Yorkshire Air Casualties 1943.

Below is believed to be a complete list of all air fatalities to occur in Yorkshire in 1943 and a link to the incident in which they sadly lost their life. I also include some of the airforce fatalities that were caused by enemy action but there were others who died through natural causes, road accidents, suicide etc but these losses are not included. In time this list will include every airforce death. I believe the list to be complete for deaths caused by aircraft accidents but if any need adding or extra information is known I would be pleased to hear this and add it. As such this is a complete list of all the serious air accidents in Yorkshire.


2nd January 1943 - Halifax R9388 - Cawood.

Pilot - Sgt Thomas Davis Watson RAFVR (1340991), aged 19. Buried Lanark Cemetery, Scotland.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Walter Frank Hewitt RAFVR (1417486), aged 26. Buried Wellington Cemetery, Somerset.

Air Bomber - Sgt Jack Holder Atkinson RAFVR (1391253), aged 33n. Buried Charlton Cemetery, Greenwich, London.


3rd January 1943 - Wellington Z1277 - Dalton airfield.

Groundcrew - AC2 Leonard Charles Keat RAFVR (1418911), aged 20. Buried St.Gluvias Church Cemetery, Penryn, Cornwall.

Groundcrew - AC2 John Morrow RAFVR (1085990), aged 38. Buried Carleton Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire.


4th January 1943 - Beaufighter EL402 - Hunmanby.

Pilot - Sgt James Seatter Dickson RAAF (409206), aged 20. Buried Edinburgh Eastern Cemetery.

Observer - Sgt Joseph Miles RAFVR (992871), aged 22. Buried Leigh Cemetery, Lancashire.


8th January 1943 - Beaufighter JL441 - Bewholme, Catfoss.

Pilot - F/O Reginald Lionel Reddy Hepburn RCAF (J/10647), aged 29. Now buried Crystal Lake Cemetery, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada.

Navigator - P/O Peter Newman Dix RAFVR (127985), aged 23. Buried Bovingdon Churchyard, Hertfordshire.


10th January 1943 - Halifax R9498 - Pocklington airfield.

Ground crew - Cpl Edward Dodds RAFVR (988176), aged 26. Buried Netherton Lane Cemetery, Bedlington, Northumberland.


15th January 1943 - Mustang AG541 - York.

Civilian - Mr George Edward Marshall, aged 40. Buried Christ Churchyard, Pellon, Halifax.


17th January 1943 - Lancaster W4816 - Flamborough.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Dudley Anstruther Corfe RAAF (411124), aged 29. Buried Bubwith Churchyard, Yorkshire.


17th January 1943 - Hurricane KX411 - Sherburn in Elmet.

Pilot - First Officer Alan Rees Colman ATA, aged 42. Cremated Lawns Wood, Leeds, Yorkshire.


20th January 1943 - Beaufighter T5299 - Westerdale, NYM.

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

Navigator / Radar Operator - Sgt Vivian Robin Day RAFVR (1318791), aged 21. Buried Alderton Churchyard, Glocestershire.


21st January 1943 - Halifax DT581 - Hebden Bridge.

Air Bomber - Sgt Allan Campbell RAFVR (1498151), aged 22. Buried Waterhouses Cemetery, Brandon and Byshottles, Durham.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt George Hugh Whyte RAFVR (995669), aged 22. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.


26th January 1943 - P38 Lightning 42-12905 - Slaidburn.

Pilot - 1st Lt Henry Loy Perry USAAF. Aged 21. Buried Graceland Cemetery, Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas, USA.


26th January 1943 - P38 Lightning 42-12928 - Slaidburn.

Pilot - 1st Lt Stephen L White USAAF. Aged 25. Buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio, USA.


28th January 1943 - Halifax W1146 - Thwaite, Swaledale.

Navigator - Sgt Richard Edward Drago RAFVR (1391710), aged 22. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - F/Sgt Joseph Henri Alphonse Beliveau RCAF (R/77189), aged 30. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Dennis Stone RAFVR (1270251), aged 20. Buried Mitcham Road Cemetery, Croydon, Surrey.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt John Ruskin Askew RCAF (R/134417), aged 23. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.


29th January 1943 - Halifax W1185 - Burn airfield.

Civilian - Mr Thomas Edward Potton, aged 56. Buried Selby Cemetery ?


29th January 1943 - Typhoon DN358 - Hutton Cranswick airfield.

Civilian - Mr Wilfred Hall. Aged 43. Burial location unknown.


29th January 1943 - Halifax BB265 - Healaugh.

Pilot - Sgt James Leslie Downs RAFVR (1053593), aged 22. Buried Altrincham Bowden and Hale Cemetery, Cheshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Lewis Rotheray RAFVR (1107777), aged 34. Buried Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford, Yorkshire.


31st January 1943 - Wellington HE173 - Dishforth.

Pilot - F/O Norman Gorick RAFVR (124505), aged 21. Buried Worsley Churchyard, Lancashire.

Navigator - F/O George Wood RCAF (J/10688), aged 26a. Buried Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt William Mossop RAF (632357), aged 24. Buried Meadowfield Cemetery, Brandon and Byshottles, Durham.


31st January 1943 - Lancaster ED481 - Hawnby, NYM.

Pilot - WO2 Frank Goheen Nelson RCAF (R79092), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

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

Navigator - Sgt George Francis Done RAFVR (1338385), aged 21. Buried Northwich Cemetery, Cheshire.

Navigator/Bomber - Sgt Alan Arthur Frederick Williams RAFVR (1391272), aged 26. Buried Seasalter Churchyard, Kent.

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

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

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


3rd Febuary 1943 - Dornier Do217 U5+GL - Muston.

Pilot - Obfr Karl Muller. Missing.

Observer - Fw Heinz Lewald. Missing.

Wireless Operator - Uffz Friedrich Fruth. Missing.

Gunner - Uffz Heinrich Wilmsen. Missing.


5th Febuary 1943 - Mosquito HJ918 - Cawood.

Pilot - S/Ldr William Fleming Carnaby RAF(aux) (90157), aged 28. Buried Newmarket Cemetery, Suffolk.

Navigator - F/O James Hector Lennox Kemp RAFVR (125946), aged 26. Buried Newkilpatrick (or Hillfoot) Cemetery, Glasgow.


5th Febuary 1943 - Beaufighter X8060 - Kilham.

Pilot - F/Sgt Alan Rodway Smith RAFVR (1388945), aged 20. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator/Bomber - Sgt Wilfred Billingham RAFVR (1233699), aged 21. Buried Shiregreen Cemetery, Sheffield, Yorkshire.


10th Febuary 1943 - Tomahawk AH744 - Red Gill Moss, Stainmore.

Pilot - F/O Harry Emmerson Wright RAF (124194), aged 29. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.


11th Febuary 1943 - Halifax W7879 - North Dalton.

Pilot - Sgt Harold Edward Richard Saunders RAFVR (785073), aged 26. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Trevor Charles Coles RAF (569527), aged 22. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O Henry Farquharson-Ley RAFVR (121554), aged 22. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Alvah Wilkie Flansburgh-Washbourne RNZAF (NZ.411796), aged 24. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Henry Edwin Amos RAFVR (1320473), aged 22. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Michael Norman Reilly RAFVR (1559119), aged 20. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frank Cooper RAFVR (1546822), aged 20. Buried Swinton Cemetery, Lancashire.


12th Febuary 1943 - Wellington BJ778 - Chopgate, NYM.

Pilot - Sgt Oscar Philip Edwin Ronald J Adlam RAF (655624), aged 26. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

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

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

Air Bomber - Sgt Arnold Charles Clifford RAFVR (1338085), aged 20. Cremated Bristol Arnos Vale, Gloucestershire.

Rear Gunner - Sgt William Ball RAFVR (971137), aged 22. Buried Crossens Churchyard, Southport, Lancashire.


14th Febuary 1943 - Halifax DT696 - Stillingfleet.

Pilot - F/O Gerald Bevill Herbert RAFVR (116456), aged 20. Buried Theale Churchyard, Berkshire.

Navigator - F/O Reginald Flood RAFVR (124712), aged 26. Buried Staveley Cemetery, Derbyshire.

Navigator - Sgt Arthur Bruce Langeland RAFVR (1260753), aged 26. Buried Staines (London Rd) Cemetery, Middlesex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Sidney William Cains RNZAF (NZ.405472), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Rust Mace RAFVR (1225368), aged 29. Buried North Walsham New Cemetery, Norfolk.

Air Gunner - Sgt Dennis Booker RAF (610543), aged 22. Buried Wybunbury Churchyard, Cheshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt William Ruth RAFVR (1074263), aged 21. Buried Barrow in Furness Cemetery, Lancashire.


15th Febuary 1943 - Wellington HE153 - Warter.

Air Gunner - Sgt Joseph Jeffrie Robson RAFVR (1109207), aged 29. Buried Winlaton Churchyard and Hookergate, Co.Durham.


15th Febuary 1943 - Halifax DT750 - Kirby Wiske.

Air Gunner - F/O James Courtland Parker RCAF (J/11842), aged 21. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th Febuary 1943 - Spitfire BM346 - North Otterington.

Pilot - WO1 Harvey Donald Muirhead RCAF (R/79587), aged 24. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th Febuary 1943 - Spitfire W3839 - North Otterington.

Pilot - F/Sgt Leonard Gilis PAF (P/793791), aged 28. Believed to be still listed as missing.


25th Febuary 1943 - Wellington HE369 - Topcliffe.

Pilot - F/Sgt James Banks RAFVR (1073681), aged 22. Buried New Stevenston RC Cemetery, Lanarkshire.

Bomb Aimer - P/O Robert Stephen Borden Worley RCAF (J/85180), aged 25. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Alfred Albert Wiles RAFVR (1209651), aged 28. Buried Streatham Park Cemetery, Surrey.


26th Febuary 1943 - Wellington HE161 - Middleton on the Wolds.

Pilot - F/O Neville Smart RAFVR (124547), aged 22. Buried Lyndhurst Cemetery, Hampshire.

Navigator - F/O Thomas Donald Gordon RAFVR (120884), aged 22. Buried Cockpen Old Churchyard, Midlothian.

Bomb Aimer/Navigator - F/O Robert Lowell Benson RCAF (J/11949), aged 23. Buried Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt George Alexander Aitken Ranken RAFVR (1052516), aged 21. Buried Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Dennis Herbert RAFVR (1425487), aged 19. Buried Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester.

Passenger - LAC Walter Robinson RAFVR (1073018), aged 32. Buried Castleton Moor Churchyard, Lancashire.


26th February 1943 - Halifax V9988 - Kelfield.

Pilot - Sgt Thomas Melville Law Dingwall RAFVR (1344874), aged 28. Buried Bennochy Cemetery, Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Flight Engineer - Sgt James Isaac Drake RCAF (R/52121), aged 24. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator/Bomber - Sgt Edward John Wood RAFVR (1331631), aged 20. Buried Willesden New Cemetery, Middlesex.


1st March 1943 - Wellington Z1724 - Danby Wiske / Streetlam.

Pilot - P/O Philip Edward Thompson Townsend RCAF (J/16876), aged 21. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Co.Durham.

Navigator - F/Sgt Jack Wreakes RAFVR (1061805), aged 21. Buried Barnsley Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O Samuel Spector RCAF (J/12979), aged 27. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Co.Durham.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O Ernest Maurice Hollowell RAFVR (135418), aged 34. Buried Kingsthorpe Cemetery, Northampton.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O Kenneth Joseph Brown RAFVR (138498), aged 34. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Co.Durham.


2nd March 1943 - Halifax DT770 - Linton on Ouse.

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - Sgt Ronald Edward John White RAF (655917), aged 22. Buried Canford Cemetery, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Arthur Henry Evans DFM RAF (643334), aged 26. Buried Stivichall Churchyard, Coventry, Warwickshire.


5th March 1943 - Wellington BJ755 - East Moor airfield.

Navigator - Sgt Ernest Maxwell Bell RCAF (R/73693), aged 22. Buried Sutton on the Forest Cemetery, Yorkshire.


10th March 1943 - Halifax W1039 - Seaton Ross.

Pilot - Sgt Geoffrey Francis Peck RAFVR (1332790), aged 21. Buried Twickenham Cemetery, Middlesex.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Archie Allen Muirhead RCAF (R/89110), aged 24. Buried Reay New Cemetery, Caithness.

Navigator / Bomber - Sgt William Browning RAF (657584), aged 31. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator / Bomber - Sgt Basil Graham Hart RAFVR (1335639), aged 21. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Alfred Norman Boreham RAFVR (1366071), aged 32. Cremated Warriston, Edinburgh.

Air Gunner - Sgt Denis Cyril Retter RAFVR (1339894), aged 20. Buried Whimple New Churchyard, Devon.


10th March 1943 - Halifax W1241 - Leeming airfield.

Pilot - P/O Arnold Belden Shives RCAF (J/13020), aged 24. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - P/O William George McLaughlin RCAF (J/13807), aged 21. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Lawrence Taylor RCAF (R/77972), aged 25. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Roy Stanley Greengrass RCAF (R/106204), aged 19. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt George Edward Clarke RCAF (R/10118), aged 23. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Alexander Patterson Morris Aitken RCAF (R/86972), aged 20. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt John Henry McGinn RCAF (R/154434), aged 22. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Albert Wordie Leckie RCAF (R/139393), aged 25. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.


20th March 1943 - Lancaster ED446 - Atwick.

Pilot - Sgt Ivan Henry Hazard CGM RAFVR (1313768), aged 22. Buried Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.

Pilot - F/O Raymond Henry Thompson RAFVR (119076), aged 23. Buried Spalding Cemetery, Lincolnshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt James Fortune Bain CGM RAF (654077), aged 21. Buried Cambuslang (Westburn) Cemetery, Lanarkshire.

Navigator - P/O William Ernest Williams CGM RAFVR (144449), aged 33. Buried Llandudno (Gt Orme's Head) Cemetery, Caernarvonshire.

Navigator - F/O William Corfield Morris RAFVR (120570), aged 32. Buried Thornton Garden of Rest, Lancashire.

Observer - Sgt Lawrence Edward Victor Webb RAFVR (1381435), aged 23. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Harry Alfred Rideout RAFVR (798620), aged 21. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Terence Jenkins RAFVR (1314715), aged 22. Buried Maesteg Cemetery, Glamorganshire.


22nd March 1943 - Mosquito DD750 - Silsden.

Pilot - Sgt John Hudson Staples RAFVR (656008), aged 28. Buried Llaniestyn (St Iestyn) Churchyard, Anglesey, Wales.

Navigator / Wireless Operator - Sgt Ralph Ernest Andrews RAFVR (1576326), aged 20. Buried Stoke-on-Trent (Hartshill) Cemetery (Grave 7142).


24th March 1943 - Halifax BB218 - Bickerton.

Pilot - Sgt Frank Heydon Thomas RAFVR (1238300), aged 21. Cremated Northampton Crematorium.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Rino Guiseppe Arturo Platoni RAFVR (1455822), aged 21. Buried St.Pancras Cemetery, London.

Navigator - Sgt Kenneth William Peverley RAFVR (1334693), aged 19. Cremated Harrogate Crematorium, Yorkshire.


29 March 1943 - Halifax JB848 - Pocklington.

Pilot - WO2 William Phelps Comrie RCAF (R/95452), aged 27. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer? - Sgt William J McGrath RAFVR (1365664), aged 23. Buried Glasgow (St.Peter's) RC Cemetery.

Navigator - F/O Douglas William Francis Harper RAFVR (127313), aged 22. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O William Hugh Jenkins RAFVR (129161), aged 34. Cremated Perry Bar, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Frank William Dorrington RAFVR (1330802), aged 23. Buried The Downs Cemetery, Brighton, Sussex.

Air Gunner - Sgt John King RAFVR (1609738), aged 21. Buried East London Cemetery, Plaistow, Essex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Myles Christian Campbell Squiers RAFVR (1478651), aged 20. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


29th March 1943 - Lancaster ED552 - South Cliffe.

Pilot - P/O Wallace Thomas Hobday RAFVR (126646), aged 22. Buried Yardley Cemetery, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Leslie Maydew RAFVR (1500660), aged 22. Buried Wetley Rocks Churchyard, Staffordshire.

Navigator - F/O Laurence Waite RAFVR (125423), aged 29. Buried Far Headingley Churchyard, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Bernard Stanley Ransom RAFVR (1322952), aged 20. Buried Ann's Hill Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Ronald Waterhouse RAFVR (1079709), aged 22. Buried New Mills Churchyard, Derbyshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas James Knock RAFVR (1383477), aged 21. Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


3rd April 1943 - Halifax JB867 - Killed by flak / Pocklington airfield.

Rear Gunner - F/O Thomas McLoughlin RAFVR (131658), aged 29. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.


4th April 1943 - Beaufighter T5152 - Catfoss airfield.

Pilot - F/O Denis Patrick O'Regan RAF (46537), aged 23. Buried Ardfield Burial Ground, Co.Cork, Ireland.


4th April 1943 - Halifax DT666 - Carlton, Selby.

Pilot - Sgt Charles Edward Pheloung RNZAF (NZ.415200), aged 25. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Frank Henry Knight RAFVR (1380457), aged 31. Buried Hills Cemetery, Horsham, Sussex.

Air Gunner - Sgt John James Merritt RAFVR (1252255), aged 21. Buried Beaufort Churchyard, Monmouthshire.


4th April 1943 - Halifax HR754 - Goxhill, Hornsea.

Pilot - Sgt John Keedwell RAFVR (925015), aged 29. Buried Slimbridge Churchyard, Gloucestershire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Robert Franks RAFVR (998499), aged 35. Buried Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/O John Burgess RAFVR (128714), aged 21. Buried Carnmoney Cemetery, Co.Antrim.

Air Gunner - Sgt Reginald Victor Loose RAFVR (1395954), aged 20. Buried Staines Cemetery, Middlesex.


6th April 1943 - Halifax DG413 - Hutton Cranswick.

Pilot - P/O Stockton Gowland Rawling DFC RAFVR (136317), aged 19. Buried Greenbank Cemetery, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Pilot - Sgt Richmond Brough MiD RNZAF (NZ.416084), aged 25. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot - Sgt Robert James Tarren RAFVR (1238778), aged 21. Buried Finstall Churchyard, Worcestershire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Peter Arnaud Tinch RAF (616470), aged 22. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Vernon Clifford Burt RAF (524215), aged 25. Buried South Ealing Cemetery, Middlesex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Charles Phillip Sheppard RAFVR (1267634), aged 20. Buried Plumstead Cemetery, London.

Air Gunner - Sgt David John Rees RAFVR (1314623), aged 25. Buried Goytre Cemetery, Port Talbot, Glamorganshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Raymond Lawrence RAF (591258), aged 21. Buried Acklam Cemetery, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Harold Widdrington O'Connor RAFVR (1670354), aged 25. Buried Mere Knolls Cemetery, Sunderland, Durham.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick Hensher Warren RAFVR (1315426), aged 20. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - P/O Ralph Ernest Jeffery DFM RAFVR (142511), aged 22. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger? - AC2 Donald William Cresswell RAFVR (1678544), aged 18. Buried Broom Leys Cemetery, Coalville, Leicestershire.


6th April 1943 - Wellington HE743 - Croft.

Pilot - Sgt Albert Charles Ash RCAF (R/118066), aged 21. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt James Keith Dodds RAFVR (1126307), aged 21. Buried Stranton Cemetery, Hartlepool, Durham.


8th April 1943 - Mosquito DD747 - Goole.

Pilot - F/Sgt Terence Emile Procureur RAFVR (1294007), aged 21. Buried Ipswich Old Cemetery, Suffolk.

Observer - Sgt Gerald Henry Wheatland RAFVR (1338467), aged 21. Buried Heston Churchyard, Middlesex.


11th April 1943 - Wellington BJ786 - Fountains Abbey.

Pilot - F/Sgt Frank Edward Rogers RCAF (R/131020), aged 19. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt Joseph Onesime Thomas Ange Albert Gerard Toupin RCAF (R/117511), aged 27. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt Alexander Neil MacLellan RCAF (R/135643), aged 27. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Richard Archibald Killham RCAF (R/136318), aged 20. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Donald Henry Smith RCAF (R/127875), aged 20. Buried Warwick Cemetery (Sec 104, grave 10).

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Anthony Alloysius Dorzek RCAF (R/135853), aged 27. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


13th April 1943 - Lancaster ED807 - Bursea.

Pilot - Sgt Thomas Fee RAFVR (1527088), aged 32. Buried Whitehaven Cemetery, Cumbria (5/J/50). Died 13th April 1943.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Vernon Roderick Ager RAF (576419), aged 19. Buried Holme on Spalding Moor churchyard, Yorkshire. Died 13th April 1943.

Navigator - F/O Victor Cook RAFVR (129353), aged 21. Buried Chesham burial ground, Buckinghamshire. Died 14th April 1943.

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - Sgt Robert Brough RAFVR (1390807), aged 29. Buried Dunfermline Cemetery, Fife. Died 14th April 1943.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Smith RAFVR (1028126), aged 24. Buried Chorley Cemetery, Lancashire. Died 14th April 1943.

Air Gunner - Sgt George William John Davison RAFVR (1606469), aged 19. Buried Streatham Cemetery, London. Died 13th April 1943.

Air Gunner - Sgt Jack Beatson RAFVR (1456992), aged 21. Buried Shiregreen Cemetery, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Died 14th April 1943.


13th April 1943 - Whitley EB346 - Towthorpe Wold.

Pilot - F/O Lawrence Higgin Page RAF (47738), aged 24. Buried Wavertree Churchyard, Liverpool. Lancashire.

Pilot - Sgt Henry Basil Harrison RAFVR (1333052), aged 22. Buried Hexham Cemetery, Northumberland.

Observer - Sgt Edward George Siberry RAFVR (129618), aged 27. Buried Bexhill Cemetery, Sussex.

Observer - Sgt Arthur Wesley Frapwell RAFVR (1316158), aged 22. Buried Frome Churchyard, Somerset.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Alan Edward Martin RAFVR (1210368), aged 21. Buried Watchet Churchyard, Somerset.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Daniel Blake McCartney RAFVR (1190922), aged 20. Buried Dudley (Holly Hall) Churchyard, Worcestershire.

Air Gunner? - Sgt Sydney Levitus RAFVR (658924), aged 24. Buried Garnethill Hebrew Burial Ground, Glasgow.


14th April 1943 - Wellington HZ303 - Huntington, York.

Pilot - F/O Charles William Gilbert Gray RAFVR (124868), aged 26. Cremated Edinburgh Warriston Crematorium.

Navigator - F/O Leslie Alexander Walker RAFVR (129766), aged 21. Buried Aberdeen Springbank Cemetery.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Cyril Marr RAFVR (1095055), aged 22. Buried Byker and Heaton Cemetery, Newcastle.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Willie Jackson Whittaker RAFVR (1219858), aged 21. Buried Bingley Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Rear Gunner - F/Sgt Robert Ernest Clark RCAF (R/50428), aged 21. Buried Sutton on the Forest Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Civilian - Miss Jane Raby Freer, aged 90. Buried Huntington Churchyard, York.

Civilian - Mrs Henrietta Morley, aged 73. Buried Huntington Churchyard, York.

Civilian - Miss Clara Jane Pickard, aged 71. Buried Huntington Churchyard, York.


18th April 1943 - Halifax R9448 - Crockey Hill.

Instructor Pilot - S/Ldr Howard Stephenson Hill DFC RCAF (J/15522), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot U/T - F/Sgt Ernest William Pitt RCAF (R/116161), aged 21. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot U/T - WO2 Robert Lorne Locker RCAF (R/70722), aged 23. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot (passenger) - F/O Brian Tristram Davies RAFVR (125498), aged 21. Buried Weston-super-Mare Cemetery, Somerset.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Frank Oliver Bonham RAFVR (904699), aged 22. Buried Hertfordbridge Cemetery, Hertfordshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Leonard Gunn RAFVR (927129), aged 27. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Eric Alston Clyde RAFVR (924233), aged 21. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Horace Daniel Eugene Messier RCAF (R/108499), aged 30. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


21st April 1943 - Beaufighter T4757 - Catfoss airfield.

Pilot - F/O John Gerald Rappoport RAFVR (117641), aged 28. Buried Rusper Churchyard, Sussex.

Navigator - Sgt John Henry Hicken RAFVR (1143768), aged 21. Buried Little Aston Churchyard, Staffordshire.


27th April 1943 - Wellington (ID unknown) - Dishforth airfield.

Ground crew - LAC Frank Langdale RCAF (R/157801), aged 24. Buried Wolsingham Churchyard, Co.Durham.


28th April 1943 - Beaufighter R2152 - Urra Moor, NYM.

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

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


28th April 1943 - Master DL577 - Wickersley.

Pilot - F/O Jozef Kaminski PAF (P/1758), aged 28. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Passenger - LAC Jan Talik PAF (P/784257), aged 24. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


3rd May 1943 - Halifax DT729 - Dunscroft.

Pilot - Sgt William Greenhorn RAFVR (1345865), aged 30. Buried Selby Cemetery, North Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Alfred George Shelton Corps RAFVR (1017680), aged 22. Buried Kirk Hammerton Churchyard, North Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Joseph Salad RAFVR (1130523), aged 27. Buried Selby Cemetery, North Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Norman Frederick Owen RAFVR (1269604), aged 21. Buried St.Pancras Cemetery, Middlesex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick James Lauder RAFVR (1331489), aged 22. Buried Hayes Churchyard, Middlesex.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Jack Allen Ventham RAFVR (1390418), aged 29. Buried Camberwell New Cemetery, London.

Passenger - Cpl Gordon Victor Jones RAFVR (942633), aged 25. Buried Wallasey Cemetery, Cheshire.


5th May 1943 - Halifax DG419 - Fridaythorpe.

Pilot - Sgt Victor Edward Betterton RAFVR (1387742), aged 32. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt James Chisnall RAFVR (1530103), aged 22s. Buried St Helens Cemetery, Lancashire.

Navigator - Sgt Francis Henry Brown RNZAF (NZ.39740), aged 27. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer / Navigator - Sgt Robert Deacon RAFVR (1049243), aged 19. Buried Barnard Castle Church Cemetery, Durham.

Air Gunner - Sgt Harold Rowbottom RAFVR (1094047), aged 20. Buried New Wortley Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Alfred Warner Oakley RAFVR (757915), aged 22. Cremated Dundee, Angus, Scotland.


5th May 1943 - Halifax JD105 - Hood Hill, NYM.

Second Pilot - Sgt Eric Bertram Hill RAFVR (1334006), aged 26. Buried Havelock Churchyard, Middlesex.

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

Navigator / Bomber - Sgt Hubert Stanley Taylor RAFVR (1334645), aged 22. Buried Talbot Village Churchyard, Dorset.

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.


5th May 1943 - Lancaster ED835 - North Cave.

Pilot - WO Gerald Hough RAFVR (1058798), aged 21. Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Herbert Cecil Hooper RAF (574248), aged 20. Buried Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, Devon.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/O Frederick William Gates DSO RAFVR (126623), aged 30. Buried Sutton Cemetery, Surrey.


5th May 1943 - Lancaster W4863 - Scorton.

Pilot - Sgt James Ronald Browning RNZAF (NZ.413376), aged 27. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt James Hornby Stretton RAFVR (949546), aged 23. Buried Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire.

Observer - Sgt Richard Allison RAFVR (953183), aged 30. Buried Stranton Cemetery, Hartlepool, Durham.

Air Gunner - Sgt Martin David Davis RCAF (R/140082), aged 22. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.


13th May 1943 - Halifax HR695 - Over Germany, aircraft returned to Yorkshire.

Mid Upper Gunner - Sgt Allan Frank McCoy RCAF (R/123498), aged 21. Commemorated Runnymede Memorial.


13th May 1943 - Wellington HZ530 - Towthorpe, Driffield.

Pilot - F/Sgt Charlie Wilson Trinder RAAF (411970), aged 29. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Sgt Harry Russell RAFVR (1320125), aged 20. Buried Chestnut New Burial Ground, Hertfordshire.

Navigator - Sgt Douglas Arthur Mark Davidson RNZAF (NZ.411865), aged 23. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Daniel Anthony Traill RAF (657397), aged 23. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Ernest Gordon Leonard Giggs RAFVR (1323461), aged 20. Buried Mortlake Cemetery, Surrey.


14th May 1943 - Spitfire W3774 - Kirkby Wharfe.

Pilot - P/O Adam Tadeusz Habela PAF (P/1642), aged 26. Buried Northwood Cemetery, London.


14th May 1943 - Spitfire P8746 - Kirkby Wharfe.

Pilot - Sgt Jan Stanislaw Osoba PAF (P/780747), aged 22. Buried Layton Cemetery, Blackpool.


14th May 1943 - Hurricane HV894 - Bedale.

Pilot - F/O Gilbert Anthony Warde RAFVR (124192), aged 21. Buried Catterick Cemetery, North Yorkshire.


17th May 1943 - Anson EG269 - Tadcaster.

Pilot - P/O Harry Rhodes RAFVR (144038), aged 23. Buried Birkdale Cemetery, Lancashire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Percy Annetts RAFVR (1337453), aged 20. Buried Drybrook Churchyard, Gloucestershire.

Wireless Operator - Sgt Gerald Henry Charles Watkins RAFVR (1128063), aged 22. Buried Stoke Goldington Churchyard, Buckinghamshire.

Trainee Navigator - Sgt Jiri Ervin Bleier RAFVR (788340), aged 28. Buried Harrogate Stonefell Cemetery, North Yorkshire.

Trainee Navigator - LAC Peter Geoffrey Wilson RAFVR (1624056), aged 20. Cremated Manchester.


18th May 1943 - Tiger Moth N9189 - Bellasize.

Pilot - Sgt John James Cooper RAFVR (1214085), aged 20. Buried Armley Cemetery, Leeds, West Yorkshire (Sec.F/Grave 871).


18th May 1943 - Tiger Moth T7777 - Bellasize.

Flying Instructor - F/Lt Kenneth Reavley Mason RAFVR (66563), aged 29. Buried Elloughton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flying Instructor - F/O Harold Rathbone RAFVR (112726), aged 31. Buried Hull Western Synagogue Cemetery, Yorkshire.


22nd May 1943 - Wellington HE177 - East Moor airfield.

Pilot - F/Sgt Alexander James Simpson RCAF (R/144570), aged 20. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt Stanley Douglas Frewen RCAF (R/120897), aged 23a. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Bomber - F/O Arlie Berton Douglas RCAF (J/20854), aged 31. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Alfred Joseph Grenon RCAF (R/199705), aged 25a. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


24th May 1943 - Lancaster W4303 - Humbleton.

Pilot - P/O Geoffrey Nigel James Bryde RAAF (414195), aged 30. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer? - Sgt Colin Alexander Nelson RAAF (5553), aged 23. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - P/O John Albert Walker DFM RAFVR (145851), aged 24. Buried Layton Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire.

Navigator - F/O Fulliott Victor Polhill Turner RAFVR (130700), aged 28. Buried Hellingly Cemetery, Sussex.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt James Henry Roy Harper RAFVR (1393719). Buried Streatham Park Cemetery, Surrey.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Neill McMullan RAFVR (1088074), aged 21. Buried Belfast City Cemetery, Northern Ireland.

Air Gunner - F/O Lancelot Herbert Parker RAFVR (132041), aged 27. Buried Bath (St.Michael's) Cemetery, Somerset.

Air Gunner - Sgt Donald Fred Smith RAFVR (1272560), aged 22. Buried Pentlow Churchyard, Essex.


25th May 1943 - Halifax L9571 - Tockwith.

Pilot - F/O Alastair Ian Taylor Moir DFC RAFVR (137208), aged 23. Buried Stonefall Cemetery, Harrogate, Yorkshire.

Pilot - F/Sgt Daniel Edward Veness RAAF (411620), aged 32. Buried Stonefall Cemetery, Harrogate, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Frederick William Barns RAFVR (927683), aged 34. Buried Stonefall Cemetery, Harrogate, Yorkshire.


28th May 1943 - Mosquito DZ264 - Church Fenton.

Pilot - S/Ldr David Evans RAF (42491), aged 23. Buried Bebington Churchyard, Cheshire.


30th May 1943 - Wellington HE553 - Reeth.

Pilot - Sgt Fred Thompson Dingwall RCAF (J/17798), aged 29. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot - F/Lt Leslie Edwin Blight RCAF (J/3989), aged 25. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.


9th June 1943 - Hudson P5134 - North Cowton.

Sgt Francis Gordon Haydon RAFVR (1443638), aged 31. Buried Badley Churchyard, Suffolk.

Navigator - Sgt John James Mangum RAFVR (1332282), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Norman Joseph Collins RNZAF (NZ.415992), aged 27. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Rex Donald Wallace RNZAF (NZ.414533), aged 26. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


19th June 1943 - Halifax JB863 - Heslington, York.

Pilot - F/Sgt Norman Reginald Holledge RAFVR (1331061), aged 22. Buried Hornchurch Cemetery, Essex.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Albert Henry Gurry RAFVR (1284804), aged 22. Buried Ilford Churchyard, Essex.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt William Cooke RAFVR (1339096), aged 21. Buried Windsor Cemetery, Berkshire.

Navigator - F/O Arnold William Stephen Young RAFVR (130565), aged 21. Buried Wembley (Alperton) Burial Ground, London.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Francis Danby RAFVR (1310902), aged 26. Buried Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.

Mid Upper Gunner - Sgt Desmond Henry Clinch RAFVR (1352806), aged 21. Buried Caerphilly (Penyrheol) Cemetery, Wales.

Rear Gunner - Sgt Ronald Edwin MacDonald RCAF (R/131442), aged 20. Buried at Pocklington Burial Ground, Yorkshire.


22nd June 1943 - Beaufighter V8812 - Castleton, NYM.

Pilot - Flt Off Frank McLain USAAF (T-000340). Initially buried Brookwood Cemetery, London. Re-buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery (Plot C, Row 2, Grave 71).

Passanger/Mechanic - Cpl Walter Tecumseh Dyer Jr USAAF (38115782). Initially buried Brookwood Cemetery, London, Re-buried Cambridge Madingley Cemetery (Plot D, Row 1, Grave 58).


27th June 1943 - Wellington BJ965 - Embsay.

Pilot - F/O Frederick Stuart Taylor RCAF (J/20217), aged 26. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Sgt William Sydney Hugh Menzies RAFVR (919401), aged 25. Died of injuries 2nd July 1943. Buried Sleaford Cemetery, Lincolnshire.


29th June 1943 - Wellington DT553 - Thornton le Beans.

Navigator - P/O Richard Eric Nutter RCAF (J/17555), aged 29. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Raymond Crookes RAFVR (1455496), aged 21. Buried Crookes Cemetery, Sheffield, Yorkshire (Sec JJ, grave 6101).


8th July 1943 - Halifax BB308 - Marston Moor airfield.

Ground casualty - ACW2 Jean Scargill WAAF (2110495), aged 20. Buried Kirkleatham Churchyard, Yorkshire.


11th July 1943 - Martinet HP269 - Hutton Cranswick.

Pilot - F/Sgt Willis Henry Armstrong RCAF (R/112872), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Winch Operator? - Cpl Raymond Cooper RAF (632705), aged 25. Buried Outwell Cemetery, Norfolk.


12th July 1943 - Lancaster W4777 - Thorganby.

Pilot - Sgt Maurice Gillman Eastlake RAFVR (1381717), aged 28. Cremated Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Henry Alexander Lloyd RAFVR (1716240), aged 20. Buried East London Cemetery, Plaistow, Essex.

Navigator - F/O James Hedley Tremear RAFVR (121339), aged 36. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt William Edmund Leslie Harrison RAFVR (943302), aged 22. Buried Filey Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Gordon Harry Peck RAFVR (1807584), aged 19. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.


12th July 1943 - Halifax DG404 - Pateley Bridge.

Navigator - Sgt Thomas Henry Woollard RAFVR (1389559), aged 28. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Thomas Reid RAFVR (1560929), aged 20. Buried Eastwood Cemetery, Glasgow.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Godley RAFVR (1074276), aged 23. Buried Cumbernauld Cemetery.


14th July 1943 - Dornier U5+IL - over Hull.

Wireless Operator - Uffz Hugo Pankuweit, aged 22. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire.


14th July 1943 - Spitfire X4818 - Goole.

Acting S/Ldr Allan Everitt Johnson RAF (41425), aged 22. Buried Kirton-in-Lindsey Cemetery, Lincolnshire.


16th July 1943 - Wellington JA119 - Malton.

Pilot - F/O James Elmer Morris RCAF (J/14326), aged 28. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt Gordon Brydon Nesbitt RCAF (R/123738), aged 26. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Joseph William Campbell RCAF (R/142015), aged 25. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Harold Victor Baldwin RAF (1293595), aged 20. Buried Durrington Cemetery, Worthing, Sussex.

Rear Gunner - F/Sgt Vernon Francis Rector RCAF (R/113223), aged 23. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Ground Crew/Passenger - LAC Thomas Melville Kearns RCAF (111354), aged 23. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.


24th July 1943 - Halifax BB285 - Spofforth.

Pilot - Sgt Edward Leslie Byrne RAFVR (1388520), aged 22. Buried Edmonton Cemetery, Middlesex.

Flight Engineer - F/Sgt Cyril Brynmore Tingle RAFVR (1654833), aged 19. Buried Barking (Rippleside) Cemetery, Essex.

Navigator - Sgt William George Richardson RAFVR (1443062), aged 22. Buried Uttoxeter Cemetery, Staffordshire.

Bomb Aimer? - Sgt John Alexander MacLean Weir RAFVR (982527), aged 26. Buried Craigton Cemetery, Glasgow.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Colin William Nowell RAFVR (1223860), aged 22. Buried Sutton in Ashfield Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Air Gunner - WO2 Joseph Jean Duclos RCAF (R/8009A), aged 24. Buried Newport Cemetery, Lincoln.


25th July 1943 - Halifax R9420 - Linton on Ouse.

Pilot - F/O William John Russell Green RCAF (J/20077), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt George William Stevenson RAFVR (1380989), aged 25. Buried Beath Cemetery, Fife.

Navigator - F/Sgt William Bernard Wheeler RCAF (R/128074), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Walter Bruce Kaiser RCAF (R/101947), aged 25. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt James Peter Hardy Ingle RAFVR (1435162), aged 21. Buried Waltonwrays Cemetery, Skipton, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - P/O Samuel Thomas Snead RCAF (J/26839), aged 31. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - P/O William Dunne Coldicott McKercher RCAF (J/24801), aged 21. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


26th July 1943 - Dornier U5+AN - Long Riston.

Pilot - Uffz Hans-Ulrich Colwe. Aged 22. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Observer - Uffz Fritz Pilger. Aged 21. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Uffz Helmut Gabriel. Aged 24. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Gunner - Uffz Rudolf Trodler. Aged 24. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.


26th July 1943 - Beaufighter JL548 - Sigglesthorne.

Pilot - F/O John Stuart Wallis RAF (50480), aged 33. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O Neville Frederick Rogers RAFVR (151030), aged 19. Buried Haslemere Churchyard, Surrey.


26th July 1943 - Halifax JD208 - Lowthorpe, Driffield.

Pilot - F/O Ronald William Buckland RAFVR (133113), aged 21. Cremated Golders Green, Middlesex.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Roderick John Charles Dean RAFVR (1605270), aged 17. Buried Frindsbury Churchyard, Kent.

Navigator - F/O Walter Roy Tidball RAFVR (132746), aged 22. Buried Witheridge Chapelyard, Devon.

Bomb Aimer - P/O Douglas Arthur Dyball RAFVR (139848), aged 22. Buried Harrow Weald Cemetery, Middlesex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Harry Scott RAFVR (1346873), aged 21. Buried Inverurie Cemetery, Aberdeenshire

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Gates RAFVR (1483399), aged 20. Buried Carnmoney Churchyard, Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Air Gunner - Sgt George William Yare RAFVR (1049789), aged 21. Buried Seaham Cemetery, Co.Durham.


31st July 1943 - Beaufighter T4782 - Catfoss airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Robert Jewett Dickson RAFVR (1345887), aged 22. Buried Kirkintilloch Cemetery, Dunbartonshire.


6th August 1943 - Halifax HR783 - Crockey Hill.

Pilot - P/O Cecil Agar Lambert DFM RAFVR (146864), aged 29. Buried Reigate Cemetery, Surrey.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Edward Watson RAFVR (1127753), aged 23. Buried Castletown Cemetery, Hylton, Sunderland.

Navigator - P/O Jack Austin Wilkins RAFVR (146788), aged 22. Buried Bristol Greenbank Cemetery, Gloucestershire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Harry John Evans RAFVR (1551799), aged 22. Buried East Wymess Cemetery, Fifeshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Gerald Alfred Warren RAFVR (1465627), aged 21. Buried Thundersley Churchyard, Essex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Charles Martin Johnson RCAF (R/83461), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger - LAC Willie Rees RAFVR (1130993), aged 29. Buried Rhondda (Ferndale) Cemetery, Glamorganshire.


10th August 1943 - Halifax JB794 - Pocklington.

Pilot - F/Sgt Alan Everard Storey RAFVR (1145662), aged 20. Buried Prestbury Churchyard, Cheshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Frederick Rosslyn Newman RAFVR (1266270), aged 29. Buried Worting Churchyard, Hampshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Reginald Hubert Bowers RAFVR (1402265), aged 20. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.


11th August 1943 - Halifax JD151 - South Duffield.

Flight Engineer - F/Sgt William John Brown RAF (616402), aged 22. Died 13th August 1943. Buried Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool.

Navigator - P/O Harry Binns RAFVR (149339), aged 35. Buried Birkdale Cemetery, Lancashire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Gillicker RAF (547631), aged 23. Buried Warrington Cemetery, Lancashire.


11th August 1943 - Halifax DK245 - Killed by flak on Ops.

Second Pilot - Sgt Herbert Thomas Whittlesea RAFVR (1392934), aged 23. Buried Edmonton Cemetery, Middlesex.


12th August 1943 - Mosquito DD736 - Sigglesthorne.

Pilot - F/Sgt Julian N Nowak PAF (P/783577), aged 36. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - WO Charles Godfrey Kendall RAFVR (1293123), aged 34. Buried Sutton Cemetery, Surrey.


19th August 1943 - Halifax R9497 - Copmanthorpe.

Pilot - Sgt Terrance Claude Ashley RAFVR (1337699), aged 20. Buried Barnstaple Cemetery, Devon.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Thomas Robert McMeekan RAFVR (1568151), aged 20. Buried Riddrie Park Cemetery, Glasgow.

Navigator - Sgt Albert James Allan RAFVR (1459143), aged 23. Buried Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.

Bomb Aimer - F/O Robert Frank Walker RAFVR (129607), aged 19. Buried City of London Cemetery, Manor Park, London.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Joseph O'Brien RAFVR (1030890), aged 24. Buried Templehollow Graveyard, Ballina, Tipperary, Ireland.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick C Cosford RAFVR (1163277), aged 23. Buried Dallington Cemetery, Northampton.

Air Gunner - Sgt Douglas Leonard Herbert Wooster RAFVR (1603969), aged 19. Buried Alperton Burial Ground, Wembley, London.


19th August 1943 - Halifax DG420 - Copmanthorpe.

Pilot - F/O Murray Wallace Bonner RCAF (J/21902), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot - Sgt Donald Charles Ravine RAF (569748), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Norman John Hart RAFVR (1194241), aged 22. Buried Hampreston Churchyard, Dorset.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Howison Townsend RAFVR (1568521), aged 20. Buried Dundee Eastern Necropolis, Angus.

Wireless Operator - Sgt Peter Cross Parrott RAFVR (1174427), aged 23. Buried Sunbury New Cemetery, Middlesex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick David Read RAFVR (1323650), aged 19. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Albert Edward Gilverson RCAF (R/184720), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


19th August 1943 - Lancaster W4883 - Lindholme airfield.

Air Gunner - Sgt Edwin James Christopher Stiles RAFVR (1391941), aged 21. Buried Streatham Park Cemetery, Surrey.


19th August 1943 - Wellington HE420 - Finningley airfield.

Wireless Mechanic - LAC Ronald Cox RAFVR (1542162), aged 35. Buried Newbold Churchyard, Derbyshire (A.Old, Row 32, Grave 3).


24th August 1943 - Halifax JB874 - Tickton, Beverley.

Pilot - F/O Charles James Keirl RAFVR (133026), aged 23. Buried Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Ernest Bertram Frank Scorey RAFVR (1628705), aged 19. Buried South Stoneham Cemetery, Hampshire.

Navigator - F/O Harry William Baylis RAFVR (136528), aged 25. Buried Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley, East Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Henry Raymond Jones RAFVR (1419935), aged 21. Buried Pen-y-Groes Chapelyard, Carmarthenshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Charles Henry Hilton RAFVR (1208584), aged 29. Buried Yeldon Churchyard, Bedfordshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick Roberts RAF (649066), aged 21. Buried Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.


24th August 1943 - Halifax BB373 - Tickton, Beverley.

Pilot - Sgt George Goodall Bell RNZAF (NZ.42361), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - F/Sgt Ronald Reid Gilbert RAFVR (156089), aged 21. Buried Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Albert Eric Lester RAFVR (1214074), aged 21. Buried Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby.

Navigator - P/O Edward Platt RAFVR (137558), aged 29. Buried Bury Cemetery, Lancashire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt William Leslie Clarke RAFVR (1439792), aged 21. Buried Newton le Willows Cemetery, Lancashire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Arthur Lee RAFVR (1134570), aged 22. Buried Salford Cemetery, Lancashire.

Air Gunner - Sgt David Claude Melville Walton RAAF (412043), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Robert Bernard Fletcher RAFVR (1811231), aged 19. Buried Morden Cemetery, Surrey.


26th August 1943 - Halifax DT802 - Topcliffe airfield.

Flight Engineer - Sgt William John Miller RCAF (R/91771), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Wesley Earl McDonald RCAF (R/180883), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Fred Arthur Cook RAFVR (851872), aged 25. Buried Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby. Died 29th August 1943.


29th August 1943 - Oxford DF471 - Great Coum, Pennines.

Pilot - Sgt Robert Lloyd Henry RCAF (J/18530), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Ground Crew / Engine Mechanic - Cpl William Phillip Holt RCAF (R/76130), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Ground Crew / Engine Mechanic - Cpl James Edmond Keighan RCAF (R/84478), aged 37. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Ground Crew / Engine Mechanic - LAC Dennis William Davies RCAF (R/113216), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


31th August 1943 - Wellington HZ531 - Goole.

Pilot - F/Sgt Mervin John Smart RAAF (416798), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt Newton Hasalby Fuss RAAF (407349), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt James Barber McLachlan RAAF (420353), aged 30. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Edwin Henry Berry RAAF (410436), aged 26. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt John Trevers Eccleston RAFVR (1476724), aged 20. Buried Widnes Cemetery, Lancashire.


31th August 1943 - Wellington HZ531 - Goole.

Pilot - Sgt John Leonard Harwood RAFVR (1390412), aged 29. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt Geoffrey George Payne RAFVR (1579828), aged 19. Buried Thurnby Churchyard, Leicestershire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Joseph Noar RAFVR (1239310), aged 27. Buried Rainsough Jewish Cemetery, Lancashire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Peter Arthur Frank Elliot RAFVR (656764), aged 21. Buried Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery, London.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Daniel McCann RCAF (R/154939), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Civilian - Mrs Rose Alice Cook, aged 37. Died 47 North Street, Goole. Buried Goole Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Civilian - Master James William Stanley, aged 12. Died Peacock Hotel, North Street, Goole. Buried Goole Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Rescuer - 1x "Soldier", died of injuries. Probably Sapper Kenneth George Wood RE (2075945), (582 Army Field Coy), aged 26. Buried Gravesend Cemetery, Kent.


1st September 1943 - Wellington BK445 - West Feldom, Richmond.

Pilot - Sgt Victor Henry Wigmore RAFVR (1393205), aged 21. Buried Highgate Cemetery, London.

Rear Gunner - Sgt Harold Dean RAFVR (1579863), aged 20. Buried Burton on Trent Cemetery, Staffordshire.


5th September 1943 - Halifax DG402 - Rudland Moor, North York Moors.

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

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

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

Air Bomber - F/Sgt Robert Mercer Todd RCAF (R/145403), aged 21. Buried Carluke, Wilton Cemetery, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Albert Walter Salt RAFVR (1316986), aged 21. Buried Witney Tower Hill Cemetery, Oxfordshire.

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

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


7th September 1943 - Lancaster DS732 - Newton on Ouse.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Robert Wilson Ogston RCAF (R/179719). Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, North Yorkshire.


7th September 1943 - Halifax DT524 - Wressle.

Pilot (Instructor) - F/O Maynard Meyer Caplan DFM RAFVR (142555), aged 27. Buried East Ham Jewish Cemetery, London.

Pilot - F/O Lawrence Gay Dunlop RCAF (J/20568), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer (Instructor) - P/O Arthur Wilfred Bailey RAFVR (143799), aged 22. Buried St.Albans Cemetery, Hertfordshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Alan Basil Granville Williams RAFVR (1653142), aged 19. Buried Ystrad Mynach Churchyard, Glamorgan.

Navigator - Sgt Frank Reynolds RAFVR (1497496), aged 23. Buried Calverley Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Samuel Rutherford Parker RCAF (R/132048), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Sgt Edward Leo McCartie RAFVR (1146785), aged 22. Buried Middlesbrough (Thorntree) R.C. Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Alfred John Gamble RAFVR (1391617), aged 22. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Gordon Gibson RAFVR (1349486), aged 21. Buried Ellon Cemetery, Aberdeen.

Air Gunner (Instructor) - F/O James Low RCAF (J/17294), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


7th September 1943 - Halifax DG415 - Bempton.

Pilot - Sgt Alan Raymond Banks RAFVR (1391087), aged 20. Buried Barrow Cemetery, Suffolk.

Navigator - Sgt Thorold Esmond Rae RAFVR (1319335), aged 21. Buried Trull Churchyard, Somerset.

Flight Engineer - Sgt George Slatter RAFVR (1565787), aged 20. Cremated Aberdeen.

Bomb Aimer - F/O Ronald Thomas Holloway RAFVR (129609), aged 20. Buried Enfield (Lavender Hill) Cemetery, Middlesex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Eric Pennington RAFVR (1497495), aged 22. Buried Castleford New Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt William Owen Jones RAFVR (1300297), aged 23. Buried Weston Rhyn Churchyard, Shropshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt George William Midwinter RAFVR (1803243), aged 20. Buried Walthamstow Churchyard, Essex.


14th September 1943 - Lancaster W4965 - Lindholme airfield.

Air Gunner - Sgt Graham Howard Uttley RAFVR (2206972), aged 21. Buried Kings Cross Methodist Chapelyard, Halifax, Yorkshire.


14th September 1943 - Halifax LW246 - Fordon.

Pilot - Sgt Ivor Raymond Trower-Foyan RAFVR (990159), aged 22. Buried West Kirby (St.Bridget) Churchyard, Norfolk.

Flight Engineer - Sgt James Hunter RAFVR (1568637), aged 20. Buried Sanquhar Churchyard Ext, Dumfries.

Navigator - Sgt Donald Allen Lawson RAFVR (1389676), aged 21. Buried Amersham Cemetery, Buckinghamshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Alexander Thompson RAFVR (1515448), aged 21. Buried Norton Churchyard, Durham.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John George Taylor RAFVR (1028370), aged 32. Buried Heacham Churchyard, Norfolk.

Air Gunner - Sgt Alexander Thomas Nicholas RAFVR (1316582), aged 22. Buried Brynmawr Cemetery, Wales.

Air Gunner - Sgt Howard Charles O'Neill RAAF (425205), aged 26. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger - LAC Arthur Nasmith Perrin RAFVR (1049981), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger (Meteorological Branch) - Sgt Olive Mary Morse WAAF (2040538), aged 25. Buried Witham Churchyard, Norfolk.


15th September 1943 - Halifax BB210 - Askham Richard.

Pilot - F/Sgt Roy Richard Clegg RAAF (420337), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


15th September 1943 - Halifax EB198 - Huby.

Pilot - F/O Henry Alfred Poulter RAAF (409940), aged 30. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th September 1943 - Halifax HR919 - Bishop Wilton Wold.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Philip Frederick Jones RAFVR (1337681), aged 20. Buried Trevethin Churchyard, Monmouthshire.


18th September 1943 - Halifax BB245 - Darrington.

Pilot - Sgt Edward George Wilson RAFVR (1320727). Buried City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery.

Navigator - Sgt John Arthur Crudgington RAFVR (1318163), aged 20. Buried Beckenham Cemetery, Kent.

Bomb Aimer - F/O David Beeley RAFVR (151229), aged 23. Buried Rotherham (Masbrough) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Edward Cook RAFVR (1338457), aged 20. Buried Seaham Cemetery, Durham.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Thomas Glyn Roberts RAFVR (1677382), aged 30. Buried Birkenhead (Landican) Cemetery, Cheshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Clelland RAFVR (1569956), aged 19. Buried Kirkaldy (Hayfield) Cemetery, Fife.

Civilian - Mrs Mabel Una Dean, aged 66. Buried Darrington Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Civilian - Mr Harry Dean, aged 68. Buried Darrington Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Civilian - Mr William Dean, aged 33. Buried Darrington Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Civilian - Miss Ellen Mary Dean, aged 36. Buried Darrington Churchyard, Yorkshire.


18th September 1943 - Halifax JB905 - Armthorpe.

Pilot - F/Sgt Robert Walter Wetherall Frankish RAAF (415130), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Bomber - Sgt Cyril James Ringer RAFVR (320553), aged 19. Buried Woodgrange Park Cemetery, East Ham, London.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Albert James Taylor RAFVR (1385739), aged 21. Buried Popham Churchyard, Hampshire.


22nd September 1943 - Dornier Do217 - Withernsea.

Pilot - Fw Helmut Rumpff. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Gefr Arno Ehemann. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Fw Siegfried Vom Weg. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Gunner - Obgfr Kurt Stiegler. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Disposal - Lt Cdr Charles Graham Tanner GM RNVR, aged 35. Buried Tilford Churchyard, Surrey.

Bomb Disposal - Able Seaman Percy Fouracre BEM RN (P/JX 219932), aged 32. Buried West Buckland Churchyard, Somerset.


23rd September 1943 - Wellington HZ251 - Bradley, Skipton.

Navigator - F/Lt Jozef Wolnik PAF (P/1145), aged 31. Buried Leyton Road Cemetery, Blackpool (Grave BB493).

Pilot - Kpl Franciszek Ciaston PAF (P/792374), aged 27. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.

Pilot - Sierz Wladyslaw Ostrowski PAF (P/792053), aged 27. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Kpl Boleslaw Josef Swieca PAF (P/703105), aged 28. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Kpl Boleslaw Rychel PAF (P/784756), aged 21. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.

Air Gunner - Kpl Jan Czyzewski PAF (P/780669), aged 23. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sierz Abram Kawenocki PAF (P/794155), aged 22. Buried Long Lane Jewish Cemetery, Liverpool.


27th September 1943 - Whitley LA853 - Norton le Clay.

Pilot - Sgt Donald Thomas William Cammies RAFVR (1339016), aged 20. Commemorated Runnymede Memorial.

Navigator - Sgt Edgar Ronald Rogers RAFVR (1338400), aged 20. Buried Gloucester Old Cemetery.

Navigator - Sgt Clewin Arthur Hughes RAFVR (1382173), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/O John William Wallace RCAF (J/24145), aged 28. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Stephen Robinson RAFVR (1577597), aged 22. Buried Yardley Cemetery, Birmingham.

Air Gunner - Sgt Ronald Charles Fowler RAFVR (1893913), aged 34. Buried Marlow Cemetery, Buckinghamshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Harry Dickson RAFVR (1824449), aged 18. Buried Roberton Churchyard, Hawick.


28th September 1943 - Halifax EB181 - Kepwick.

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

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

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

Flight Engineer - F/Sgt John James Timmins RAFVR (1777401), aged 19. Buried High Spen Churchyard, near Winlaton, County Durham.

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

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


28th September 1943 - Lancaster W4904 - Cockhill, Moor Monkton.

Pilot - Sgt Lawrence Richard William Turley RAFVR (1387018), aged 22. Cremated East Finchley, London.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Martin Raymond Pearce RAFVR (1808544), aged 19. Buried Camberwell New Cemetery, London.

Navigator - Sgt Arthur Howell RAFVR (1395412), aged 20. Buried Paddock Wood Old Churchyard, Brenchley, Kent.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Adam William Joseph Mullen RCAF (R/154030), aged 28. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Roger Pickering Weston RAFVR (1131503), aged 22. Buried Sunderland (Ryhope Road) Cemetery, Durham.

Air Gunner - Sgt Douglas Roy Brown RCAF (R/194139), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Reginald Eric Butler RAFVR (1388968), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


1st October 1943 - Beaufighter T5348 - Leven.

P/O Albert McKenzie Ruthven RCAF (J/23615), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/C/6).


2nd October 1943 - Mosquito DD738 - Market Weighton.

Pilot - Sgt Herbert Anthony Hay RAFVR (953382), aged 21. Buried Hylton (Castletown) Cemetery, Durham.

Navigator / Radar Operator - Sgt John Cosson Scammell RAFVR (1681770), aged 33. Cremated Manchester Crematorium.


2nd October 1943 - Mosquito HJ713 - Market Weighton.

Pilot - P/O Thomas Patrick Quinn RCAF (J/17904), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/C/10).

Navigator / Radar Operator - F/Sgt Stanley Albert Carter RAFVR (1585185), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/C/11).


3rd October 1943 - Halifax LK637 - Battle damage, returned to Skipton on Swale airfield.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Turner Rogerson RAFVR (156417), aged 33. Buried Lytham RC Cemetery, Lancashire.

Rear Gunner - F/O Jack Chisholm Findlay RCAF (J/24182), aged 36. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.


3rd October 1943 - Halifax JD276 - Hayton.

Pilot - F/Sgt William Anderson Miller RAAF (415261), aged 26. Buried Pocklington Burial Ground, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Joseph McShane RAFVR (1345092), aged 21. Buried Pocklington Burial Ground, Yorkshire.

Air Bomber - F/O Vincent Longmead Hyatt RAFVR (132394), aged 27. Buried Bratton Churchyard, Wiltshire.

Navigator - Sgt Charles Thomas Lockwood RAFVR (1040500), aged 20. Buried Gateshead Churchyard, Durham.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - W/O Douglas William Graham Randall RAFVR (905742), aged 33. Buried Enfield Cemetery, Middlesex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Smith RAF (649788), aged 25. Buried Cockpen Old Cemetery, Midlothian.

Air Gunner - Sgt Charles Ross Garrick RCAF (R/190537), aged 20. Buried Pocklington Burial Ground, Yorkshire.


3rd October 1943 - Wellington BK242 - Finningley airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Thomas William Hodgson Dalziel RAFVR (1432841), aged 20. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt William Baird Jarvie RAFVR (1344192), aged 21. Buried Old Monkland Cemetery, Lanarkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Edgar Farrer RAFVR (29), aged 29. Buried Uphall Cemetery, West Lothian.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Murray Cohen RAFVR (1235344), aged 21. Buried Gelderd Road (Hill Top) Jewish Cemetery (New Briggate/UHC, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Louis Lazarus RAFVR (1611281), aged 22. Buried East Ham Jewish Cemetery, London.


7th October 1943 - Lancaster DS724 - Spaunton.

Civilian - Mr George Otterburn Strickland. Buried Lastingham Churchyard, Yorkshire.


7th October 1943 - Beaufighter V8557 - Killerby, Catterick.

Pilot - F/Lt Ole Bechgaard RAFVR (107285), aged 31. Buried Catterick Cemetery, North Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O Edward James Jefferies RAFVR (129733), aged 30. Buried Marlborough Cemetery, Ilfracombe, Devon.

Passenger - Lt Kenneth Robert Hipkin RA (217143), aged 31. Buried Walthamstow Churchyard, London.


9th October 1943 - Wellington HE283 - Kirkby Fleetham.

Pilot - P/O Raymond Albert Lewis Young RAFVR (142551), aged 30. Buried Harrow Weald Cemetery, Middlesex.

Pilot - F/Lt Raymond Charles Rawlings DFC RNZAF (NZ.416164), aged 27. Buried Cambridge City Cemetery.

Navigator - F/O Norman John Furlong DFC RAFVR (142880), aged 21. Buried Greenwich Cemetery, London.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/O Colin Seymour RAFVR (143393), aged 22. Cremated Newcastle-upon-Tyne (West Road).


9th October 1943 - Halifax HR932 - Lissett airfield.

Air Gunner - Sgt William George Martin RAFVR (1377906), aged 34. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.C.15).


12th October 1943 - Spitfire AD292 - Bridlington.

Pilot - F/O Albrecht Richard Theophiel August Van Hecke RAFVR (135895). Initially buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Now buried Brussels Communal Cemetery. Belgium.


18th October 1943 - Oxford LX518 - Margary Hill, Stocksbridge.

Pilot - P/O Denis Patrick Kyne RNZAF (NZ.421380), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/6).


21st October 1943 - Wellington BK471 - Rossington.

Pilot - Sgt Mieczyslaw Solecki PAF (P793230), aged 33. Buried Newark on Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Navigator - F/Lt Stefan Karol Alberti PAF (P780470), aged 35. Buried Newark on Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Jerzy Sawicki PAF (P793799), aged 29. Buried Newark on Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Roman Kot PAF (P0031), aged 24. Buried Newark on Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


22nd October 1943 - Halifax EB199 - South Cowton.

Pilot - F/Sgt Hugh Robertson Simmons RCAF (R/134345), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/2).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Raymond Albert Harris RAFVR (2203780), aged 19. Buried London Road Cemetery, Coventry, Warwickshire.

Navigator - F/O Stephen Henry Martin RCAF (J/21567), aged 26. Died of injuries 26th October 1943. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/5).

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Ashley Bertram White RCAF (R/158113), aged 25. Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/3).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Kenneth Irvin RAFVR (1546937), aged 21?. Buried Harton Cemetery, South Shields (O/11966).

Air Gunner - Sgt John Louis Campbell RCAF (R/162832), aged 28. Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/D/1).


22nd October 1943 - Halifax DK182 - Newton Kyme.

Pilot - W/O Douglas Harold Welch RAFVR (1318580), aged 22. Buried Ampthill Churchyard, Bedfordshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Henry Procter RAFVR (1123963), aged 19. Buried Stranton Cemetery, Hartlepool, Durham.

Navigator - Sgt Edward John Dutton RAFVR (1393374), aged 22. Buried Croyden Cemetery, Surrey.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Kenneth Alfred Brown RAFVR (1803924), aged 20. Buried Lee Churchyard, Buckinghamshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Peter John Moore RAFVR (1450860), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunenr - Sgt James Irvine McCullagh RAFVR (1061413), aged 25. Buried Devenish CoI Churchyard, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Air Gunner - Sgt Desmond Owen Collen RAFVR (1354131), aged 21. Buried Isleham Cemetery, Cambridgeshire.


27th / 28th October 1943 - Lancaster W4776 - Branton.

Pilot - Sgt Thomas Frank Skipp RAFVR (900261), aged 22. Buried Acton Cemetery, London.

Flight Engineer - Sgt George Eric Glass RAFVR (1802673), aged 22. Buried City of London Cemetery, Manor Park.

Navigator - F/Sgt Alfred William Turpin RAFVR (1246515), aged 31. Buried Kingsteignton Churchyard, Devon.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Victor James Baker RAFVR (658156), aged 24. Buried Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Patrick Higgins RAFVR (1430315), aged 21. Buried Haugh Road Cemetery, Rawmarsh, Yorkshire (F/214).

Air Gunner - Sgt Frank Edward Lovegrove RAFVR (1811507), aged 19. Buried Fulham Cemetery, London.

Air Gunner - Sgt James Frank Lee RAFVR (1624263), aged 18. Buried Prescot Cemetery, Lancashire.


3rd November 1943 - Halifax LK681 - South Dalton.

Pilot - F/Lt James Steele RAFVR (127895), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.D.10).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Jeffrey George Kirby RAFVR (1453264), aged 27. Cremated City of London Crematorium, Manor Park, London.

Bomb Aimer - F/O William Laskie RAFVR (131957), aged 20. Buried Balgay Cemetery, Dundee.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Derek Kneale RAFVR (1450874), aged 20. Buried West Derby Cemetery, Liverpool.

Mid Upper Gunner - P/O Roy Arthur Brawn RAAF (420611), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.D.8).

Rear Gunner - F/Sgt Henry Maxwell Welch RCAF (J/19121), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.D.9).

Passenger - Miss Dorothy Robson BSc, aged 23. Cremated.


6th November 1943 - Lancaster DS649 - Wiganthorpe.

Pilot - F/O Russell Alfred Davis RCAF (J/17308), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Robert Charles Mitchell RAFVR (1568420), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - WO2 Alexander Hugh MacDonald RCAF (R/124964), aged 28. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick William Hunt RAFVR (1216145), aged 22. Buried Anstey Cemetery, Leicestershire (Grave 599).

Air Gunner - Sgt Leonard Wilfred Lehman RCAF (R/184282), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Roy Leslie Green RCAF (R/168797), aged 19. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


11th November 1943 - Mosquito DZ459 - Ingleby Barwick.

Pilot - F/Lt Alan John Farquhar Symes RCAF (J/7617), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt Edward Lyon RAFVR (1433734), aged 20. Buried Burscough Churchyard, Ormskirk, Lancashire.


14th November 1943 - Halifax DG230 - Kirk Hammerton.

Pilot - F/O Terence McKinley DFC RNZAF (NZ.402544), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot - S/Ldr Peter James Emerton RAF (37762), aged 26. Buried Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Flight Engineer - P/O Norman Nice Beale RAFVR (53081), aged 22. Buried Hastings Cemetery, Sussex.

Passenger - AC1 George Henry Harrison RAFVR (1611886), aged 21. Buried Dearne (Thurnscoe) Cemetery (J/B/41).


20th November 1943 - Halifax JD118 - Eastrington.

Navigator - WO2 William Allan Valley RCAF (R/143973), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.E.2).


20th November 1943 - Halifax LW333 - Barmby Moor.

Pilot - P/O Walter Hughes RAFVR (159070), aged 24. Buried West Derby Cemetery, Liverpool.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Boxall RAFVR (1110637), aged 28. Buried Barrow in Furness (Thorncliffe) Cemetery, Lancashire.

Navigator - P/O William Waterson Cottle RAFVR (160845), aged 28. Buried Childwall Churchyard, Liverpool.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Frederick Thomas Dunn RAFVR (1319229), aged 22. Buried Siddington Churchyard, Gloucestershire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O Roy Alfred Dabnor RAFVR (162864), aged 21. Knockholt Churchyard, Kent.

Air Gunner - Sgt Ronald Barnsley Bainbridge RAFVR (1148681), aged 23. Buried South Shields (Harton) Cemetery, Durham.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt David Willington RCAF (R/138346), aged 32. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.E.11).


20th November 1943 - Halifax LW264 - Barmby Moor.

Pilot - F/Sgt Cornelius Charles Linehan RAFVR (1383508), aged 23. Buried Hadlow Cemetery, Kent.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Arthur Dennis West RAFVR (1803260), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt Eric Bertram Gosden RAFVR (609488), aged 30?. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Sidney Tweddle RAFVR (1546219), aged 21. Buried Stanwix Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumbria (Ward 4, Sec A, Grave 6).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Sidney Elder RAFVR (1091022), aged 21. Buried Stanwix Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumbria (Ward 4, Sec A, Grave 8).

Air Gunner - Sgt James Lindsay Bennett RAFVR (1372493), aged 23. Buried Avenue Road Cemetery, Carstairs, Lanarkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt William Guthrie Thomson RAFVR (1680443), aged 19. Buried Byker and Heaton Cemetery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.


22nd November 1943 - Halifax EB150 - Scotch Corner.

Pilot - F/O James Vaughan Williamson RAFVR (148444), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.E.6).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Maurice Noel Graham Swindle RAFVR (1675628), aged 20. Buried Keswick Churchyard, Cumbria.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Stephen Williams Litynesky RCAF (R/157050), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.E.4).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Sydney Robert Doney RCAF (R/59859), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.E.5).

Air Gunner - Sgt Neil James Collins RCAF (R/190935), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.E.3).

Air Gunner - Sgt Robert Bryson Sellars RAFVR (1893889), aged 19. Buried Cardonald Cemetery, Glasgow.


23rd November 1943 - Halifax DT578 - Great Whernside.

Pilot - Sgt Stanley Chadwick RAFVR (1453551), aged 21. Buried Walney Island Churchyard, Lancashire.

Navigator - Sgt Frank Weldon Robson RAFVR (1451671), aged 30. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Frank James Robinson RAF (538137), aged 25?. Buried Chesterton Churchyard, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Norman Sebright Martin RAF (1600285), aged 19. Buried East Finchley Cemetery, Middlesex.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Donald Paget Aitken RAFVR (1322354), aged 21. Buried Bognor Regis Cemetery, Sussex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Ernest Stabler RAFVR (1784108), aged 20. Buried Distington Churchyard, Cumbria.

Air Gunner - Sgt Kenneth Vincent RAFVR (1819902), aged 19. Buried Wednesfield Churchyard, Staffordshire.


24th November 1943 - Halifax JB926 - Colsterdale.

Pilot - Sgt Richard Ernest Charles Bacon RAFVR (1612703), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt George Heathcote Manley RAFVR (1490978), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt John James MacGillivray RCAF (R/143002), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt James Titterington RAFVR (1796161), aged 23. Buried Belfast (Dundonald) Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland.

Navigator - F/O Henry McCarthy RAFVR (151083). Buried Leytonstone RC Cemetery, Essex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Basil Frank Taylor RAFVR (1296656), aged 21. Buried Henley Road Cemetery, Reading, Berkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Alexander John Winton RAFVR (1570461), aged 20 Buried Macduff Cemetery, Banffshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt David Elwyn Phillips RAFVR (1652804), aged 22. Buried Whitchurch (Pantmawr) Cemetery, Glamorganshire, Wales.


24th November 1943 - Lancaster LL629 - North Grimston.

Air Bomber - F/O George Lawrence Huffman RCAF (J/21575), aged 26. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Rear Gunner - F/Sgt Clarence Delrose Manders RCAF (R/124412), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


26th November 1943 - Halifax HR804 - Warter.

Pilot - Sgt John Westlake Symons RAFVR (1397027), aged 20. Buried Pocklington Burial Ground, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Roy William John Buckle RAFVR (1865368), aged 19. Buried Margate Cemetery, Kent.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Jones RAFVR (1515860), aged 23. Buried Appleton Thorn Churchyard, Cheshire.


26th November 1943 - Halifax DT490 - Pickering.

Pilot - Sgt Thomas Eric Jones RAFVR (1483420), aged 22. Buried Farnworth Churchyard, Cheshire.

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - Sgt Robert Fletcher RAFVR (1322503), aged 22. Buried Chessington Churchyard, Surrey.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Leslie Lee RAFVR (1623490), aged 20. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt Reuben Ginsberg RAFVR (1391642), aged 22. Buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery, Middlesex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Leslie Seaborn Jenkins RAFVR (1600405), aged 33. Buried at Burnham on Crouch Cemetery, Essex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frank Septimus Quine RAFVR (1113656), aged 29. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt John Francis Megranahan RAFVR (1819478), aged 19. Buried Morden Cemetery, Battersea, Surrey. Served as "Megran".


27th November 1943 - Lancaster DV377 - Melbourne airfield.

RAF driver - AC2 William Irving Gregory RAFVR (1590630), aged 29. Buried Withernsea Churchyard, Yorkshire.


27th November 1943 - Lancaster ED393 - Canal Head, Pocklington.

Pilot - P/O Joseph Watson Thompson DFM RAFVR (160916), aged 20. Buried Greenford Park Cemetery, Middlesex.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Reginald Walter Laws RAFVR (1431816), aged 20. Buried Tottenham Cemetery, Middlesex.

Navigator - F/Sgt Stanley Chapman RAF (646335), aged 22. Buried Gap Road Cemetery, Wimbledon, Surrey.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt John Ralph Conlon RAFVR (1091325), aged 21. Buried Heworth Churchyard, Durham.

Air Gunner - Sgt Allan Douglas Spiers RAFVR (710256), aged 29. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, North Yorkshire.

Civilian - Mrs Gertrude Bird, aged 69. Buried Pocklington Cemetery. East Yorkshire.

Civilian - Mr Percy Paulucy Hopkinson, aged 41. Buried City Road Cemetery, Sheffield (Cons II.23541).


27th November 1943 - Lancaster DV336 - Elvington.

Pilot - P/O Kenneth James Mears RAFVR (156086), aged 22. Buried Teddington Cemetery, Middlesex.

Navigator? - P/O Gordon Geoffrey Salt RAFVR (149344), aged 30. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer? - Sgt Derek Webb Blundell RAFVR (967176), aged 26. Commemorated Runnymede Memorial.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Walter William Nelson Knights RAAF (30159), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner? - Sgt Aubrey Ralph Wilcher RAFVR (1312013), aged 31. Commemorated Runnymede Memorial.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Harry Vincent Birch RAFVR (1284262), aged 20. Buried Brompton Cemetery, London.

Flight Engineer - F/Sgt Leslie Pearse RAF (574692), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


29th November 1943 - Beaufighter T4781 - Breighton.

Pilot - F/O Ronald Bailes RAFVR (134539), aged 23. Buried Newcastle under Lyme Cemetery, Staffordshire.


2nd December 1943 - Halifax DJ982 - Northallerton.

Pilot - F/O William John Taylor RCAF (J/24309), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/11).

Flight Engineer - Sgt William John Morgan RAF (1663229), aged 19. Buried Mountain Ash Cemetery, Glamorgan.

Navigator - F/Sgt James Murray Beatty RCAF (R/152879), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/6).

Air Bomber - F/O Donald Cameron Walker RCAF (J/25527), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/12).

Wireless Operator - Sgt Thomas John Skyrme RAFVR (1400888), aged 21. Buried Ynysybwl Cemetery, Glamorgan.

Air Gunner - Sgt John Owens Winters RAFVR (1796389), aged 19. Buried Dundonald Cemetery, Belfast.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt John Wallace RCAF (R/176389), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/9).


2nd December 1943 - Halifax DG282 - Croft airfield.

Pilot - F/Sgt Peter Ritchie Gray RCAF (R/140935), aged 25. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/8).

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Harrison Catto RCAF (R/97729), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/7).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt George Alfred Chilvers RAFVR (1235580), aged 21. Buried Great Yarmouth RC Cemetery, Norfolk.

Bomb Aimer - F/O James Arthur Foulston RCAF (J/25075), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/10).

Mid Upper Gunner - Sgt Henry Benedict Bellew RCAF (R/202312), aged 18. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/13).


2nd December 1943 - Halifax EB208 - Whixley.

Navigator - F/O Leslie Fletcher RAFVR (151050), aged 25. Buried Ardsley Cemetery, Barnsley, Yorkshire.


3rd December 1943 - Martinet MS554 - Castle Bolton.

Pilot - F/Sgt John Arthur Colin Kemmett RAFVR (1314338), aged 20. Buried Coney Hill Cemetery, Gloucester (Sec E, Grave 183).

Ground Crew - LAC Arthur Theodore Barnson RCAF (R/91572), aged 21. Buried Harrow Cemetery (Sec 13, Row 2091).


9th December 1943 - Halifax LL122 - Leavening.

Pilot - P/O John Kenneth Forest RCAF (J/19350), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/14).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Leslie Reginald Mace RAFVR (1803191), aged 21, of Southend-on-Sea Essex. Buried Camberwell New Cemetery, London.

Navigator - P/O Geoffrey Owen Sharpe RAFVR (168970), aged 20. Buried Sawbridgeworth Churchyard, Hertfordshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Edward Frank John Hemming RCAF 415682(R/94132), aged 21. Buried Cheltenham Cemetery, Prestbury, Gloucestershire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Nicholas Charles Grob RAAF (425154), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/15).


11th December 1943 - Beaufighter JL637 - Grangetown.

Pilot - F/O Thomas Sowerbutts RAFVR (135607), aged 27. Buried Mellor Churchyard, Lancashire.

Navigator - Sgt Henry Norman Pepper RAFVR (1530968), aged 22. Died of injuries 13th December 1943. Buried Prestwich Churchyard Extension, Lancashire.


12th December 1943 - Mosquito DD754 - West Flotmanby, Filey.

Pilot - S/Ldr Colin Robertson DFC RAF (33412), aged 26. Buried Camelon Cemetery, Falkirk, Scotland.

Navigator / Radar Operator - F/O Ernest Bartholomew RAFVR (145496), aged 28?. Buried Lower Brynamman Baptist Chapelyard, Glamorgan.


16th December 1943 - Hudson FK537 - Sherburn in Elmet.

Passenger - Corporal Wilfred Mawson RAF (AAF) (871786), aged 46. Buried Hull Northern Cemetery, Yorkshire (226/21).


16th December 1943 - Halifax HX296 - Watton.

Navigator - P/O Edward Henry Gribble RAAF (413577), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/16).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Edward John Roynon RAFVR (1314292), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/17).

Rear Gunner - F/Sgt Charles William Angus RAFVR (1385016), aged 22. Buried Consett Cemetery, Durham.


16th December 1943 - Lancaster DS837 - Yearsley.

Pilot - S/Ldr Thomas Matthew Kneale RCAF (J/14999), aged 29. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/8).

Flight Engineer - P/O Robert Philip Marks RAFVR (161746), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/3).

Navigator - F/O George MacDonald Jones RCAF (J/18865), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/2).

Air Bomber - F/O James MacKay RCAF (J/20832), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/5).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O Maurice Milton Prill RCAF (J/18880), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/4).

Air Gunner - P/O Angus Augustus Johnston RCAF (J/19288), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/1).


16th December 1943 - Lancaster DS737 - Hawnby.

Pilot - F/O Russell Stanley Clark RCAF (J/20183), aged 25. Died 21st December 1943. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/18).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Kenneth Roy Wood RAFVR (1606542), aged 19. Buried Brighton (The Downs) Cemetery, Sussex.

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

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).


16th December 1943 - Lancaster DS779 - Hunsingore.

Pilot - WO2 Reginald Donald Stewart RCAF (R/130152), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/10).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Leslie Sale RAFVR (1491828), aged 32. Buried Mexborough Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O Howard Paul Morris RCAF (J/14392), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/6).

Bomb Aimer - F/O William Hamilton RAFVR (129614), aged 22. Buried Hove New Cemetery, Sussex.

Wireless Opeator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Greenwell RAFVR (933268), aged 23. Buried Willesden New Cemetery, Middlesex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Duncan Ernest Stewart RAFVR (1391538). Aged 20. Died 24th February 1944. Buried Sidcup Cemetery.


17th December 1943 - Lancaster LM389 - Eastrington.

Pilot - P/O Norman Maylin Cooper RAFVR (170735), aged 20. Cremated Cambridge.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Robert Kenneth Rye RAFVR (1809922), aged 19. Buried Harrogate Stonefell Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/19).

Navigator - Sgt Robert Corrie Custance RAFVR (1396887), aged 20. Buried Highgate Cemetery, London.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Reginald William Melville Spelman RAFVR (1456979), aged 20. Cremated Gorton, Manchester.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Gregory Hayden RAFVR (1294654), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefell Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/F/18).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - W/O Herbert Percy Davis RAF (626837), aged 25. Buried Charfield Churchyard, Gloucestershire.


19th December 1943 - Halifax HX245 - Skipton on Swale airfield.

Pilot - F/Sgt Peter Robert Humphrys RCAF (R/140397), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/15).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Harry Gilbert Buxton RAFVR (1850646), aged 19. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/16).

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Harry Lewis Miller RCAF (R/165173), aged 30. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/14).

Air Gunner - Sgt Kenneth Neville Lake RCAF (R/190919), aged 19. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/13).

Air Gunner - Sgt Leonard David Griese RCAF (R/163282), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/12).


19th December 1943 - Halifax HX277 - Skipton on Swale airfield.

Fitter - Cpl Wilfred Martin Joseph O'Connor RCAF (R/89111), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/11).


21st December 1943 - Lancaster DS615 - Topcliffe airfield.

Pilot (Instructor) - F/O John Joseph McGavock DFC RCAF (J/17116), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/19).

Pilot (Pupil) - F/O Thomas Ernest Major RCAF (J/21628), aged 24. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/G/20).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Kenneth Forster RAFVR (1581900), aged 20. Buried Hartshill Cemetery, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Robert Thomas James Welch RCAF (R/101969), aged 24. Died of injuries on 23/12/1943. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/7).


21st December 1943 - Halifax LW330 - Brind, Howden.

Pilot - F/Sgt Andrew Molloy RAAF (415167), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/3).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Aubrey Denys Meynell RAFVR (1534900), aged 21. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Co.Durham.

Navigator - Sgt Francis Edward Hothersall RNZAF (NZ.421934), aged 30. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/5).

Bomb Aimer - F/O Bronson Donald Heading RAAF (417483), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/6).

Wireless Operator - F/Sgt Francis William Doonan RAAF (425493), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/2).

Air Gunner - Sgt William Earl Edwards RCAF (R/191580), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/4).

Air Gunner - Sgt John Michael Blake RCAF (R/190770), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/1).


23rd December 1943 - Halifax EB191 - Harrogate.

Pilot - F/Sgt Merlin Lindsay John RCAF (R/149284), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/9).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Joseph Quinn RAF (1675148), aged 20. Buried Dewsbury Cemetery, Yorkshire (Cons O/152).

Rear Gunner - Sgt Constantin Robert Choma RCAF (R/185428), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (C/H/8).


23rd December 1943 - B24 Liberator 41-23788 - Skeffling.

Pilot - Lt Parke H Jones Jr USAAF (O-674587). Buried Madingley Cemetery, Cambridge (B/7/3).

Air Gunner - SSgt Wilson P Besse USAAF (38194491). Buried Madingley Cemetery, Cambridge (E-O-43).

Air Gunner - SSgt Alphonse J Terwey USAAF (37281321). Buried Madingley Cemetery, Cambridge (A-1-36).

Air Gunner - SSgt Michael P Zdonick USAAF (31169351). Buried Madingley Cemetery, Cambridge (E-O-38).

Bombardier - 1Lt John J Buckholts USAAF (O-669980). Missing.

Air Gunner - SSgt Rhodes C Gordon USAAF (13089150). Missing.


23rd December 1943 - Beaufighter JL876 - Lissett airfield.

Possibly fatality - Name unknown.


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