Sergeant (Observer)TALBOT, GERALD ROLAND CECIL Service Number 580855 Died 28/11/1939 Royal Air Force Casualty Buried at HARWELL CEMETERY Location: Berkshire, United Kingdom Number of casualties: 67 Cemetery/memorial reference: Grave 632. from my photo collection
Crash of an Avro 652 Anson I in the Exmoor National Park: 5 killed | B3A Aircraft Accidents Archives Here's a bit about one of the crew, Whittaker More Than Just A Name
Father: Thomas Rowland Talbot (Author and Dramatist) Lambeth, Surrey Gnr 7872 HAC, later Spr 360485 5th Field Survey Coy, RE (photographer) KIA 28 Oct 1918 Casualty Mother: May Isobel Comley Married Brixton Reg Office, 16 Mar 1912 Gerald's birth details are just visible:
photo from my collection Sergeant (Observer)MOSS, THOMAS ROBERT Service Number 518032 Died 28/11/1939 Aged 29 75 Sqdn. Royal Air Force
What an unfortunate family. See his Dad's headstone inscription says ''ALSO IN MEMORY OF REGINALD SINCLAIR TALBOT SCOTS GUARDS MISSING OCTOBER 1914'' Here's his CWGC entry, Casualty PrivateTALBOT, REGINALD SINCLAIR Service Number 7826 Died 11/11/1914 1st Bn Scots Guards Commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
photo from my collection Aircraftman 2nd Class (Wireless Op./Air Gunner)OVERALL, FREDERICK CHALLENGER Service Number 632442 Died 28/11/1939 Aged 23 148 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Son of Mrs. E. Piper, of Shiplake, Oxfordshire. INSCRIPTION THE GLORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR COUNTRY SHALL NEVER DIE
Thomas Robert Moss Father: Ernest Thessiger Moss ('Boot Trade') Northampton Mother: Ada Florence (nee Ward) Married 31 Mar 1907, Northampton, St Sepulchre Ernest later married Florence Emily Downing in 1922.
Freddy never met his father,who died in October 1916,at Lake Doran,Macedonia,of injuries received in a trench mortar accident.Two generations killed in war accidents.My great uncle.
