Yorkshire Air Casualties 1942.

Below is believed to be a complete list of all air fatalities to occur in Yorkshire in 1942 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.


5th January 1942 - Wellington W5589 - Strensall.

Pilot - F/Sgt Osborne Bayfield LeFurgey RCAF (R/50333), aged 32. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - F/Sgt Peter Wityck RCAF (R/80002), aged 20. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt James David Garrow RAAF (404529), aged 21. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Alan Robertson RCAF (R/59266), aged 28. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt John Burton Gayfer RCAF (R/18039A?), aged 22. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


5th January 1942 - Tiger Moth T6023 - Faxfleet.

Pilot - P/O Norman Clifford Davies RAFVR (111528), aged 28. Commemorated Runnymede Memorial.

Trainee Pilot? - LAC Robin Harry Williams RAFVR (1380487), aged 20. Commemorated Runnymede Memorial.


6th January 1942 - Wellington Z1182 - Howden.

Second Pilot - P/O David Norris Carmichael RAAF (403040), aged 26. Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Rear Gunner - F/O Edward John Norman MacDonald RAAF (404346), aged 27. Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


6th January 1942 - Whitley Z9289 - Pogmoor.

Pilot - Sgt Alexander Hollingworth RAAF (404246), aged 22. Buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Alexander Gibson Buchanan RCAF (R/58102), aged 23. Buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Doncaster, Yorkshire.


9th January 1942 - Wellington W5491 - Tibthorpe.

Pilot - Sgt William Kent Sloggatt RAAF (400604), aged 25. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Sidney Reginald Bult RAF (553823), aged 19. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Sgt Alfred Charles Kingsley Parsons RAAF (402576), aged 27. Died of injuries 19th January 1942. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


14th January 1942 - Manchester L7523 - Holmpton.

Pilot - F/Sgt Basil Courtney Wescombe RAF (523056), aged 25. Buried Falmer Church Cemetery, Sussex.

Second Pilot - F/Sgt Frederick Edward Thomas RAF (1111152), aged 26. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Observer - Sgt Eric Ronald Harper RAFVR (925454), aged 19. Buried Wandsworth Cemetery, London.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Leonard Sieve RAFVR (902414), aged 23. Buried Failsworth Jewish Cemetery, Lancashire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Claude Raymond Westbury RAFVR (961733), aged 21. Buried Norringham Church Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt John Thomas "Jack" Howe RAFVR (1194389), aged 20. Buried Whinfield Cemetery, Rugby, Warwickshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Maurice Robert Walker RAF (641700), aged 19. Buried Wallasey Cemetery, Cheshire.


15th January 1942 - Halifax L9622 - Northallerton.

Second Pilot - Sgt Thomas Cowan RAFVR (1365284). Buried Bedlay Cemetery, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Herbert Kenneth Taylor RAF(Aux) (804258). Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Observer - P/O Michael Von Dadelzsen RNZAF (NZ.403615), aged 25. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O Vincent Leslie Brice RCAF (J/15860). Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt James Calvert Bradley RAFVR (1058655), aged 21. Buried Penwortham Churchyard, Lancashire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Donald Savage RCAF (R/55599), aged 20. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.


15th January 1942 - Do217 U5+HS - Middlesbrough.

Pilot - Fw Joachim Lehnis. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Uffz Hans Maneke. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Lt Rudolf Matern. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Gunner / Mechanic - Obfw Heinrich Richter. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


16th January 1942 - Hampden AE393 - West Burton.

Navigator - F/Sgt James Arthur Bunting RAF (580639), aged 22?. Buried Otley Cemetery (Newall with Clifton & Lindley), Yorkshire (I/211).

Wireless Operator - Sgt John Robinson Appleby RAFVR (995056), aged 26. Buried Stockton on Tees Cemetery (Durham Road), Co.Durham.

Air Gunner - Sgt Maurice Jones RAF (619483), aged 21. Buried Tibshelf Churchyard, Derbyshire.


16th January 1942 - Wellington W5493 - Hawnby.

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

Second Pilot - Sgt John Blackwell Turner RCAF (R/82814), aged 20. Buried Topcliffe Cemetery, Yorkshire.

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

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt George White RAFVR (754076), aged 22. Buried Heworth Churchyard, County Durham.


19th January 1942 - Hurricane V7385 - Nosterfield.

Pilot - P/O Roy Reginald Hines RCAF (J/3417), aged 19. Buried Dagenham (Chadwell Heath) Cemetery, Essex.


24th January 1942 - Spitfire AA812 - Topcliffe airfield.

Pilot - F/O Philip Wynne Herbert RAFVR (82676), aged 26. Buried Theale Churchyard, Berkshire.


25th January 1942 - Spitfire AD545 - Thorgill.

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


28th January 1942 - Master T8614 - Stainmore, Pennines.

Pilot - 2nd Officer Richard Horry Winn ATA. Buried Maidenhead Cemetery, Berkshire.


30th January 1942 - Wellington N2848 - Buckden.

Pilot - F/Lt Czeslaw Kujawa PAF (P/0115), aged 26. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Second Pilot - P/O Jerzy Polczyk PAF (P/1615), aged 24. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Observer - F/O Tadeusz Jan Bieganski PAF (P/1368), aged 28. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Jan Sadowski PAF (792642), aged 32. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Front Gunner - Sgt Jan Andrzej Tokarzewski PAF (782024), aged 25. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


8th Febuary 1942 - Anson W1793 - Stainmore, Pennines.

ATA Pilot - 1st Officer William Johnston Elliott ATA, aged 24. Buried Altrincham Cemetery, Cheshire.


10th February 1942 - Manchester L7478 - Bawtry.

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick King RAFVR (1127538), aged 26. Cremated Newcastle on Tyne (West Road).


11th February 1942 - Ground incident at Pocklington airfield.

Groundcrew - AC2 Robert Proctor Marriott RAFVR (1143666), aged 20. Buried Shiregreen Cemetery, Sheffield, Yorkshire.


13th February 1942 - Airacobra AH602 - Acaster Malbis airfield.

Pilot - P/O Angus John McDonnell RAFVR (101020), aged 19. Kirkby Wharfe Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th February 1942 - Lysander V9715 - Clifton airfield.

Pilot - P/O Leonard Edward Gordon Buck RAFVR (112003), aged 30. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.


17th February 1942 - Wellington Z1327 - Farnley Tyas.

Pilot - Sgt James Henry Ware RAAF (402897), aged 24. Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - Sgt Robert Litchfield Tresidder RAAF (402894), aged 26. Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Observer - Sgt William Leonard Ashplant RAFVR (1170676). Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Sgt Cyril Caradoe Davies RAFVR (1052270). Buried Llandrillo-yn-rhos (St Trillo) Churchyard, Wales.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick Dutton RAFVR (1006728), aged 20. Buried Overleigh Cemetery, Cheshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Cyril Raymond Dickeson RAFVR (1292128). Buried Holme on Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


22nd February 1942 - Hampden AE394 - York.

Navigator - Sgt Hector Francis Thompson RAFVR (920520), aged 22. Buried Thurlby (St.Germain) Churchyard, Lincolnshire (in a joint grave).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Francis Reginald Law RAFVR (934284), aged 30. Buried Thurlby (St Germain) Churchyard, Lincolnshire (in a joint grave).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Philip Sidney Ballard RAFVR (1258728), aged 24. Buried Chartham Cemetery, Kent.


26th February 1942 - Wellington Z8536 - Yapham.

Pilot - F/Sgt Reginald Francis Robb RCAF (R/72335), aged 25. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - Sgt Charles Hackney RCAF (R/72081), aged 20. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - WO2 Thomas Herbert Bennett RCAF (R/58098), aged 21. Buried Shepshed Cemetery, Leicestershire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Charles Harold Latshaw Brown RCAF (J/64344), aged 30. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Keith Winterton RAF (933433), aged 30. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Norman Anthony Morgan RAFVR (742728), aged 22. Buried Gloucester Old Cemetery, Gloucestershire.


27th February 1942 - Hampden L4178 - Hexthorpe.

Pilot - Sgt Reginald Alfred Bland RAFVR (1379420), aged 21. Buried Portslade Cemetery, Sussex.

Observer - F/O Harold Edward Aspey MiD RAF (45094), aged 26. Buried Salisbury Cemetery, Wiltshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt John Balfour Gray RCAF (R/58225), aged 21. Buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt John Arthur Eves RAFVR (929118), aged 32. Buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Doncaster, Yorkshire.


1st March 1942 - Spitfire BL500 - Brignall.

Pilot - P/O Albert Lawrence Logan RCAF (J/15102), aged 22. Buried Startforth Churchyard, Barnard Castle.


7th March 1942 - Beaufighter T3231 - Catfoss airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Martin Maher Hurley RCAF (R/64892), aged 21. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.


9th March 1942 - Oxford V3957 - Leconfield airfield.

Pilot - P/O William Arthur Dakers RCAF (J/8173), aged 19. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


11th March 1942 - Wellington W5431 - Driffield airfield.

Pilot - F/Lt George Gordon Duff DFC RAFVR (89378), aged 24. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - Sgt Colin Albert Cornwell RAAF (402731), aged 22. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - P/O Douglas Albert Edward Clarke RAFVR (115725), aged 24. Buried Woodgrange Cemetery, East Ham, London.

Wireless Operator - Sgt Harry James Evans RAFVR (1051922), aged 21. Buried Maghull Churchyard, Lancashire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Leslie James Caldwell RAFVR (1166513), aged 22. Buried Tansley Churchyard, Derbyshire.


13th March 1942 - Whitley Z6975 - Scruton.

Pilot - F/Sgt John Lyndon Moore RCAF (R/78024), aged 28. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - Sgt James Ernest Church RAFVR (1376275), Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Observer - Sgt Kenneth Clarence Edward Corke RAFVR (930297), aged 24. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Richard James Lewis RCAF (R/56875), aged 24. Died of injuries 14th March 1942. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Neil Shaw Smith RAFVR (967591), aged 28. Buried Cathcart Cemetery, Renfrewshire.


13th March 1942 - Blenheim N3538 - Thorp Arch.

Pilot - Sgt William Curlet RAF (610946), aged 22. Buried Kilbirnie Burial Ground, Ayrshire.

Observer - P/O John Douglas Lamb McColl RAFVR (116737), aged 20. Buried Kirkby Wharfe Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Eric Johnson RAFVR (1062598). Buried Hill Cliffe Baptist Cemetery, Cheshire.


14th March 1942 - Whitley Z9389 - North Cowton.

Pilot - P/O Cecil Frank Ferris RAFVR (106220), aged 33. Buried Western Cemetery, Darlington, Durham.

Second Pilot - Sgt Robert Curragh Bell RAF (655176), aged 26. Buried Western Cemetery, Darlington, Durham.

Observer - Sgt Noel Thomas Gander RAFVR (1250546), aged 21. Buried Hurstpierpoint New Cemetery, Sussex.

Position unknown - Sgt John Ivor Evans Davies RAFVR (952765), aged 25. Died of injuries 15th March 1942. Cremated Perry Bar, Birmingham.


14th March 1942 - Wellington Z8438 - Lindholme airfield.

Pilot - F/O Czeslaw Rymkiewicz PAF (P/0518), aged 30. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Navigator - F/O Stanslaw Marian Ostaszewski VM PAF (P/0093), aged 26. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Pilot - P/O Mieczyslaw Kazimierz Dranicki PAF (P/1796), aged 22. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Wireless Operator - Sgt Eugeniusz Bala (P/780721), aged 33. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Waclaw Sasin (P/781342), aged 25. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


16th March 1942 - Beaufighter T4863 - Leven.

Pilot - Sgt Ronald Wilfred Leach RCAF (R/85052), aged 20. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Observer - Sgt David Joshua Levy RAFVR (948031), aged 23. Buried Blackley Jewish Cemetery, Lancashire.


21st March 1942 - Beaufort W6472 - North Cowton.

Pilot - P/O Malcolm Stuart Davidson RAFVR (65981), aged 22. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Co.Durham.

Observer - Sgt Ralph Lemmon RAFVR (1290237), aged 21. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Co.Durham.


25th March 1942 - Ground accident - Catfoss airfield.

Ground crew - AC2 Thomas Edmund Bray RAFVR (1117818), aged 22. Buried Altrincham Bowdon & Hale Cemetery, Cheshire.


26th March 1942 - Blenheim R3808 - Church Fenton airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Edmund Roy Baggott RAFVR (1197405), aged 20. Buried Barwell Cemetery, Hinckley, Leicestershire.


27th March 1942 - Hudson AM847 - Thornaby airfield.

Observer - P/O Henry Kelso Dryden RAAF (403566), aged 26. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Middlesbrough.


28th March 1942 - Whitley Z9221 - Kirby Malzeard moor - Yorkshire Dales.

Observer - Sgt Douglas Murton Colledge RAFVR (1258650), aged 25. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.


28th March 1942 - Oxford V3990 - Ulleskelf.

Pilot - Sgt Hylton George Cullen RAF (657151), aged 20. Buried Houghton Churchyard, Carlisle, Cumbria.


29th March 1942 - Blenheim N3561 - Sherburn in Elmet.

Pilot - Sgt Walter Hibbard Bailey RAFVR (1381194), aged 27. Buried Bolton upon Dearne Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - Sgt John Prince RAFVR (138843), aged 22. Buried Bedfont Cemetery, Middlesex.


4th April 1942 - Magister L8162 - Pocklington.

Pilot - S/Ldr John McCormack RCAF (J/4881), aged 21. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Passenger/Senior Navigation Officer - F/Lt William Henry Fetherston RCAF (J/4530), aged 25. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


9th April 1942 - Blenheim L8674 - Wetwang.

Pilot - Sgt Harry James Beck RAF (656311), aged 21. Buried Chislehurst Cemetery, Kent.


11th April 1942 - Blenheim V5527 - Brandesburton.

Wireless Operator / Observer - Sgt Harry Shaw RAFVR (987857), aged 20. Buried Mexborough Cemetery, Yorkshire.


11th April 1942 - Domonie Z7263 - Doncaster.

Pilot - P/O Charles John Roger Boyce RAFVR (112002), aged 25. Buried Kingsby Churchyard, Middlesex.

Pilot - S/Ldr Edward Claud Inglefield RAFO (37738), aged 25. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.

Passenger - AC2 William Giblin RAFVR (1526080), aged 21. Buried Lodge Hill Cemetery, Birmingham.

Civilian - Miss Mary Parker, aged 20. Died of injuries 1st May 1942. Burial location unknown.


13th April 1942 - Beaufighter T4724 - Cloughton.

Pilot - Sgt William Bray RAFVR (1075896), aged 21. Buried St Thomas's Churchyard, Greetland, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Observer - Sgt Arthur Broadbent RAFVR (1050128), aged 25. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.


13th April 1942 - Hampden AT196 - Fitling.

Observer - Sgt William John Marshall RCAF (R/75097), aged 21. Buried Camelon Cemetery, Falkirk, Stirlingshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Harold Taylor RAFVR (989480), aged 24. Buried Ringley Churchyard, Kearsley, Lancashire.

Air Gunner - Sgt James Thompson Smith RAFVR (1331244). Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.


14th April 1942 - Halifax R9488 - Baldersby.

Pilot - F/Lt Harry Malcolm Williams RAFVR (66508), aged 26. Buried Smeeth Churchyard, Kent.

Pilot - Sgt John Kirkpatrick Morris RAAF (404251), aged 21. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Noel Grimoldby RAF (575319), aged 19. Buried Scunthrpe (Brumby & Frodingham) Cemetery, Lincolnshire.

Observer - Sgt Philip Leonard Newell Trehearn RAFVR (947664), aged 28. Buried Rhyl Town Cemetery, Flintshire, Wales.

Air Gunner - F/Lt Henry Noel Ross RAF(AAF) (90393), aged 33. Cremated Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Wales.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Kenneth Harold Sutton RAFVR (918861), aged 23. Buried Ogmore & Gare Cemetery, Glamorganshire, Wales.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Kenneth O'Connelley RAFVR (946944), aged 22. Cremated West Road, Newcastle on Tyne.

Ground Crew/Passenger - LAC John Livesey RAFVR (1122012), aged 21. Buried Lower Darwen Churchyard, Lancashire.


14th April 1942 - Halifax L9576 - Wetherby.

Pilot - F/O Frederick John Joshua RAFVR (87041), aged 29. Buried Penarth Cemetery, Glamorganshire, Wales.

Pilot - F/Sgt David Reid Cox RCAF (R/65319), aged 23. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot - Sgt Alfred Thomas Howell RAFVR (1380271), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pilot - Sgt James Edward Gurney RAF (527385), aged 26. Buried Lidlington Churchyard, Bedfordshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Ernest James Spencer RAFVR (903905), aged 36. Buried Rochester Cemetery, Kent.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Gilbert Marks RAFVR (1169564), aged 20. Buried Monkton Wyld Churchyard, Dorset.

Passenger - AC1 Colin George Coltham Keighley RAFVR (1333962), aged 20. Buried Bexley Church Cemetery, Kent.

Passenger - AC1 Thomas Mahady RAFVR (1371443). Cremated Dundee, Angus.

Passenger - AC2 Frederick Stanley Goodwin RAFVR (1499120), aged 19. Buried Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool, Lancashire.


14th April 1942 - Oxford AB662 - Holmfirth.

Pilot - Sgt Melvin Harry Smith RCAF (R/98066), aged 21. Buried Ollerton Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


15th April 1942 - Wellington Z8586 - Wroot.

Pilot/Navigator - F/O Stefan Sznidel PAF (P/0612). Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Kazimierz Pasich PAF (P/784835). Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


17th April 1942 - Hudson T9378 - Thornaby airfield.

Observer - Sgt Clifford McCormick Carkner RCAF (R/74488), aged 25. Buried Thornaby-on-Tees Cemetery, Middlesbrough.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Alfa Powell RAFVR (1181850), aged 20. Buried Brecknock Churchyard, Wales. (Ystradgynlais (St.Cynog) Churchyard).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Jack Ernest Taylor RAF (615773), aged 23. Buried Newark on Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


23rd April 1942 - Blenheim V6008 - Ryther.

Pilot - Sgt Joseph Coward RAFVR (1019175), aged 21. Buried Hartlepool West View Cemetery, Durham.


24th April 1942 - Wellington X3305 - Pollington.

Pilot - Sgt Herbert John Thorogood RAFVR (1375386), aged 23. Buried Romford Cemetery, Essex.

Second Pilot - P/O Norman Curtis Lerwill RAFVR (108541), aged 30. Buried Pollington Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Observer - P/O Alan Frederick James RCAF (J/7214), aged 29. Buried Pollington Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt George Herbert Jordan RAFVR (1311122), aged 27. Buried Southgate Cemetery, Middlesex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas William Chaston RAFVR (1181834), aged 21. Buried Rochester Cemetery, Kent.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Norman Kenneth MacLeod RCAF (R/64474), aged 21. Buried Pollington Churchyard, Yorkshire.


28th April 1942 - Wellington DV473 - Rawcliffe Bridge.

Rear Gunner - Sgt William Alan Winthrop RAFVR (1112888), aged 20. Buried Gateshead Saltwell Cemetery, Newcastle.


29th April 1942 - Ju88 M2+CH - Crockey Hill.

Pilot - Lt Werner Boy, aged 19. Buried Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.


29th April 1942 - Do217 U5+KP - Coneysthorpe.

Wireless Operator - Uffz Fritz Kalber, aged 22. Died of injuries. Buried Cannock Chase Cemetery, Staffordshire.


30th April 1942 - Flamingo R2764 - Great Ouseburn.

Pilot - P/O Iain Ramsay RAFVR (69642), aged 35. Buried Port Charlotte Churchyard, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.

Observer - Sgt James Bennett Smith DFM RAFVR (938162), aged 24. Buried Hawick Cemetery, Roxburghshire.

Wireless Operator - F/Sgt Alan James Stripp DFM RAF (569426), aged 22. Buried Reigate Cemetery, Surrey.

Fitter - LAC James Lewis RAFVR (976547), aged 25. Buried New Southgate Cemetery, Hertfordshire.

A.M. Passenger - S/Ldr Kenneth Wykeham Edwards RAFVR (82911), aged 33 (or 34?). Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.

A.M. Passenger - F/Lt Francis William Wilton RAFVR (81283), aged 35. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Russian Passenger - Major Sergey Aleksandrovich Asyamov, aged ?. Burial location unknown.

Russian Passenger - Colonel Grigory Pugachev, aged 38. Burial location unknown.

Russian Passenger - Major Petr Baranov, aged 35. Burial location unknown.

Russian Passenger - Major Boris Filippovich Shvetcov, aged 31. Burial location unknown.


6th May 1942 - Blenheim K7091 - Hempholme.

Pilot - Sgt Angus McBean RAFVR (1014015), aged 25. Buried Durham Churchyard, Co.Durham.


8th May 1942 - Beaufighter T4798 - Catfoss airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Lionel Leslie Cartwright RAFVR (1212379), aged 21. Buried Swindon Churcyard, Staffordshire.

Wireless Operator / Observer - Sgt Maurice Howard Vincent RAFVR (1181842), aged 20. Buried Andover Cemetery, Hampshire.


17th May 1942 - Spitfire BL534 - Lockington,.

Pilot - S/Ldr Feliks Fryderyk Szyszka PAF (P/0507), aged 25. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


17th May 1942 - Spitfire AB250 - Lockington.

Pilot - Sgt Witold Josef Knott PAF (P/781014), aged 25. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


19th May 1942 - Oxford L9647 - Burton Fleming.

Pilot - Sgt Bernard Rinian Roy Rutherford RAAF (406540), aged 22. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


26th May 1942 - Hampden L6011 - Hellaby

Passenger - LAC John Griffiths RAFVR (987282). Buried Spennymoor (Tudhoe) Cemetery, Co.Durham.


5th June 1942 - Halifax W7669 - Dalton on Tees.

Pilot - F/O Harold Ernest Bedford RAFVR (100577), aged 31. Buried Upton-cum-Chalvey Churchyard, Slough, Buckinghamshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Vincent George Musselwhite RAF (619222), aged 23. Buried Cheriton Churchyard, Hampshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt James O'Rourke RAFVR (984531), aged 22. Buried Ardrossan Cemetery, Ayrshire.


11th June 1942 - Wellington R1073 - Lindholme airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Brian Edwin Rooke RAFVR (934159), aged 20. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Bomber - Sgt Basil Everard Francis Jones RAFVR (778684), aged 20. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.


12th June 1942 - Hurricane AG680 - Keld.

Pilot - 1st Officer Alexander Ronald Leslie-Melville ATA. Aged 37. Buried Maidenhead Cemetery, Berkshire.


16th June 1942 - Halifax BB199 - Caldwell.

Air Gunner - Sgt Bertie Frederick Hoskins RAFVR (1251169), aged 22. Died of injuries. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.


20th June 1942 - Spitfire AR426 - Breighton airfield.

Pilot - F/O John James Allen RAAF (404842), aged 22. Buried Holme of Spalding Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


25th June 1942 - Halifax W1155 - Leeming Bar.

Pilot - Sgt William Joseph Walter Wiseman RAFVR (1375338), aged 26. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Alfred Carter RAF (571212), aged 22. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/O James Gordon Mutter RAFVR (87421). Buried Wallesey Churchyard, Cheshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Stanley Valentine Duvall RAFVR (902732), aged 32. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Donald Ross Stewart RCAF (R/79018), aged 20. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Ground casualty - Gunner Tom Jobson Owers, Royal Artillery (1076293). Buried Pelton Cemetery, Durham.

Ground casualty - Gunner John William Kay, Royal Artillery (1659878). Buried New Hunslet Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire.


25th June 1942 - Beaufighter T4789 - Catwick.

Pilot - F/Sgt John Edwin Lawrence Downton RCAF (R/85450), aged 26. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Observer - Sgt Ernest Bent RAFVR (1053350), aged 31. Buried Manchester Southern Cemetery, Lancashire.


29th June 1942 - Oxford N6428 - Acaster Malbis airfield.

Trainee Pilot - Sgt Arthur Taylor RAFVR (1042357), aged 20. Buried Lockwood Cemetery, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

Instructor - P/O John Langston Haggerty RAFVR (121296), aged 22. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


29th June 1942 - Hampden AD848 - Thorne.

Pilot - Sgt Theodore Anton Krome RAAF (403428), aged 29. Buried Hatfield Woodhouse Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - P/O Frederick Francis Andrew Wood RCAF (J/8619). Buried Hatfield Woodhouse Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Ralph O'Keefe RAFVR (798640), aged 21. Buried Hatfield Woodhouse Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Wallace Alan Robson RAAF (411052), aged 19. Buried Hatfield Woodhouse Cemetery, Yorkshire.


4th July 1942 - Tiger Moth T8200 - Howden.

Pilot - F/O Clifford Whitehead DFM RAF (45299), aged 27. Buried Arnold Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


11th July 1942 - Spitfire AR345 - Thirsk.

Pilot - P/O Gordon Francis Joseph Hoben RCAF (J/15077), aged 29. Buried Catterick Cemetery, North Yorkshire.


12th July 1942 - Blenheim T1810 - Catfoss airfield.

Civilian - Mr Henry Charles Woodcock, aged 40. Died Catfoss. Burial location unknown.


16th July 1942 - Spitfire W3628 - Wolfhole Crag, Forest of Bowland.

Pilot - Sgt Tadeusz T Nawrocki PAF (P/784110), aged 28. Buried Formby RC Churchyard, Lancashire (GA/1/16).


16th July 1942 - Halifax BB203 - Sheriff Hutton.

Instructor Pilot - P/O James Wilson Craig RAFVR (118685), aged 21. Buried Ayr Cemetery, Fifeshire, Scotland.

Trainee Pilot - P/O John Forster Withy RAFVR (114441), aged 31. Buried Newton on Ouse, Yorkshire.

Trainee Pilot - WO Harry Ward Williamson RCAF (R/71602), aged 29. Buried at Newton on Ouse, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Edward Place RAFVR (1129411), aged 20. Buried Hartlepool Stranton Cemetery, Durham.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Alexander Dunn RAFVR (1369631), aged 25. Buried Beath Eastern Cemetery, Fifeshire, Scotland.


20th July 1942 - Halifax W7670 - Yarm.

Pilot - WO1 Wesley Leonard Belous RCAF (R/61812), aged 23. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Co.Durham.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Fred Hebron RAFVR (944060), aged 25. Buried Cowpen Cemetery, Blyth, Northumberland.


21st July 1942 - Blenheim Z5723 - Bridlington.

Pilot - Sgt George Campbell Jardine RAFVR (1070430), aged 27/28?. Buried Peebles Cemetery, Peeblesshire, Scotland.

Observer - Sgt Walter Edward Mason RAAF (404586), aged 21. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Observer - Sgt Mervyn Davies RAFVR (1264534). Buried Morriston Cemetery, Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales.


21st July 1942 - Halifax R9489 - Catterton.

Pilot - Sgt Thomas Craik Murray RAFVR (1365896), aged 19. Buried Markinch Cemetery, Fifeshire, Scotland.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Arthur Thomas Wharfe RAF (567426), aged 23. Buried Keresley Churchyard, Warwickshire.

Navigator - Sgt Peter Mitchell Thurgood RAFVR (1312235), aged 26. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - P/O Harry Hibbert RAFVR (117003), aged 27. Buried Sutton in Ashfield Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Harold Richard Giddens RCAF (R/66046), aged 21. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Stanley Allan Keen RAF(AuxAF) (844873), aged 26. Buried St.Albans Churchyard, Hertfordshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt William Warren Craig RCAF (R/63057), aged 29. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Passenger - Sgt William Henry McBurney. Buried Stottercliffe Cemetery, Penistone, Yorkshire.

Passenger - Sgt Amos Roebuck. Buried Netherfield Congregation Chapleyard, Penistone, Yorkshire.


21st July 1942 - Botha L6355 - Brough.

Pilot - P/O James Francis Haley RCAF (J/15272). Buried Stoneykirk Cemetery, Wigtownshire, Scotland.


24th July 1942 - Halifax W7769 - Pocklington.

Pilot - P/O Robert Baker Albright RCAF (J/15590), aged 26. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - P/O George Frederick Strong RCAF (J/7540), aged 21. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Maxwell Warnock Apperson RAF (534437), aged 24. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt William Charles Thurlow RCAF (R/70102), aged 22. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Colloton RAFVR (1006114), aged 22. Buried Birkenhead Cemetery, Cheshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Robert William Hexter RCAF (R/68055), aged 22. Buried Whetstone Cemetery, Leicestershire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Reid Owens RCAF (R/79143), aged 21. Buried Barmby on the Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Albert James Western RAFVR (922948), aged 25. Buried Brampford Speke Cemetery, Devon.


24th July 1942 - Wellington T2701 - Finningley.

Pilot - W/O John Lawrence Smith RAF (519241). Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Observer - W/O Charles Eade Lutwyche RAF (561197), aged 31. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Albert Edwin Barrows RAFVR (1287636), aged 22. Buried Gunnersbury Cemetery, Kensington, London.

Air Gunner - Sgt William McDonald RAF (544774), aged 24. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.


24th July 1942 - Wellington DV476 - Finningley.

Instructor Pilot - P/O Richard Colvin Seddon Beck DFM RNZAF (NZ.402158), aged 30. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Trainee Pilot - P/O John Vernon Robinson RAFVR (119240), aged 20. Buried Sefton Churchyard, Lancashire.

Observer - Sgt Harry Champion Jellyman RAFVR (1381351). Buried Llantrisant (Trane) Cemetery, Glamorganshire.

Bomb Aimer - P/O William Caufield Waterson RAF (116706), aged 22. Buried Uphall Cemetery, West Lothian, Scotland.

Observer - Sgt Norbron Basil Hyde RAFVR (1088309), aged 21. Buried Wombwell Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Stanley James Plume RAFVR (1376309), aged 28. Buried Chingford Mount Cemetery, Essex.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Frederick Colin Ethell RAFVR (950909), aged 21. Cremated Manchester.


5th August 1942 - Liberator AL588 - Tockwith.

Pilot - F/Sgt Bryn Williams RAFVR (1312342), aged 27. Cremated Leeds (Lawns Wood) Crematorium, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - Sgt Alan Francis Bell RAFVR (1295005), aged 20. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunnery Instructor - P/O Thomas Henry Jones RAFVR (124260), aged 22. Cremated Bradford Crematorium, Yorkshire.

Observer - Sgt Wilfred Anthony Kup RAFVR (1309292), aged 26. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire. B.A.(Oxon.).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Edward Thorley RAFVR (1112970), aged 19. Buried Manchester Southern Cemetery.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Sidney Sampson RAFVR (1380924), aged 22. Buried Richmond Cemetery, Surrey.

Air Gunner - Sgt Edward Albert Smith RAFVR (1387824), aged 21. Buried Thundersley Churchyard, Essex.

Air Gunner - Sgt Kenneth Caselton RAFVR (1270868), aged 19. Buried Yalding New Churchyard, Kent.

Air Gunner - Sgt William Henry Charles Booth RAFVR (1294878), aged 22. Buried Orpington Cemetery, Kent.

Passenger/Ground Crew - Sgt Douglas Arnold Wood RAF (627322), aged 23. Buried Poole Cemetery, Dorset.


5th August 1942 - Oxford V4215 - Myton on Swale.

Pilot - Sgt Clement John Stuart RAAF (405779), aged 21. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire

Pilot - Sgt Henry Anderton "Andy" Thewles RAFVR (1450879), aged 20. Buried Haltemprice (Hessle) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - AC1 John Davies RAFVR (1077869), aged 20. Buried Royton Cemetery, Lancashire.


6th August 1942 - Hotspur BT546 - Allerton Park.

Pilot - Sgt Eric Gordon Travis RAFVR (1312385). Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


6th August 1942 - Lysander L4795 - Boothferry.

Pilot - F/Lt Paul Ralph Emerson Jenkins RAF (45077), aged 25. Buried Kirkby Wharfe, Cemetery, Yorkshire.


7th August 1942 - Wellington X3698 - Great Heck.

Pilot - F/Sgt Robert Wilson Baxter GM RAAF (400689), aged 24. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt John Herbert Hodsell RNZAF (NZ.404068), aged 22. Died of injuries 15th August 1942. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Anthony Roland Tipple RAFVR (755837), aged 21. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Bertie Harry Cosby RAFVR (1280615), aged 20. Buried Norwich Cemetery, Norfolk.

Air Gunner - Sgt Harold "Sam" Weller RAFVR (1333817), aged 21. Buried Selby Cemetery, Yorkshire.


11th August 1942 - Hudson T9355 - Thornaby.

Pilot - F/Sgt Mervyn Albert Thomas Burns RAFVR (1208640), aged 27. Buried Thornbury Cemetery, Glocestershire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Eric Newcombe RAFVR (1066475), aged 22. Buried St.Helens Cemetery, Lancashire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Edward Patrick Monaghan RAFVR (1112976), aged 21. Buried Accrington Cemetery, Lancashire.


12th August 1942 - Wellington Z9470 - Kirby Underdale.

Observer - Sgt William Patrick James RCAF (R/95238), aged 24. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


13th August 1942 - Defiant L6981 - Hutton Cranswick.

Pilot - F/Sgt Derek Rowland Lord RAFVR (1169117), aged 20. Buried Burpham Churchyard, Surrey.

Air Gunner - Sgt Arthur Owen Potts RAFVR (1057542), aged 20. Buried Anlaby Tranby Lane Cemetery, Hull, Yorkshire.


16th August 1942 - Hampden P4318 - Arkengarthdale.

Observer - F/Sgt John Magwood Henry RCAF (R/106552), aged 26. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Bowman Phillips RCAF (R103788), aged 28. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th August 1942 - Halifax L9609 - Sowerby.

Trainee Pilot - F/O John Hugh Trethewy RAFVR (113359), aged 23. Buried Daventry Churchyard, Northamptonshire.

Instructor Pilot - F/O Basil Douglas Gay Gibson MiD RAFVR (68175), aged 32. Buried Wimbledon Churchyard, Surrey.

Flight Engineer - Sgt William Alfred Lawson RAF(AAF) (804306), aged 22. Buried Little Stanmore churchyard, Middlesex.


18th August 1942 - Halifax V9992 - Sowerby.

Pilot - F/Sgt John Gillies RAFVR (741756), aged 24. Buried Holytown Cemetery, Lanarkshire.

Observer - Sgt Arthur Collins RAFVR (1381237), aged 30. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Adrian Rolt Triscott RAFVR (1151434). Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt John Henry Ffolliott Sydes RAFVR (744908), aged 27. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Stanley Downing RAFVR (1270327), aged 32. Buried Alperton Burial Ground, Wembley, London.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Charles Bacon RAFVR (1375837), aged 28. Buried City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, London.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Charles Campbell Lee RCAF (R/79839), aged 23. Buried Darlington West Cemetery, Durham.


19th August 1942 - P38 Lightning 41-7604 - Brawith.

Pilot - 2nd Lt Charles Walter Oakley USAAF (O-421297). Burial location unknown. Probably initially buried at Brookwood Cemetery, since returned to the USA.


19th August 1942 - Ground accident - Leconfield airfield.

Ground crew - LAC Norman Edward Ginn RAFVR (961241), aged 29. Died of injuries. Buried Cambridge City Cemetery.


22nd August 1942 - Beaufighter T5145? - Brandesburton.

Passenger/Ground Crew? - AC2 Constantine Philip Voltos RAFVR (919294), aged 21. Buried Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey.


23rd August 1942 - Beaufighter T4726 - Hornsea.

Pilot - Sgt Robert Joyce RAFVR (1237999), aged 21. Buried Sale Cemetery, Cheshire.

Wireless Operator / Observer - P/O Evelyn Arthur Crane Dawkins RAFVR (119444), aged 19. Buried Esher Cemetery, Cobham, Surrey.


29th August 1942 - Beaufighter X8222 - Catterick Bridge.

Pilot - F/Lt John Robert Browning Firth RAFVR (62009), aged 27. Buried Streatham Park Cemetery, Surrey.

Radio Operator / Navigator - P/O Frederick George Harding RAFVR (118927), aged 24. Buried Eltham Cemetery, London.


3rd September 1942 - Wellington DV718 - Great Whernside.

Pilot - Sgt George Francis Ridgway RNZAF (NZ.414680), aged 20. Buried Windhill Methodist Cemetery, Shipley, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Willie Allinson RAFVR (1145494), aged 34. Buried Hoyland Nether Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Sgt Howard William Spencer RAFVR (1200412), aged 31. Buried Chilcomb Churchyard, Hampshire.

Rear Gunner - Sgt Paul McLarnon RAFVR (999862), aged 22. Buried Belfast Milltown Roman Catholic Cemetery, Northern Ireland.


3rd September 1942 - Halifax W1163 - Marston Moor airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Jack Duncan Duffus RAF (525589), aged 26. Buried Chevington Cemetery, Northumberland.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Robert Gasken RAF(AuxAF) (807051), aged 28. Buried Gateshead East Cemetery, Durham.

Position unknown - Sgt Robert George Wraight RAFVR (1387626), aged 21. Buried Islington Cemetery & Crematorium, London.


4th September 1942 - Wellington X3940 - Grimston Park.

Pilot - F/Sgt Dennis Arthur Green RAFVR (778629), aged 22. Buried Kirkby Wharfe Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - F/Sgt Frank Edward Meers RCAF (R/82503), aged 24. Buried Kirkby Wharfe Cemetery, Yorkshire.


4th September 1942 - Hudson AE627 - Thornaby.

Pilot - Sgt Ernest Stanley Studholme RAFVR (778600), aged 30. Buried Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Sunderland.

Observer - F/Sgt Howard Bruce Shaver RCAF (R/74041), aged 22. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt John Alan Montgomery RCAF (R/90455), aged 25. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Frank Harris Wright RCAF (R/87954), aged 28. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


5th September 1942 - Wellington Z1671 - Sutton upon Derwent.

Rear Gunner - P/O Vivian Weston Parry DFC RAFVR (111963), aged 27. Buried Llanrhwydrys Churchyard, Anglesey.


5th September 1942 - Combat injury, died in hospital.

Rear Gunner - Sgt Archibald Stanley Funnell RAF (534974), aged 25. Died of injuries 6th September 1942. Buried The Downs cemetery, Brighton, Sussex.


6th September 1942 - Oxford R6379 - Leconfield airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Frederick Samuel Diplock RAFVR (1078336), aged 27. Buried Drumbeg Churchyard, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.


6th September 1942 - Me210 2H+CA - New Marske.

Pilot - Fw Heinrich Moesges, aged 30. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Middlesbrough.

Wireless Operator - Obgfr Eduard Czerny, aged 23. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Middlesbrough.


8th September 1942 - Halifax W1228 - Holtby.

Pilot - F/Sgt John Eric Nicholson RAFVR (1023368), aged 28. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Second Pilot - P/O Alfred Norman Thompson RAFVR (902444), aged 22. Buried Tottenham Cemetery, London.

Flight Engineer - Sgt John Taylor Murray RAF (536790), aged 26. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator (/Bomb Aimer) - F/O Arnold Robson RAFVR (123276), aged 26. Buried Howden-le-Wear Churchyard, Durham.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Laurence George Harvey RAFVR (1256530), aged 22. Buried Eastbrookend Cemetery, Dagenham, Essex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Ronald Leonard Stevens RAFVR (1182379), aged 20. Buried Morden Cemetery, Surrey.

Rear Gunner - Sgt Cecil Richard Rundle RAFVR (778696), aged 31. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


9th September 1942 - Wellington DV433 - Finningley airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Reginald Victor Turpitt RAF (657241), aged 23. Buried Tawstock Churchyard, Devon.

Pilot - P/O Peter Wren Dormon RAFVR (118547), aged 26. Buried Frinton on Sea Churchyard, Essex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Leslie Hugh Davies RAFVR (1289382), aged 22. Buried Burry Port Cemetery, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Rear Gunner - Sgt Dennis Charles Alfred Peter R Denville RAFVR (1052819), aged c20. Buried Stoney Royd Cemetery, Halifax, Yorkshire.


11th September 1942 - Halifax BB212 - Topcliffe airfield.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Alfred Thomas Drennan RCAF (R/93310), aged 26. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


15th September 1942 - Defiant N3501 - Hackness.

Pilot - W/O Derek Frederick Paterson Jannings RNZAF (NZ.401387), aged 25. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


18th September 1942 - Wellington BJ976 - Tickhill.

Pilot - Sgt George Nicol RAFVR (1165282), aged 22. Buried Wareham Cemetery, Dorset.

Navigator - Sgt Wilfred Bakes RAFVR (1381154), aged 31. Buried Nab Wood Cemetery, Shipley, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt John Charles Dalton RAFVR (1383216), aged 23. Buried Lambeth Cemetery, London.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Percy Benjamin Elliott Woodham RAFVR (1377795), aged 21. Buried Finningley Churchyard, Yorkshire.


20th September 1942 - Halifax R9383 - Thruscross.

Navigator - Sgt Hugh Currie McDougall RAFVR (1550615), aged 29. Buried Hawkhill Cemetery, Stevenston, Ayrshire.


22nd September 1942 - Wellington BJ695 - Pickering.

Pilot - F/Sgt Eugene Kuzyk RCAF (R/76994), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Edward Wilfred St.Cyr RCAF (R/55593), aged 25. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - P/O Raoul Joseph Rioux RCAF (J/15938), aged 23. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Donald Alfred Girouard RCAF (R/101641), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Joseph Raoul Alphonse Boudreault RCAF (R/62814), aged 25. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


22nd September 1942 - Spitfire AR440 - Pickering.

Pilot - F/Sgt John T Norman RCAF (R/98446), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


22nd September 1942 - Halifax W1272 - Catterton.

Pilot - F/O John William Purcivall DFC RNZAF (NZ.401031), aged 30. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Pupil Pilot - F/Lt John Alexander Falkiner RAAF (400952), aged 24. Buried Wooton Churchyard, Hampshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Leslie Horace Jones RAF (646858), aged 30. Buried Adwick-le-Street Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Rear Gunner - F/Sgt Reginald George Cox RAAF (402589), aged 27. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.


24th September 1942 - Beaufighter T3332 - Catfoss airfield.

Pilot - Sgt John Leslie Johnson RAFVR (1029670), aged 30. Buried Morley Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Possibly connected - AC1 Charles Fletcher RAFVR (1537604), aged 37. Died 29th September 1942. Buried Sandal Magna Churchyard, Yorkshire.


24th September 1942 - Oxford X7073 - Ryther.

Pilot - Sgt Kenneth Francis Cadd RAAF (415114), aged 21. Buried Leconfield Churchyard, Yorkshire.


26th September 1942 - Wellington DV821 - Pateley Bridge.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt John Cliff Keightley RAFVR (1202833), aged 29. Buried Wealdstone Cemetery, Harrow, Middlesex.


27th September 1942 - Oxford R6081 - South Anston.

Pilot - Sgt Grahame Hilton Clothier RAAF (411865), aged 20. Buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Doncaster, Yorkshire.


28th September 1942 - Oxford V4035 - Finningley airfield.

Instructor Pilot - P/O Basil Gordon Tree DFM RAFVR (117991), aged 25. Buried Cottingham Cemetery, Hull, Yorkshire.

Pupil Pilot - Sgt Hector Gordon Roch McCosker RAAF (413023), aged 23. Buried Finningley Churchyard Extension, Yorkshire.


1st October 1942 - Hudson AM619 - Yarm.

Pilot - WO1 Brian Higginbotham RAFVR (742629), aged 25. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Middlesbrough.

Pilot - F/Sgt Albert Royston Sanger RCAF (R/98135), aged 21. Buried Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol.


4th October 1942 - Mustang AM168 - Grinton.

Pilot - S/Ldr Robert Gray RAF (72081). Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.


8th October 1942 - Beaufighter X7569 - Church Fenton.

Pilot - F/Sgt Henry Lyons Middlemast RAFVR (1284380), aged 22. Buried Stanley New Cemetery, Durham.


9th October 1942 - Halifax L9574 - Thorganby.

Pilot - F/O Francis Leach RAFVR (113402), aged 26. Cremated Perry Bar, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Pilot - Sgt Geoffrey Eyre Broughton RAFVR (1311939), aged 21. Buried Norbury Churchyard, Cheshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Alexander Howard Isaac RAFVR (1190773), aged 31. Buried Exeter Higher Cemetery, Devon.

Air Gunner - Sgt George Buckland RAFVR (1320255), aged 19. Buried East Grinstead Cemetery, Sussex.


10th October 1942 - Wellington BK335 - Croft airfield.

Pilot - Sgt Lewis William Scobie RCAF (R/87422), aged 22. Died of injuries. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Durham.

Air Bomber - F/Sgt Richard John Todd Colvin RCAF (R/110138), aged 27. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Durham.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Herbert Ernest Hicks RCAF (R/113252), aged 20. Buried Darlington Western Cemetery, Durham.


10th October 1942 - Wellington BK257 - Fordon.

Pilot - Sgt John Ferguson RAFVR (1331595), aged 20. Buried Limpsfield Churchyard, Surrey.

Observer - Sgt Robert George MacDonald RAFVR (1380294), aged 33. Buried Filey Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Bomber - Sgt John Anthony Fox RAFVR (1382178). Buried Wandsworth Cemetery, Streatham, London.

Wireless Operator /Air Gunner - F/Sgt Donald Roy Robertson RCAF (R/98882), aged 21. Buried Filey Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Bruce Harry Sparrow RCAF (R/86211), aged 20. Buried Filey Churchyard, Yorkshire.


10th October 1942 - Beaufighter T5259 - Kirkburn.

Pilot - Sgt Robert Adair Strang RAFVR (656403). Buried Eastwood Cemetery, Glasgow.


12th October 1942 - Wellington Z8532 - Langtoft.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt John Percy Standfast RCAF (R/87945). Died of injuries 13th October 1942. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 6182).

Air Gunner - Sgt Thomas Walter Yapp RCAF (R/101059). Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 6188).


13th October 1942 - Oxford BG666 - Acaster Malbis.

Instructor Pilot - F/O Angus Murray RAFVR (118885). Buried Brigg Cemetery, Lincolnshire.

Trainee Pilot - Sgt Samuel Hampton McBryde RCAF (R/109887), aged 21. Initially buried at Brigg, now buried Falfurrias Burial Park, Texas.

Trainee Pilot - Sgt John Denis Lennon RAFVR (1332083), aged 22. Buried Clacton Cemetery, Essex.

Wireless Operator - AC2 Harold Traverse RAFVR (1425232). Buried Brigg Cemetery, Lincolnshire.


13th October 1942 - Oxford V3882 - Hull.

Pilot - Sgt Victor Harold Sweeting RAFVR (1386117), aged 26. Buried Baddesley Clinton Churchyard, Warwickshire.


13th October 1942 - Oxford AP395 - Escrick.

Pupil Pilot - Sgt Harold Stanley Cutler RAFVR (1236174), aged 19. Died of injuries 16th October 1942. Buried The Lickey Church Extension, Worcestershire.

Instructor Pilot - F/Sgt John Neil MacIver RCAF (R/92757), aged 21. Buried Brigg Cemetery, Lincolnshire.


14th October 1942 - Wellington DF636 - Londonderry.

Pilot - WO2 Wesley Bethel Croft RCAF (R/83002), aged 20. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - P/O Ronald Edward Eric Gurd RAFVR (129532). Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - P/O Alexander McBirnie Wardrop RCAF (J/12976), aged 21. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - P/O William James Jones RCAF (J/15726), aged 23. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Harry Joseph Thomas Gray RCAF (R/62780), aged 24. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Civilian Casualty - Miss Barbara Joan Huggins, aged 5. Buried Leeming Churchyard, Yorkshire.


14th October 1942 - Lancaster W4233 - Bilsdale.

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

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

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


14th October 1942 - Mustang AG509 - Langcliffe.

Pilot - "F/O Herbert William Patrick Hainey RAFVR (119025)", aged 23. Now buried Portland, Oregon, USA.


14th October 1942 - Halifax W7766 - East Moor airfield.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt James Sangster Anderson RCAF (R/92560), aged 22. Died of injuries 17th October 1942. Buried Fulford Cemetery, York.


24th October 1942 - Wellington BJ958 - High Hunsley.

Pilot - WO2 Wilbert Francis Bauer RCAF (R/78791), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Observer - F/Sgt Joseph Philippe Bedard RCAF (R/77303), aged 26. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Joseph Ludovic Rodolphe Simoneau RCAF (R/77458), aged 21. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Joseph Marc Seguin RCAF (R/82658), aged 26. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Joseph Paul Albert Boyer RCAF (R/69361), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


24th October 1942 - Halifax DT512 - Holme on Spalding Moor airfield.

Pilot - W/Co Sydney Bruce Bintley DSO AFC RAF (39961), aged 29. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Lt Arthur James Graham RCAF (J/5058), aged 23. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


24th October 1942 - Defiant N3328 - Barnoldswick.

Pilot - F/Sgt John Leslie Goulter RAAF (404905), aged 22. Buried Barrow in Furness Cemetery, Lancashire.


3rd November 1942 - Oxford DF536 - Driffield.

Pilot - WO2 John Joseph William Forster RCAF (R/92075), aged 29. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 6191).

Observer - Sgt Hedley Walter Carter RAFVR (926380), aged 20. Buried Talbot Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset (grave 989).

Observer - Sgt Francis John Faye RAFVR (1529983), aged 22. Buried Skelton and Brotton Cemetery, Brotton, Yorkshire (G/N/15).


6th November 1942 - Halifax DT525 - Wass.

Navigator - F/O Harry Lancaster Humphries RCAF (J/9527), aged 29. Buried Newton on Ouse Churchyard, Yorkshire.

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

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


7th October 1942 - Oxford X7072 - Acaster Malbis airfield.

Pilot - Sgt William Ernest Trumper RAFVR (1335247), aged 20. Cremated South London Crematorium, Mitcham, Surrey.


7th November 1942 - Beaufighter X7698 - Bielby.

Pilot - Sgt Michael Harold Griffith RAFVR (1171174), aged 20. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.


9th November 1942 - Halifax DG238 - Birkby.

Pilot - P/O Ronald George Bell DFM RCAF (J/17824), aged 27. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/384).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Arthur Ernest Fuce Giles RAFVR (1333184), aged 20. Buried Medstead Cemetery, Hampshire (grave 587).

Navigator - Sgt Douglas Dean Gardner RAFVR (1391822), aged 20. Buried Horsham (Hills) Cemetery, Sussex (block S/359).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Ian Fowler Stewart McColl RAAF (406544), aged 29. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/387).

Air Gunner - P/O Philip Malcolm Matthews RCAF (J/11847), aged 22. Buried Ripon Cemetery, Yorkshire (H/385).


11th November 1942 - Wellington BJ846 - Copt Hewick.

Pilot - F/Sgt Joseph Armand Larche RCAF (R/95499), aged 27. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 33).

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Mervin Funk RCAF (R/87427), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 36).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt William Sokol RCAF (R/106059), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire (grave 32).


13th November 1942 - Beaufighter T5146 - Skipsea.

Pilot - Sgt Francis Kinnon RNZAF (NZ.414989), aged 21. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.


17th November 1942 - Beaufighter X8202 - Scorton.

Pilot - P/O Evelyn Creen Stuart Wilson-Steele RAFVR (130855), aged 27. Buried Farnham Cemetery, Surrey (B/1079).

Navigator / Wireless Operator - F/Sgt Harold Joseph Beswick RAFVR (1058967), aged 33. Buried Landican Cemetery, Birkenhead, Cheshire (CofE/2/535).

"Radio Officer" - F/O Thomas Robert Brownfield RCAF (C/7176), aged 22. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.


17th November 1942 - Wellington BK193 - Maltby.

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Edward Ranald Newson RAFVR (1182450), aged 33. Buried Streatham Park Cemetery, Surrey (Square 8/35233).


18th November 1942 - Ground accident, Linton on Ouse.

LAC Thomas Moore RAFVR (756552), aged 26. Buried Cleethorpes Cemetery, Lincolnshire.


22nd November 1942 - Spitfire BL246 - Barmston.

Pilot - Kpl Tadeusz Orzechowski PAF (P/783097), aged 21. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


22nd November 1942 - Beaufighter EL394 - Barmston.

Pilot - Sgt Robert Andrew Patterson RCAF (R/102077), aged 20. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire (grave 23).


22nd November 1942 - P39 Airacobra BX195 - Settle.

Pilot - Lt Cecil Rhodes USAAF (O-726682), aged 23. Buried IOOF Cemetery, Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, USA.


27th November 1942 - Oxford ED137 - Cherry Burton.

Pilot - Sgt Alec Richard Sowden RAFVR (1331841), aged 20. Buried Ashford Burial Ground, Surrey (10/101).


29th November 1942 - Mustang AP208 - Holdron Moss, Forest of Bowland.

Pilot - F/O Sholto Paton Marlatt RCAF (J/5971), aged 29. Buried Lytham St.Anne's (Park) Cemetery, Lancashire (D/Non-con/731).


29th November 1942 - Halifax DT576 - Melmerby.

Pilot - WO1 Stephen Frederic Gannon RCAF (R/56406). Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Earl Lewis McGillivray RCAF (R/61819), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt George Robert Ian Taylor RCAF (R/108843), aged 23. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Bomber - Sgt Allen Catto Bradley RCAF (J/18602), aged 29. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt William Stanley Milne RCAF (R/107580). Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Melville James Stanley RCAF (R/67711). Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Orlando Delmar Conrad Hamel RCAF (R/117309). Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger (Pilot) - F/Sgt Norman Wilbur Ross RCAF (R/99245), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) - Sgt Benjamin Hugo Enns RCAF (J/10008), aged 26. Buried Airth Parish Church Cemetery, Scotland.

Passenger (Navigator) - P/O Samuel Stewart Clark RCAF (J/19450), aged 24. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger (Air Gunner) - Sgt Ralph Elliott Milliken RCAF (R/128672), aged 22. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger (Flight Engineer) - Sgt Joseph Jones RCAF (R/62366), aged 26. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger (Air Gunner) - F/Sgt William Michael Kostenuk RCAF (R/121565). Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Passenger (Air Bomber) - Sgt Francis Hooton RAFVR (1381953), aged 31. Buried Standish RC Churchyard, Lancashire.

Passenger (Aero Engine Mechanic) - Cpl Joseph Victor Raoul Beaudry RCAF (R/74134), aged 26. Buried Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire.


30th November 1942 - Halifax W7871 - Melbourne.

Pilot - F/Sgt Edward John Willmott RAFVR (1380070), aged 21. Buried Binfield Cemetery, Berkshire (A/119).

Instructor - S/Ldr Gerald Spencer Barrett RAF (29001), aged 31. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Derick Arthur Dudley Soggee RAF (571587), aged 22. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt Alan Frederick Flower RAFVR (1187916), aged 22. Buried Kingston Cemetery, Portsmouth, Hampshire (107/4/61).

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick Charles Clarke RAFVR (1333700), aged 19. Buried Tottenham Cemetery, Middlesex (Park sec/2363).

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Edward Arthur Marchant RAFVR (1377000), aged 30. Buried Hastings Cemetery, Sussex (O/A/96).

Air Gunner - Sgt Douglas Arnold Bellerby RAFVR (1459372), aged 19. Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - F/Sgt Alfred Brewer RAFVR (1165987), aged 29?. Buried Ringwood Cemetery, Hampshire (Z/283).


30th November 1942 - Mosquito DD782 - Church Fenton.

Pilot - P/O Raymond Peake RAFVR (116101), aged 22. Buried Poynton Churchyard, Cheshire (new/61).

Navigator - Sgt Thomas Richardson Parry RAFVR (1134677), aged 20. Buried Rake Lane Cemetery, Wallasey, Cheshire (19c/14)


2nd December 1942 - Ground accident - Thornaby airfield.

Groundcrew - AC1 George Sydney Bell RAFVR (1093388), aged 33. Buried York Cemetery, Yorkshire.


5th December 1942 - Oxford P1867 - Hull.

Pilot - Sgt Jan Josef Minge PAF (P/792685), aged 22. Buried Newark Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.


6th December 1942 - Halifax DG223 - Bilbrough.

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - Sgt Lawrence Ernest Walter Jackson RAFVR (1292954). Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Peter Thurston Wallis RAFVR (13121136), aged 19. Buried Gap Road Cemetery, Wimbledon, Surrey.


7th December 1942 - Beaufighter T5317 - Hunmanby.

Pilot - Sgt Ian John Land RNZAF (NZ.414306), aged 21. Buried Brandesburton Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt William Ronald Evans RAFVR (1319211), aged 20. Buried Woodford Bridge Churchyard, Essex.


12th December 1942 - Halifax W7933 - Hawnby.

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

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

Navigator / Bomber - Sgt Carl Robert Woolley RAFVR (1575390), aged 33. Buried Nottingham Southern Cemetery.

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

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

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

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


12th December 1942 - Spitfire W3599 - Hutton Cranswick.

Pilot - F/O Edward Josef Kowalski PAF (P/0235), aged 25. Buried Driffield Cemetery, Yorkshire.


13th December 1942 - Beaufighter EL279 - Dunnington, East Yorkshire.

Pilot - Sgt Robert Inglis RAFVR (1552301), aged 21. Buried Stane Cemetery, Lanarkshire.

Navigator - Sgt John Henry Pettifer RAFVR (1390274), aged 22. Buried Lavender Hill Cemetery, Enfield, Middlesex.


14th December 1942 - Beaufighter V8452 - Richmond.

Pilot - F/Lt William James Hunt RAFVR (83726), aged 31. Buried Histon Cemetery, Cambridgeshire.

Navigator / Wireless Operator - F/Sgt Harold Gysel RAFVR (1150235), aged 34. Buried Catterick Cemetery, Yorkshire.


15th December 1942 - Tiger Moth T7226 - Brough.

Instructor / Pilot - F/O Albert William Middleton Anderson-Parfett RAF (47272), aged 28. Buried Llandrillo-yn-Rhos (St.Trillo) Churchyard, Denbighshire, Wales.

Trainee Pilot - LAC Derick George Turner RAFVR (1603594), aged 19. Buried Gap Road Cemetery, Wimbledon, Surrey.


16th December 1942 - Tomahawk AH912 - Dishforth airfield.

(Pilot)/Fitter IIE - AC1 Arthur Orchard "John" Biddulph RAF (635791), aged 21. Buried Woolwich Cemetery, London.


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

Pilot - Fw Wilhelm Stoll, aged 25. Buried Acklam Road Cemetery, Thornaby on Tees, Yorkshire.

Observer - Obgfr Hans Roeschner, aged 20. Buried Acklam Road Cemetery, Thornaby on Tees, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator - Obgfr Gerhard Wicht, aged 22. Buried Acklam Road Cemetery, Thornaby on Tees, Yorkshire.

Mechanic - Obgfr Franz Armann, aged 19. Buried Acklam Road Cemetery, Thornaby on Tees, Yorkshire.


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

Pilot - Oblt Rolf Hausner, aged 25. Missing.

Observer - Uffz Sirius Erd, aged 23. Missing.

Wireless Operator - Obfw Hartwig Hupe, aged 29. Initially unidentified and buried at Dishforth Cemetery, later reburied under his name at Cannock Chase Cemetery, Staffordshire.

Mechanic - Obfw Ernst Weiderer, aged 28. Initially buried at Dishforth Cemetery, reburied Cannock Chase Cemetery, Staffordshire.


17th December 1942 - Lancaster W4319 - Dormanstown.

Pilot - Sgt Marcel Alec Fussell RAFVR (1316055), aged 20. Buried Dorchester, Dorset.

Bomb Aimer - Sgt Sydney Stewart McLean RNZAF (NZ.404392), aged 29. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Jack Worsnop RAF (568572), aged 23. Buried Bradford, Yorkshire.

Navigator - Sgt Monte Alan Gray McIntyre RNZAF (NZ.405298), aged 29. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Michael James O'Malley RNZAF (NZ.413278), aged 21. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt George John Warren RAFVR (1292464), aged 19. Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Rear Gunner - Sgt Gregory Manuel Georges RCAF (R/117661). Buried Thornaby on Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.


18th December 1942 - Defiant N3458 - Cold Kirby.

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


20th December 1942 - Halifax W7784 - Poppleton.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Dermid McDermid Orrock Walker RAF (641481), aged 22. Buried Beath Cemetery, Fifeshire, Scotland.

Navigator / Bomb Aimer - Sgt James Buckland RAFVR (1233255), aged 32. Buried Talybont Chapelyard, Caernarvonshire, Wales.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Bernard Jack Woodley RAFVR (1375573), aged 28. Buried Streatham Cemetery, Wandsworth, London.


20th December 1942 - Halifax DT625 - Wheldrake.

Pilot - F/Sgt Allan Lord RAFVR (1117304), aged 22. Buried Sale Cemetery, Cheshire.

Flignt Engineer - F/Sgt Fred Vincent Passant RAFVR (1480175), aged 23. Buried Leigh Cemetery, Lancashire.

Bomb Aimer - P/O Norman Matthews RAFVR (131591), aged 20. Buried Sutton Road Cemetery, Southend on Sea, Essex.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Leonard George Spires RAFVR (1285153). Buried Alperton Burial Ground, Wembley, Middlesex.

? - Sgt Henry Spinner RAFVR (1323991), aged 21. Buried Deal Cemetery, Kent.

Air Gunner - Sgt Francis George Brown RAFVR (1320388), aged 21. Buried Shirehampton Cemetery, Bristol, Gloucestershire.


20th December 1942 - Mustang AL988 - York.

Pilot - Sgt James Wild Butterfield RAFVR (1382698), aged 19. Buried Hampstead, London.


28th December 1942 - Spitfire AD230 - Forest of Bowland.

Pilot - P/O Wladyslaw Pucek PAF (P.76724), aged 27. Buried Layton Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire.


29th December 1942 - Halifax DT631 - Dunnington, York.

Pilot - F/Sgt John Orr RAF (655146), aged 24. Buried Hawkhead Cemetery, Paisley, Renfrewshire.

Flight Engineer - Sgt Alexander David Boyle RAFVR (996348), aged 24. Buried Camelon Cemetery, Falkirk, Stirlingshire.

Navigator - P/O Cyril Arthur Saunders RAFVR (130443). Buried Barmby Moor Churchyard, Yorkshire.

Bomb Aimer - P/O John MacLennan RAFVR (127119). Buried Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Glamorganshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt Douglas Charles Godfrey RAFVR (1168510), aged 22. Buried Witton Cemetery, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt James Casey RAFVR (1348582), aged 22. Buried Mexborough Cemetery, Yorkshire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Albert Victor Green RAFVR (1485704), aged 32. Buried Holy Cross Cemetery, Wallsend, Northumberland.

"Lest We Forget"


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