Sgt John Darrah LOVE, RAFVR

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  1. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Hello in trying to find out what happended to my great uncle His name is John darrah love service number 1551553 served in 79 sqdn royal air force volunteer reserves died 5th September 1942 .... any more information would be fantastic
     
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  2. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Hello and welcome to the forum

    Just adding a link to the full CWGC record
    Casualty Details

    LOVE, JOHN DARRAH
    Rank: Sergeant
    Service No: 1551553
    Date of Death: 05/09/1942
    Age: 21
    Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 79 Sqdn.
    Panel Reference: Column 261.
    Memorial: ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
    Additional Information: Son of T. G. and Margaret J. Love, of Newmains, Lanarkshire.
     
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  3. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Thank you for that I found this out last year but this is the only information we have on my great uncle
     
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  4. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    First stop would be apply to MoD for service records.
    Requests for personal data and service records: a detailed guide - GOV.UK

    I tried to look on National Archives website for 79 Sqn Operational Record Book but having trouble connecting with that website at moment.
    Royal Air Force operations record books 1939-1945 - The National Archives

    Had a look at 79 Sqn on internet & saw they'd have been on their way to India in 1942
    RAF - 79 Squadron
    On 4 March 1942 it sailed for the Far East arriving in India on 20 June.

    Not sure why he on Alamein Memorial if in India as CWGC says ...
    The Air Forces panels commemorate more than 3,000 airmen of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar, who have no known grave. Those who served with the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no known grave are also commemorated here.
     
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  5. nicks

    nicks Very Senior Member

    Bomber Command Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean has a Sgt J D Love listed amongst the crew of Wellington BB477 70 Sqn which was lost in the Tobruk area on the 5th September 1942.
     
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  6. Owen

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    so typo on cwgc site then?
    70 sqn not 79
     
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  7. nicks

    nicks Very Senior Member

    Looks like it.
     
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  8. Owen

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  9. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Thank you so much
     
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  10. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Thank you so much
     
    Evelyn Smith, Dec 19, 2016
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  11. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Thank you so much for this information
     
    Evelyn Smith, Dec 19, 2016
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  12. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Evelyn Smith, Dec 19, 2016
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  13. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    If you do get his service records I suggest sending a copy to CWGC & get the correct squadron on his entry there.
     
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  14. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    I will do that Owen as I want him to be remembered properly
     
    Evelyn Smith, Dec 19, 2016
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  15. RCG

    RCG Senior Member, Deceased

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  16. Evelyn Smith

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  17. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Wonder if my great uncle is in any of these pictures... need to show my mum as I have never seen a picture of him... would be fantastic if he was
     
    Evelyn Smith, Dec 19, 2016
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  18. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    Would I be able to find out who the other members of the crew who died were
     
    Evelyn Smith, Dec 19, 2016
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  19. nicks

    nicks Very Senior Member

    Bomber Command Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean list the following as crew;

    F/Sgt JD Gordon RNZAF
    F/Sgt EDB Rae
    P/O RH McLelland
    Sgt DE Harrison
    Sgt SI Gallagher RNZAF

    F/Sgt Rae and Sgt Gallagher are buried in Tobruk the others are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.
     
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  20. Evelyn Smith

    Evelyn Smith Member

    I take it my great uncle was on this list of casualties
     
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