Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC EARWICKER, PETER THOMAS Rank: Corporal Service No: 420192 Date of Death: 06/06/1944 Age: 25 Regiment/Service: Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C., 6th (Airborne) Armd. Regt. Grave Reference: Coll. grave VIA. C. 1-25. Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY Location: France Additional Information: Son of Thomas Henry and Eva Kate Earwicker, of Sidcup, Kent. Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
Details of the above loss 6 June 1944 EJ116 Stirling EJ116 620 Squadron This aircraft crashed in the grounds of the Chateau de Grangues. The crew and a large contingent of parachutists from the Reconnaisance Regt and 7th Bn The Parachute Regt were all killed. Flying Officer Albert Hamilton BARTON Pilot Flight Sergeant Henry Mark BITTINER 22 Navigator Sergeant Donald REID 28 Bomb Aimer Sergeant Geoffrey CROSSE 19 Flight Engineer Sergeant William Eric WALLIS Wireless Operator Sergeant John Gillies SMITH 23 Air Gunner Lieutenant Raymond Charles BELCHER 6th Airborne Div Recce Regt RAC Trooper Michael Percy DONE 19 Trooper George Wilson LAMONT 31 Corporal Peter Thomas EARWICKER 25 Trooper Arthur Harry WILSON 21 Private Geoffrey COPSON 19 7th Bn Parachute Regt Private Vincent Patrick Cole FROST 21 Lance Corporal John GASCOIGNE 27 Craftsman George William HUNT 21 (attached from REME) Warrant Officer II (CSM) John Edward Philip HUTCHINGS 26 Corporal Alfred Ronald KEMP 26 Lance Corporal George Henry LEAMER 26 Lance Corporal Robert Laurence MITCHELL 20 Private Walter SCOTT 29 Private Robert William STOBBART 32 Lance Corporal Robert TWIST 29 Corporal Albert VAN RYNEN 28 Private Reginald Albert Edward FRANCIS Private Dennis SHUTT Source - Though Without Anger - C. Cummings