1852477 Sergeant John Septimus PYNE, 460(RAAF) Sqdn, RAFVR: 09/04/1944

Remembering Today

Casualty
Sergeant (Air Gunner)PYNE, JOHN SEPTIMUS
Service Number 1852477
Died 09/04/1944
Aged 19
460 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Son of Horace William and Louise Ann Pyne, of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
INSCRIPTION: HE SLEEPS IN GOD'S BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IN THE SUNSHINE OF PERFECT PEACE
Buried at CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY
Location: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 1019
Cemetery/memorial reference: Grave 13760

 

9-10 April 1944

460 Squadron
Lancaster I ME727 AR-
Op. Villeneuve

The aircraft took off 2124 hrs from Binbrook to bomb the railway yards at Villeneuve-St-Georges, but crashed six minutes later into Scallows wood, roughly 5 miles east of the airfield. The four Australian members of the crew and both air gunners are buried in Cambridge City Cemetery. Sgt. Barber rests in Acock's Green (St. Mary) Churchyard, he was 35 years old.

Crew.

P/O. W D. McKenzie RAAF +
Sgt. S B. Barber +
F/S. W D. Weekes RAAF +
F/S. B J J. Simpson RAAF +
F/S. R. Mansfield RAAF +
Sgt. J L. Crouch +
Sgt. J S. Pyne +

'Bomber Command Losses' Vol.5 - W R. Chorley.

 

Name: Horace William Pyne
Birth Date: abt 1892
Birth Place: St Georges, Berkshire
Age: 17
Document Year: 1909
Regimental Number: 998
Regiment Name: Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
Form Title: Territorial Force Attestation

He made L/Cpl.

Marriages Sep 1912
Pyne Horace W Day Fulham 1a 854
Day Louise A Pyne Fulham 1a 854

Children:
John Septimus Pyne
Birth: 5 Dec 1924 in Reading, Berkshire
Death: 9 Apr 1944 in Binbrook, Lincolnshire

Donald Noel Pyne
Birth 3 Jun 1927 in Reading, Berkshire
Death10 Dec 2016 in Headington, Oxfordshire

1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION
Station House, Wyndale Close, Henley-on-Thames M.B., Oxfordshire
NAME DOB OCCUPATION
Horace W Pyne 19 May 1891 Railway Station Master
Louise A Pyne 26 Jul 1889 Unpaid Domestic Duties
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Horace William Pyne
Birth:19 May 1891
Death: 15 Jun 1954

Louise Ann Payne (nee Day)
Birth: 1889 in Paris, France
Death: 6 Apr 1967 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire