Flashback Friday - War Grave - Private Albert Blay

|**Originally posted 2nd January 2013**

 

 

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".

 

 

 

Albert Blay was born in 1907 in Maidenhead Berkshire to Frederick Blay, a bricklayer, and his wife Louisa Green.

 

On the 1911 Census, three year old Albert is living with his parents and older brother Frederick Archie Blay at 1 Spencers Road, Maidenhead Berkshire.

 

In 1931 Albert married Phyllis Ida Burrows in Grantham, Leicestershire

 

Sometime after the outbreak of World War II, Albert enlisted with The Cheshire Regiment.  Unfortunately Albert was to die as a result of war action on 10th May 1941.

 

 

 



World War Two: Anthony Montague and Guy Henry Garrett-Cox - Brothers in Arms.

Sometimes when you set out to research a person you stumble onto tales of bravery and tragedy.  This is one such story.

What intrigued me about this family at first was the fact that Lance Corporal Anthony Montague Garrett-Cox is the only war grave in the small churchyard of St Luke's Church in Maidenhead, Berkshire.  Why was Anthony here on his own when his comrades in both world wars that died at home were buried at All Saints Maidenhead Cemetery?

Details where few and far between.  I managed to find out through the Commonwealth War Graves commission that Anthony's parents were R Garrett-Cox and Gladys Irene Garrett-Cox of Maidenhead.  Their double barrelled surname, instead of making research easier, made it much harder.  Through searching the name via Google I discovered that a second Garrett-Cox, Lieutenant G H Garrett-Cox, had served and died in the Second World War and was commemorated along side Anthony on the Maidenhead War Memorial.  This was too much of a coincidence, they had to be related in some way.

Searching with the forename Garrett and the surname Cox, I was able to find Lieutenant Guy Henry Garrett-Cox's information on the Commonwealth War Graves website.  Lieutenant Guy Henry Garrett-Cox served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve aboard the H.M.S Helca and died on 12th November 1942.

Guy Henry and Anthony Montague were brothers.  Both were born in Maidenhead to Samuel Henry Reuben Garrett-Cox, A music professor and organist at St Luke's Church in Maidenhead, and Gladys Irene Carter.  Guy Henry had been born in 1911 and Anthony Montague in 1914.  They were Reuben and Gladys's only children.

Just before the outbreak of World War Two on 1st May 1939, Guy Henry married Rosemary Simpson-Hayward in Celyon, Colombo.  In 1941 they celebrated the birth of their son, Martin Hayward Garrett-Cox.

Anthony enlisted with the Intelligence Corps of the British Army and was sent to Mauritius.  Guy enlisted with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and was stationed on the H.M.S Helca.

During his time in Mauritius, Anthony was attacked and left for dead, he returned home to England where he was sent to hospital.  Sadly the attack in Mauritius left more than physical scars for Anthony and on 4th August 1941, Anthony took his own life.  The Derby Evening Telegraph reported on 6th August 1941 -

"INJURED AND LEFT FOR DEAD

The suggestion that his mind may have been affected by an attack in Mauritius three years ago was made at the Westminster Inquest, to-day, on Lance Corporal Anthony Montague Garrett-Cox, aged 26, of the Intelligence Corps, who shot himself through the head with a revolver.

His father, Mr, Reuben Garrett-Cox, of Maidenhead, said that in Mauritius his son had been struck on the head eight times with a motor jack, and left for dead. 

He was in hospital for three months.

Recording a verdict that the Lance Corporal 'committed suicide while of unsound mind.' The coroner said that the Mauritius injury might have had some bearing on the state of his mind."


It must have been a terrible shock for Anthony's parents and brother.  To get their loved one back from the brink of death, only to lose him three years later.  Sadly, tragedy was about the strike the family again.  Just fifteen months later, Mr and Mrs R. Garrett-Cox were to lose their only surviving child, Guy.

Between the 11th and 12th November 1942, the H.M.S Helca was torpedoed just off the coast of Morroco by a German U-Boat U-515.   Of the 838 men aboard, 556 were rescued, 12 known to have been killed and 273 reported missing, presumed killed.  It is not clear whether Lieutenant Guy Henry Garrett-Cox was one of the known dead or those missing, but what is clear is that Lieutenant Guy never returned home.  Guy Henry Garrett-Cox's body was never recovered.  He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial and the Maidenhead War Memorial.

For more information on the torpedoing of the H.M.S. Helca and the resulting rescue efforts, please click here.

Samuel Henry Reuben Garrett-Cox passed away in 1966 in Maidenhead and Gladys Irene passed away in 1980 in Chiltern and Beaconsfield.  The loss of both their sons must have weighed greatly upon them.

Unfortunately I do not know what became of Guy's wife Rosemary.


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Commonwealth War Grave of Lance Corporal A. M. Garrett- Cox Intelligence Corps.  4th August 1941 aged 26.

 

Son of R, Garrett-Cox and Gladys Irene Garrett-Cox of Maidenhead.

 

 

 

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Air Transport Auxiliary Commander Margot Wyndham Gore, MBE, DO

Memorial to Margot W. Gore MBE, DO, All Saints Maidenhead Cemetery, Maidenhead, Berkshire.

"Aetheris Avidi. (Eager for the Air). - Cdr Margot W Gore MBE, DO - CO 15 Ferry Pilot Pool, Hamble 1941-5 - Born 24. 1. 1913 - Died 28. 8. 1993."

Margot Gore in ATA uniform.

Margot Wyndham Gore was born in East Preston, to William Wyndham Gore, a mining engineer, and his wife Martha Lord, at Worthing, Sussex on 24th January 1913.  she spent her early childhood in Ireland before the family returned to England in 1929.

In September 1939, Margot was an assistant instructor at Romford Flying Club, having made her first solo flight in November 1938.  Margot started with the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) on 24th June 1940 as a woman pilot. 

"First Officer Gore is a very steady and reliable pilot and has undertaken responsibilities in the office which she has carried out well."

She was one of only two female Commanding Officers in the ATA, commanding No, 15 Ferry Pool Hamble, the other being Marion Wilberforce.  This was highly unusual and at the beginning of the ATA many felt that women pilots were taking the jobs of male pilots.  C. G. Grey, editor of The Aeroplane, an influential magazine of the time reported -

"The menace is the woman who thinks that she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the intelligence to scrub the floor of hospital properly."

However as more and more women joined the war effort and qualified to fly, they were slowly accepted. Margot Gore herself was quoted as saying on the subject -

"I never had anybody say anything derogatory to me or nasty, in any way, [there was] surprise... particularly later on when we came in four-engines.  They did look very startled when a rather small person got out of a very big aircraft."


Margot was one of only four female ATA pilots that received and MBE for their services to their country in its hour of need.  After the war Margot continued to fly as an instructor at white Waltham Airfield and for the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) Volunteer Reserve Flying Branch.

Margot sadly passed away on 28th August 1993 in Henley aged 80 years.

War Grave Wednesday - C. B. Fryer - Army Catering Corps

 

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".

 

 

 

Private Charles Benjamin Fryer was born in 1927 in Shropshire to Ben Fryer and his wife Emma.

 

At sometime Charles joined the Army Catering Corps, which was responsible for feeding all the Army Units.  It was originally formed in 1941 as part of the Royal Army Service Corps and became a corps in it's own rights in 1965.  For more history on the Army Catering Corps, please click here.

 

 

Charles Fryer died on 19th May 1947 in Windsor Berkshire.  Charles has a Commonwealth War Grave because his army service was found to have either caused his death through injury or disease, or exacerbated an existing condition that he may have suffered from.

 

I often wonder if Charles was the subject of some ribbing from his Army comrads, due to the nature of his surname and his chosen unit.

 

 



Second World War Commonwealth War Grave - Leading Aircraftsman Eric Stanley Holloway, Royal Air force, 42 Squadron - Killed in Automobile Accident

 

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".

 

 

 

Eric Stanley Holloway was born in Maidenhead in 1920 to Roland Percy Holloway and his wife Violet Katherine Thrift.

Eric was involved in a motorcycle accident on 18th April 1937, where his friend was taken to hospital.  The Maidenhead Advertiser reported on Wednesday 21st April 1937: 

"Castle Hill Accident- Charles Smith (19), of 31, Crossthwaite Way, Burnham, was taken to Maidenhead Hospital by borough ambulance as a result of an accident near Queen Anne's School, Castle Hill, on Sunday afternoon.  He was riding pillion on a motor-cycle driven by Eric Stanley Holloway (17), of 244 Bell-street, Maidenhead. When the latter braked, the machine skidded on the wet road, and Smith was thrown off. He sustained concussion, injuries to the left side of his face, abrasions to his hands, and his front teeth were knocked out. Holloway escaped injury.

 

In 1938 Eric enlisted with the Royal Air Force, 42 Squadron, and was training to become a pilot. 

 

On Saturday 19th July 1941, Eric and two friends were involved in a fatal automobile accident.  The Maidenhead Advertiser reported on Wednesday 23rd July 1941:

"Terrible Road Tragedy.

Three Maidenhead Victims In Head-On Car Collision.

Four Killed and Five Injured.

Inquest Adjourned.

A terrible road accident in which for were killed and five injured occurred on Saturday last at 11.30 p.m. on the Twyford By-pass road on the section known as Floral Mile. It was dark and raining heavily at the time. As far as can be gathered a head-on crash occurred between a car travelling int he direction of Maidenhead and a lorry approaching from the opposite direction. A second car following is understood to have crashed into the first vehicle and as a result the following persons were either killed instantly or died within a short time of the accident.

Hilda Hooper, age 17, Edith Mabel Hooper, age 18, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hooper, of the Craufurd Arms, Gringer Hill, Maidenhead.

Eric Stanley Holloway, Leading Aircraftsman, age 20, whose parents live at 44, Bell Street, Maidenhead.

Terence Graham Evans, Second Lieutenant, age 27, of the Devonshire Regiment.

The five injured people were: Frank Streatfield Moore, Oakhanger Park, Shefford Woodlands; 2nd Lieut Stanley Sidney Phillips, of the Devonshire Regiment; Mrs. Joan Millicent Bradley, Brook Cottage, Donnington, near Newbury; Mrs. Constance Phillips, Brook Cottage, Donnington; Mrs. Margaret Jean Chadwick, Hedley, near Newbury.

The car in which to two unfortunate Maidenhead girls were riding was being driven by Holloway and it is understood that the party were returning from Reading where they had spent the evening. The other car was driven by Frank Streatfield Moore, Oakhanger Park, Shefford Woodlands. He and four of his passengers were injured and were taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital. A fifth passenger, Lieut. evean, was killed.

The Lorry, which was owned by the Thatcham Transport Services, was driven by Edward Wannell, Coldharbour-lane, Camberwell.

An inquest formally opened by Mr. R. S. Payne (coroner for the Reading Division of Berkshire) at Wokingham yesterday (Tuesday), when evidence of identification was given." 

~ ~ ~ 

"Ronald Percy Holloway, father of Leading Aircraftsman Holloway, 44, Bell-street, Maidenhead, said his son went out on Saturday afternoon, but did not say where he was going. He was on 14 days' leave. He was a leading aircraftsman in the R.A.F. and was shortly going to pass out as a pilot. He had frequently driven cars during the last three years, and was apprenticed to the motor trade before enlisting in 1939.

Dr. G. R. Macfarlane, resident surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, said Holloway died a few minutes after admission to the hospital. His abdomen must have been crushed, because the spleen and liver were ruptured. Both femurs and the pelvis were fractured. Death was due to a ruptured spleen."

The coroner adjourned the inquest until 6th August 1941, in the hopes the injured would be well enough by then to give evidence. On the 24th July 1941 Eric, Hilda, and Edith Mabel were buried at All Saint's Maidenhead Cemetery, All saint's Road, Maidenhead. On Wednesday 30th July the Maidenhead Advertiser reported: 

"Leading Aircraftsman E. S. Holloway

Leading Aircraftsman Eric Stanley Holloway's home was at 44 Bell-street, Maidenhead. He was a popular young man, and had many friends in the town. He enlisted in the R.A.F. in September 1938, and was preparing to take his examinations for the position of pilot. Before joining the Air Force he was employed at Stevenson's Garage, King-street. The officiating clergyman was Rev. R. B. Lunt (Vicar of St Mary's) The coffin was draped with the R.A.F. colours, and eight members of the unit to which the deceased was attached acted as bearers."

Such a tragic end to four young people's lives. 

 

 

Second World War Commonwealth War Grave - Leading Aircraftman Frank Manders, Royal Air Force - Warwick Balloon Squadron

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".
 

Frank, known as Frankie, Manders was born on 13th June 1914 in Farnham, Surrey (his age on his gravestone is believed to be incorrect).  On 19th March 1940 at he married Beryl Cox, nee Rose at St Michael's Church in Camberley Surrey.

Frank was a professional footballer, playing for Norwich City, Crystal Palace, and Maidenhead Football Club.

Leading Aircraftman
Frank Manders

 

After the outbreak of war Frank enlisted with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force with the 911 County of Warwick Balloon Squadron. 

 

The Balloon Command, set up on 1st November 1938, was responsible for maintaining the barrage balloon defence system throughout the British Isles.  Large balloons, some containing explosives were tethered around key targets, such as industrial areas, ports and harbours to protect them from dive bombers, forcing them to fly above the balloons into the concentrated anti-aircraft fire. 

 

 

Barrage Balloons over London

Frank was to die under tragic circumstances, his body was found on 18th March 1942 in Powell's Pool, Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield. An inquest was held into his death, The Evening Dispatch reported on Monday 23rd March 1942:

"Sutton Suicide of Football-Airman Worried By Illness.

A professional footballer, serving in the RA.F., who had always been a clean man, contracted scabies, and that so worried him that his mind became unhinged.

This was the comment of the Coroner Mr. C. W. Iliffe at an inquest at Sutton Coldfield on L.A.C., Frank Manders, aged 27, whose body was found in Powell's Pool. A verdict of "suicide while the mind was unbalanced" was returned. It was stated that Manders became so depressed about the scabies that he walked into a police station in Birmingham and intimated that he was going to commit suicide. In consequence he was sent to a hospital, where he could be under observation.

Pool Dragged

On the afternoon of 17th March, the aircraftman visited the Sutton Municipal Golf-house in Monmouth Drive, Boldmere, and borrowed a bag of clubs to play a few holes. As he had not returned by 7.30 p.m., an employee at the club-house telephoned the hospital and ascertained that he was not there. The next morning on a boggy portion of Powell's Pool a bag of golf clubs was found. Dragging operations commenced and the body of the aircraftman was found in about three feet of water 50ft from the bank."

Frank Manders was laid to rest at All saint's Maidenhead Cemetery.

Second World War Private Monument - Ordinary Telegraphist Charles Harry Chamberlain, Royal Navy

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".

 

 

Charles Harry Chamberlain was born on 16th October 1923 in Maidenhead to Charles Richard Chamberlain, a carpenter, and his wife Lilian Charlotte Lock.

 

Sometime after the outbreak of World War II, Charles Harry (known as Harry) enlisted with the Royal Navy and began his training as an Ordinary Telegraphist at the H.M.S Collingwood Training Camp.  Unfortunately, Harry was to die that the tragically young age of 18 on 24th August 1942 from illness.  

 

 

 



Second War World Commonwealth War Grave - Private Albert Blay, Cheshire Regiment - Killed in an Air Raid

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".

 

 

 

Albert Blay was born on 13th October 1907 in Maidenhead Berkshire to Frederick Blay, a bricklayer and brewery clerk, and his wife Louisa Green.

 

On the 1911 Census, three-year-old Albert is living with his parents and older brother Frederick Archie George Blay at 1 Spencer's Road, Maidenhead Berkshire.

 

In 1931 Albert married Phyllis Ida Burrows in Grantham, Leicestershire

Abert appears on the 1939 Register, living in "Dunromin" Allenby Road, Maidenhead, with his wife Phyllis and their young son John Robert Keith Blay. Albert is working as a brewery clerk for Nicholson & Sons Ltd. Living next door at "Dawn" Allenby Road, is Albert's older brother Frederick George Blay and his sister-in-law Elsie Blay nee Lester. 

 

Sometime after the outbreak of World War II, Albert enlisted with The Cheshire Regiment.  Unfortunately, Albert was to die as a result of war action on 10th May 1941.  The Maidenhead Advertiser reported on Wednesday 14th May 1941:

"Air Raid Victim - Pte. A. R Blay of "Dawn," [sic] Allenby Road, who was serving in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, [sic] was killed by a bomb while on duty during an air raid on a Merseyside town last week. Before joining up he was employed by Nicholson Brewery."

The mistakes in the report were later corrected in Albert's Obituary, publish by the Maidenhead Advertiser on Wednesday 21st May 1941:

"Obituary.

Pte. Albert Blay

Killed in an Air Raid

The internment of Private Albert Blay, of the Cheshire Regiment, whose death through enemy action at a Merseyside town we reported last week, took place at Maidenhead Cemetery on Thursday, the service being conducted by the Rev. Canon C. E. M. Fry M.B.E., R.D.

Before joining the Army Pte. Blay was a travelling representative for Messrs. Nicholson & Sons, L.T.D., brewers, High-street, Maidenhead. He had been employed by the same firm since he left school, and his earlier days was on the clerical staff. A native of Maidenhead he was educated at Alwyn-road School. At one time he was a member of the choir at St Luke's Church, where he was also a server. Private Blay, whose home was at "Dunromin," Allenby-road, Maidenhead, leaves a widow and a six year old son.

Pte. Blay was buried with full military honours. The coffin was covered by the Union Jack, and the Devonshire Regiment provided the firing party and eight bearers. Three volleys were fired over the grave, and the Last Post and Reveille were sounded."

Albert was just 34 years old when he was killed. Phyllis never remarried and moved with her son John to Thanet, Kent, where she was to pass away in the August of 1994.

 

 

 



War Grave Wednesday - Gerard Hamilton Maffett - Royal Air Force

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them".

 

Gerard Hamilton Maffett was born 11th June 1916 in Murree, India to Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Ernest Maffett and his wife Gwendoline Mary de Rutzen.

Gerard was educated at Imperial Service College in Windsor, Berkshire.  In 1934 he finished his education and took a job with the Daily Mail in London.  Four years later Gerard enlisted with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) as a U/T Pilot.  He started out flying Tiger Moths from White Waltham airfield near Maidenhead, Berkshire.  On 22nd June 1940 Gerard converted from Tiger Moths to Hurricane aircraft and joined 257 Sqaudron at Northolt on 7th July 1940.

Gerard flew on his first operation on 18th August 1940 where he is credited for destroying a Dornier Do17 aircraft and damaging a Heinkel He111.

On 31st August 1940, nine Hurricanes took off from Martlesham Heath at 8:25am, they were ordered to partol Debden at 15,000 feet.  The Squadron climbed towards Debden, but encountered two large formations of Junkers Ju88 aircraft at 14,000 feet with several formations of Messerschmitt Bf110s at 16,000 feet.  Unable to catch up with the Junkers Ju88s the squardon persued the Messerschmitt formations.  At least six Messerschmitt Bf110s were destroyed, however the squadron suffered the loss of two Hurricanes.  One of those was Gerard's P3175, which crashed into the foresore at Stone Point, Walton-on-the-Naxe, Essex at arouns 8:50am.  Gereard was able to bail out of his striken aircraft but his parachute failed to open due to low altitude.  Gerard was killed on impact.

Gerard's elder brother John Francis Maffett, Wing Commander with the RAF was also killed in action on 12th February 1942.  He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Egham, Surrey.

Reginald Ernest Maffett passed away in 1949 and Gwendoline Mary in 1975 aged 100 years.

Bewteen 1972 and 1973 the remains of Gerard's crashed Hurricane, including instrument panel and windscreen, together with an almost complete engine and the remains of the three wooden propellor blades was recovered.  They're now displayed in The Battle of Britain Muesum in Hendon, London.


They gave their tomorrows for our todays.

Second World War Polish War Grave - Second Officer Antoni Henryk Gosiewski, Air Trasport Auxiliary - Pennine Aeroplane Accident

 

Antoni Henryk Gosiewski was born Poland on 12th January 1900 to Feliks Gosiewski and his wife Biernacka Julyanna.  Antoni was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Polish Air Force from 1923 but by September of 1939 he was living in France and was then a Pilot Officer for the R.A.F. Later he was dismissed due to a Court Martial where he was found guilty of embezzlement committed back in Poland.  Antoni joined the A.T.A (Air Transport Auxiliary) in the September of 1941.  Some of the duties for ATA personal was ferrying new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between factories, assembly points and transatlantic delivery points.

Second Officer Antoni Henryk Gosiewski

Antoni was married to Umerska Jadwiga who at the time was living is Lisbon, together they had two sons, Michal, and Krzystof. Sadly, Antoni's wife and sons would pass away when the ship they were travelling on, the SS Avoceta, from Lisbon to john Antoni, was torpedoed on the night of 26th September 1941, just weeks after Antoni had joined the A.T.A

During a ferry flight in Miles Master W8479, from the Phillips & Powis factory in Reading Berkshire, to R.A.F Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland, Antoni met his death on 19th December 1941 when he encountered bad weather over the Pennines causing him to fly into the summit of Arant Haw due to poor visibility. The wreck of the plane wasn't discovered until 24th December.  On the 31st December 1941 the Manchester Evening News reported:

"Polish Pilot Buried - Anton Henruk Gosiewski [sic] a Polish ferry pilot killed in a flying accident in the North of England during Christmas, was buried int he South of England."

Miles Master Aircraft

Cemetery Sunday - Air Transport Auxiliary ATA

A.R. Leslie-Melville

12th June 1942

The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) was a British World War II civilian organisation that ferried new, repaired and damaged military aircraft between UK factories, assembly plants, transatlantic delivery points, Maintenance Units (MU), scrap yards, and active service squadrons and airfields. It also flew service personnel on urgent duty from one place to another and performed air ambulance work.

First Officer Alexander Ronald Leslie-Melvillle died 12th June 1942 when he flew into a hillside at Great Sled Dale in Yorkshire in bad visibility whilst flying bewteen Henlow and Silloth near Carlisle.



T.C.D. Bray

18th March 1942

First Officer Thomas Charles David Bray of Austrailia, reported missing between Kirkbride and Thorney Island.

 J.B. Erickson

9th May 1942

First Officer John Burge Erickson, his Blenheim aircaft collided with another Blenheim after take off at White Waltham airfield on 9th May 1942

R.H Winn

28th January 1942

Second Officer Richard Harry Winn, flew into ground in a forced landing at Bald Hill Stainmore Westmorland whilst flying bewteen Dumfries and Catterick.

 B.E. Sayer

15th March 1942

Cadet Betty Eileen Sayer, engine stalled on approach to White Waltham airfield, the aircraft crashed into two bungalows on Smithfield Road on 15th March 1942, residents of the bungalows, Mr and Mrs Croft and Mrs Freeman escaped.  Neighbours who tried in vain to save the aircrew received burns and other injuries.

F.J. Bush

23rd November 1941

 

 

Captain Francis Joseph Bush, during a flight from Prestwick to Hawarden the engine of the Liberator II aircraft caught fire before the plane crashed into the sea off Pidinny Hill Stranraer Wigtown Bay

 H.E. Taylor

17th August 1941

Second Officer Henry Edward Taylor, crashed whilst landing at White Waltham airfield on 10th August 1941.  Sadly he died of his injuries on 17th August 1941.

P. Randall

17th March 1941

Captain Percy Randall, flew a Hurricane aircraft into high ground at Bledlow Buckinghamshire during bad visibility whilst flying between Henlow and Hullavington.



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