MALTA,
WORLD WAR 2 AIRMEN WAR MEMORIAL
SURNAMES
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World
War 2 - Detailed information
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| SADLEIR |
Thomas
Willoughby |
Pilot
Officer 171950, 95 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action fl;ying
out of Bathurst/Half Die, Gambia, in a Short Sunderland III,
serial number DW105, when the aircraft crashed south of Cansado
Point due to an engine fire soon after taking off from Port
Etienne, French West Africa, one of the crew survived, 5 January
1944. Born 1 June 1918. In the 1939 Register he was an Automobile
Engineer, resident with his brother Frederick, in his mother's,
Ada M S Lewis (remarried) hotel, "Alverton," Promenade,
Colwyn Bay, Colwyn Bay M.B., Denbighshire, Wales. Panel 13,
Column 2.
Extract
from the Northern Whig - 25 February 1944, page 2:
KILLED
ON OPERATIONAL FLYING
SADLIER Thomas Willoughby. R.A.F.V.R. (Captain), elder on
of the late Thomas P. Sadleir, of Waringstown, and Mrs. William
Lewis, Alverton," Colwyn Bay.
"One of our pilots is safe."
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| SALISBURY |
Charles |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 934481, 500 Squadron,
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom.
Killed in action flying out of Tafaraoui, Algeria, in a Lockheed
Hudson VI, serial number FK667, when the aircraft was lost without
trace during a night Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol off Cape Roca,
Portugal, 2 September 1943. Aged 23. Native of Twickenham, Middlesex.
Son of Victor Edward Leopold and Eleanor Salisbury, of Twickenham,
Middlesex. Panel 7, Column 2. |
| SALKELD |
Sidney
Wilson |
Sergeant
(Navigator) 1480152, 23 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a de Havilland Mosquito FBVI, serial number
HJ678, when the aircraft was lost without trace during an intruder
sortie to Catania, Siciliy, 8 July 1943. Aged 20. Native of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Son of Sidney and Jane Ann Salkeld, of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Panel
9, Column 1. |
| SALMON |
Rene
Marie Paul Emile |
Pilot
Officer 176106, 114 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Marcianese, Italy, in a Douglas Boston IIIA, serial number
BZ355, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a night
intruder sortie 7 June 1944. Native of Belgium. Panel 13, Column
2. |
| SALUSBURY
HUGHES |
Kendrick
Herbert |
Squadron
Leader (Pilot) 70597, 23 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malata, in a de Havilland Mosquito FBVI, serial number
HJ736, when his aircraft was lost without trace during an intruder
sortie to the Rome area 21 July 1943. Aged 33. Awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross (D.F.C.). Native of Warsash, Hampshire. Son of Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Salusbury Hughes; husband of A. G. L. Salusbury Hughes,
of Warsash, Hampshire. Panel 6. Column 1. See also Offley,
Hertfordshire Memorial |
| SALZMAN |
Rainald
Russell |
Flight
Sergeant (Pilot) 657198, 229 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Krendi,
Malta, in a Supermarine Spitfire VC, serial number EF528, when
the aircraft was lost withou trace, believed to have been shot
down by fighters near Biscari, 5 July 1943. Aged 29. Native of
Lewes, Sussex. Son of Louis Francis and Maud Elizabeth Salzman,
of Lewes, Sussex. Panel 7, Column 2. |
| SAMLER |
Walter
Eric |
Sergeant
(Wireless Operator) 1393566, 40 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Foggia Main, Italy, in Vickers Wellington X, serial number
LP120. when the aircraft crashed 15 miles south of Pirot, Yugoslavia
during a raid on an oil terminal at Giurgiu, Romania, one of the
crew survived and was captured, 3 June 1944. Aged 22. Native of
Walthamstow, Essex. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Samler, of Walthamstow,
Essex. Panel 15, Column 2. |
| SAMWAYS |
Stuart
Rex |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 552093, 105 Squadron,
Royal Air Force. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in
action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Blenheim IV, serial
number Z7522, when the aircraft struck the mast of a tanker during
an attack on a convoy off Bu'ayrat Al Hasun in the Gulf of Sirte,
Libya and spun into the sea 15 August 1941. Aged 20. Native of
Slough, Buckinghamshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Edward Samways,
of Slough, Buckinghamshire. Panel 1, Column 2. |
| SANCTUARY |
John
Mansell Tabor |
Flying
Officer 138369, 219 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed flying out of Sidi
Amor, Tunisia in a Bristol Beaufighter VIF, serial number V8619,
when it was assumed that the aircraft had flown into the sea
in the Bay of Tunis during a night interception exercise 12
December 1943. Aged 20. Born 28 August 1923. Son of William
Tabor Sanctuary and Margaret Irene Mansell Sanctuary. Also listed
on his father's grave in Sunbury Cemetery, Sunbury-On-Thames,
Surrey. Panel 6, Column 2.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1945:
SANCTUARY
John Mansell Tabor of St. Peters School Filleigh Devonshire
died on or since 12 December 1943 on war service Administration
Exeter 1 January to William Tabor Sanctuary
schoolmaster. Effects £273 6s. 11d.
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| SANDERS |
Ernest
Charles |
Sergeant
(Air Gunner) 1382510, 69 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Martin Baltimore I, serial number AG715,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a patrol over
the Ionean Sea searching for the Italian fleet, probably shot
down by a Ju88 night fighter, 15 June 1942. Aged 20. Native of
Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex. Son of George and Emma Phillis
Sanders, of Chadwell Heath, Essex. Panel 4, Column 2. |
| SANDERSON |
Francis
Andrew |
 Flying
Officer (Pilot) NZ413482, 614 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air
Force. Country of service New Zealand. Killed in action 14 August
1944. Aged 32. Born 18 March 1912 in Stratford, Taranaki, New
Zeaand. Son of Herbert and Eliza Ann Sanderson; husband of Olive
Joyce Sanderson, of Fitzroy, Taranaki, New Zealand. Attended
Stratford Technical High School. Panel 16, Column 2.
Photograph
from Weekly News
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| SANDERSON |
John |
Sergeant
1148225, 202 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action by friendly fire flying
out of Gibraltar in a Consolidated Catalina IB, serial number
FP153, when it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down
in error by Toyal Navy warships during an Anti-Submarine Warfare
patrol 20 November 1942. Aged 19. Native of Evenwood, Co. Durham.
Son of John and Nora Sanderson, of Evenwood, Co. Durham. Panel
4, Column 2. |
| SANFORD |
Neville
George Darrel |
Flight
Lieutenant 60799, 221 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington VIII, serial number HX473
(aircraft serial unconfirmed), when the aircraft was lost during
an operational sortie 3 March 1943. Aged 28. Native of Hitchin,
Hertfordshire. Son of Richard and Margaret Sanford, of Hitchin,
Hertfordshire. Panel 6, Column 1. |
| SANSOME |
Harold |
Flight
Sergeant 1208957, 1 Oversea Aircraft Despatch Unit, Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed
in action flying out of Portreath, Cornwall, in a Vickers Wellington
IC, serial number HX597, when the aircraft ditched off Fuerteventura,
Canary Islands during a ferry flight from Gibraltar to Bathhurst,
Gambia, the rest of the crew survived, 3 October 1942. Panel 3,
Column 2. |
| SASSOON |
Terence
Aubrey David |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) 102573, 202 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Gibraltar in a Consolidated Catalina IB, serial number
FP124, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a convoy
escort in the Western Mediterranean 3 November 1942. Panel 2,
Column 1. |
| SATCHELL |
Roy |
Flight
Sergeant (Navigator) 1322968, 272 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, in a Bristol Beaufighter TFX,
serial number LX882, when the aircraft was shot down, possibly
by a Ju88, east of Minorca during an evening patrol 11 May 1944.
Aged 21. Native of Southsea, Hampshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
J. R. Satchell, of Southsea, Hampshire; husband of N. Satchell.
Panel 14, Column 2. |
| SAUNDERS |
Albert
Edward |
Warrant
Officer 531651, 223 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Died based at Biferno, Italy, 15 March 1944. Aged
29. Son of Arthur Ernest and Elizabeth Saunders, of Crediton,
Devon. Born in Crediton in the September Quarter of 1915. Panel
13, Column 2. See also Crediton,
Devon |
| SAVAGE |
Thomas
Wood |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) 105167, 92 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action by
firendly fire flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Supermarine Spitfire
VC, serial number JL182, when his aircraft was shot down in error
by US Navy Anti-Aircraft fire off Avola, Sicily 10 July 1943.
Aged 23. Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Native of Porthill, Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire. Son of George and Dora Savage, of Porthill, Stoke-on-Trent.
Panel 6, Column 1. |
| SAYER |
John
Lindsay |
Flight
Sergeant (Navigator) 1062107, 255 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve. Flying out of Setif, Algeria, in a Bristol
Beaufighter he was lost without trace during an intruder patrol
to Sardinia 1 April 1943. Aged 29. Born 23 November 1913. Native
of Penrith, Cumberland. Son of George and Lizzie Sayer; husband
of Madge Mary Sayer, of Penrith, Cumberland. In the 1921 census
he was aged 7, born Colby, Westmorland, son of george and Lizzie
Sayer, resident Holme Street, Appleby, Westmorland. In the 1939
Register he was born 23 November 1913, a Chief Clerk at Cumberland
Westmorland Farm School, married to Madge M Sayer, resident
1 Musgrave Street, Penrith, Penrith U.D., Cumberland. Panel
7, Column 2. See also Penrith
St Andrews, Cumberland and Penrith
Castle Park, Cumberland
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1944:
SAYER
John Lindsay of 1 Musgrave-street Penrith Cumberland
Killed in action on or since 1 April 1943 on war service Administration
Carlisle 13 March to Madge Mary Sayer widow.
Effects £727 14s. 11d.
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| SCAIFE |
John |
Sergeant
(Air Bomber) 1607005, 142 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Regina, Italy, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number
MF631, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid
on the marshalling yards at Ferrara, Italy, 3 September 1944.
Aged 21. Native of Annan, Dumfriesshire. Son of William Lancelot
and Mary Eliza Scaife, of Annan, Dumfriesshire. Panel 15, Column
2. |
| SCHAEFER |
Percy
Charles |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) 102546, 272 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Falconara, Italy, in a Bristol Beaufighter TFX, serial
number NV360, when the aircraft was shot down by flak at Salvore-Zambrattia
in the Gulf of Trieste when attacking a radar station 10 April
1945. Aged 30. Native of Bushey, Hertfordshire. Son of Albert
Edward and Eleanor Eileen Alice Schaefer, of Bushey, Hertfordshire.
B.A. Panel 18, Column 1. |
| SCHMIDT |
Frederick
Joseph |
Pilot
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) J/86968, 500 Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in
action by friendly fire flying out of La Senia, Algeria, in a
Lockheed Ventura GRV, serial number FP633, when the aircraft was
shot down into the sea northwest of Algiers in error by an RAF
Beaufighter during a convoy escort 1 April 1944. Aged 27. Native
of Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Son of Joseph and Clara Schmidt, of
Arthur, Ontario, Canada. His brother, Leo V. Schmidt, also fell.
Panel 16, Column 1. |
| SCHOFIELD |
Arthur
Harry Murray |
Sergeant
1393520, 272 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Ta Kali,
Malta, in a Bristol Beaufighter, serial number either T5114 or
X8079, when the aircraft was assumed to have been shot down by
Bf109s 30 miles northwest of Maritime Island during an armed reconnaissance
22 May 1943. Panel 9, Column 1. See also Leigh,
Kent |
| SCHOLEFIELD |
Henry |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) 49199, 272 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIF,
serial number V8888, when the aircraft crashed during an anti-shipping
strike off Albenga, Italy, 28 August 1944. Aged 25. Native of
Combe Martin, Devon. Son of Henry and Evelyn Scholefield, of Combe
Martin, Devon. Panel 13, Column 1. |
| SCHRUMP |
Spencer
Quentin |
Flight
Sergeant (Air Gunner) R/93117, 37 Squadron attached to 104 Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in
action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington IC,
serial number HD955, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a raid on Sfax, Tunisia, 31 December 1942. Aged 21. Native
of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Charles A. and Emma O. Schrump,
of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Brother of THeodore Henry Schrump
who also died during the war Pilot Officer J/92034, 299 Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force, died 6 June 1944, aged 26. Panel 5,
Column 2. |
| SCHULTZ |
Lancelot
Hood |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 411532, 272 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Country
of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Ta Kali,
Malta, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIF, serial number X8132, when
it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down during an
attack on an Italian convoy off Ponta Stilo, Italy, 17 March 1943.
Aged 28. Native of Yass, New South Wales, Australia. Son of William
Adolph and Annie Sophia Schultz; husband of Mavis Lillian Schultz,
of Yass, New South Wales, Australia. Panel 12, Column 2. |
| SCHULTZ |
Norman
Gerhard |
Warrant
Officer Class I R/82766, 142 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of Kairouan
West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number HE266,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on Viterbo
airfield, Italy, 16 August 1943. Aged 22. Native of Pembroke,
Ontario, Canada. Son of Albert F. and Louise Schultz. Panel 10,
Column 2. |
| SCOTT |
John
Richard |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) J/15280, 229 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of Ta Kali,
Malta, in a Supermarine Spitfire VC, serial number BR486, when
it was assumed the aircraft had been shot down when attacking
eight Italian AF MC202s off Cape Scalambria during a sweep over
Sicily 15 September 1942. Aged 20. native of Edmundston, New Brunswick,
Canada. Son of Walter P. and Beatrice L. Scott, of Edmundston,
New Brunswick, Canada. Panel 4, Column 2. |
| SCOTT |
Norman |
[Served as MULLEN, D.]
Air Mechanic 212621V, 40 Squadron, South African Air Force. Country
of service South Africa. Killed in action while a passenger flying
out of Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, aboard a Douglas Dakota III,
serial number FD865, when the aircraft was lost during a transit
flight in bad weather from Capodichino to the Balkans, passenger
on board 267 Squadron aircraft, 19 September 1944. Aged 21. Native
of Anzac, Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa. Son of Alexander and
Alice Scott, of Anzac, Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa. Panel
18, Column 2. |
| SCOTT |
Robert
Gordon |
Pilot
Officer 84332, 202 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Gibraltar in a Consolidated Catalina I, serial number W8425,
when the aircraft bounced and crashed into the sea when alighting
at Gibraltar 11 August 1941. Native of Dunfermline, Fifeshire.
Panel 1, Column 1. |
| SCOTT |
Ronald
John |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 904184, 105 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Blenheim IV, serial number Z7682,
when his aircraft struck the mast of a ship that was being attacked
north-east of Kerkennah Island off Sfax, Tunisia, and crashed
into the sea 26 August 1941. Born 21 December 1915. In 1939 he
was a Funeral Director (Manager), resident 19 Clarence Park Road,
Bournemouth, Bournemouth C.B., Hampshire. Panel 2, Column 1. See
also Pokesdown
Memorial, Bournemouth. |
| SCOTT |
Russell
Clare |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) J/20438, 458 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of Protville
I, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington XIII, serial number MP706,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during an anti-shipping
search off Leghorn, Italy, 24 August 1943. Aged 24. Native of
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Son of John George and Ester E. Scott,
of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Panel 10, Column 1. |
| SCOTT |
Sidney |
Sergeant
(Flight Engineer) 1434722, 490 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Jui, Sierra Leone, in a Short Sunderland III, serial number
ML852, when the aircraft crashed and sank off Port Mary due to
double engine failure during an Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol
from Bathurst, 8 of the crew survived 13 July 1944. Aged 22. Native
of Peckham, London. Son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Scott, of Peckham,
London; husband of Nellie Scott, of Ealing, Middlesex. Panel 15,
Column 2. |
| SCOTT |
Walker |
Flight
Sergeant 627726, 221 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in
a Vickers Wellington VIII, serial number LB115, when it was assumed
that the aircraft had been shot down by a night fighter off Cap
Bon during an anti-shipping search west of Sicily 18 April 1943.
Aged 22. Native of Cleish, Kinross. Son of James Scott and of
Elizabeth Scott (nee Proctor). Panel 7, Column 2. |
| SCRYMGEOUR |
David
Ross |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) NZ414687, 18 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Country of service New Zealand. Killed in action flying out of
Oulmene, Algeria, in a Bristol Blenheim V, serial number BA727,
when it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down by a
night fighter during a night armed reconnaissance along the Tunisian
coast between Tunis and Cape Serat 19 April 1943. Aged 27. Native
of Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Son of William Kincaid
Scrymgeour and of Agnes Ross Scrymgeour (nee Kerr), of Island
Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Panel 12, Column 1. |
| SEABROOKE |
Alec
Joseph |
Flying
Officer 169086, 4 Ferry Unit, Royal Air Force Transport Command.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Catania, Sicily, Italy, in a de Havilland Mosquito NFXIII,
serial number HK434, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a ferry flight to Italy 2 December 1944. In the 1921
census he was aged 4, born Essex, son of Joseph and Marie Seabrooke,
resident 17, Grove Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, his
father was employed by a Birmingham firm. Panel 13, Column 2.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1945:
SEABROOKE
Alec Joseph of 75 Kingswood-road Moseley Birmingham
13 died on or since 2 December 1944 on war service Administration
Birmingham 19 December to Joseph Seabrooke
commercial traveller Effects £403 9s. 5d.
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| SEDDON |
Robert
Baron |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 89833, 39 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of LG 86, Egypt but detailed to to LG 147, Libya, in a Bristol Beaufort
I, serial number N1186, when the aircraft was damaged by a Bf109
during a torpedo strike on a convoy about 80 miles southwest of
Malta and later ditched, one of the crew survived, 14 April 1942.
Aged 21. Native of Catforth, Lancashire. Son of Frederick Percy
and Mary E. Seddon, of Catforth, Lancashire. Panel 3, Column 1. |
| SEDGLEY |
Bryant
Frederick |
Flight
Sergeant (Air Bomber) 416618, 40 Squadron, Royal Australian Air
Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out
of Hani West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington III, serial number
HF688, when it waqs assumed that the aircraft had crashed in the
sea off Scalea during a raid on the beaches at Sapri-Paola 20
August 1943. Aged 20. Native of Medindie, South Australia. Son
of Walter John Mongan Sedgley and Olive Victoria Sedgley, of Medindie,
South Australia. Panel 12, Column 1. |
| SEGAL |
Shirley
Listenborgh |
Warrant
Officer Class II 283158V, 31 Squadron, South African Air Force.
Country of service South Africa. Killed in action flying out of
Celone, Italy, in a Liberator BVI, serial number EV958, when his
aircraft was shot down by a night fighter over the Adriatic Sea
during a raid on the Udine marshalling yards in northeast Italy
between 7 March 1945 and 8 March 1945. Aged 18. Native of Velddrift,
Cape Province, South Africa. Son of Louis and Johanna M. Segal,
of Velddrift, Cape Province, South Africa. Panel 19, Column 2. |
| SELKIRK,
MiD |
William
Rattray |
Wing
Commander (Pilot) 37127, 21 Squadron (Officer Commanding), Royal
Air Force. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action
flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a bristol Blenheim IV, serial number
Z9806, when the aircraft flew into the sea when turning to avoid
high ground during a raid on shipping in Palermo harbour, the
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner survived, 4 February 1942. Aged 25.
Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Native of King Edward, Aberdeen.
Son of the Revd. William A. R. Selkirk and Dora Selkirk. Panel
2, Column 1. |
| SELLORS |
Joseph
Edward |
Sergeant
747887, 148 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Kabrit,
Egypt, in a Vickers Wellington IC, serial number T2952, when his
aircraft ran out of fuel and ditched near Malta during a ferry
flight from Egypt to Malta 9 April 1941. Panel 2, Column 1. See
also Littleover,
Derbyshire |
| SENIOR |
Leon |
Lieutenant
(Pilot) 205928V, 31 Squadron, South African Air Force. Country
of service South Africa. Killed in action flying out of Celone,
Italy, in a Consolidated Liberator BVI, serial number EV958, when
his aircraft was shot down by a night fighter over the Adriatic
Sea during a raid on the Udine marshalling yards in northeast
Italy between 7 March 1945 and 8 March 1945. Aged 26. Native of
Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Panel 19, Column 1. |
| SHAND |
John
Munro |
Sergeant
(Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 1123982, 142 Squadron, Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed
in action flying out of Kairouan West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington
X, serial number HE951, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a raid on Torre Annunziata near Pompeii, Italy, the aircraft
was on loan from 150 Squadron, 29 August 1943. Aged 21. Native
of Dalry, Edinburgh. Son of Robert Allan Shand and Annie Muriel
Shand, of Edinburgh. Panel 9, Column 1. |
| SHARMAN |
Donald
Charles |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) 33529, 39 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Luqa,
Malta, in a Bristol beaufort II, serial number AW305, when the
aircraft was shot down by flak into the sea off the island of
Paxos during an attack on a convoy south of Corfu 6 September
1942. Aged 24. Native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Son of Charles and Emily Sharman, of Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada. Panel 2, Column 1. |
| SHARP |
Gordon
Cameron |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 265250, 72 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Hal
Far, Malta, in a Supermarine Spitfire IX, serial number EN298,
when the aircraft was shot down by a Bf109 3 miles west of Biscari,
Malta during an interception 20 June 1943. Aged 27. Native of
Treorchy, South Wales. Son of Thomas William and Louisa Jane Sharp;
husband of Morfydd Jane Sharp, of Treorchy, South Wales. Panel
11, Column 1. |
| SHARPE |
Hector
Henderson |
Sergeant
(Air Gunner) 1302148, 40 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Hani West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number
HE707 when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on
Catania airfield, Sicily, 8 July 1943. Aged 22. Native of Glasgow.
Husband of Edith Sharpe, of Glasgow. Panel 9, Column 1. |
| SHARPE |
James
Edward |
Captain
(Pilot) 205943V, 601 (R.A.F.) Squadron, South African Air Force.
Country of service South Africa. Killed in action flying out of
Perugia, Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire IX, serial number MH622,
when his aircraft was hit by flak near Rimini, baled out out over
the Adriatic but not recovered 8 July 1944. Aged 23. Native of
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Son of John and Jessie H. Sharpe,
of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Panel 17, Column 1. |
| SHAVER |
Howard
William |
Warrant
Officer Class I (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) R/69699, 221 Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in
action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington XIII,
serial number HZ963, when the aircraft was lost without trace
when returning from an Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol for convoy
'Sateen' eastbound from Malta 8 November 1943. Aged 23. Native
of Port Credit, Ontario, Canada. Son of Milton and Helene Shaver,
of Port Credit, Ontario, Canada. Panel 10, Column 2. |
| SHEA |
Wayne
Sheldon |
Flying
Officer (Navigator) J/27813, 500 (R.A.F.). Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action by friendly
fire flying out of La Senia, Algeria, in a Lockheed Ventura GRV,
serial number FP633, when he aircraft was shot down into the sea
northwest of Algiers in error by an RAF Beaufighter during a convoy
escort 1 April 1944. Aged 25. Native of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Edward W. and Allana Shea, of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, Canada.
Panel 16, Column 1. |
| SHEARER |
John
Garnet |
Warrant
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 428510, 18 Squadron, Royal
Australian Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in
action flying out of Forli, Italy, in a Douglas Boston IV, serial
number BZ489, when it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot
down by flak off Port Gariboldi returning from a raid on a ferry
terminal near Pontelaggoscuro, the pilot survived, 7 April 1945.
Aged 20. Native of East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of
John Arthur and Josephine Frances Shearer, of East Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia. Panel 19, Column 2. |
| SHEARMAN |
David
John |
Flight
Sergeant (Pilot) 411394, 53 Repair & Salvage Unit, Royal Australian
Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed while flying out
of Zuara, Libya, in a Curtiss Kittyhawk I, serial number AL169,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during an authorised
aerobatic sortie, last seen near near Bu Grara in poor weather
2 May 1943. Aged 21. Native of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Son of Dr. Cyril Howard Shearman and Jean Grace Shearman, of Sydney,
New South Wales, Australia. Panel 12, Column 1. |
| SHEERAN |
James
Denis |
Flight
Sergeant (Pilot) 1089354, 249 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Brindisi, Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire VC, serial number
EF638, when the aircraft was shot down by a Bf109 off the coast
of Albania during an Air-Sea Rescue escort for a Walrus searching
for a USAAF B-25 crew 17 November 1943. Aged 21. Son of Frederick
William and Sarah Sheeran, of Elland, Yorkshire. Panel 7, Column
2. |
| SHEFFIELD |
Robert
Alfred Phillip |
Warrant
Officer Class II (Pilot) R/102577, 458 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Shallufa, Egypt, in a Vickers Wellington VIII, serial number
LB134, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a shipping
strike in the Mediterranean 25 February 1943. Aged 20. Native
of Hollyburn, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
E. Sheffield, of Hollyburn, British Columbia, Canada. Panel 11,
Column 1. |
| SHELDON |
Leslie
Thomas William |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 412721, 608 Squadron,
Royal Australian Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed
in action flying out of Bo Rizzo, Sicily, Italy, in a Lockheed
Hudson V, serial number AM710, when the aircraft crashed into
the sea 4 miles off the coast soon after taking off from Bo Rizzo,
Sicily on a night Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol, possibly due
to engine failure, 14 September 1943. Aged 20. Native of Tooraweenah,
New South Wales, Australia. Son of Leslie John and Rose Hannah
Sheldon, of Tooraweenah, New South Wales, Australia. Panel 12,
Column 1. |
| SHEPHERD |
Onslow
Harold Maxwell |
Warrant
Officer (Pilot) 411958, 93 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Lago,
Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire IX, serial number MA636, when
it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down by a fighter
off Anzio during a patrol over the beachhead 27 January 1944.
Aged 25. Native of Bomaderry, New South Wales, Australia. Son
of Richard Shepherd, and of Elizabeth Jane Shepherd, of Bomaderry,
New South Wales, Australia. Panel 16, Column 1. |
| SHEPPERSON |
Arnold |
Lieutenant
41015V, 17 Squadron, South African Air Force. Country of service
South Africa. Killed in action flying out of Alghero, Sardinia,
Italy, in a Lockheed Ventura V, serial number JT884, when his
aircraft was lost without trace during a sea patrol (aircraft
serial unconfirmed) between 22 September 1944 and 23 September
1944. Aged 23. Native of Kokstad, Cape Province, South Africa.
Son of Oscar and Rose E. Shepperson, of Kokstad, East Griqualand,
South Africa. Panel 17, Column 2. |
| SHERBROOKE |
Cyril
Leslie Leonhard |
Pilot
Officer 169551, 153 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Reghaia, Algeria, in a Bristol beaufighter VIF, serial number
ND209, when the aircraft was lost without trace when intercepting
enemy bombers that were attacking a convoy 26 November 1943. Aged
34. Native of Preston, Lancashire. Son of Charles Leonard Sherbrooke,
and of Annie Sherbrooke, of Preston, Lancashire. Panel 7, Column
1. |
| SHERIDAN |
James
Christopher |
Sergeant
(Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 979892, 38 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Shallufa, Egypt but detailed to Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington
IC, serial number Z8776, when the aircraft was shot down near
the target during a raid on Tripoli, Libya, 23 September 1941.
Native of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
Sheridan, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Panel 2, Column 1. |
| SHERRINGTON,
DFM |
Roy
Claude |
Warrant
Officer (Navigator) 751458, 23 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a de Havilland Mosquito II, serial number
DZ693, when his aircraft was lost without trace during a night
intruder sortie over Western Sicily 28 April 1943. Awarded the
Distinguished Flying Medal (D.F.M.). Native of Chelmsford, Essex.
Son of W. J. Sherrington, and of Annie Maud Sherrington, of Chelmsford,
Essex; brother of Stanley Victor Sherrington, Sergeant 908776,
51 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 30 July
1943, aged 25. Panel 7, Column 1. |
| SHERRY |
Brian
George |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 425765, 55 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Falconara,
Italy, in a Douglas Boston V, serial number BZ630, when the aircraft
was lost without trace in the Sacile area near Conegliano, Italy
23 February 1945. Aged 22. Native of Eagle Junction, Queensland,
Australia. Son of Vivian Hubert and Ellen Levinus Sherry, of Eagle
Junction, Queensland, Australia. Panel 19, Column 1. |
| SHERWOOD |
Victor
Thomas Walter |
Sergeant
1320988, 150 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Kairouan
West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number HE952,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on beaches
between Messina and Cape Pellaro, Sicily, 5 August 1943. Aged
21. Native of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Son of Walter Herbert
Sherwood, and of Gladys Alice Sherwood, of Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
Panel 9, Column 1. |
| SHIELDS |
Joseph |
Sergeant
1488172, 150 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Fontaine
Chaude, Algeria, in a Vickers Wellington III, serial number DF697,
when the aircraft was shot down over the target during a raid
on Trapani, Sicily 15 May 1943. Aged 21. Native of Hull, Yorkshire.
Son of John Shields, and of Anna M. Shields, of Hull. Panel 9,
Column 1. |
| SHINER |
Jack
Marawa |
Sergeant
(Observer) 406412, 1 Oversea Aircraft Despatch Unit, Royal Australian
Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying
out of Portreath, Cornwall, in a Bristol Benheim IV, serial number
Z9832. when the aircraft was lost without trace during a delivery
flight from Luqa, Malta to Egypt 30 March 1942. Aged 29. Native
of West Leederville, Western Australia. Son of Frederick and Matilda
Shiner; husband of Maisie Braimbridge Shiner, of West Leederville,
Western Australia. Panel 5, Column 2. |
| SHIPARD |
John
Charles |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 416895, 458 Squadron,
Royal Australian Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed
in action flying out of Bone but detailed to to Luqa, Malta, flying in a Vickers
Wellington XIII. serial number MP704, when the aircraft ditched
about 60 mmiles east of Catania, Sicily due to an engine fire
during a night Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol, two of the crew
survived, 23 January 1944. Aged 27. Native of Bundaberg, Queensland,
Australia. Son of Henry and Emma Shipard; husband of Roma Edith
Alice Shipard, of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. Panel 16,
Column 2. |
| SHIPLEY |
Roy |
Leading
Aircraftman 1451546, 3 Base Personnel Depot, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed while flying
out of Portici, Italy, in a Avro Lancaster I, serial number PD383,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a trooping flight
off Corsica in bad weather while en route from Italy to United
KIngdom in a 300 Squadron aircraft 5 November 1945. Aged 23. Native
of Leeds, Yorkshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. William Shipley, of
Leeds, Yorkshire. Panel 19, Column 2. |
| SHIPWAY-FOWLER |
Kenneth
Guy Devlin |
Flying
Officer 141343, 241 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Died based at Canne, Italy,
5 March 1944. Aged 26. Native of Barnes, Surrey. Son of Ernest
and Dorothy Shipway-Fowler; husband of Joan Shipway-Fowler, of
Barnes, Surrey. His brother Douglas St. John Shipway-Fowler, Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve was also killed in action during the
war 16 April 1941, aged 20. Panel 13, Column 2. |
| SHUSTEROVE |
Sam
Chester |
Flying
Officer (Special Operations) J/10666, 221 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Shallufa, Egypt, in a Vickers Wellington IC, serial number
HX646. when the aircraft was shot down by a fighter into the sea
south of Sicily during an anti-shipping sortie, one of the crew
survived and was captured, 23 January 1943. Native of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. Panel 10, Column 1. |
| SILCOCKS |
Wyndham
Royce |
Sergeant
(Air Gunner) 1320730, 15 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed
in action flying out of Harwell, Oxon, in a Vickers Wellington
X, serial number LN704, when the aircraft was shot down by a Ju88
over the Bay of Biscay during a ferry flight from Portreath to
Rabat, Morocco, via Gibraltar 19 November 1943. Aged 23. Native
of Oakdale, Blackwood, Monmouthshire. Son of Leonard and Violet
May Silcocks, of Oakdale, Blackwood, Monmouthshire. Panel 9, Column
1. |
| SILVER |
George
Cochrane |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) J/8842, 104 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of Luqa,
Malta. in a Vickers Wellington II, serial number Z8469, when the
aircraft was shot down by a Ju88 night fighter during a raid on
La Goulette and Tunis docks, the pilot survived and was captured,
17 December 1942. Aged 25. Native of Duparquet, Province of Quebec,
Canada. Son of Capt. H. E. Silver (formerly of the Indian Army)
and Sylvia A. Silver, of Duparquet, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Panel 4, Column 1. |
| SIME |
Alexander
William |
Flying
Officer 162217, 38 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Foggia Main, Italy, in a Vickers Wellington XIV, serial number
NC590, when the aircraft was lost without trace from an anti-shipping
sweep to the Gulf of Trieste in the Adriatic Sea 20 March 1945.
Aged 25. Native of Elie, Fifeshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Ovenstone Sime, of Elie, Fife. Panel 18, Column 1. |
| SIMPKIN |
Graham
Frederick |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 1322793, 14 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Ghisonaccia, Corsica, France, in a Martin Marauder I, serial
number FK131, when it was assumed that the aircraft crashed into
the sea off the Algerian coast during a low-flying navigational
exercise 15 December 1943. Panel 9, Column 1. |
| SIMPSON |
Arthur
William |
Flight
Sergeant (Navigator) 1380795, 18 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Canrobert, Algeria, in a bristol Belnheim V, serial number
BA800, when the aircraft was shot down by a Bf109 near the target
during a raid on Robb airfield north of Chouigui in an aircraft
borrowed from 614 Squadron 4 December 1942. Aged 22. Native of
Rathgar, Dublin, Irish Republic. Son of William John and Matilda
Jane Simpson, of Rathgar, Dublin, Irish Republic. Panel 3, Column
2. |
| SIMPSON |
Hay
George |
Flight
Sergeant 966882, 15 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in
action flying out of Harwell, Oxon, in a Vicklers Wellington IC,
serial number Z8730, when the aircraft crashed into the sea during
a delivery flight from Malta to Egypt on behalf of the Overseas
Aircraft Delivery Unit (OADU) 1 July 1941. Aged 25. Native of
Dundee, Angus. Son of Hay G. Simpson, and of Jean Simpson, of
Dundee. Panel 1, Column 2. |
| SIMPSON |
James
Mckenzie |
Sergeant
(Observer) 402026, 69 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Country
of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Luqa, Malta,
in a Martin Maryland I, serial number AR729, when the aircraft
was lost without trace during a photo reconnaissance sortie over
Tripolitania and the Libyan coast 15 July 1941. Aged 20. N ative
of North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Son of Robert and
Elizabeth Gertrude Simpson, of North Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia. Panel 2, Column 2. |
| SIMPSON |
Richard
Dundas |
Lieutenant
32725V, South African Air Force formerly 2nd Transvaal Scottish.
Country of service South Africa. Killed in action when the aircraft
took off on unscheduled (secret?) night flight from Bari, probable
destination Yugoslavia, with British and Yugoslav officer, in
an Anson 340, 25 June 1944. Native of Johannesburg, Transvaal,
South Africa. Son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Simpson, of 1 Bruce Street,
Waverley, Johannesburg Panel 17, Column 2. |
| SIMS |
Arthur
James |
Sergeant
(Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 1191722, 14 Squadron, Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed
in action flying out of Blida, Algeria, in a Martin Marauder IA,
serial number FK362, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a transit fllight from Grottaglie to Blida 8 February 1944.
Panel 15, Column 2. |
| SIMS |
Bernard
Lawrence |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 142547, 682 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of San Severo, Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire PRXI, serial
number PA930, when his aircraft was lost without trace during
a photo reconnaissance sortie to Udine 23 February 1945. Native
of Steeple Ashton Wiltshire. Son of Mr and Mrs Frederick Arthur
Sims, of Steeple Ashton Wiltshire. His brother Michael Anthony
Sims also died on service, Pilot Officer 42364, Royal Air Froce,
died 13 August 1940. Panel 18, Column 1. |
| SIMS |
Maurice |
Flying
Officer 133761, 267 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Bari, Italy, in a Douglas C47 Dakota III, serial number KG752,
when it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down over
the DZ during a Special Operations supply drop to Italian partisans
in the Trieste area 22 August 1944. Panel 13, Column 2. |
| SLATER |
Frederick
John |
Warrant
Officer Class I 577815V, 26 Squadron, South African Air Force.
Country of service South Africa. Killed in action flying out of
Takoradi, Gold Coast, in a Vickers Wellington XI, serial number
MP681, when his aircraft was lost without trace during a patrol
10 March 1945. Aged 23. Native of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Slater, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa;
grandson of Mrs. H. F. Matthews, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South
Africa. Panel 19, Column 2. |
| SLAUGHTER |
John
William |
Sergeant
(Air Gunner) 1850953, 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Cesenatico, Italy, in a Martin Baltimore V, serial number FW830,
when his aircraft ditched off Bellaria between Rimini and Cervia,
Italy, 30 January 1945. Aged 20. Native of Thakeham, Sussex. Son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Slaughter, of Thakeham, Sussex. Panel 18,
Column 2. See also Thakeham,
Sussex |
| SLEIGH |
Edward
John |
Pilot
Officer 49173, 210 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Pembroke Dock,
Pembrokeshire, in a Consolidated Catalina I, serial number AH559,
when his aircraft stalled and crashed in Gibraltar Bay when taking
off in heavy seas in the dark for a convoy escort sortie, two
crew members survived, 4 November 1942. Aged 27. Native of Kettering,
Northamptonshire. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Sleigh, of Kettering,
Northamptonshire. Panel 3, Column 1. See also Kettering,
Northamptonshire |
| SLOAN |
James |
Air
Mechanic 97445V, 17 Squadron, South African Air Force. Country
of service South Africa. Killed in action as a passenger flying
out of Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, in a Dakota III, serial number
FD865, when the aircraft he was travelling in was lost during
a transit flight in bad weather from Capodichino to the Balkans,
passenger on board 267 Squadron aircraft, 19 September 1944. Panel
18, Column 2. |
| SLOAN |
Joseph
Macnay |
Sergeant
1020850, 202 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Gibraltar
in a Consolidated catalina I, serial number AJ162, when the aircraft
was shot down by return fire while attacking an enemy ship during
a patrol, two of the crew survived and were rescued by the ship,
10 September 1942. Aged 22. Nativeof New Brancepeth, Co. Durham.
Son of Robert and Lily Sloan, of New Brancepeth, Co. Durham. Panel
4, Column 2. |
| SLOGGETT |
Douglas
William |
Flight
Sergeant (Air Gunner) 978473, 14 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Protville I, Tunisia, in a Martin Marauder IA, serial number
FK363, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a shipping
strike between the north of Corsica and the eastern coast of Sardinia
27 June 1943. Panel 7, Column 2. |
| SMAILES |
Peter |
Pilot
Officer 139925, 69 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Martin Baltimore II, serial number AG834,
when the aircraft was shot down by a fighter during a reconnaissance
sortie, one of the crew survived and was rescued by a submarine,
14 March 1943. Panel 7, Column 1. |
| SMARIDGE |
Richard
Eric |
Pilot
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 48111, 88 Squadron, Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom.
Killed in action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Blenheim
IV, serial number Z7308, when the aircraft was shot down by Bf109s
near the island of Filfla when returning to Malta after an abortive
shipping strike off the Libyan coast 6 February 1942. Aged 23.
Native of Bovey Tracey, Devon. Son of Richard Emmett Smaridge
and Alice Amelia Smaridge, of Bovey Tracey, Devon. Panel 3, Column
1. |
| SMART,
DFC & Bar |
Thomas |
Squadron
Leader (Pilot) 40324, 229 Squadron (Officer Commanding), Royal
Air Force. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action
flying out of Krendi, Malta, in a Supermarine SpitfireVB, serial
number EP716. when the aircrfat was shot down into the sea by
a fighter south of Pozzallo, Sicily, when returning from an
attack on Comiso, he baled out but died, 12 April 1943. Native
of Broughton-in-Furness, Lancashire. Awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross (D.F.C.) and Bar. In the 1921 census he was aged
2, born Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, son of mabel Coulthard
Smart, resident Prince's Street, Broughton in Furness, Angerton,
Lancashire. Panel 6, Column 1.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1944:
SMART
Thomas (the younger) of Harley House Broughton-in-Furness Lancashire
died on or since 12 April 1943 on war service Administration
Liverpool 1 June to Mabel Coulthard Smart (wife
of Thomas Smart). Effects £514 9s. 9d.
|
| SMITH |
Alan
Mackenzie |
Sergeant
(Observer) 925574, 107 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Blenheim IV, serial number Z9663,
when the aircraft was shot down by an Italian AF S81 during an
attack on a convoy in the Gulf of Sirte off Libya 11 October 1941.
Son of Henry and Maude Nettleton Smith. Panel 2, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
Albert
Edward |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 649728, 113 Squadron,
Royal Air Force. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in
action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Blenheim IV, serial
number T1821, when the aircraft was lost without trace during
a raid on an E-boat base at Pantellaria 28 September 1941. Aged
21. Native of Allenton, Derbyshire. Son of Albert James Smith
and Rose Spendlove Smith, of Allenton, Derby; husband of E. Smith,
of Ilford, Essex. Panel 1, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
Alfred
George William |
Sergeant
1295124, 150 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Fontaine
Chaude, Algeria, in a Vickers Wellington III, serial number HZ183,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on airfields
in Sicily 21 May 1943. Aged 22. Native of East Dulwich, London.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Smith, of East Dulwich, London. Panel
9, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
Arthur
Trevor |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 151054, 14 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, in a Martin Marauder I, serial
number FK120, when the aircraft was lost without trace during
an anti-shipping strike off the coast of Southern France 7 May
1944. Aged 32. Native of Menston, Yorkshire. Son of James Briggs
Smith and Gertrude Smith; husband of Helen Ruth Smith, of Menston,
Yorkshire. Panel 13, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
Austen |
Sergeant
(Navigator) 1504927, 144 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Protville II, Tunisia, in a bristol Beaufighter, when the aircraft
was shot down during an attack on barges near Civitavecchia, Italy
during an Armed Rover, the pilot survived, 20 July 1943. Aged
28. Native of Bedale, Yorkshire. Son of Ada Jane Smith, of Bedale,
Yorkshire. Panel 9, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
Charles
Arthur |
Flight
Sergeant 649493, 233 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Gibraltar in a
Lockheed Hudson III, serial number AE591, when the aircraft was
shot down by return fire during an attack on the U-boat U-565
south of the Balearic islands 1 November 1942. Aged 22. Native
of Highbury London. Son of Charles Smith, and of Hilda Edith Smith,
of Highbury London. Panel 3, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
Charles
George |
Leading
Aircraftman 1524505, 114 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed while flying in an Avro
Lancaster I, serial number PD383, when the aircraft was lost without
trace during a trooping flight off Corsica in bad weather while
en route from Italy to United in a 300 Squadron aircraft 5 November
1945. Aged 40. Native of Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Husband
of Jessie Smith, of Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Panel 19, Column
2. |
| SMITH |
Daryl
Hamilton |
Warrant
Officer (Pilot) 411953, 104 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Hani
West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number HE613,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on Cape
Palmi, Italy about 20 miles northeast of Messina, Sicily, 8 August
1943. Aged 20. Native of Waratah, New South Wales, Australia.
Son of William Daniel Hamilton Smith and Lillian Mary Smith, of
Waratah, New South Wales, Australia. Panel 11, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
Dirk
Jacobus Johannes |
Warrant
Officer Class I (Flight Sergeant) 577290V, 26 Squadron, South
African Air Force. Country of service South Africa. Killed in
action flying out of Takoradi, Gold Coast, in a Vickers Wellington
XI, serial number HZ526, when it was lost without trace during
a patrol off Takoradi, believed to have been shot down by flak
when attacking a U-boat 18 December 1943. Aged 21. Native of Windhoek,
South West Africa. Son of Jacobus H. and Hester J. Smith, of Windhoek,
South West Africa. Panel 12, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
Edward
Bryant |
Leading
Aircraftman 1435491, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action at sea when in the
Port Etienne flying boat tender MV Dumana which was torpedoed
by the U-Boat U-515 70 miles southwest of Sassandra, Ivory Coast
24 December 1943. Panel 9, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
Egbert |
Warrant
Officer (Pilot) 414974, 92 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Fano,
Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire VIII, serial number JF466. when
it was assumed the aircraft had been shot down near Fiume (Rijeka)
during a weather reconnaissance 12 November 1944. Aged 21. Native
of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Son of Egbert and Bessie Smith,
of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Panel 16, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
Eric
Joseph |
Sergeant
(Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 1379853, 210 Squadron, Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed
in action flying out of Pembroke Dock, Pembroke in a Consoliated
Catalina IB, serial number FP154. when the aircraft stalled and
crashed into the sea off Sagres, Portugal when avoiding the ground
in mist during a convoy escort in the Cape St Vincent area 22
March 1943. Panel 9, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
Everett
Charles |
Warrant
Officer Class II (Pilot) R/92456, 608 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Blida, Algeria, in a Lockheed Hudson VI, serial number
FK691, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a convoy
escort patrol off the Algerian coast, possibly shot down by a
Ju88 7 May 1943. Aged 26. Native of Cultus Lake, British Columbia,
Canada. Son of Edward Charles and Eva Alberta Smith, of Cultus
Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Panel 11, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
George |
Leading
Aircraftman 984117, 38 Wing, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Died based at Netheravon, Wiltshire.
19 July 1943. Panel 9, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
George
Pugh |
Pilot
Officer 158140, 255 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Bo Rizzo, Sicily, Italy, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIF, when
the aircraft crashed into the sea off Punta Licosa south of Salerno,
Italy, 10 September 1943. Aged 34. Native of Old Coulsdon, Surrey.
Son of George Henry and Gertrude Smith; husband of Evelyn Smith,
of Old Coulsdon, Surrey. B.Sc., Ph.D. (Cardiff). Panel 7, Column
1. |
| SMITH |
George
Vivian |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) 45735, 249 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Ta Kali,
Malta, in a Hawkerr Hrricane IIB, serial number Z3056, when the
aircraft was shot down off Malta by Italian AF Macchi C200s which
were escorting a Cant Z506B reconnaissance aircraft 4 September
1941. Aged 25. Native of Mill Hill, Middlesex. Son of George Lancaster
Smith and Inez Victoria, of Mill Hill, Middlesex. Panel 1, Column
1. |
| SMITH |
Gerald
Alec |
Sergeant
(Air Gunner) 1388690, 70 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action 3flying out
of Temmar, Tunisia, in a Vuickers Wellington III, serial number
HZ174, when the aircraft was shot down into the sea between Palau
and La Maddalena, Sardinia during a raid on Olcia July 1943. Aged
20. Native of Burwell, Cambridgeshire. Son of G. N. Smith, and
of Mabel Smith, of Burwell, Cambridgeshire. Panel 9, Column 1.
See also Burwell,
Cambridgeshire |
| SMITH |
Henry
Ryerson |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) J/4553, 108 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of SmithGA,
in a Bristol Beaufighter VIF, serial number MM947, when the aircraft
was lost without trace following a strafing attack on an airfield
at Montpelier near, Istres, France, during a night intruder sortie
13 June 1944. Aged 26. Native of Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. Son
of Henry Webster Smith and Elizabeth Ryerson Smith, of Truro,
Nova Scotia, Canada. Panel 15, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
James
Arthur |
Leading
Aircraftman 1691695, Station Headquarters, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Died based at North
Front, Gibraltar, 3 June 1944. Aged 21. Native of Gnosall, Staffordshire.
Son of Bernard Arthur and Theophile Bindley Smith, of Gnosall,
Staffordshire. Panel 15, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
Jerrold
Alpine |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) J/6280, 126 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of Luqa,
Malta, in a Supermarine Spitfire VC, serial number BR366, when
the aircraft was lost without trace between Malta and Sicily,
probably shot down by return fire when shooting down a Ju88, 10
August 1942. Aged 21. Native of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Son of Donald Alpine Smith and Blanche Smith, of Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada. Panel 4, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
John |
 Flying
Officer (Pilot) 60108, 249 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Ta Kali, Malta, in a Supermarine Spitfire VC, serial number
BR233, when the aircraft was shot down by Bf109s into the sea
off Malta when intercepting an enemy air raid by Ju88s on Luqa
airfield 8 July 1942. Aged 26. Native of Torquay, Devon. Son of
Mrs Helena Maud Mitchell, of 21 Dartford Rd, March, and the late
Mr Sidney Smith, of Wisbech. Formerly of Torquay. Panel 3, Column
1. See also Wisbech
1939-1945 Memorial
Extract
from Sniper of the Skies by Nick Thomas:
Flying
Officer J. Smith' (flying BR233 T-Q) and Sergeant J.C. Gilbert"'
(flying BR227 T-T) made passing attacks at the bombers, but
were themselves attacked by the Bf 109s. Smith's Spitfire caught
fire following the first pass, before being hit by two further
Bf 109s, exploding before he had a chance to bail out. Gilbert's
Spitfire then received the same treatment. It rolled over onto
its back and dived into the sea off Wied-iz-Zurrieq. No parachute
was seen.
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| SMITH |
John |
Leading
Aircraftman 618557, 6 BBU, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Died with the North Africa Command 9 September
1943. Native of Glasgow. Panel 9, Column 2. |
| SMITH |
John
Harold |
Warrant
Officer Class II (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) R/96679, 500 Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in
action flying out of Tafaraoui, Algeria, in a Lockheed Hudson
V, serial number AM857, when the aircraft flew into the sea off
Cap Serrat, Algeria, the rest of the crew survived, 3 September
1943. Born 11 July 1922. Native of Montreal, Province of Quebec,
Canada. Cable Splicer by trade for Bell Telephone Company. Resident
6671 Monkland Avenue, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. Single.
Height 5 feet 8 inches, weight 172 lbs, chest 35-39 inches, religious
denomination Church of England. His father, John Richard Smith
of Montreal, abandoned his wife and John, he died; his mother,
Elsie Daisy Jennings, also died. Next of kin his grandmother Mrs.
Emily D. Jennings, of 6671, Monkland Avenue, Montreal, Province
of Quebec, Canada, also resident were Sydney W Jennings (grandfather)
and Arthur C Jennings (uncle) . Panel 11, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
John
Mackenzie |
Flight
Sergeant 1502959, 13 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Sidi Amor, Tunisia, in a Lockheed Ventura GRV, serial number
FP553, when the aircraft was lost without trace during an operational
sortie 27 November 1943. Aged 29. Native of Burnside, Westmorland.
Son of the Venerable Godfrey Scott Smith, M.A., and Mrs. Smith;
husband of Mary Smith, of Burnside, Westmorland. Panel 7, Column
2. |
| SMITH |
Raymond
Douglas Crowley |
Flight
Sergeant 413709, 511 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Country
of service Australia. Killed in action as a passenger in an Armstrong
Whitworth Albemarle GTI, serial number P1433,when the aircraft
was lost without trace, presumed to have ditched 100 miles off
the southwest coast of Spain during a transit flight from Gibraltar
to the United Kingdom 10 August 1943. Aged 21. Native of Upper
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia. Son of Clement Walter and
Florence Elsie Baines Smith, of Upper Manilla, New South Wales,
Australia. Panel 12, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
Robert
William |
Warrant
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 552902, 179 Squadron, Royal
Air Force. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action
flying out of Gibraltar in a Vuickers Wellington XIV, serial number
MP722. when the aircraft was lost without trace west of Cape St
Vincent during an Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol over the Bay of
Biscay, possibly show down by flak from the U-boat U-667, 25 September
1943. Aged 21. Native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Son of William
Henry Smith, and of Miriam Ada Smith, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Panel 7, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
William |
Sergeant
521466, (serving in H.M.S. Welshman), Royal Air Force. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action at sea when on board
the cruiser-minelayer H.M.S. Welshman which was sunk by the U-boat
U-617 35 miles northeast of Tobruk, Libya, 1 February 1943. Panel
9, Column 1. |
| SMITH |
William
Granville |
 Flying
Officer (Navigator) NZ416695, 150 Squadron, Royal New Zealand
Air Force. Country of service New Zealand. Killed in action
flying out of Kairouan West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington
X, serial number HE952, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a raid on beaches between Messina and Cape Pellaro, Sicily,
5 August 1943. Aged 36. Born 3 August 1909 in Matakohe, Northland,
New Zealand. Native of Matakoke, Auckland, New Zealand. Son
of William Smith and of Susan W. Smith (nee Hare), of Matakoke,
Auckland, New Zealand. Attended Auckland Grammar School. Panel
12, Column 1.
Photograph
from Weekly News
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| SMITH |
William
Page |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 1331178, 223 Squadron,
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom.
Killed in action flying out of Pescara, Italy, in a Martin Baltimore,
when the aircraft was hit by flak and crashed into the sea during
a raid on Ancona 22 July 1944. Aged 30. Native of Edgware, Middlesex.
Son of Stephen Page Smith and Nellie Smith, of Edgware, Middlesex.
Panel 14, Column 2. |
| SMOLLAN |
Joshua |
Sergeant
(Navigator) 1109606, 608 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flyiong out
of Grottaglie, Italy, in a Lockheed Hudson IIIA, serial number
FK788, when the aircraft was lost without trace during an Anti-Submarine
Warfare patrol off Anzio, Italy 30 January 1944. Aged 29. Son
of Henry and Annie Smollan, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
His brothers Harold and Dennis Smollan were also killed in action
on service. Panel 15, Column 2. |
| SMOUT |
Brian
Lancelot |
Sergeant
1582645, 70 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Tortorella,
Italy, in a Consolidated Liberator BVI, serial number KK354, when
the aircraft was shot down by flak over Trieste 6 March 1945.
Aged 22. Native of Coundon, Warwickshire. Son of Leslie Owen Smout
and Olive Gertrude Smout, of Coundon, Warwickshire. Panel 18,
Column 2. |
| SNELLING |
Frank
Stanyon |
Pilot
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 47620, 233 Squadron, Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom.
Killed in action flying out of Gibraltar in a Lockheed Hudson
IV, serial number FH453, when it was assumed the aircraft had
been shot down in error by US Navy F4F Wildcats off Casablanca,
Morocco, during an Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol 8 November 1942.
Aged 22. Native of Walthamstow, Essex. Son of Harry Neal Snelling
and Esther Henrietta Snelling, of Walthamstow, Essex. Panel 3,
Column 1. |
| SOMERVILLE |
Gilbert
Eric |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) R/106330, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Portreath, Cornwall, in a Lockheed Hudson VI, serial number
FK722, when the aircraft crashed into the sea soon after taking
off from Gibraltar during a night ferry flight from the U.S.A.
via Sierra Leone to the United Kingdom 12 March 1943. Aged 21.
Native of Swan River, Manitoba. Canada. Son of James M. and Mary
Somerville, of Swan River, Manitoba. Canada. Panel 11, Column
2. |
| SOPER |
Terence
John |
 Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) NZ412908, 200 Squadron,
Royal New Zealand Air Force. Country of service New Zealand. Killed
in action flying out of Yundum, Gambia, in a Consolidated Liberator
GRV, serial number BZ832, when the aircraft was shot down by return
fire during a successful attack on the U-boat U-468 about 240
miles southwest of Dakar, Senegal, 11 August 1943. Aged 21. Born
7 January 1922 in Nelson, Tasman, New Zealand. Native of Takaka,
Nelson, New Zealand. Son of Algernon Leslie Soper and of Jean
Winifred Soper (nee Vaughan), of Takaka, Nelson, New Zealand.
Panel 12, Column 2.
Photograph
from Weekly News
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| SOULSBY |
Norman |
Sergeant
(Air Gunner) 985124, 624 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Blida, Algeria, in a Handley Page Halifax II, serial number
JN896, when the aircraft was lost over the sea between Barcelona
and Perpignan when returning from SOE Special Operation sortie
Quincaille to Southern France 14 August 1944. Aged 23. Native
of Corringham, Essex. Husband of Lilian Soulsby, of Corringham,
Essex. Panel 15, Column 2. |
| SOUTHCOTT |
Ronald
Thomas |
Sergeant
932503, 500 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Gibraltar but detailed to to Tafaraoui, Algeria, in a Lockheed Hudson V, serial number
AM689, when it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down
by flak when attacking a U-boat between Sardinia and Majorca 27
December 1942. Aged 21. Native of Pitsea, Essex. Son of Ernest
Horace Southcott, and of Gertrude Florence Southcott, of Pitsea,
Essex. Panel 4, Column 2. |
| SOUTTER |
Robert
Hay |
Flight
Sergeant (Navigator) 986081, 272 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Ta Kali, Malta, in a Bristol beaufighter VIC, serial number
X8031, when the aircraft was shot down by Bf109s into the sea
during a strafing attack on an enemy airfield at El Aouina, Tunisia,
14 November 1942. Aged 24. Native of West Newport, Fife. Son of
Alexander and Janet Hay Soutter, of West Newport, Fife. Panel
3, Column 2. |
| SPALDING |
Norman
Wilkie |
Flight
Sergeant (Air Gunner) 413679, 104 Squadron, Royal Australian Air
Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out
of Hani West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number
HE657, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid
on Cape Palmi, Italy about 20 miles northeast of Messina, Sicily,
8 August 1943. Aged 20. Native of Neutral Bay, New South Wales,
Australia. Son of Hector Wilkie Spalding and Ann Spalding, of
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Panel 12. Column 1. |
| SPARROW |
Thomas
Bernard |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) J/89691, 614 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of Amendola,
Italy, in a Handley Page Halifax II, serial number JP228, when
the aircraft was shot down by flak near Sombor, Yugoslavia during
a raid on Miscolc, Hungary, 22 August 1944. Born 16 March 1917,
born Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Son of Albert Costigan Sparrow and Mary Ethel Barbara (nee Burns)
Sparrow. Resident at time of enlistment at 1236 Davie Street,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, employed for 1 year as
an Aircraft Mechanic for Boeing Aircraft at Vancouver, British
Columbia. Single. Height 6 feet ½ inch, weight 159 lbs,
chest 39 inches. Panel 16, Column 1.
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| SPEDDING |
Stanley |
Sergeant
1041728, 104 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Hani
West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington III, serial number HZ192,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on Salerno
23 July 1943. Aged 20. Native of Beckermet, Cumberland. Son of
James and Annie Spedding, of Beckermet, Cumberland. Panel 9, Column
1. |
| SPELLER |
Ronald
Charles Cotton |
Leading
Aircraftman 1711506, 253 Air Sea Rescue Unit, Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in
action at sea by enemy fire in an Air Sea Rescue launch off the
Dalmatian coast 13 November 1943. Aged 27. Native of Wandsworth,
London. Son of Charles Robert Cotton Speller and Amelia Mary Speller,
of Wandsworth, London. Panel 9, Column 2. |
| SPENCER |
Fred |
Sergeant
1073764, 221 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Luqa,
Malta, in a Vickers Wellington VIII, serial number HX600, when
his aircraft was presumed to have crashed into the sea about 60
miles east of Sardinia during a night convoy patrol 7 February
1943. Aged 23. Native of Rushden, Northamptonshire. Son of Freddy
and Ellen Elizabeth Spencer, of Rushden, Northamptonshire. Panel
9, Column 1. See also Kettering
Memorial |
| SPENCER |
Kenneth
Robert Edwin |
Pilot
Officer (Navigator) 178930, 108 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Hal Far, Malta, in a de Havilland Mosquito NFXIII, serial
number MM441, when the aircraft was lost without trace during
an intruder sortie to Toulouse, France, 17 July 1944. Aged 23.
Native of Edinburgh. Son of Robert Edmund and Grace Ann Spencer;
husband of Jean Spencer, of Edinburgh. Panel 13, Column 2. |
| SPENCER,
MiD |
Roy
Gordon |
Flight
Sergeant (Pilot) 402262, 458 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Protville
I, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington XI, serial number MP700. when
the aircraft ditched east of Sardinia due to an engine failure
during a shipping reconnaissance over the Tyrrhenian Sea, part
of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy, one of
the crew survived 8 days in a dinghy, 5 August 1943. Aged 27.
Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). native of Five Dock, New South
Wales, Australia. Son of John Martin Spencer and Ellen Spencer,
of Five Dock, New South Wales, Australia. Panel 12, Column 1. |
| SPRY |
Ernest
Donald |
Sergeant
(Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 957039, 40 Squadron, Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed
in action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellingtonn
IC, serial number X9763, when the aircraft was shot down by Italian
AF Fiat CR42CN night fighter during a raid on Castel Benito airfield
near Tripoli, Libya, 2 November 1941. Born 22 November 1916. Native
of Mottingham, Kent. Son of Ernest William and Ethel Maud Spry,
of Mottingham, Kent. In the 1939 Register he was unmarried, a
Bank Clerk, living with his parents, Ernest William and Ethel
Maud Spry, at 41 Grove Park Road, Bromley, Chislehurst and Sidcup
U.D., Kent. Panel 2, Column 1. |
| SPYER |
Richard
Alfred |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 745513, 261 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Ta Kali, Malta, in a Hawker Hurricane I, serial number V7672,
when the aircraft was shot down, probably by a Bf109, when intercepting
Ju88s and Bf109s during an enemy air raid on Grand Harbour, Malta,
22 March 1941. Aged 23. Native of Worcester Park. Surrey. Son
of Richard Alfred and Violet Edith Spyer, of Worcester Park. Surrey.
In the 1921 census he was aged 3, born Peckham, Surrey, son of
Richard Alfred and Violet Edith Spyer, resident Nutbrook Street,
Camberwell, London & Surrey. Panel 2, Column 1. |
| STABLES |
James
Gordon |
Flying
Officer (Navigator) J/41613, 267 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air
Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out
of Bari, Italy, in a Douglas Dakota III, serial number FD865,
when the aircraft was lost uring a transit flight in bad weather
from Capodichino to the Balkans, seventeen passengers also died,
19 September 1944. Native of Smith Gate, California, U.S.A. Panel
16, Column 1. |
| STACEY |
Jack
Charles Langley |
Sergeant
1582716, 150 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Regina,
Italy, in a Vickers Wellington III, serial number HF736, when
the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on Smederevo
about 25 miles southeast of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 17 July 1944.
Aged 21. Native of Spalding, Lincolnshire. Son of John and Mary
Stacey, of Spalding, Lincolnshire. Panel 15, Column 2. |
| STAIGHT |
Laurence
Sydney |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 1216102, 142 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Blida, Algeria, in a Vickers Wellington III, serial number
DF696, when the aircraft was lost during a raid on Tunis, probably
shot down by a night fighter, 17 April 1943. Aged 20. Native of
Erdington, Birmingham. Son of S. H. Staight, and of Maud Staight,
of Erdington, Birmingham. Panel 9, Column 1. |
| STANDFAST |
Peter
Howard |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) 89357, 105 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Belnheim IV, serial number Z9604,
when the aircraft exploded during a strike on a convoy off Bu'ayrat
Al Hasun, Libya, probably due to debris from a hit on a tanker
or hit by ship's flak, 15 August 1941. Aged 29. Native of Cirencester,
Gloucestershire. Son of Francis Reginald Standfast and Alice Mary
Standfast, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Panel 1, Column 1. |
| STANFIELD |
Eleazer |
Sergeant
(Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 1365035, 458 Squadron, Royal Air
Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed
in action flying out of Protville I, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington
XI, serial number MP702, when the aircraft was lost during a sea
search between Corsica and Sicily, five of the crew survived,
15 July 1943. Aged 23. Native of Port Blandford, Newfoundland,
Canada. Son of Samuel Stanfield, and of Carrie Stanfield, of Port
Blandford, Newfoundland. Panel 10, Column 2. |
| STANSBURY |
Cyril
Neville |
Flight
Sergeant 1178924, 104 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington IC, serial number Z8908,
when the aircraft was shot down by a Ju88 night fighter during
a raid on Tunis docks 28 December 1942. Aged 21. Native of Sutton
Surrey. Son of W.B. and Olga Roby Stansbury, of Sutton Surrey.
Panel 3, Column 2. |
| STANWELL |
Robert
Henry |
Flying
Officer (Navigator) 132149, 200 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Yundum, Gambia, in a Lockheed Hudson IIIA, serial number
FH366, when the aircraft was lost without trace after taking off
from Port Etienne, French West Africa on an Anti-Submarine Warfare
escort for a convoy 27 August 1943. Aged 29. Native of Kirton,
Lincolnshire. Son of John Richard and Rose Stanwell, of Kirton,
Lincolnshire. Panel 6, Column 2. |
| STARFIELD,
MBE, MiD |
Hyman |
Lieutenant
Colonel 103020V, South African Air Force. Country of service South
Africa. Died of aortic incompetence and congestive heart failure
at sea aboard the Amra 26 August 1945. Aged 39. Last place of
residence 102, S.A.C.G.H., Bari. Awarded the Member of the Order
of the British Empire (M.B.E.)[London Gazette (Supplement),
8 June 1944, page 2664], Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Buried
at sea. Panel 19, Column 1. |
| STEAD |
George
Ronald |
Flying
Officer 60531, 235 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Docking, Norfolk, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIC, serial number
X8076, when the aircraft ditched about 20 miles east of Cape Bon,
Tunisia during a delivery flight from Gibraltar to Malta 10 June
1942. Aged 25. Native of Stanningley, Yorkshire. Son of William
Rayner Stead and Theodosia Laura Stead, of Stanningley, Yorkshire.
Panel 3, Column 1. |
| STEAD |
Sidney
Richard |
Pilot
Officer (Navigator) 421472, 624 (R.A.F.) Squadron, Royal Australian
Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying
out of Blida, Algeria, in a Handley Page Halifax II, serial number
JN960, when the aircraft was assumed to have been lost over the
sea during SOE Special Operation Prettytoes over southern France
27 April 1944. Aged 24. Native of Bondi Junction, New South Wales,
Australia. Son of Sidney Samuel and Grace Hilda Stead, of Bondi
Junction, New South Wales, Australia. Panel 16, Column 1. |
| STEELE |
Alexander
Benson |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator) 1554974, 55 Squadron, Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in
action flying out of Cecina, Italy, in a Martin Baltimore V, serial
number FW547, when the aircraft was shot down by flak during a
raid on enemy MT vehicles on roads between Urbino, Pisaro, Rimini
and Imola, 29 July 1944. Aged 21. Native of West Calder, Midlothian.
Son of Robert Robertson Steele and Alice Steele, of West Calder,
Midlothian. Panel 14, Column 2. |
| STEELE |
Edward
Elmer |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) 67585, 126 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Ta Kali, Malta, in a Hawker Hurricane IIB, serial number
Z3764, when the sircraft was shot down off Malta, either by a
Bf109 or a Ju88, when intercepting an enemy air raid 19 December
1941. Native of the U.S.A. Panel 1, Column 1. |
| STEELE |
Joscelyn
Albert Tudor |
Lieutenant
103554V, 34 Squadron, South African Air Force. Country of service
South Africa. Killed in action flying out of Celone, Italy, in
a Consolidated Liberator BVI, serial number EW207, when his aircraft
was lost without trace during a raid on the Verona marshalling
yards in northern Italy between 2 March 1945 and 3 March 1945.
Panel 19, Column 1. |
| STEELE |
John
Gilbert |
Sergeant
(Navigator) 1578324, 272 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Ta Kali, Malta, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIC, serial number
EL274, when the aircraft was shot down by an Italian AF MC202
off Cape Granitola southeast of Marsala, Sicily during a sweep
8 May 1943. Native of Coventry, Warwickshire. Son of Mrs. H. Steele,
of Coventry. Panel 9, Column 1. |
| STEENKAMP |
William
Francois |
Lieutenant
328456V, 92 Squadron, South African Air Force. Country of service
South Africa. Killed in action flying out of Fabrica, Italy, 23
June 1944. Aged 21. Native of Ganspoort, Transvaal, South Africa.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Steenkamp, of Ganspoort, Transvaal,
South Africa. Panel 17, Column 2. |
| STEEVENSON |
Nigel
Basil Quiggin |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 1071855, 111 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Died of wounds 19 November
1942 received flying out of Bone, Algeria, in a Supermarine Spitfire
VC, when his aircraft was shot down by a Bf109 when intercepting
an enemy air raid on Bone, Algeria 17 November 1942. Aged 20.
Native of Formby, Lancashire. Son of John Robert and Muriel Theodora
Steevenson, of Formby, Lancashire. Panel 4, Column 2. |
| STELTER |
Norman
Albert |
Warrant
Officer Class II (Pilot) R/105554, 458 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of LG 91, Egypt but detailed to to Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington
VIII, serial number LB169, when the aircraft was lost during a
shipping search to the west of Sicily 29 April 1943. Aged 23.
Native of Lamont, Alberta, Canada. Son of Fred and Emma Stelter,
of Lamont, Alberta, Canada. Panel 11, Column 1. |
| STEPHEN |
John
Mathieson |
Warrant
Officer Class II (Pilot) R/69397, 227 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIC, serial number
EL229, when the aircraft crashed into the sea when returning to
Malta after intercepting enemy transport aircraft between Sicily
and Tunisia 13 November 1942. Aged 20. Native of Capreol, Ontario,
Canada. Son of Ann Stephen, of Capreol, Ontario, Canada. Panel
5, Column 1. |
| STEPHEN |
John
William |
Warrant
Officer Class II (Pilot) R/97577, 272 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Ta Kali, Malta, in a Bristol Beaufighter IC, serial number
T4897, when the aircraft crashed due to an engine failure during
a convoy escort sortie 14 February 1943. Aged 21. Native of Oyama,
British Columbia, Canada. Son of John F. and Dorothy E. Stephen,
of Oyama, British Columbia, Canada. Panel 11, Column 1. |
| STEPHENS |
Geoffrey
Francis Walter |
Sergeant
1162985, 302 Ferry Training Unit, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed while flying out of
Oban, Argyll, in a Consolidated Catalina IB, serial number FP122,
when the aircraft crashed and overturned on landing at Bathurst,
Gambia, during a ferry flight to 200 Squadron 11 November 1943.
Aged 24. Native of Aldridge, Staffordshire. Son of Maj. Frank
Percival Stephens, M.C., and Sarah Stephens, of Aldridge, Staffordshire.
Panel 9, Column 1. |
| STEPHENS |
Granville
Stewart |
Sergeant
(Air Gunner) 1100044, 40 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington IC, serial number Z1046,
when the aircraft ditched out of fuel following navigational problems
caused by radio failure during a raid on Benghazi, Libya, two
of the crew survived, 25 November 1941. Aged 21. Native of of
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Son of John Stephens, and of Gladys
Stephens, of Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. Panel 2, Column 1. |
| STEPHENSON |
Ian
Raitt |
Wing
Commander (Pilot) 72010, 153 Squadron (Officer Commanding), Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom.
Killed in action flying out of Reghaia, Algeria, in a Bristol
Beaufighter VIF, serial number ND209, when the aircraft was lost
without trace when intercepting enemy bombers that were attacking
a convoy 26 November 1943. Aged 26. Native of Selsdon, South Croydon,
Surrey. Son of the Revd. Herbert Stephenson and Daisy Christabel
Stephenson, of Selsdon, South Croydon, Surrey. Panel 6, Column
1. |
| STEVENS |
James
Edward |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 162075, 27 Squadron (S.A.A.F.), Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in
action flying out of Hal Far, Malta, in a Lockheed Ventura V,
serial number JS935, when his aircraft was lost without trace
during a convoy escort 13 September 1944. Aged 22. Native of Maidstone,
Kent. Son of James and Elizabeth Stevens; husband of Joan Patricia
Stevens, of Maidstone, Kent. Panel 13, Column 2. See also Portslade,
Sussex |
| STEVENS |
Philip
Arthur |
Flying
Officer (Navigator) 135276, 23 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a de Havilland Mosquito FBVI, serial number
HJ766, when the aircraft was lost without trace during an intruder
sortie to enemy airfields in support of the Allied landings at
Salerno 10 September 1943. Native of Sutton, Surrey. Son of Harry
and Louise Stevens; husband of Betty Stevens, of Sutton, Surrey.
Panel 6, Column 2. |
| STEVENSON |
Clement
Robert |
Warrant
Officer (Pilot) 409330, 43 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Lago,
Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire IX, serial number MJ483, when
the aircraft was lost without trace after having taken off late
when setting out on a patrol over the beachhead at Anzio 4 May
1944. Aged 23. Native of West Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Son of Percy Robert and Sarah Ann Stevenson, of West Parkville,
Victoria, Australia. Panel 16, Column 2. |
| STEVENSON |
Roy
Matthew |
Sergeant
541565, (serving in H.M.S. Welshman), Royal Air Force. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action at sea aboard the
cruiser-minelayer H.M.S. Welshman which was sunk by the U-boat
U-617 35 miles northeast of Tobruk, Libya, 1 February 1943. Aged
25. Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Stevenson; husband of Freda Stevenson,
of Eastcote, Ruislip, Middlesex. Panel 9, Column 2. |
| STEWART |
Alan
Richard |
 Pilot
Officer (Pilot) NZ405765, 221 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air
Force. Country of service New Zealand. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington XIII, serial number
HZ963, when the aircraft was lost without trace when returning
from an Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol for convoy 'Sateen' eastbound
from Malta 8 November 1943. Aged 22. Born 5 August 1921. Native
of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand. Son of William and
Lilian Adams Stewart, of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
Attended Southland Boys' High School. Panel 12, Column 1.
Photograph
from The Weekly News; 16 February 1944
|
| STEWART |
Neville |
Flight
Lieutenant (Pilot) 104546, 6 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Grottaglie, Italy, in a Hawker Hurricane IIC, serial number
KX885, when the aircraft was shot down by flak near Tirana, Albania,
29 March 1944. Aged 23. Native of Fulham, London. Son of Sqdn.
Ldr. Harry Stewart, R.A.F., and Mrs. Stewart; husband of Diane
Stewart, of Fulham, London. Panel 13, Column 1. |
| STEWART |
Russell
Redway |
 Squadron
Leader (Pilot) NZ39946, 21 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Country of service New Zealand. Killed in action flying out of
Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Blenheim IV, serial number Z7308, when
the aitcraft was shot down by Bf109s near the island of Filfla
when returning to Malta after an abortive shipping strike off
the Libyan coast 6 February 1942. Aged 26. Born 25 November 1915.
Native of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Son of Walter
and Florence Zealandia Stewart; husband of Heather Stewart, of
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Attended Christchurch Boys'
High School. Panel 5, Column 1. |
| STICHMAN |
Paul |
Leading
Aircraftman (Interpreter) R/148782, Special Duties, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action on the
ground in ground combat northwest of Zagreb, Croatia when serving
with Yugoslavia partisans 4 May 1944. Native of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada and Dobrinci, Yugoslavia. Panel 16, Column 2.
Note:
Dobrinci is a village in Serbia, situated in the Ruma municipality,
in the Srem District, Vojvodina province.
|
| STIRLING |
William |
Warrant
Officer Class II (Pilot) R/103494, 253 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Lampedusa, Italy, in a Hawker Hurricane IIC, serial number
HV706, when the aircraft was lost without trace, presumed to have
crashed into the sea, 3 August 1943. Aged 23. Native of Niagara
Falls, Ontario, Canada. Son of James and Mary Stirling, of Niagara
Falls, Ontario, Canada. Panel 11, Column 1. |
| STONE |
John
Maynard |
Flight
Sergeant (Pilot) 405656, Press Courier Service, Royal Australian
Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying
out of Maison Blanche, Algeria, in a Hawker Hurricane IIC, serial
number KX107, when the aircraft was lost without trace between
Souk El-Khemis and Maison Blanche during a press courier service
flight carrying despatches 27 April 1943. Aged 22. Native of Rockhampton,
Queensland, Australia. Son of John Bailey Ellis Stone and Minnie
Elizabeth Stone, of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Panel
12, Column 1. |
| STORRIER |
William
Grant |
Pilot
Officer 120615, 1 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit (OADU) attached
from 15 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit (OADU), Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in
action flying out of Harwell, Oxon, in a Vickers Wellington IC,
serial number AD647, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a delivery flight between Gibraltar and Bathhurst 4 September
1942. Aged 20. Native of Sunderland, Co. Durham. Son of Arthur
Grant Storrier and Mary Irvine Storrier, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.
Panel 3, Column 1. |
| STOTT |
Ernest |
Sergeant
1026334, 233 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed in action by friendly fire flying
out of Gibraltar in a Lockheed Hudson, serial number Possibly
AE563, V8985 or T9458, when his aircraft was believed to have
been shot down by US Navy F4F fighters off Casablanca, Morocco,
8 November 1942. Aged 31. Native of Liversedge, Yorkshire. Son
of Walter and Emma Jane Stott, of Liversedge, Yorkshire. Panel
4, Column 2. |
| STOTT |
Thomas
Alexander |
Sergeant
938915, 59 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country
of service United Kingdom. Killed while flying out of Thorney
Island, Hampshire, in a Lockheed Hudson III, serial number AE539
(serial unconfirmed), when the aircraft was lost without trace
between Malta and Egypt during a delivery flight to Singapore
8 January 1942. Aged 23. Native of Halifax, Yorkshire. Son of
Tom and Florence Gertrude Stott, of Halifax. Panel 4, Column 2. |
| STOVES |
Edward
Moody |
Sergeant
1686414, 34 (S.A.A.F.) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Celone, Italy, in a Consolidated Liberator BVI, serial number
EW207, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid
on the Verona marshalling yards in northern Italy 3 March 1945.
Aged 21. Native of Horden, Co. Durham. Son of William and Margaret
Stoves, of Horden, Co. Durham. Panel 18, Column 2. |
| STOW |
Edgar |
Flight
Sergeant 553413, 272 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in
a Bristol Beaufighter VIC, serial number JL758, when the aircraft
flew into the mast when attacking a ship and crashed 2 miles east
of Preveza, Greece, 2 August 1943. Native of Cymmer, Glamorganshire.
Son of Alfred L. and Catherine E. Stow, of Cymmer, Glamorgan.
Panel 7, Column 2. |
| STRANGE |
James
Albert Cobbett |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 188406, 93 Squadron attd. 242 Squadron, Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom.
Killed in action flying out of Rimini, Italy, in a Supermarine
Spitfire IX, serial number LZ837, when the aircraft caught fire
and crashed into the sea 28 December 1944. Aged 21. Native of
Fulham, London. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Cobbett Strange, of
Fulham, London. Panel 13, Column 2.
|
| STRANTZEN |
Richard
Joseph Heuston |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 403823, 682 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.
Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of San
Severo, Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire PRXIX, serial number
RM639, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a photo
reconnaissance sortie to Vienna 8 October 1944. Aged 31. Native
of Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia. Son of Vol Adolph and
Esther Strantzen; husband of Irene Laura Strantzen, of Lane Cove,
New South Wales, Australia. Panel 16, Column 1. |
| STRATHDEE |
John
Reid |
Sergeant
987881, 248 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Coastal
Command). Country of service United Kingdom. Died flying out of
Bircham Newton, Norfolk, 11 February 1942. Aged 24. Native of
Glasgow. Son of John W. S. and Sarah Strathdee, of Glasgow. M.A.
(Hons.). Panel 4, Column 2. |
| STREET |
Frank
Hancock |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 123299, 255 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Setif, Algeria, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIF, when the
aircraft was shot down by return fire about 60 miles west of Sardinia
when attacking an enemy aircraft during a night fighter sortie
13 April 1943. Aged 21. Native of Sale, Cheshire. Son of Fred
and Elsie Street, of Sale, Cheshire. Panel 6, Column 2. |
| STREET |
John
Frederick |
Sergeant
(Navigator) 1390547, 37 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Tortorella, Italy, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number
HE898, when his aircraft was lost without trace during a raid
on Arezzo marshalling yards about 25 miles northeast of Siena,
Italy, 27 January 1944. Panel 15, Column 2. See also Kingston
Bucci, Sussex |
| STRUTT |
Ivan
Cornwallis |
Squadron
Leader (Pilot) 72438, 104 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington II, serial number
W5401, when it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down
by a Ju88 night fighter about 4 miles southwest Sousse during
a raid on Tunis Harbour 6 January 1943. Aged 27. Awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross (D.F.C.). Native of Bath, Somerset. Son of Geoffrey
St. John Strutt, C.B.E., J.P., and Sybil Eyre Strutt, of Bath,
Somerset. Panel 6, Column 1. See also Cambridge
University, Peterhouse WW2 Memorial |
| STUBBS |
John
Henry |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 406374, 21 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Country
of service Australia. Killed in action flying out of Luqa, Malta,
in a Bristol Blenheim IV, serial nmber Z9823, when the aircraft
was shot down by a Bf109 near the island of Filfla near Malta
when returning from a shipping sweep to the Kerkenna Islands,
Tunisia 11 February 1942. Aged 23. Native of South Perth, Western
Australia. Son of Henry Claude and Amelia Florence Stubbs, of
South Perth, Western Australia. Panel 5, Column 2. |
| STUBLEY |
Edwin
John |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 152396, 148 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Brindisi, Italy, in a Handley Page Halifax II, serial number
JP244, when his aircraft crashed 25 miles north of Tirana after
successfully dropping supplies to a DZ in Albania during a Special
Operation sortie 29 October 1944. Aged 23. Native of Grantham,
Lincolnshire. Son of Henry and Hilda M. Stubley, of Grantham,
Lincolnshire. Panel 13, Column 2. See also Spitalgate,
Lincolnshire |
| STUPART |
James |
Flight
Sergeant 1112815, 500 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action by friendly
fire flying out of Gibraltar but detailed to to Tafaraoui, Algeria, in a Lockheed
Hudson VI, serial number FK401, when the aircraft was shot down
in error by a R.A.F. Beaufighter off Algiers, Algeria 14 April
1943. Aged 21. Native of Culross, Fife. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
M. Stupart, of Culross, Fife. Panel 7, Column 2. |
| STYLES,
DSO |
Hubert
Mortimer |
Wing
Commander 33146, 233 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Gibraltar in
a Lockheed Hudson III, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a patrol, believed to have spun into the sea of La Guardia,
Portugal, 1 November 1942. Aged 28. Awarded the Distinguished
Service Order (D.S.O.). Native of Betchworth, Surrey. Son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Styles; husband of A. E. Styles, of Betchworth,
Surrey. Panel 2, Column 1.
Extract
from Western Daily Press - 24 November 1941, page 4:
BRISTOL
R.A.F. OFFICER
AWARDED D.S.O.
Acting Wing-Commander Hubert Mortimer Styles, No. 407 Souadron,
who was born at Bristol in 1914, and whose home is at Keanny,
North Devon, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
"This officer," says the official announcement "has
displayed rare powers of leadership and organising ability.
"As
commander of the squadron he has played a large part in raising
it to its present high standard of operational efficiency.
The squadron has been responsible for destroying or severely
damaging many thousands or tons of enemy shipping. "This
officer has set a magnificent example of courageous leadership
and determination."
Acting Wing-Commander Styles was educated at Clifton and was
commissioned from Cranwell after winning the Sword of Honour
in 1934.
Extract
from Lincolnshire Echo - 3 November 1943, page 3:
PRESUMED
KILLED
Wing
Commander Hubert Mortimer Styles, D.S.O., of Bristol, who in
December, 1934, won the Sword of Honour at Cranwell R.A.F. College,
is presumed to have been killed in action, having previously
been reported missing.
|
| SULLIVAN |
John
Bernard |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 402891, 69 Squadron, Royal
Australian Air Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in
action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Martin Baltimore II, serial
number AG796, when the aircraft was lost without trace during
a shipping reconnaissance sortie over the Mediterranean 23 February
1943. Aged 25. Native of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.
Son of Christopher Patrick and Eliza Edith Sullivan, of Lithgow,
New South Wales, Australia. Panel 12, Column 1. |
| SULLIVAN |
Russel
Creth |
Pilot
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) J/18470, 500 Squadron,
Royal Canadian Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in
action flying out of Tafaraoui, Algeria, in a Lockheed Hudson
VI, serial number FK667, when the aircraft was lost without trace
during a night Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol off Cape Roca, Portugal
2 September 1943. Aged 22. Son of John Henry Nelson Sullivan and
Ethel Church Sullivan, of Callender, Ontario, Canada. Panel 10,
Column 2. |
| SUMMERS |
Oswald
Colin |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 1177035, 18 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Blenheim IV, serial number Z7796,
when it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down by a
Bf109 during an anti-shipping patrol 26 December 1941. Aged 21.
Native of North End, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Son of Reginald Arthur
and Ida Muriel Summers, of North End, Portsmouth. Panel 2, Column
1. |
| SURRETTE |
Donald
Beattie |
Flying
Officer (Air Gunner) J/15690, 142 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air
Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out
of Kairouan West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number
HE580l when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid
on Messina, Sicily, 13 July 1943. Born 20 November 1921. Native
of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Single. Last residence 292 Blacke
Street, Winnipeg, manitoba, Canada. Height 6 feet 0½ inches,
weight 172 lbs, chest 36 inches. Son of William Joseph (died September
1924) and Margaret B Surrette, of 1116 Ingersoll Street, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. Enlisted 4 June 1940 while still at school.
Religious denomination Roman Catholic. Panel 10, Column 1. |
| SURRIDGE,
MC |
Stewart
O'Rorke |
Squadron
Leader 76041, AHQ Malta, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying as
a passenger out of Valletta, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington
IC, serial number HF849, when the aircraft was lost without
trace during a delivery flight from Luqa, Malta to Egypt, probably
hitched a flight from Malta, 22 April 1942. Born 1894. Birth
registered in the April to June Quarter 1894 in Brighton Registration
District, Sussex. Awarded the Military Cross (M.C.). In the
1911 census he was aged 16, born Brighton, Sussex, a school
boarder, resident Denstone College, Denstone, Staffordshire.
Panel 2, Column 1.
Extract
from Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 11 July 1918, page
2 - Military Cross World War 1 information:
Lieut.
(Act. Capt.) Stewart O'Rorke Surridge, was awarded the Cross
under the following circumstances: "Though wounded in the
thigh, he continued to lead his company, and finally gained
his objective, capturing a large number of prisoners; he remained
in command of his company throughout three days of heavy fighting.
When attacking a village he steadied his men under heavy shelling,
and then led them forward into the village under heavy fire
until he was severely wounded."
|
| SUTCLIFFE |
John |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 1623386, 221 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Grottaglie, Italy, in a Vickers Wellington XIII, serial number
HZ883, when the aircraft was lost without trace during a night
armed shipping reconnaissance over the northern Adriatic Sea 24
August 1944. Native of Todmorden, Lancashire. Son of T. E. and
Evina Alice Sutcliffe, of Todmorden, Lancashire. Panel 15, Column
2. |
| SUTHERLAND |
Archibald
Mccoll |
Flight
Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 1111507, 221 Squadron,
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom.
Killed in action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Welloington
IC, serial number AD593, when the aircraft was shot down by a
fighter onto a beach at Cape Bianci 13 miles southeast of Sciacca,
Sicily, during an anti-shipping strike northeast of Ustica 28
April 1943. Aged 21. Native of Glasgow. Son of Walter and Isabella
McColl Sutherland, of Glasgow. Panel 7, Column 2. |
| SUTHERLAND |
Eric
Phippen |
Warrant
Officer Class I (Navigator) R/71534, 86 Squadron, Royal Canadian
Air Force. Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Beaufort II, serial number AW296,
when the aircraft was shot down by flak during a torpedo attack
on a convoy off Navarino on the west coast of Greece, the rest
of the crew survived and were captured, 28 July 1942. Aged 21.
Native of Freelton, Ontario, Canada. Son of Dr. and Mrs. E. M.
Sutherland, of Freelton, Ontario, Canada. Panel 4, Column 2. |
| SWAN |
John |
Flight
Sergeant (Observer) 755884, 113 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Luqa, Malta, in a Bristol Belnheim IV, serial number T1821,
when the aircraft was lost without trace during a raid on an E-boat
base at Pantellaria 28 September 1941. Aged 24. Native of Plains,
Lanarkshire. Son of George and Elizabeth Swan, of Plains, Lanarkshire.
Panel 1, Column 2. |
| SWAN |
William
Allan Laidlaw |
Flight
Lieutenant 47497, 13 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Country of service
United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Sidi Amor, Tunisia,
in a Lockheed Ventura GRV, serial number FP553, when the aircraft
was lost without trace during an operational sortie 27 November
1943. Native of Whitsome, Berwickshire. Panel 6, Column 1. |
| SWANSON |
Douglas
May |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) J/8153, 221 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force.
Country of service Canada. Killed in action flying out of Luqa,
Malta, in a Vickers Wellington VIII, serial number LB115, when
it was assumed that the aircraft had been shot down by a night
fighter off Cap Bon during an anti-shipping search west of Sicily
18 April 1943. Aged 25. Native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Julius Swanson; husband of Iris Aggett
Swanson. Panel 10, Column 1. |
| SWEENEY |
Francis
Raymond |
Flight
Sergeant (Air Gunner) 427959, 40 Squadron, Royal Australian Air
Force. Country of service Australia. Killed in action flying out
of Foggia Main, Italy, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial number
LP120. when the aircraft crashed 15 miles south of Pirot, Yugoslavia
during a raid on an oil terminal at Giurgiu, Romania, one of the
crew survived and was captured, 3 June 1944. Aged 20. Native of
Subiaco, Western Australia. Son of John Francis and Ellen Sweeney,
of Subiaco, Western Australia. Panel 16, Column 2. |
| SWIEL |
Ronald |
Lieutenant
328933V, 18 Squadron, South African Air Force. Country of service
South Africa. Killed in action flying out of Falconara, Italy,
in a Douglas Boston IV, serial number BZ502, when his aircraft
was lost without trace either over Yugoslavia or the Adriatic
Sea during a weather reconnaissance 4 December 1944. Aged 21.
Native of Sea Point, Cape Province, South Africa. Son of Aaron
and Rose Swiel, of Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa. Panel 17,
Column 2. |
| SWIFT |
Roy |
 Warrant
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) NZ405528, 221 Squadron,
Royal New Zealand Air Force. Country of service New Zealand.
Killed in action flying out of Luqa, Malta, in a Vickers Wellington
XIII, serial number HZ963, when the aircraft was lost without
trace when returning from an Anti-Submarine Warfare patrol for
convoy 'Sateen' eastbound from Malta 8 November 1943. Aged 24.
Born 20 November 1918. Native of Palmerston North, Wellington,
New Zealand. Son of Walter Francis Swift and of Donna Swift
(nee De Jongh), of Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand.
Educated Apiti School. Panel 12, Column 2.
Photograph
from Weekly News; 19 January 1944
|
| SWIFT |
Stanley |
 Flight
Sergeant 1248149, 23 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed over Marseilles 24 March
1944, based at Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. Born 23 November 1920.
Native of Penge, Surrey. In the 1939 Register he was single, born
23 November 1920, a Clerk Sartorial Demounts Electrical Instrument
Maker, resident with his parents, George A and Edith Swift, at
16 Malcolur Close Oakfield Road, Bromley, Penge U.D., Kent. Panel
14, Column 2. |
| SWINGLER |
William
Horace |
Flight
Sergeant 1230510, 114 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out
of Cecina, Italy, in a Douglas Boston IV, serial number BZ506,
when the aircraft crashed into the sea on the approach to Cecina
30 August 1944. Aged 22. Native of Kingstanding, Birmingham. Son
of Horace Edwin Fox Swingler and Margaret Jane Swingler, of Kingstanding,
Birmingham. Panel 14, Column 2. |
| SYKES |
Allen
John |
 Flying
Officer (Pilot) NZ412283, 249 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air
Force. Country of service New Zealand. Killed in action flying
out of Brindisi, Italy, in a Supermarine Spitfire VC, serial
number JL346, when he baled out 5 miles off Vlore, Albania,
returning from an attack on a gun position at Fier, Albania,
seen in a dinghy but could not be rescued, 27 November 1943.
Aged 24. Born 19 February 1919. Native of Point Chevalier, Auckland,
New Zealand. Son of Violet Gwendoline Sykes, of Point Chevalier,
Auckland, New Zealand. Attended Seddon Memorial Technical College.
Panel 12, Column 1.
Photograph
from Weekly News; 8 March 1944
|
| SYKES |
Stanley
Carter |
Pilot
Officer (Navigator) 142886, 142 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying
out of Kairouan West, Tunisia, in a Vickers Wellington X, serial
number HE580, when the aircraft was lost without trace during
a raid on Messina, Sicily, 13 July 1943. Aged 21. Native of Heckmondwike,
Yorkshire. Son of Lewis Carter Sykes and Beatrice Sykes, of Heckmondwike,
Yorkshire. Panel 7, Column 1. |
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