KING, WILLIAM EUERBY Rank: Pilot Officer Trade: Pilot Service No: 81356 Date of Death: 19/08/1940 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Grave Reference Row R. Coll. grave 15. Cemetery CARDINGTON (ST. MARY) CHURCH CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Thomas William and Lillian Isabel King, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2705910/KING,%20WILLIAM%20EUERBY
BRITNOR, STANLEY Rank: Sergeant Trade: Pilot Service No: 754172 Date of Death: 19/08/1940 Age: 26 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Grave Reference Row R. Coll. grave 15. Cemetery CARDINGTON (ST. MARY) CHURCH CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Harold and Gertrude Britnor; husband of Frances Eileen Britnor, of Allerton, Leeds, Yorkshire.
BISHOP, JOHN Rank: Sergeant Trade: Pilot Service No: 754664 Date of Death: 19/08/1940 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Grave Reference Row R. Grave 15. Cemetery CARDINGTON (ST. MARY) CHURCH CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of the Revd. L. Cornewall Bishop and Daisy E. G. Bishop, of South Kensington, London.
JACKSON, JOHN ANGUS Rank: Sergeant Trade: W.Op./Air Gnr. Service No: 651960 Date of Death: 19/08/1940 Age: 19 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Grave Reference Row R. Coll. grave 15. Cemetery CARDINGTON (ST. MARY) CHURCH CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Angus Drummond Jackson and Margaret Jackson, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.
Details of the above loss. 19 August 1940 14 OTU Hampden I P1305 Op. Training Took off from Cottesmore for a navigation exercise. Emerged from the cloud base, diving almost vertically and crashed at Sharnbrook, 8 miles north north west of Bedford. All were taken to Cardington (St.Mary) Church Cemetery for burial in a collective grave. Sgt. Bishop was the son of the Revd L. Cornewall Bishop of South Kensington. The first three named are described as pilots.. Crew. P/O. W E. King + Sgt. S. Britnor + Sgt. J. Bishop + Sgt. J A. Jackson + Source - RAF Bomber Command Losses Vol.7 - W R. Chorley. Previously discussed here.... http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/39368-crew-of-hp-hampden-p1305-cardingtonbedfordshire/
