Hi, I wonder if anybody can help. I am looking to visit the bomber command memorial in London with some friends, we are near RAF Halton. To make it more interesting and give a bit of personal interest I want to find a casualty trained at RAF Halton, does anybody have any ideas how I can find such an individual. I know there is a museum at Halton, and that is one possibility, but does anybody have any other ideas, thanks in advance.
If you look on this site RAFHAAA Page Click on Tribute then RoH You will find a Roll of Honour for Halton Brats, just browse for the Bomber Command entries Regards Ross
Ross, Thank you so much, just what I was looking for, will hopefully make our visit all the more interesting. Do you have any idea if I will be able to get a service record?
I think if you research Halton Brat casualties you will find many who eventually graduated to aircrew as the prewar RAF worked up its strength in the late 1930s and later lost their lives flying or as groundcrew with the RAF.These casualties will be found spread across the various RAF Commands. I would start researching those casualties from about the 1929 Entry.Further,trawl through these casualties and from the CWGC records,it should be clearer which units the casualty was serving with on the date of death.Aircrew.. it might be easier to ascertain their operational unit than groundcrew whose associated unit is not always clear. I would think that there should be some information at Halton regarding the individual Entry losses...a question of approaching Halton.
Welcome to the forum Adyc - enjoy! Here is a list of seven RAF casualties of WWII from nearby Wendover, two of which - REL Boorman and HJ Staddon - are buried at Halton (St Michael) Churchyard. Another, JEG Muschamp, was the son of Group Captain George Allen Rodolphe Muschamp. If you find that one or more of these men were in Bomber Command then you have a theme of local interest. 001 BLAKE ET 350926 - 04/06/1947 ROYAL AIR FORCE 002 BOORMAN REL 356903 - 03/12/1941 ROYAL AIR FORCE 003 CROOM LP 1587077 - 460 RAAF SQDN 07/06/1944 RAFVR 004 MITCHELL WH 569064 - 40 SQDN 28/07/1942 ROYAL AIR FORCE 005 MUSCHAMP JEG 153175 - 218 SQDN 22/02/1945 ROYAL AIR FORCE 006 STADDON HJ 1809655 - 12/10/1945 RAFVR 007 TRIMM SF 43309 - 18/04/1942 ROYAL AIR FORCE I hope this is of interest to you. Best, Steve.
L.P.Croom is not on Wendover Memorial CROOM, LIONEL PEARCEY Rank: Sergeant Trade: Flt. Engr. Service No: 1587077 Date of Death: 07/06/1944 Age: 39 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 460 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn. Grave Reference Coll. grave XXVIII. H. 7-13. Cemetery BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Joseph and Margaret Croom; husband of Althea Croom, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire. --------------- BOORMAN, ROBERT EDWARD LEWIS Rank: Warrant Officer Service No: 356903 Date of Death: 03/12/1941 Age: 47 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Grave Reference Plot 1. Row U. Grave 118. Cemetery HALTON (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD Additional Information: Son of James Lewis Boorman and Alice Maud Boorman; husband of Alice Ethel Boorman, of Wendover. ------------------------- BLAKE, EDWARD THOMAS Rank: Warrant Officer Service No: 350926 Date of Death: 04/06/1947 Age: 54 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Grave Reference Sec. F. Grave 42. Cemetery WENDOVER (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD Additional Information: Husband of Annie Blake, of Wendover. ------------------------------------- on Wendover Memorial MITCHELL, WALTER HERBERT Rank: Sergeant Service No: 569064 Date of Death: 28/07/1942 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force 40 Sqdn. Panel Reference Column 262. Memorial ALAMEIN MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of John and Emily Mitchell; husband of Dorothy Elizabeth Mitchell, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire. --- On Wendover Memorial MUSCHAMP, JOHN EDWARD GEORGE Rank: Flying Officer Trade: Pilot Service No: 153175 Date of Death: 22/02/1945 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force 218 Sqdn. Grave Reference 17. B. 16. Cemetery REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Group Captain George Allen Rodolphe Muschamp, R.A.F., and Louise Henriette Helene, Muschamp, of Wendover Buckinghamshire. ------------ STADDON, HAROLD JAMES Rank: Sergeant Trade: Pilot Service No: 1809655 Date of Death: 12/10/1945 Age: 21 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Grave Reference Plot 5. Row B. Grave 159. Cemetery HALTON (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD Additional Information: Son of Harold Lewis Staddon and Charlotte Walker Staddon, of Wendover. -- TRIMM, SIDNEY FRANCIS Rank: Flight Lieutenant Service No: 43309 Date of Death: 18/04/1942 Age: 48 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Grave Reference Sec. H. Grave 11. Cemetery WENDOVER (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD Additional Information: Son of George and Elizabeth Trimm; husband of Enid Alice Trimm, of Wendover.
I would say that Sgt Mitchell is the only Halton Brat in the list shown. He flew with No 40 Squadron which was equipped with Wellington 1Cs and was lost operating out of Shallufa, a permanent RAF base in the Canal Zone during the British presence in Egypt.No 40 Squadron was in the RAF MEAF and not in Bomber Command. He is remembered on the Wendover Memorial,being the spouse of a local lady.