Runnymede RAF Memorial

Discussion in 'War Cemeteries & War Memorial Research' started by gen, Aug 23, 2007.

  1. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Barbara , this is a rather old thread.
    gen hasn't been on this forum for over a year.
    Last Activity: 18-01-2008 08:24 PM
     
  2. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    But I'm sure someone who's visiting Runnymede in the future might help out?

    Lovely place, I haven't been there for years.
     
  3. englandphil

    englandphil Very Senior Member

    Hello All, if anyone is planning a visit, and is willing to photograph a number of names / Panels, can they please let me know.

    Annoying that I once worked in Staines, but that was before i am embarked on my research projects....
     
  4. Oggie2620

    Oggie2620 Senior Member

    Phil

    If I go down to my sisters in Hillingdon during the summer (not sure when yet) I am intending to do a trip to Runnymede. If you PM me a list of names I will endeavour to cover them for you.
    Dee
     
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  5. TomTAS

    TomTAS Very Senior Member

    Hi Phil,

    I have some and of course the place, who do you need I might have them already...

    Cheers
    Tom
     
  6. Driver-op

    Driver-op WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    My class mate Michael Kalms is remembered there, he didn't return from a raid on Hamburg in 1945. Michael put me to shame by volunteering for the RAF whilst I waited for call-up; because there was a 9 month wait for the RAF I decided on the army instead. It still makes me feel very sad, he had such a great future.

    Jim
     
  7. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    My class mate Michael Kalms is remembered there, he didn't return from a raid on Hamburg in 1945. Michael put me to shame by volunteering for the RAF whilst I waited for call-up; because there was a 9 month wait for the RAF I decided on the army instead. It still makes me feel very sad, he had such a great future.

    Jim
    Hi Jim,

    I had as look for loss details regarding your class mate and all I could turn up is the following, could this be your man?.........

    15-16 March 1944

    408 Squadron.
    Lancaster II LL719 EQ-E
    Op. Stuttgart

    F/O. A C. Colville RCAF +
    Sgt. M Y Z. Kalms + CWGC :: Casualty Details
    F/O. W I F. Reid RCAF +
    F/O. M A. Siddone RCAF +
    WO1. A C K. Hodson RCAF +
    Sgt. F E A. Smith +
    Sgt. D V. Davies +

    Took off 1903 hrs Linton-on-Ouse. Lost without trace.

    The Stuttgart raid of 15/16 March 1944

    863 aircraft - 617 Lancasters, 230 Halifaxes, 16 Mosquitos - ordered to attack Stuttgart. The German fighter controller split his forces into 2 parts. The bomber force flew over France nearly as far as the Swiss frontier before turning north-east to approach Stuttgart. This delayed the German fighters contacting the bomber stream but, when the German fighters did arrive, just before the target was reached, the usual fierce combats ensued. 37 aircraft - 27 Lancasters, 10 Halifaxes - were lost, 4.3 per cent of the force. 2 of the Lancasters force-landed in Switzerland. Adverse winds delayed the opening of the attack and the same winds may have been the cause of the Pathfinder marking falling back well short of the target, despite the clear weather conditions. Some of the early bombing fell in the centre of Stuttgart but most of it fell in open country south-west of the city. The Akademie was damaged in the centre of Stuttgart and some housing was destroyed in the south-western suburbs.
     
  8. englandphil

    englandphil Very Senior Member

    Tom / Dee, details of my Widnes Lads on the Runnymeade memorial

    APPLETON, JOHN, Panel 134
    BURTON, ALBERT CYRIL, Panel 31.
    DOYLE, JOHN, Panel 228.
    HALLOWELL, JOSEPH GORDON, Panel 267.
    HODGKINS, JOHN, Panel 218.
    HORABIN, JOHN, Panel 45.
    HOUGH, WILLIAM JOHN, Panel 207.
    HOWARD, LESLIE PINNINGTON, Panel 154.
    IMISON, GERALD PERCY, Panel 46.
    IRELAND, JOHN, Panel 154.
    JOHNSON, CHARLES LESLIE, Panel 219.
    JONES, ARTHUR RAYMOND, Panel 46.
    KING, GEORGE GIBSON, Panel 46.
    MAINWARING, JACK, Panel 89.
    RICE, JOHN SUMMERFIELD, Panel 268.
    SHAW, HAROLD, Panel 214.
    TOBIN, MARTIN PATRICK, Panel 167.
     
  9. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Most of the panels I require are Aussies that were killed in the RAF and registered as UK and found by me in later research after I had most of the RAAF panels completed.

    These were mostly missing in the early part of the war yet they are overall on 45 panels up to 1945.


    Cheers

    Geoff
     
  10. Oggie2620

    Oggie2620 Senior Member

    I will print off and take with me so I get them for you....Tom / Dee, details of my Widnes Lads on the Runnymeade memorial

    APPLETON, JOHN, Panel 134
    BURTON, ALBERT CYRIL, Panel 31.
    DOYLE, JOHN, Panel 228.
    HALLOWELL, JOSEPH GORDON, Panel 267.
    HODGKINS, JOHN, Panel 218.
    HORABIN, JOHN, Panel 45.
    HOUGH, WILLIAM JOHN, Panel 207.
    HOWARD, LESLIE PINNINGTON, Panel 154.
    IMISON, GERALD PERCY, Panel 46.
    IRELAND, JOHN, Panel 154.
    JOHNSON, CHARLES LESLIE, Panel 219.
    JONES, ARTHUR RAYMOND, Panel 46.
    KING, GEORGE GIBSON, Panel 46.
    MAINWARING, JACK, Panel 89.
    RICE, JOHN SUMMERFIELD, Panel 268.
    SHAW, HAROLD, Panel 214.
    TOBIN, MARTIN PATRICK, Panel 167.
     
  11. Driver-op

    Driver-op WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Thank you Peter. Yes that was my class-mate Michael, and I got the raid place wrong. I didn't learn of his death until recently, and it has made me feel so very sad, more than many others I have known. I suppose it's because we were kids together and I used to visit his home, his parents must have been devastated.

    Sad Days.

    Jim
     

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