BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE ELLIS Rank: Sergeant Trade: Air Obs. Service No: R/59263 Date of Death: 07/07/1941 Age: 22 Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force Grave Reference 30. G. 10. Cemetery BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of James and Edith Buckingham, of Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, Canada. CWGC - Cemetery Details
BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE ELLIS Rank: Sergeant Trade: Air Obs. Service No: R/59263 Date of Death: 07/07/1941 Age: 22 Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force Grave Reference 30. G. 10. Cemetery BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of James and Edith Buckingham, of Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, Canada. CWGC - Cemetery Details Details of the above loss 7 July 1941 10 OTU Whitley V Z6476 Op. Training. Took off from Abingdon for a night navigation exercise in moonlight conditions. Strayed from track and while flying at 2,000 feet at roughly 0115 hrs ran into a barrage balloon cable near Quinton, some 6 miles south south west from Stratford-on-Avon. On hitting the ground the aircraft burst into flames. Crew. F/L. D U. Lowson DFC + P/O. N. McCarthy + Sgt. G E. Buckingham RCAF + Sgt. G. Farbrother + Sgt. S F. Drummond + P/O. J. Graney + Source - RAF Bomber Command Losses Vol.7 - W R. Chorley