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#Name* SORT (↑)First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.Photo (Click to Expand)CommemoratedBornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See Note SORT (↑)AircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateReferring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
1 AndersonP ASergeant
Air Gunner1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45Bomber Command51Sqn
1944-11-09HalifaxIIIMZ624MH-NSnaith1601GelsenkirchenDamaged over target areaAnderson qualified as an Air Gunner at No. 1 A.G.S. Pembrey in December 1943 and commenced his operational tour in 51 Squadron, a Halifax unit operating out of RAF Snaith, in August 1944. He was to serve as both a Mid-Upper and Rear Gunner in Flying Officer L. C. Ainsley’s crew throughout his tour. His early sorties largely comprised daylight trips to targets in France, namely V1 sites and enemy airfields and railway marshalling yards. But German targets also made up 51’s operational agenda, the Squadron participating in the attack on Homberg on 27 August 1944, the first time Bomber Command had visited the Ruhr by day. As Anderson would later recall, ‘When we approached the target I could see a huge black cloud of flak bursts. It was really terrifying ... We bombed with the second wave ... and then got the hell out of it.’ It was in the course of 51’s next day light operation to Germany on 11 September 1944 - an attack on the plant at Nordstern, near Gelsenkirchen - that Anderson was slightly wounded and his Wireless Operator seriously so.

‘I could hear and feel the shells bursting around us and even smell the fumes of the exploding shells which burst so close that the shrapnel ripped in with an awful twanging sound. I heard someone cry over the intercom “That last one got me.” Then my intercom went dead. The wire had been cut by a piece of shrapnel ... A short while after I felt a thump on my leg and knew I was hit ... The [American] M.O. gave us two and half bottles of whiskey between us and we made very short work of that - and did I need it. On examination the next day, we counted 188 flak holes and how none of us were killed is still a mystery. The skipper received an immediate award of the DFC. and he deserved it.’ He and his crew were lucky indeed to make it home. His skipper was awarded an immediate DFC (London Gazette 31 October 1944, refers), the recommendation stating: ‘This officer is a most competent pilot and first class captain of aircraft. One night in September 1944, he was detailed for an attack on a synthetic oil plant at Nordstern. When nearing the target area the aircraft was hit by anti-aircraft fire and the starboard engine was rendered unserviceable. Shortly afterwards the aircraft was hit in the port aileron, making it difficult to steer correctly. In spite of this Flying Officer Ainsley continued to the target and bombed it. On the turn for home the bomber was hit once more. The port engine was affected and the hydraulic system was put out of action. After crossing the English coast the defective port engine became useless. Flight Lieutenant Ainsley thereupon headed for the nearest airfield where he made a safe landing with the undercarriage retracted. This officer set a fine example of skill, courage and tenacity.’ Notwithstanding the momentous events of 11 September, pilot and crew carried out five further sorties before the month’s end, namely attacks on Kiel and Neuss, and three daylight outings to France. Dusseldorf and Bochum followed in November, and Upladen, Cologne and Osnabruck in December, Anderson noting in his Flying Log Book that an Me. 110 was beaten off over the latter target on the 5th and claimed as a ‘Probable’. Then in the period January-April 1945, he and his crew carried out another 15 trips to Germany, Cologne and Hamburg being among the the targets. Tour-expired - a total of 35 sorties with 78 hours by day and 198 by night - Anderson was posted to a Transport Command unit.

2 AllenFrancis FrederickSergeant936019

Wierden General Cemetery

Wierden General Cemetery. Row A. Grave 7Age 23BritishFlight EngineerRAFVRBomber Command75Sqn RNZAF
1943-02-03StirlingIBK604AA-SRAF Newmarket, Suffolk1823HamburgCrashed SW of Almelo HollandKilledSon of Frederick and Louise Allen, husband of Eiluned Mair Allen, of Upton Lea, Slough, Buckinghamshire, England.
3 AllenVernonSergeant1214350Germany, Hamburg Cemetery, Coll. Grave 9A. C. 6-11.Age 20RAFVR101Sqn1943-07-28KilledSon Of Robert And Annie Allen, Of Leeds, Yorkshire.
4 AllisonR F WPilot OfficerKiel War CemeteryBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1943-07-27HalifaxIIJD150DY-APocklington2232HamburgCrashed near RendsburgKilled
5 AllworthWilliam HenrySergeant1259356Wireless Operator/Air GunnerRAFVRBomber Command150Sqn
1942-01-15WellingtonICZ1078JN-LSnaith1723HamburgOn the return Z1078 became lost following the failure of its navigation aids and as a result the a/c flew too far north over the North Sea. They were flying SE when it struck a glancing blow on the lower slopes of The Cheviot at an altitude of 1,500ft which was obscured by a blanket of low snow clouds. The a/c immediately caught fire and Sgt Irving was killed on impact.Injured
6 AllwrightErnest FrankPilot Officer157072Germany, Hamburg Cemetery, 10A. M. 13.Age 22RAFVR57Sqn RAF
1943-07-30KilledSon Of Mr. And Mrs. Albert James Allwright, Of Manor Park, Essex.
7 AllwrightE FFlight Sergeant Hamburg (Ohlsdorf) CemeteryBomber Command57Sqn
1943-07-29LancasterIIIED931DX-CScampton2326HamburgExploded and crashed at TostedtKilled
8 AltyFrederick RoyFlying OfficerJ38392
Courtesy Jack Albrecht

Becklingen War Cemetery 14.C.1126th June 1924 in South Shields, EnglandCanadianBomb AimerRCAFBomber Command431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF
1945-03-31LancasterXKB859SE:UCroft06:26HamburgCrashed at 09:07 at Hittfeld, 9km South of Harburg quite close to 419 Sqn, Lancaster X, VR-Q captained by F/O. Donald Stuart Maxwell Bowes RCAF shot down about the same time and recorded as an Me262 loss.KilledParadie Archive DatabaseSon of Frederick Roy and Florence (née Fawkes) Alty, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9 AmosO EFlight SergeantRunnymedeRNZAFBomber Command15Sqn
1943-03-03StirlingIEF333LS-XBourn1812Hamburg?Killed
10 AndersonGeorgePilot OfficerJ/95243RunnymedeRCAFBomber Command415Sqn RCAF
1945-03-31Halifax IIIMZ9226U-CEast Moor623HamburgReported shot down by Me262KilledParadie Archive DatabasePosthumously promoted to P/O
11 AndersonC T RSergeantKielBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1941-11-30WhitleyVZ6800DY-Dalton1647HamburgCrashed near KielKilled
12 AndersonD J Flying OfficerBecklingen War CemeteryBomber Command35Sqn (Madras Presidency)
1943-07-29HalifaxIIHR906TL-LGraveley2158HamburgShot down by night fighterKilled
13 AndersonJSergeant Bomber Command50Sqn
1940-11-15HampdenIX2908VN-Lindholme115HamburgCrashed GooleInjured
14 AllenR SSergeant Sage War CemeteryBomber Command214Sqn
1943-03-03StirlingIEF329BU-CChedburgh1819HamburgCrashed at LeesteKilled
15 AndersonVSergeant1126302


Sage War CemeteryAir/Gnr1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45,RAFBomber Command7Sqn
1942-07-28StirlingIW7533MG-GOakington2228HamburgCrashed at Klein HorstenKilledAir Gunner’s course in September 1941, attended 12 OTU prior to joining 7 Squadron, a Stirling unit, in April 1942. Appointed a Rear-Gunner, he flew his first sorties against targets in France, St. Nazaire being visited twice and Boulogne once in the following month. He then survived the grand slam of three 1000 Bomber Raids against Cologne, Bremen and Essen in less than a month, Emden also being visited thrice in the same period. July witnessed raids on Duisburg, Lubeck, Vegesack and Wilhelmshaven, but on the night of the 28th, in a sortie to Hamburg, his Stirling was brought down in the vicinity of Klein Horston, 16 miles S.W. of Wilhelmshaven. Anderson was subsequently interred in Sage War Cemetery, Oldenburg.
16 AndersonCharles BeattyFlying Officer416735Runnymede Memorial, Panel 1871st June 1916 in Port Adelaide, South AustraliaAustralianNavigatorDFC

RAAFBomber Command460Sqn RAAF
1943-07-29LancasterIIIJA689AR:?RAF Binbrook22:21Hamburg, GermanySee archive report for detailsMiARAAF Honour Roll
17 AndersonJohnSergeant969380Hamburg Cemetery, Plot 4A. Row H. Grave 11PilotRAFVRBomber Command115Sqn
1941-05-10WellingtonICR1379KO:BRAF Marham, Norfolk22:17Hamburg, GermanySee archive report for further detailsKiA
18 AndersonBert OscarSergeantR/155939CanadianAir GunnerRCAFBomber Command218Sqn
1943-07-29StirlingIIIBF578HA-ADownham Market2235HamburgDamaged by flak over target, shot down by a night fighter of NJG3 on return leg. Crashed at Ahrenswohlde.PoW - Interned at Stalag Luft L3 and Stalag IVB.Accident reportCommissioned to Pilot Officer with service number J/99961 following return to UK from captivity in Germany..
19 AndrewPrentis BlairFlight SergeantR/72663Germany, Hamburg Cemetery, 5A. C. 3A.Age 25RCAF1942-07-28KilledSon Of Blois H. And Edith Alexandria Andrew, Of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
20 AndrewCharles FrederickSquadron Leader115930Germany, Hamburg Cemetery, 10A. J. 12.Age DFC

RAFVR35Sqn1943-07-30Killed
21 AndrewPrentis BlairSergeantR72663Hamburg Cemetery Plot 5A Row C Grave 3A.5 November 1917CanadianWireless Operator/Air GunnerRCAFBomber Command16 OTU
1942-07-28WellingtonICL7894XG:U2Upper Heyford21:57HamburgConed by 1. & 2./Flakscheinw.Abt.119, 1./Flakscheinw.Abt.368 and 4./Flakscheinw.Abt.610, hit by 1. & 3./schw. Flak Abt. 267 (o) (Grossbatterie Wendlohe), 1. & 3./schw. Flak Abt. 162 (Grossbatteroe Steilshoop) and 5./Res. Flak Abt. 165. The aircraft crashed near Line-Schönningstedt at 01:32 hrs. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive (30 May - 31 December 1942) The Early Years Part 3 - Theo Boiten)KilledParadie Archive DatabaseSon of Blois H. and Edith Alexandria Andrew, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
22 AndrewC FSquadron LeaderHamburg (Ohlsdorf) CemeteryDFC

Bomber Command35Sqn (Madras Presidency)
1943-07-29HalifaxIIHR851TL-TGraveley2225Hamburg?Killed
23 AndrewsD RPilot Officer RCAFCoastal Command415Sqn RCAF
1944-07-28HalifaxIIIMZ6866U-UEast Moor2218HamburgCrashed on take offParadie Archive Database
24 AndrewsEdward JosephFlying OfficerJ/14390
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 172. United Kingdom.CanadianAir GunnerRCAFBomber Command428Sqn RCAF
1943-08-02HalifaxVEB274NA-HMiddleton St George22:47HamburgShot down by Hpt. Hans Jabs of Stab IV./NJG 1KilledAccident report
25 AndrewsR ASergeant Bomber Command405Sqn RCAF
1943-08-02HalifaxIIHR871LQ-BGransden Lodge2258HamburgAbandoned over Swedish territoryInterned
26 ŻurawskiWitoldMajorS/Ldr7679805.11.1911 Petersburg – RussiaPolandNavigatorVirtuti Militari

Krzyz Walecznych (x4)

Medal Lotniczy (x3)

Odznaka Za Rany i Kontuzje (Wound Badge)
PAFBomber Command300Sqn Polish
1941-07-25WellingtonIcR1178BH-LHemswell2259HamburgReturning home ditched 9 miles NE of Cromer, Norfolk. All crew rescued. No RNLI report.Rescued. Died 19.01.1945Archiwum Polish Database
27 AlderdiceWilliam YarrSergeant1056825Germany, Hamburg Cemetery, Joint Grave 4A. G. 9-10.Age 24RAFVR408 (R.C.A.F.)Sqn1942-04-28KilledSon Of George And Mary Alderdice, Of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
28 AbellD RFlight Sergeant Hamburg (Ohlsdorf) CemeteryRAAFBomber Command207Sqn
1944-10-06LancasterIME667EM-XSpilsby1730BremenCrashed at Lehester DeichKilled
29 AchesonJ McFSergeantBecklingen War CemeteryBomber Command460Sqn RAAF
1943-07-24LancasterIIIW4987AR-Binbrook2308HamburgCrashed near CuxhavenKilled
30 AdamJ CSergeant Benshop General CemeteryBomber Command214Sqn
1943-02-03StirlingIR9282BU-QChedburgh1827HamburgShot downKilled
31 AdamG CSergeant Montfoort Gen CemeteryBomber Command90Sqn
1943-02-03StirlingIBF415WP-SRidgewell1822HamburgCrashed SW of UtrechtKilled
32 AdamsDesire Ernest CharlesFlight Sergeant1377699
Runnymede Memorial. Panel 73Air Gunner1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45RAFVRBomber Command150Sqn
1942-06-27WellingtonIIIX3309JN-NRAF Snaith2315Bremen Shot down over the Ijsselmeer, east of Enkhuizen, by the German night-fighter pilot Uffz. Heinz Vinke

See archive report for details
Missing - believed killedRead Archive Report

He took part in his first operational sortie on 15 November 1941, where his pilot was the New Zealander Sergeant Gordon Cochrane, who ultimately ended the War with the DSO and DFC with Two Bars. From 15 November 1941 to 20 June 1942 Adams took part in 26 sorties with Cochrane as pilot including a raid on Hamburg on 30 November 1941, when their aircraft was ‘attacked over target area by a He113, attack came at the rear of the aircraft but the attacker was hit with 300 round burst from Wellington front gunner as he exited from his attack. Fuel tank holed and several geodetics were severed. The aircraft was then held in a searchlight cone for ten minutes over the target and 'pounded' by flak. The pilot dived the aircraft right and down to 4,000 feet to shake off the attack’. They also participated in attacks on the German battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in Brest and during the famous Channel dash. Other sorties included Bremen, Munster, St Nazaire, Dortmund, Paris, Cologne, and four attacks on the Krupps Works at Essen. On 1-2 June 1942 they took part in the second Thousand Bomber Raid on Essen. Cochrane completed his tour and moved to training in late June. Flight Officer Osbourne took over as the new crew pilot. They continued with a raid on Emden then the third Thousand Bomber Raid on Bremen on 25-26 June 1942.

Adams was killed in action on his 29th sortie when Wellington X3309, piloted by Flying Officer D. O. Osborne, was shot down over the Ijsselmeer, east of Enkhuizen, by the German night-fighter pilot Uffz. Heinz Vinke whilst on a raid to Bremen on 27-28 June 1942. All the crew were killed. Adams is commemorated with the rest of his crew on the Runnymede Memorial. His medals were sent to his father, Louis Adams. 33 Albert Palace Mansions, Battersea Park, London SW11

Attacker Heinz Vinke
33 AdamsH AFlight Sergeant (Posth P/O)Runnymede RCAFBomber Command428Sqn RCAF
1944-07-28LancasterXKB759NA-KMiddleton St George2236HamburgLost with traceKilledParadie Archive Database
34 AdamsF EFlight SergeantW/Op/Air/GunnerRCAFBomber Command415Sqn1945-03-08Halifax IIINA1866U-UEast Moor1804HamburgCrashed at FischbekPoWParadie Archive Database With thanks to John Jones for correction
35 AdamsG R NPilot OfficerBomber Command149Sqn (East India)
1941-05-10WellingtonIcR1512OJ-HMildenhall2237HamburgLost without trace Killed
36 AherneJ BFlight SergeantBecklingen War CemeteryBomber Command97Sqn (Straits Settlements)
1945-03-21LancasterIII PB521OF-QConingsby121HamburgCrashed at Feldmark LeeswigKilled
37 AitchisonHugh MaclachlanPilot OfficerJ/4782Germany, Hamburg Cemetery, Coll. grave 5A. M. 9-12.Age 28RCAF75Sqn RNZAF
1941-09-15KilledSon of R. H. And Jessie C. Aitchison, of Glasgow. His Brother George Also Died on Service.
38 AitchisonH MPilot OfficerHamburg CemeteryRCAFBomber Command75Sqn RNZAF
1941-09-15WellingtonIcX9759AA-FeltwellHamburg?KilledParadie Archive Database
39 AlderGeorgeSergeant568297Becklingen War Cemetery Plot 26 Row J Grave 2Age 22CanadaObserverRAFBomber Command1651 CU
1942-07-28StirlingIN3655BS-TRAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire2330HamburgSee Archive reportKilledSon of Robert Rankin (died 27th September 1990, age 83) and Marion Gilchrist Alder (née Mckechnie - died 09th September 1975, age 92), of McLure, British Columbia, Canada.
40 AbellDouglas RoyPilot Officer417773Germany, Hamburg Cemetery, 5A. N. 5.Age 21RAAF1944-10-06KilledSon Of Roy Desmond Picton Abell And Ida May Abell, Of Gladstone, South Australia.
41 AlderdiceWilliam YarrSergeant1056825Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany. Joint grave: 4A.G.9-10W/Op/Air/GunnerRAFVRBomber Command408Sqn RCAF
1942-04-28HampdenIAE426EQ-WRAF Balderton, Nottinghamshire2201Kiel See archive report for full details Killed Read Archive Report
42 AldredW MSergeantKiel War CemeteryRCAFBomber Command431Sqn RCAF
1944-07-28HalifaxIIILK833SE-RCroft2209HamburgCrashed at HohenaspeKilledParadie Archive Database
43 AldridgeAlanSergeant1314643Renkum (Oosterbeek) General Cemetery Grave 11922Air GunnerRAFVRBomber Command1651 CU
1942-07-28StirlingIW7509BS-QWaterbeach2303HamburgClaim by Oblt Hans von Hagenow 7/NJG1 - Heelsum 9km West of Arnhem (4B) at 0310.Killed
44 AldridgeThomasSergeantR/177535
Kiel War Cemetery. 4. J. 18.Age 25CanadaRCAFBomber Command158Sqn
1943-07-24HalifaxIIHR941NP-ARAF LissettHamburgCrashed near SchleswigKilledParadie Archive DatabaseBorn on the 13th June 1922 in Winnipeg, Canada. Son of John Thomas Richard (died 25th September 1945, age 53) and Martha Ann Stevenson Aldridge (died 07th August 1979, age 88), of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Epitaph: Our Loss Is Great, We'll Not Complain. We Know In Heaven We'll Meet Again

45 AlexanderR LSergeantRheinberg War CemeteryRCAFBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1943-02-03HalifaxIIW7921DY-MPocklington1838HamburgCrashed near QuakenbruckKilledParadie Archive Database
46 AlexanderIan SutherlandFlying OfficerJ/27711CanadianPilotRCAFBomber Command434Sqn RCAF
1944-07-28HalifaxIIILW596WL-ZCroft2230HamburgKilledAccident report
47 AllanMcKSergeant DIshforth CemeteryRCAFBomber Command9Sqn
1943-01-30LancasterIIIED481WS-NWaddington2350HamburgCrashed NW of HelmsleyKilledParadie Archive Database
48 AllanL AFlying OfficerRunnymedeBomber Command76Sqn
1943-03-03HalifaxIIW7678MP-LLinton on Ouse1814Hamburg?Killed
49 AlldisStanley CranstonFlight Sergeant1398378BritishRAFVRBomber Command57Sqn
1944-11-11LancasterILL939DX-HEast Kirkby1654HarborgCrash landed at BeckdorfPoW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper SilesiaTook off at 16:54 hrs for an operation against the Rhenania-Ossag oil refinery at Harburg in Hamburg. 19:27 LT The Lanc was hit by heavy Flak; crash-landed. On first impact one engine and rear turret were torn away. The remainder of the aircraft bounced and flew on for over a kilometre before finally crash-landing near Beckdorf, approximately 25km SW of Hamburg. 14% moon


ORB for mission
50 AllenGeoffrey ErnestSergeantNZ/404489

New ZealandRNZAFBomber Command207Sqn
1942-01-14ManchesterIL7309EM-OBottesford1709Hamburg?PoWDied 1 January 1991Age 71

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