in the RAF Volunteer Reserve on the outbreak of war and was thus much older than the men under his command.

At the time of his death he was the commander of 21 Squadron based out of RAF Thorney Island airbase. The squadron is famous for Operation Jericho when its Mosquito bombers breached the walls of a Gestapo prison at Amiens in February 1944, allowing members of the French Resistance to escape.

Wg Cdr Dale was killed a year later along with his navigator Flying Officer Kenneth Hackett. Their Mosquito PZ314 reportedly suffered engine failure and crashed near Ophoven, south west of Sittard.

The volunteers from Sittard would like to invite one of his descendants to Holland for their annual Remembrance Day commemoration.

A quick look through public records tells us that his parents were Horace Easton Dale (1868-1962) and Francis Harriet Dale (1874-1964) and in 1939 they lived at 5 Knebworth Road, Bexhill. He was their only son.

His wife Norah (nee Williams) also has a Bexhill connection. She was born in India and came to live in Buckhurst Road, Bexhill around 1910 after her mother Louisa was widowed. Norah had two sisters, Gwen, Ella and younger brother Alan.
Wing Commander (Pilot) DALE, IVOR GORDON EASTON
Service Number 19182

Died 02/02/1945

Aged 39

Cdg. 21 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

D F C

Son of Horace Easton Dale and Frances Harriet Dale; husband of Norah Louisa Dale, of Cranbrook, Kent.


INSCRIPTION
LIFE TO THEM IS NOT GIVEN TO BE SAFEGUARDED BUT LIVED

Accident de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk VI PZ314, 02 Feb 1945

 

Squadron Leader Ian Macleod-Selkirk taken at Venray CWGC last week.



MacLEOD-SELKIRK I - International Bomber Command Centre

 

Flying Officer G S Hall
Flight Sergeant (AG) T E Hooper
Wireless Officer (AG) J McMorland
Pilot Officer (Wop/AG) A F Smith
Squadron leader R J S Wootton DFC
Flight Lieutenant (Nav) J Wright
Flying Officer (Eng) J Zbyszynski

Liberator III, BZ891 'K' of No 178 Sqn which failed to return from a minelaying operation off Crete. Photo taken at Suda Bay CWGC in July.

 

Just looking at some of the inscriptions on the head stones and the men's ages when they died is truly heart wrenching.

 

Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) ALLEN, CLIFFORD BERTRAM
Service Number 1896397
Died 03/09/1945
Aged 20
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of John Morgan Allen and Dorothy Allen, of Lambeth; husband of Margaret Allen, of Southwark.

Casualty

 

Aircraftman 2nd ClassCOVINGTON, FRANK
Service Number 2246232
Died 27/06/1945
Aged 40
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Frank and Rose Covington, of Lambeth, husband of Beatrice May Covington, of South Lambeth.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2429025/covington,-frank/

 

Pilot Officer (Observer) GATES, DONALD HENRY
Service Number 85287
Died 27/02/1941
Aged 34
78 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gates, and stepson of Annie Matilda Gates, of Felpham, Sussex.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2429056/gates,-donald-henry/

 

Corporal HOGG, WILLIAM ROBERT HENRY
Service Number 1250728
Died 31/01/1947
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Anne Hogg; husband of May Hogg, of Southwark.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2429069/hogg,-william-robert-henry/

 

Flying Officer (Navigator/Wireless Op.) MATTHEWS, ARTHUR JOHN
Service Number 120864
Died 12/04/1943
Aged 23
264 Sqdn.
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Arthur Alfred Matthews, and of Clara Alice Matthews, of Brixton; husband of Lilian Ellen Matthews, of Dulwich Village.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2429084/matthews,-arthur-john/

 

Sergeant (Radio Operator (Air)) MILNE, JAMES DAVID
Service Number 1892981
Died 28/10/1944
Aged 32
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of William and Hetty Milne; husband of Louisa Henrietta Jane Milne, of Mitcham, Surrey.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2429089/milne,-james-david/