Second World War fatalities - North Yorkshire Moors area.


3rd February 1940 - Heinkel HeIII 1H+FM - Whitby

Observer - Uffz Rudolf Leushake (Luftwaffe), aged 23. Buried Cannock Chase Cemetery, Staffordshire.

Mechanic - Uffz Johann Meyer (Luftwaffe), aged 25. Buried Cannock Chase Cemetery, Staffordshire.


11th February 1940 - Hudson N7294 - Great Ayton.

Pilot - F/O Tom MacKinlay Parker RAF (39334), aged 21. Buried Thornaby on Tees, Yorkshire (G/G/40).

Pilot - Sgt Harold Francis Bleksley RAF (516366), aged 24. Buried Canford Cemetery, Bristol (NN/438).

Wireless Operator - Cpl Norman Richard Drury RAF (537373), aged 23. Buried North Walsham, Norfolk (YYY/1).


21st March 1940 - Blenheim L1117 - Bransdale Moor.

Pilot - Sgt Horace Phillips RAF (562840), aged 27. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire (CofE/M/10).

Air Gunner - AC1 Frank Prosser RAF (622364), aged 21. Buried Garndiffaith, Monmouthshire (B/3/73).


1st May 1940 - Wellington R3154 - Thorgill.

Pilot - F/O Edward Joseph Taylor Clarke RAF (39375), aged 22. Buried Stamford Cemetery, Lincolnshire (Q/1c).

Air Gunner - P/O John Pargiter Marshman RAFVR (77039), aged 26. Buried Marham Holy Trinity, Norfolk (grave 46).


16th July 1940 - Lysander N1205 - Goldsborough.

Pilot - F/O John Kershaw RAF (72503), aged 22. Cremated Manchester, Lancashire (Panel 16).

Air Gunner - Sgt James Henry Fletcher RAFVR (935134), aged 20. Buried Rotherham Moorgate Cemetery, Yorkshire (N/1new/23).


11th August 1940 - Junkers Ju88 7A+KH - Newton Mulgrave.

Wireless Operator - Lt Heinrich Meier (Luftwaffe), aged 21. Initally buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire. Re-interrered Germany in 1954.


6th October 1940 - Hampden X2920 - Rosedale.

Pilot - P/O Gerald D'arcy-Wright RAF (40162), aged 25. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire. He served as "Wright".

Observer - Sgt William Arthur Cannon RAFVR (746801), aged 28. Buried South Shoebury (St.Andrew) Churchyard, Shoeburyness, Essex (grave 595).

Air Gunner - Sgt Walter Benedict Rayment RAFVR (751840), aged 26. Buried Henfield, Sussex (L/57).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Alan Algar RAFVR (970031), aged 19. Buried Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby (F/28308).


7th October 1940 - Lysander R9056 - Carlton in Cleveland.

Pilot - P/O Richard Waugh Harris RAF (72988), aged 22. Buried Newton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire (Q/5).

Air Gunner - Sgt Marcus Rudolph Harvey RAF (936278), aged 29. Buried Acklam Cemetery, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (A/44).


21st October 1940 - Whitley T4171 - Ingleby Greenhow.

Pilot - P/O Ernest Henry Brown RAF (41550), aged 25. Buried Wandsworth (Streatham) Cemetery, London (Block 11/1062).

Pilot - Sgt Leonard Frank Percy Adlam RAFVR (745662), aged 25. Buried Farnborough Cemetery, Hampshire (4/21).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Marcel Cuthbert Caryll-Tilkin RAFVR (902238), aged 29. Buried at Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (O/N/6).

Observer - Sgt Cyril Sidney Garrick Green RAFVR (747715), aged 31. Buried Bengeworth Cemetery, Evesham, Worcestershire (K/140). Died 23rd October 1940.


15th December 1940 - Whitley T4138 - Snilesworth.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Cyril Williams RAF (AAF) (818161), aged 28. Buried Topcliffe Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 3).


1st November 1940 - Junkers Ju88 4D+TS - Glaisdale.

Pilot - Fw Wilhelm Wowereit (Luftwaffe), aged 25. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Obfw Hans Schulte-Mater (Luftwaffe), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Uffz Alfred Rodermond (Luftwaffe), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Uffz Gerhard Pohling (Luftwaffe), aged 25. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


11th January 1941 - Hudson N7298 - Kildale.

Pilot - Sgt Keith Barnet Files RAF (523740), aged 27. Buried Worsley, Lancashire (grave 1265).

Pilot - P/O Basil Lincoln (Peter) Fox RAF (42496), aged 26. Buried Brancaster Cemetery, Norfolk (C/8/5).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Robert Martin RAF (520434), aged 25. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (O/N/7).

Air Gunner - P/O John McDonald Scott Wylie RAF (43698), aged 21. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (O/O/7).


22nd January 1941 - Hudson T9371 - Osmotherley.

Pilot - Sgt Laurence Bertram Scase RAFVR (745674), aged 24. Buried Stoke-On-Trent Hartshill Cemetery, Staffordshire (grave 9619).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Parfitt RAFVR (626274), aged 23. Buried Stoke-On-Trent Longton Cemetery, Staffordshire (198/B/7385).


1st June 1941 - Spitfire P8163 - Osmotherley.

Pilot - Sgt Eric Eugene Croker RNZAF (NZ.391826), aged 24. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire (CofE/M/18).


4th June 1941 - Junkers Ju88 R4+LK - Hutton Mulgrave.

Pilot - Lt Johannes Feuerbaum (Luftwaffe), aged 24. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Gefr Gerhard Denzin (Luftwaffe), aged 31. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Gunner - Gefr Rudolf Peters (Luftwaffe), aged 19. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


9th June 1941 - Whitley Z6663 - Ingleby Greenhow.

Pilot - Sgt Gordon Stubbs RAFVR (754904), aged 21. Buried Hathersage Churchyard, Derbyshire (L/4).

Pilot - P/O James Raymond Pertwee RAFVR (60562), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 10).

Observer - Sgt William Charles Goy Roper RAFVR (957053), aged 30. Buried Quarrington Churchyard, Lincolnshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Charles Frederick Ranson RAFVR (950534), aged 21. Buried Manor Park Cemetery, Essex (collective grave 7).

Air Gunner - Sgt James Cousins RAF (543871), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 11).


10th July 1941 - Junkers Ju88 M2+EK - Staithes.

Pilot - Oblt Edgar Peisert (Luftwaffe), aged 27. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Lt Rudolf Bellof (Luftwaffe), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Gefr Gerhard Vogel (Luftwaffe), aged 23. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Gunner - Fw Karl Kinder (Luftwaffe), aged 26. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


18th July 1941 - Blenheim L8729 - Eastmoors.

Pilot - P/O Alexander Douglas McMurtrie RNZAF (NZ.402908), aged 21. Buried Kirkby Wharfe, Yorkshire (C/1).


30th September 1941 - Whitley Z6871 - Danby.

Pilot - Sgt Donald Kyle Kibbe RCAF (R/56344), aged 23. Buried Topcliffe Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 7).


4th October 1941 - Spitfire P8678 - Scalby.

Pilot - P/O Charles Rawdon Keith Fry RAF (101570), aged 19. Buried Horley Churchyard, Surrey (A/O/3).


27th October 1941 - Hampden AD785 - Bickley.

Pilot - Sgt Edward Boucher Smith RAFVR (778398), aged 22. Buried Coningsby Cemetery, Lincolnshire (65/1280).

Pilot - P/O David Roy Bowden RAFVR (68167), aged 19. Buried Torquay Cemetery, Devon (SX/14816).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Oliver Halward RAFVR (930240), aged 19. Buried Watford North Cemetery, Hertfordshire (D/Cons/12).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/S Darrel Barry Stables DFM RAF (526438), aged 24. Buried Brigg Cemetery, Lincolnshire (A/Uncons/32).


28th October 1941 - Spitfire P8044 - Bransdale.

Pilot - P/O Henry Lloyd Maurice Young RCAF (J/15006), aged 23. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire (CofE/O/1).


10th November 1941 - Junkers Ju88 S4+HK - Ravenscar.

Pilot - Oblt Heinz Wilhelm Moritz Weber (Luftwaffe), aged 29. Body never found.

Observer - Obfhr Karl Schutz (Luftwaffe), aged 21. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Obfw Werner Hanel (Luftwaffe), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Gunner - Uffz Artur Graber (Luftwaffe), aged ? Body never found.

NOTE: either Weber or Graber is buried in a grave marked as "Ein Deutscher Soldat" at Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


16th November 1941 - Hampden P1152 - Westerdale.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Ronald St.Clair Neale RAFVR (1375564), aged 27. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire (G/304).


16th January 1942 - Wellington W5493 - Snilesworth.

Pilot - Sgt John Wilmot RAFVR (1001441), aged 29. Buried Barrhead RC Cemetery, Renfrewshire (1/112).

Pilot - Sgt John Blackwell Turner RCAF (R/60962), aged 20. Buried Topcliffe Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 10).

Observer - Sgt Douglas Reginald Bradley RNZAF (NZ.401302), aged 28. Buried Topcliffe Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 9).

Wireless Operator - Sgt George White RAFVR (754076), aged 22. Buried Heworth Churchyard, County Durham (new yard/E/284b).


25th January 1942 - Spitfire AD545 - Rosedale.

Pilot - P/O John Michael Fisher RAFVR (102556), aged 23. Buried Stilton Churchyard, Cambridgeshire (grave 87).


13th April 1942 - Beaufighter T4724 - Cloughton.

Pilot - Sgt William Bray RAFVR (1075896), aged 21. Buried Greetland Churchyard, Yorkshire (G/14).

Wireless Operator / Observer - Sgt Arthur Broadbent RAFVR (1050128), aged 25. Buried Brandsburton Churchyard, Yorkshire (RAF Sec/16).


15th September 1942 - Defiant N3501 - Hackness.

Pilot - WO Derek Frederick Paterson Jannings RNZAF (NZ.401387), aged 25. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 6176).


14th October 1942 - Lancaster W4233 - Bilsdale.

Pilot - F/Sgt Henry Ernest Game RAF (1262786), aged 27. Buried Bournemouth East Cemetery, Hampshire (M/4/114). Died 15th October 1942.

Observer - F/O Leonard Charles Robert Leach RCAF (J/7227), aged 21. Buried Milland Churchyard, Sussex (grave 679).

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Ronald Court RAFVR (1318105), aged 19. Buried Streatham Park Cemetery, London (square 8/35234).


6th November 1942 - Halifax DT525 - Wass.

Navigator - F/O Harry Lancaster Humphries RCAF (J/9527), aged 19. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire (A/3).

Air Gunner - Sgt Charles Frederick (Bobby) Clark RAFVR (1395017), aged 21. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire (A/4).

Air Gunner - F/Lt George Thomas Turner RAFVR (109520), aged 22. Buried Henley Road Cemetery, Reading, Berkshire (Block 10/16008).


12th December 1942 - Halifax W7933 - Snilesworth.

Pilot - Sgt Gerald John Morgan RAFVR (1081231), aged 21. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire (C/3).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Richard Leslie Lines RAFVR (942146), aged 26. Buried Burslem Cemetery, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire (V/2597).

Navigator - Sgt Carl Robert Woolley RAFVR (1575390), aged 33. Buried Nottingham Southern Cemetery, Nottinghamshire (O.24/9).

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Basil Norris RAFVR (1335250), aged 19. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire (C/4).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Harry Casson RAFVR (778385), aged 21. Buried Gosforth Churchyard, Cumbria.

Air Gunner - Sgt John Allen McPhee RCAF (R/92407), aged 27. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire (D/7).

Air Gunner - Sgt Frank Allen RCAF (R/87266), aged 25. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire (B/6).


17th December 1942 - Dornier Do217 U5+AK - Goathland.

Pilot - Fw Wilhelm Stoll (Luftwaffe), aged 25. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Obgfr Hans Roeschner (Luftwaffe), aged 20. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Obgfr Gerhard Wicht (Luftwaffe), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Mechanic - Obgfr Franz Armann (Luftwaffe), aged 19. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th December 1942 - Dornier Do217 U5+GR - Hawnby.

Pilot - Oblt Rolf Hausner (Luftwaffe), aged 25. Body never found.

Observer - Uffz Sirius Erd (Luftwaffe), aged 23. Body never found.

Wireless Operator - Obfw Hartwig Hupe (Luftwaffe), aged 29. Buried Cannock Chase Cemetery, Staffordshire.

Mechanic - Obfw Ernst Weiderer (Luftwaffe), aged 28. Buried Cannock Chase Cemetery, Staffordshire.


18th December 1942 - Defiant N3458 - Cold Kirby.

Pilot - F/Sgt Alan Frank Martin RAF (932841), aged 21. Buried Manor Park Cemetery, Essex (Square 52/30).


20th January 1943 - Beaufighter T5299 - Westerdale.

Pilot - Sgt Kenneth Plumtree RAFVR (1148810), aged 22. Buried Ordsall Churchyard, Nottinghamshire (J/27).

Observer - Sgt Vivian Robin Day RAFVR (1318791), aged 21. Buried Alderton Churchyard, Glocestershire.


31st January 1943 - Lancaster ED481 - Hawnby.

Pilot - WO2 Frank Goheen Nelson RCAF (R/79092), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 55).

Flight Engineer - Sgt McKeen Allan RCAF (R/64851), aged 33. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 53).

Navigator - Sgt George Francis Done RAFVR (1338185), aged 21. Buried Northwich Cemetery, Cheshire (Non-con Sec/grave 637).

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Allan Arthur Frederick Williams RAFVR (1391272), aged 26. Buried Seasalter Churchyard, Kent (grave I.9).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Henry Summers Jones RAFVR (1192740), aged 21. Buried Sutton Coldfield Cemetery, Warwickshire (C/Non-con/554).

Air Gunner - Sgt Arthur William Butcher RAFVR (1578256), aged 19. Buried Tysoe Chuch Cemetery, Warwickshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Walter George Murton RAFVR (778803), aged 21. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 54).


12th February 1943 - Wellington BJ778 - Bilsdale.

Pilot - Sgt Oscar Philip Edwin Adlam RAF (655624), aged 26. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (O/N/18).

Navigator - F/O Bryan Dunn RAFVR (126469), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (O/O/18).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Charles Ivor Jelley RAFVR (1287313), aged 31. Buried Northwood Cemetery, Middlesex (G/117).

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Arnold Charles Clifford RAFVR (1338085), aged 20. Cremated Bristol Arnos Vale, Gloucestershire (panel 1).

Air Gunner - Sgt William Ball RAFVR (971137), aged 22. Buried Crossens Churchyard, Lancashire (E/27).


28th April 1943 - Beaufighter R2152 - Bilsdale.

Pilot - F/O Peter Ewart Davison RAFVR (127323), aged 20. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (O/T/19).

Navigator - Sgt Eric Norman Sykes RAFVR (1100677), aged 27. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire (O/K/19).


5th May 1943 - Halifax JD105 - Sutton Bank.

Pilot - Sgt Eric Bertram Hill RAFVR (1334006), aged 26. Buried Havelock Cemetery, Middlesex (Bb/26).

Navigator - Sgt Thomas Cox RAFVR (1575418), aged 23. Buried Elmdon Churchyard, Solihull, Warwickshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Hubert Stanley Taylor RAFVR (1134645), aged 22. Buried Talbot Village Churchyard, Dorset (grave 939).

Wireless Operator /Air Gunner - Sgt Herbert Henry Way RAFVR (1295368), aged 22. Buried Brantham Churchyard, Suffolk.

Air Gunner - Sgt George Frederick Ward RAFVR (1641825), aged 19. Buried Onehouse Churchyard, Suffolk.


22nd June 1943 - Beaufighter V8812 - Castleton.

Pilot - Flt Off Frank McLain USAAF (T-000340), of Harding County, South Dakota, USA. Initially buried Brookwood Cemetery, London. Re-buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery (C/2/71.

Passenger - Cpl Walter Tecumseh Dyer Jr USAAF (38115782), of Montague County, Texas, USA. Initially buried Brookwood Cemetery, London, Re-buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery (D/1/58).


5th September 1943 - Halifax DG402 - Farndale.

Instructor Pilot - F/O Jeffery Stuart Thomas RAFVR (126001), aged 22. Buried Crick Churchyard, Northamptonshire.

Student Pilot - Sgt Arthur Cyril Dickinson RAFVR (1576380), aged 21. Buried Nottingham Road Cemetery, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (A/13166).

Navigator - Sgt Ronald William Woods RAFVR (1337005), aged 20. Buried Ilford Barkingside Cemetery, Essex (grave 3230).

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Robert Mercer Todd RCAF (R/145403), aged 21. Buried Carluke, Wilton Cemetery, Lanarkshire, Scotland (D/24).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Frank Johnson RAFVR (1219540), aged 22. Buried Preston New Hall Lane Cemetery, Lancashire (NN/CofE/343).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Albert Walter Salt RAFVR (1316986), aged 21. Buried Witney Burial Ground, Oxfordshire (6/6161).

Air Gunner - Sgt Edward James Hitchcox RAF(AAF) (843241), aged 32. Buried Sutton and Cheam Cemetery, Surrey (Q/188).

Air Gunner - Sgt Wallace John Robert Blakeley RCAF (R/180851), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/B/14).


28th September 1943 - Halifax EB181 - Kepwick.

Pilot - F/O Raymond Harold Highsted RCAF (J/26984), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/C/5).

Navigator - Sgt John Charles Mitchell RAFVR (1397975), aged 27. Cremated Golders Green, Middlesex (panel 3).

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Frederick John Luckett RAFVR (1800889), aged 21. Buried Chatam Cemetery, Kent (FF/1192).

Flight Engineer - F/Sgt John James "Jim" Timmins RAFVR (1777401), aged 19. Buried Winlaton Churchyard & Hookergate Cemetery, County Durham (screen wall/23/8.

Air Gunner - Sgt James Nelson RAFVR (1002811), aged 23. Buried Preston New Hall Lane Cemetery, Lancashire (DD/RC/591).

Air Gunner - Sgt Herbert Percy Durtnall Charlton RAFVR (1318463), aged 22. Buried Godstone Churchyard, Surrey. Died 9th October 1943.


7th October 1943 - Lancaster DS724 - Spaunton.

Civilian - Mr George Strickland, aged 53. Buried Lastingham Churchyard, Yorkshire.


13th November 1943 - Warwick BV336 - Sleights.

Pilot - S/L Edgar Andrew Good RCAF (C/18640), aged 29. Buried Houghton Hall Churchyard, Norfolk.

Navigator - F/O Willis Wylie Coons RCAF (J/17250), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/16).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/O Dennis Maurice Stewart RAFVR (115344), aged 29. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/19).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - WO2 William Vernon Crockett RCAF (R/98771), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/17).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - WO2 Douglas Allan Payton RCAF (R/105266), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/18).

Air Gunner - WO Henry George Richardson RAFVR (1377980), aged 33. Buried Tunbridge Wells Cemetery, Kent.


16th December 1943 - Lancaster DS737 - Murton, Hawnby.

Pilot - F/O Russell Stanley Clark RCAF (J/20183), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire. (C/G/8). Died 20th December 1943.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Kenneth Roy Wood RAFVR (1606542), aged 19. Buried Brighton and Preston Cemetery, Sussex (W/1508).

Navigator - Sgt Timothy I'Anson Dee RAFVR (1459666), aged 20. Buried Croxton, Lincolnshire (grave 1).

Bomb Aimer - F/O Michael Edmund Marynowski RCAF (J/22410), aged 29. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/7).

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Joseph Omer Emile Jules Boily RCAF (R/96901), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/9).


18th January 1944 - Halifax LW334 - Snilesworth.

Pilot - F/O Joseph Pierre Lavallee RCAF (J/10983), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/J/8).

Navigator - F/O Wilfred Leger Boisvert RCAF (J/20970), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/J/7).

Bomb Aimer - F/O Walter Phillips RCAF (J/23210), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/J/10).

Air Gunner - Sgt Guy Henry Hivon RCAF (R/187271), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/J/5).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Richard George Kimball RCAF (R/54130), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/J/9).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - WO1 George Ernest Giff RCAF (R/111125), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/J/6).


29th January 1944 - Halifax HX281 - Cowesby.

Air Gunner - F/O Henry Cox RCAF (J/27318), aged 26. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/J/16).


15th February 1944 - Halifax LW585 - Ravenscar.

Pilot - F/O Hugh Alastair Yuille Barkley RAFVR (131052), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/A/7).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Alfred Elkington RAFVR (1166810), aged 33. Buried Saffron Hill Cemetery, Leicester (C/Cons250).

Navigator - Sgt William Neville Jackson RAFVR (157769), aged 22. Buried Smethwick Uplands Cemetery, Staffordhire (10/C/16100).

Bomb Aimer - F/O Alexander Lindsay Sommerville RCAF (J/23585), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/A/8).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt James Howie Smart RAFVR (984868), aged 22. Buried Dundee Balgay Cemetery, Angus (A/171).

Air Gunner - Sgt Derek Murray Arthur Brown RAFVR (1867211), aged 19. Buried Dunstable Cemetery, Bedfordshire (J/414).

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Graham Leitch RAFVR (1090739), aged 22. Buried Lancaster Scotforth Cemetery (15/160).


18th March 1944 - Halifax LL178 - Kepwick.

Pilot - F/O David Carson Evans RCAF (J/21016), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/D/16).

Pilot - P/O Douglas Andrew Thicke RCAF (J/19621), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/D/14).

Flight Engineer - P/O Geoffrey Hutt RAFVR (176159), aged 21. Buried Thorpe Acre Churchyard, Leicestershire.

Navigator - F/O Edson Gilroy Armour RCAF (C/4685), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/D/15).

Bomb Aimer - P/O Donald Edward Jackson RCAF (J/85182), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/D/12).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Walter Cotton RAFVR (1392583), aged 22. Buried Writtle Road Cemetery, Chelmsford, Essex (5697).

Air Gunner - P/O Joseph Simon Sleigher RCAF (J/86376), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/D/11).

Air Gunner - P/O Robert Elmer Ballentine RCAF (J?/89728), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/D/13).


12th April 1944 - Halifax LW614 - Hackness.

Pilot - F/Sgt Arthur Kenneth Clarke RCAF (J/89944), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/E/20).

Navigator - P/O Thomas Harold Woodard RCAF (J/86325), aged 26. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/E/17).

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Francis Edward Cranch RCAF (J/89914), aged 31. Buried Tottenham and Wood Green Cemetery, London (park sec/2814).

Wireless Operator - Sgt Felix Campbell Hindmarsh RCAF (R/89248), aged 24. Buried Mount Vernon Roman Catholic Cemetery, Edinburgh (O/216).

Air Gunner - P/O David Gordon Bell RCAF (J/88695), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/E/19).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Harvey Halliwell RAFVR (1523472), aged 20. Buried Middleton (St Leonard) Churchyard Extension, Lancashire.

Fitter/Passenger - LAC David Victor MacKenzie RCAF (R/142262), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (F/E/18).


16th May 1944 - Lancaster KB701 - Eastmoors.

Pilot - P/O James Gordon McMaster RCAF (J/19923), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/C/17).

Navigator - P/O Ernest Moir Parsons RCAF (J/92330), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/C/15).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Gwilyn Teifi Jones RAFVR (1709001), aged 21. Buried Glynarthen Congregational Chapelyard, Wales.

Bomb Aimer - 2nd Lt Ernest N Fordham USAAF (0-886275). Buried Madingley Cemetery, Cambridge (E/2/53).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Norman Frederick Alsop RCAF (R/143477), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/C/13).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - WO2 Hubert Gordon Grice RCAF (R/153252), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/C/16).

Air Gunner - Sgt Frank Alexander Milne RCAF (R/199345), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/C/14).


23rd June 1944 - Halifax JD106 - Farndale.

Pilot - F/O Arthur Paul Haacke RCAF (J/25812), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/G/16).

Navigator - F/O Melville Alfred Foy RCAF (J/35518), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/G/13).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Percy Reginald Davis RAFVR (1822877), aged 19. Buried Abney Park Cemetery, London (I.10/RN.60394).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - WO1 Jean Marie Charles Plante RCAF (R/96696), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/G/12).

Bomb Aimer - F/O Herbert William Garwood RCAF (J/29693), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/G/15).

Air Gunner - P/O Leonard Allan Scutt RCAF (J/40007), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (B/G/14).


11th October 1944 - Mosquito DZ543/G - Bransdale.

Pilot - P/O Alfred Robert William Milne RAFVR (186495), aged 22. Buried London Road Cemetery, Mitcham, Surrey (14/8633).

Navigator - P/O Eric Alan Stubbs RAFVR (1323395), aged 22. Buried Stoke New Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey (block E/193.


18th October 1944 - Lancaster NF961 - Scugdale.

Pilot - P/O Dennis Archibald Brammer RAFVR (151568), aged 24. Buried Stone Cemetery, Staffordshire (E/CofE/2647).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Leonard George Cook RAFVR (1813397), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/A/2).

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - W/O Gerald Joseph Davis RAF (515502), aged 34. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/B/19).

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - Sgt William Albert White RAFVR (1600618), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/B/20).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Dennis Gordon Holyoak RAFVR (1218832), aged 21. Buried Yardley Cemetery, Birmingham, Warwickshire (grave 53572).

Air Gunner - Sgt John Christopher Fitzpatrick RAFVR (1575467), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/A/1).

Air Gunner - Sgt Clifford John Evans RAFVR (1312674), aged 35. Buried Bridgend, Glamorganshire, Wales (M/42).


23rd October 1944 - Wellington JA305 - Stape.

Pilot - WO Arthur John Novis RAF (1314740), aged 22. Buried Oystermouth Cemetery, Swansea, Glamorganshire (O/203).

Pilot - F/O Peter McPhillips RAFVR (139834), aged 29. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/B/7).

Pilot - Sgt Philip Ronald Scott RAFVR (1673503), aged 32. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/B/5).

Pilot - F/Sgt David Bruce James Pryde Watson RAFVR (1345463), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/B/6).

Navigator - F/Sgt Mervyn Henry George Lane RAFVR (1587028), aged 21. Buried Wellington Cemetery, Somerset (div 1/1409).


4th December 1944 - Halifax LW278 - Thirlby.

Pilot - P/O Graham Edward McGrath RAAF (428341), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/D/8).

Navigator - Sgt William Randolph Edwards RAFVR (1607130), aged 28. Buried Inverness Tomnahurich Cemetery (G/6/2). Died 8th December 1944.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Joseph Fraser Cromarty RAFVR (1567127), aged 22. Buried Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh (RE/56).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Desmond Maurice Lee RAAF (434687), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/D/10).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Peter Henry Reynolds RAFVR (1850794), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/D/9).


8th January 1945 - Oxford LW903 - Bilsdale.

Pilot - F/O Owen Munro Wovenden Clarson RCAF (J/25795), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/12).

Pilot - F/O Norman Geoffrey Riley RCAF (J/26110), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/13).

Instructor Pilot - F/O John Donald Stewart Barkell RAF (150443), aged 21. Buried Botley Cemetery, Oxford (H/1/194).


14th January 1945 - Halifax MZ466 - Cold Kirby.

Pilot - F/O John Wallace Richard Walsh RCAF (J/38040), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/10).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Kenneth Millard Hillis RCAF (R/254854), aged 30. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/11).

Navigator - F/O Joseph Robert Real Gingras RCAF (T/41544), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/9).

Bomb Aimer - F/O Robert Joseph Dubeau RCAF (J/41523), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/8).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - WO2 Jean Jacques Marcel Simard RCAF (R/125326), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/7).

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Joseph Leon Alfred Chauvin RCAF (R/207284), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/E/6).


15th January 1945 - Halifax LK878 - Felixkirk.

Pilot - F/O Frank William Mooney RCAF (J/38975), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/E/6).

Pilot - F/Sgt Geoffrey Walton RAFVR (1578741), aged 22. Buried Castlechurch Churchyard, Staffordshire (new part/grave 156).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Albert Russel Robson RCAF (R/223493), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/E/8).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Michael "Richard" O'Sullivan RAFVR (1799564), aged 26. Buried Castlemahon Old Graveyard, County Limerick, Ireland.

Navigator - F/O James Alexander McCrea RCAF (J/40900), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/E/4).

Bomb Aimer - F/O Duncan Pearson McGregor RCAF (J/40652), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/E/3).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Joseph Aloysius Savy RCAF (R/202506), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/E/7).

Air Gunner - Sgt Leonard Charles Stavenow RCAF (R/283110), aged 19. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/E/5).

Air Gunner - Sgt Angus John MacDonnell RCAF (R/283114), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/E/9).


31st January 1945 - Liberator 42-51193 - Hutton Buscel. Full details required.

Pilot - 2nd Lt Clifton Frank Lambert USAAF (0-824144). Initially buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery. Re-buried in Nebraska, USA.

Co-Pilot - F/O Willard Woods McCord USAAF (T-003078). Buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery. Plot B, row 4, grave 11. Air Medal, Purple Heart.

Navigator - 2nd Lt Robert Abbott Peabody USAAF (O-2070454). Initially buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery. Re-buried in Massachusetts, USA.

Radio Operator - T/Sgt Paul Norman Hoover USAAF (33715749). Initially buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery. Re-buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California, USA.

Left Waist Gunner - S/Sgt Benny Martin Chmiel USAAF (33920867), aged c20. Initially buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery. Re-buried Trinity Cemetery, California, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Nose Gunner - S/Sgt Glenn Max Whitaker USAAF (37619020). Initially buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery. Re-buried in Missouri, USA.

Tail Gunner - S/Sgt Fain Laver Hickerson USAAF (39916877). Buried Madingley Cemetery, Cambridge (B/5/11). Air Medal, Purple Heart.


5th March 1945 - Halifax NP793 - Hutton le Hole.

Pilot - F/O Humphrey Stanley Watts RCAF (J/37111), aged 28, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/P/16).

Navigator - F/O Frank MacGregor Myers RCAF (J/39365), aged 20, of Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/P/17).

Bomb Aimer - P/O William Albert Way RCAF (J/94149), aged 20, of St Thomas, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/P/15).

Air Gunner - P/O Maxwell Warren Coones RCAF (J/95426), aged 20, of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/P/14).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O Benedict Joseph McCarthy RCAF (J/94463), aged 27, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/P/3).

Flight Engineer - P/O William Albert Togwell RAFVR (195231), aged 25, of Derby. Buried Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby (F/76127).

Air Gunner - P/O Richard Alan Biggerstaff RCAF (J/95425), aged 18, of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/P/13).


15th March 1945 - Halifax NR287 - Scawton.

Pilot - Cmdt George Camille Ostre FFAF (3361), aged 27. Buried France.

Navigator - Cpt Raymond Julien Adolphe Chevalier FFAF (36290), aged 25. Buried France.

Air Gunner - Ltn Antoine Lacharie Chemin FFAF (814), aged 31. Buried France.

Wireless Operator - Adj Henri Chabres FFAF (37435), aged 27. Buried France.

Air Gunner - Sgt Rene Maurius Eugene Ramond FFAF (1423), aged 26. Buried France.


16th September 1945 - Spitfire SM278 - Snilesworth.

Pilot - F/Lt John Burleigh Compton Catterns RAFVR (144938), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/K/13).

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