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4th February 2012
The book, Dunholme
Lodgers by John Ward, will be given free with orders for
'The Dog at War' or 'Ted The Lad' with only £1 extra for
postage.
OR........totally free to anybody making a donation of £10
or more to Association funds.
Contact Ted Cachart if you want
to order or ask for more details.
3rd February 2012
F/Sgt
Anthony Neil added to the Aircrew index. Tony was too late
for combat operations but took part in 'Operation Dodge'.
29th January 2012
Excerpts from the war diary of
William Arnold Moore have been added to the Documents
section of the website
28th January 2012
The voice of BBC War Correspondent Kent
Stevenson has been added to his page.
25th January 2012
Photographs of New Zealander William Arnold Moore
and two magnificent Lancaster images have been added courtesy
of his son, Stephen Moore. Sgt Moore has previously been missing
from our records. This omission has now been corrected.
20th January 2012
A high quality image of the Squadron
taken in 1946 based at RAF Mepal has been added to the "Documents"
section. The Association is grateful to John Holloway a member
of the RAF Mauripur Association (RAFNS Cosford Branch and UKMAMS
Old Bods).
17th January 2012
The final graves have now been
photographed. P/O
Baker and F/O
Tyrrell from the two accidents in 1938. Unless other losses
are discovered then the project to photograph all the headstones
is now complete.
A photographic update of the new Bomber
Command Memorial and reference to the 49Sqn Victoria Cross
has been added.
8th January 2012
A new version of the search function
has been added. This is much more sophisticated and will search
the entire website including attached PDF and Word documents.
7th January 2012
A new image added to Gallery
16 showing the debriefing of two (unknown) crews having just
returned from Berlin.
6th January 2012
An image and biographical details
of P/O
Robert Montgomery added to the site courtesy of Martin Jarred.
28th December 2011
A post-war image of four
RAAF pilots has been added by John Ward.
The pilots are......Harold Fricker, Jack Branch, Les Hammond
and Tom Hawkins.
16th December 2011
An image of Lou
Crabbe was located and added to his page on the website.
Courtesy of Amanda and Dave Jones we have two images of the memorial
to F/Lt J H Green, a 49Sqn
Hampden pilot who was a PoW and was killed in a flying accident
in 1947.
1st December 2011
Images and biographical details
of P/O A J Mackay
(later Wing Commander) added courtesy of Jane Mickelborough (nee
Mackay). The crew have been hyperlinked to each other to help
navigate between members. P/O Mackay was the Bomb Aimer with
F/L Leslie "Uncle
Will" Hay (this page has also been 'reworked').
19th November 2011
Post war image of Lou
Crabbe, Tom Gatfield,
Norman Powell
and John Aldridge
added courtesy of Nora Crabbe.
14th November 2011
Images of Sgt
Stanley Young (KIA 14/02/43) added courtesy of his nephew
Peter Collier.
Gordon Reddin,
a navigator, who served with 49Sqn between Nov 54-55 has been
added to our records following a chance meeting at the National
Arboretum.
9th November 2011
Image of (then) Sgt
H W Mills added to the website. Sgt Mills was the rear gunner
to W/Cmdr Slee from 31st July 1942 - 20th June 1943 (24 ops).
4th November 2011
Details and images of the burial
of Sgt Buttel
& F/Sgt
Whitehill RAAF added to the site. With thanks to Graham Inns,
Bill Chorley and the Australian War Museum.
Additionally, new images of S/L
Raw-Rees and P/O
Hogg have been added.
26th October 2011
The graves of Sgt
B G Davies and AC2
J H Scoberg (two of the three killed in the 1938 Scampton
accident) have been added. Sadly, the grave of Sgt Davies has
been completely forgotten as you can see from the photographs.
Our thanks go to the staff of St Woolos and Morriston Cemeteries
for their assistance.
11th October 2011
Image of Sgt
Harry Irving and the operational details of his attack against
the Tirpitz added courtesy of Mr Gordon Clephane, Harry's nephew.
3rd October 2011
Additional images of
Leo Alexander and other crew-members of ED440 added to the
website courtesy of Mike & Lynne Alexander.
29th September
Image and information regarding
F/Sgt AG Smith
added to the website courtesy of David Medland.
Further details regarding the crash of Manchester
R5794 have been received from Gil Geerings and added to his
earlier contributions.
26th August 2011
PoW Camps have been given their own link
from the main menu. Further details of each camp will be added
as soon as possible.
25th August 2011
Further details concerning the loss of Manchester
R5794 have been received from Belgian, Gil Geerings.
New image of Dot
Everett (groundcrew) added to her page.
Crew images courtesy of Deb Flemming (neice of Sgt M G Webb).
These show a number of different aircrew.......Sgt
J L Matthews, Sgt
W A Davies, F/L
E W Tickler, Sgt M G Webb,
F/S E J Lowans,
Sgt G
B Silvester and Sgt
D Downing.
23rd August 2011
New images of Retzow
(Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) cemetery added.
3rd August 2011
Information has been received from the family of Robert
Kerr Drinnan who died this July. F/Sgt Drinnan was shot down
and became a PoW following a raid on Kassel in October 1943.
The additional text is at the bottom of his page.
Images of F/Sgt
Norman Buchanan and S/L
Arthur Grant added (located by Ashley Hales).
26th July 2011
Full details of the 1938 accidents which killed four 49Sqn
members are now published. These includes newspaper reports from
the Lincolnshire Echo. Details are on the pages of P/O
Tyrrell, Sgt
Davies, AC2
Scoberg and P/O
Baker. Cemetery images are to follow.
15th July 2011
Image of F/Sgt
Bert Middleton RAAF added. He served with 49sqn but was killed
flying with 24Sqn off the coast of Sumatra.
A picture of the P/O
John Sanders crew added. This shows all seven crew members
(linked from P/O Sanders' page).
Additional images of Linton
Nightingale and his Service Record.
29th June 2011
Details of how to visit the RAF
Scampton Museum added. The Museum, amongst other things,
has a dedicated 49Sqn display.
A short video of
the Lancaster flyover (during the June 2011 reunion) added.
The link is usually via "The Association" page from
the main menu. We thank Mrs Ann Cole for this clip.
28th June 2011
Details are slowly emerging of the four accidental deaths
during 1938. We have been greatly helped by Jim Whalley of the
Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) at Innsworth.
The names of those involved are P/O
Tyrrell, Sgt
Davies, AC2
Scoberg and P/O
Baker
8th June 2011
Picture of Flt
Lt William Green's crew added together with additional loss
details.
Other crew names are linked from Flt Lt Green's page.
2nd June 2011
The aircraft serial numbers for two 49Sqn crews have been
corrected. P/O B M Fournier and crew were in Hampden
AE 126 and Sgt Pratt and crew were flying Hampden
AD 971.
Images of F/S Alexander
Donovan DFM and P/O
Oscar Gladwin Rowcroft RAAF added.
(Images courtesy of John Ward)
30th May 2011
Image of Sgt
W D Burchett DFM added courtesy of John Ward.
26th May 2011
A photograph of the actual signature
collection added courtesy of the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre.
15th May 2011
The Association President has discovered two 1938 crashes
that caused the deaths of four members of the Squadron. Accordingly,
a '1919-1938 Roll of Honour'
has been added to the site.
14th May 2011
A set of souvenir
signatures collected in the 49Sqn Sgt's Mess collected by
Air Cadet Cyril Hunter in 1943. Cyril was assigned to Sgt G Edy
for the week.
9th May 2011
Image of S/L Neil
Green DFC added.
5th May 2011
Image and details of P/O
Austin Long added courtesy of grandson Paul Bennett.
3rd May 2011
Image of S/L
Jim Warwick (ex-49sqn) and the grave site. S/L Warwick was
killed on operations with W/C Guy Gibson.
28th April 2011
Pictures of Harold
Martin (Air Gunner) received from his grandson Paul Gomez.
Images provided by Brian Rippon of Brian
Hunter and Albert
Raine. An air to air picture of three 49Sqn Hampdens added
to WW2 Gallery 9.
New images of the Dartmoor
Memorial added courtesy of Mark Bailey.
Image and details of John
Minchin added (formerly 49Sqn but KIA with 617Sqn).
An early grave picture and other details of the P/O
Fournier added.
The early graves of Sgts Barrett,
Palmer
and Watson
also added.
Images and documents courtesy of Rene Metz.
5th April 2011
Details of a 49SA wreath laying at the Hamel
Down memorial on Dartmoor. Text and images by Jane &
Mark Bailey (the new information is at the bottom of the page).
23rd March 2011
Small images added of Sgt
J Morrison, Sgt
T Page, Sgt J Dorian,
Sgt H Annett,
Sgt R Green, Sgt E Green and Sgt H Maggs.
New image added at the end of Gallery
4 showing F/O
Frank Wittmer DFC RAAF , a new image at the start of Gallery 15 and
a full caption added to the first image of Gallery
8
20th March 2011
Image of F/L
Keith Astbury added
19th March 2011
New and updated images of S/L
James Raw-Rees added.
16th March 2011
Upgraded pages for Sgt
JA Kelly and F/L
AEW Wynyard
An obituary notice added for Sgt
'Mick' Mills
24th February 2011
Image of P/O
L B Benson added. Image courtesy of Dave Halliday (great
nephew).
23rd February 2011
A much improved image of
Sgt Blocksidge (FE) added to his page and details and other
photographs of his RAF career courtesy of Pete Blocksidge (nephew).
Two additional images added to the beginning of WW2......Gallery
9
20th February 2011
German documentation regarding the identification of crew
from ED469.
This crew KIA on their first raid.......29/30th March 1943.
19th February 2011
A video about FIDO at Fiskerton has been added. This can
be viewed via the Documents
menu or via 49Sqn Chairman, Ted
Cachart's page.
14th February
Images of the Guildford
City War memorial where the name of Sgt
Bob Slaughter is remembered. Photographed by Chris Nevard.
13th February 2011
Image of Sgt
G F Witty added to the website courtesy of Mrs Shirley Moxon.
She made contact with the Association in a most unusual way (see
Sgt Witty's page).
12th February 2011
A new image of F/O
A Bone and correspondence relating to his loss added to his
page.
New image added to the end of WW2....Gallery
5
9th February 2011
Various minor error corrections
and additional navigation icons added.
3rd February 2011
Image of Reginald
Brookes KIA 28/2/43 and buried at Escoublac-La Baule War
Cemetery . Image courtesy of his son Geoff Brookes.
The WW2 career of
Cyril Rickard is documented.
2nd February 2011
Details of Sgt
(later F/L) W J Bramley Flight Engineer added. The new information
comes from his son, Iain Bramley. There is a crew picture where
the names are uncertain. This photograph has been added to the
"Can you help?"
section.
29th January 2011
Captions have been added to the first six WW2
Galleries by John Ward (49Sqn Association President). Additional
navigation arrows have been added to the top of these pages.
28th January 2011
F/L Rickard's
crew image added to the site. This has added two unknown
49Sqn names to our records and corrected a spelling error.
The photograph is courtesy of Anthony Rickard.........more images
to follow shortly.
26th January 2011
Images of Wing
Commander Couch DFC have been added courtesy of Dawn Heath.
23rd January 2011
Five interesting new comments posted on the Guestbook page.
18th January 2011
The story of Chris
Beare's visit to her uncle's grave at Grange-sur-Aube (F/S Dennis
Blumfield Navigator of Lancaster ND684.....a crew on their
26th operation). The link to her story is at the bottom of the
page.
Individual crew pictures added.......follow the crew links from
P/O Bill
Appleyard's page. Images courtesy of Chris Beare.
Pictures of an updated
memorial to ND-533 in a Normandy forest (courtesy of Alexander
Brzeski)
11th January 2011
Additional image and "Statement of Service" added
for Sgt William
Peirce RAAF.
The above are courtesy of his son, Roger Matthews.
New documents and information relating to the loss of SX984
added courtesy of Richard Bartlett-May (new content at the bottom
of the page).
10th January 2011
The grave and cemetery for Sgt
William Pickering (Navigator) buried in Whalton, Northumberland
have been added to the site. These images complete the "headstone
project"........726 personnel in 178 locations plus 228
who have no known grave and are remembered at the Arras and Runnymede
memorials.
5th January 2011
Image of the headstone of Sgt
Frederick Robert Edwards from SX923 which crashed on January
22nd 1952. Thanks to Stuart Woodall, the Poole Grounds Supervisor.
26th December 2010
Photographs of Bill
'Titch' Cooke and F/O
Jack Parkin added to the Aircrew Index.
16th December 2010
There are 49Sqn links everywhere. During a visit to the Stanley
CWGC cemetery in Hong Kong I found this connection.......the
lower part of Sgt
Whitehill's page
15th November 2010
New image of Eric
Clarke from a Doncaster newspaper added to his page.
20th November 2010
Picture of F/Sgt
Albert Swann and two of his sketches added courtesy of Dave
McCracken.
One sketch added to the "Can
you help?" section.
Pictures of Ted Cachart
(49Sqn Association Chairman) added to his PoW page.
19th November 2010
Images added of P/O
Bernard Fournier (courtesy of his sister Yvonne Chatfield),
Sgt George
Haynes (courtesy of Anne Weller) and Sgt
Fred Hill (courtesy of himself!)
Cemetery, headstone and crashsite details added for F/Sgt
Wejman and F/Sgt
Griffith of SX923 which crashed on January 22nd 1952. F/O Chatterjee
was cremated and no headstone exists. The headstones of the remaining
two crewmembers are still to be photographed.
10th November 2010
Photographs courtesy of Ed Ijsbrandij
and Dick Schilder of DARE added to the Bergen
Cemetery page, the Berkhout
Memorial and the four
individual crew pages. This was on the occasion of the 69th
anniversary. The Association would like to thank Ed & Hans
for this kind act of remembrance
31st October 2010
New high quality images of F/Lt
R A Jackson provided by his nephew Jolyon Menhinick.
29th October 2010
Information regarding Airman
Leonard Charles Norman (who was killed in 1918) has been
added to his page thanks to Peter Leonard Norman (L C Norman's
nephew).
26th October 2010
Obituary for W/C
Alan Newitt added (courtesy of the Jersey Evening Post and
Gary Godel)
22nd October 2010
Two new documents added. The first shows much of the official
correspondence relating to the loss
of Sgt P O Camm.
The second document is advice
to the relative of a man who is missing.
20th October 2010
Details of Cyril
Gosling (49Sqn Gunnery section) added. The group photo also
added to Gallery
15.
16th October 2010
Crew details added for the crash of Lincoln
SX923 on January 22nd 1952.
Details of Sgt
Percy Phillips who died on Christmas Island in 1958 and was
buried at sea.
The memorial service cover for W/C
A E Newitt DFC added to his page.
13th October 2010
Images from the City Cemetery
in Nairobi added (SX984)
A short video of the cemetery also added (as a link from the
cemetery page).
A video of the Runnymede
RAF Memorial added (opens in a new window).
12th October 2010
The names of the 218 49Sqn airmen with 'no known grave' have
been photographed from the panels at Runnymede
and added to each webpage. An annoymous poem found at Runnymede
has been added to the memorial's page. Name links have also been
added to the Runnymede
page.
Hyperlinks added to long web pages that allow you to jump to
a specific part (eg The Cemeteries)
and an icon that will return you to the top of a long page without
scrolling.
11th October 2010
Image of Stanley
Humble added (provided by his daughter Carolyn Salmon)
8th October 2010
The Kenya
Mau Mau article and posters which were stored (inconveniently)
as separate PDF files have now been merged (thanks to www.mergepdf.net).
7th October 2010
Wing Commander Alan Newitt, CO of 49 Squadron in the early
1950s recently died in Jersey. In this document
he recalls two highly entertaining stories of an eccentric
'one handed' pilot with a passion for dropping hand grenades
out of the cockpit and the story of an irate rhino escaping a
bombing raid of Mau Mau hideouts.
6th October 2010
An image of Linton
Nightingale taken during crew training added
18th September 2010
Translations of two
German newspaper articles relating to ED427 added. Click
on the link below each article.
14th September 2010
Details of Sgt
John Clyde McAllan (a member of 49Sqn Groundcrew) added.
13th September 2010
Images of F/L
'Pinkie' Marshall added courtesy of his daughters Shirley
Shorter and Ann Willis.
A selection of the above added to Jack
Higginbottom's page.
12th September 2010
The story of
Sgt Camm whose Lancaster collided with another 49Sqn aircraft
during a raid to Berlin.
11th September 2010
Images of Phil
Taverner's grandsons added when attending the 2010 Reunion.
Initial information about the possible crashsite location of
ED427 has
been added.
Translation summaries will be added shortly.
Improved crew photographs added.
5th September 2010
Image of Sgt Ronald Nabe Stevens (buried in Hannover)
added.
3rd September 2010
Guestbook feature added to the website
1st September 2010
Number of burials at each cemetery
shown as well as links to WW1 & WW2 with no known grave.
30th August 2010
Early image of Linton
Nightingale added
Newspaper article relating to the loss of
F/Sgt J N E Bennett RCAF
Image of, and memorial to W/O
Alexander Manson Horne added
27th August 2010
Additional photographs and details of Mike Alexander's ED440
'tour'
Images from F/L David
Brady's collection added
25th August 2010
All cemeteries and headstones have now been photographed.
Sgt L Jardin located in Bath
Locksbrook
P/O Manders buried in Exeter
F/S Cyril Chesnutt buried in Torquay
Crew of ED467 (Sgt Duncan) buried in Escoublas
La Baule near Lorient
Crew of JB421 (P/O Anderson) buried in St
Doulchard near Bourges
Five crew members from LM337 (Sgt Gospel) buried in Cheronvilliers
plus a local newspaper report
Crew of LM541 (F/L GE Ball) buried in Le
Chesne
Lt Peacock (WW1) buried in Melun
Lt Aiken and Sgt Melbourne (WW1) buried in Dormans
Lt Nevin and Sgt Barfoot (WW1) buried in Harbonnieres
Lt Stone (WW1) buried in Ligny
sur Canche
Lt R C Burky (USAS) located in Suresnes
near Paris
Ten names located on the Arras
Flying Services Memorial and an image of their name has been
added to each page
26th July 2010
Crew pictures of
LL908 buried at Ugny-sur-Meuse Cemetery, Meuse, France.
Photographs provided by Terry & Anne Atkinson.
26th July 2010
PoW details for W/O E B Torpey
researched by Colin Cripps.
18th July 2010
Several small details corrected and images of Mike Alexander
(son of Sgt
L G Alexander) "following in his father's footsteps"
(these images should have been added a year ago!).
16th July 2010
Additional images of
F/Sgt Edward White added (courtesy of Nick White)
13th July 2010
Large and medium scale location maps added to each WW1
cemetery.
11th July 2010
The headstone of Private
L C Norman (KIA 30/05/18) added.
Photographed by Graham Glover.
25th June 2010
Details added of the memorial service held at RAF Scampton
for P1206.
More images will be added later.
18th June 2010
New image of the David
Brady crew with his DFC details and the illustrated handkerchief
given to John McMahon by
his PoW friend "Toad".
13th June 2010
Additional photographs of Lemvig
Cemetery and crew headstones of ED620
30th May 2010
Luftwaffe documents relating to the loss of JB469
added to each crew-member's page.
24th May 2010
Images and details of Sgt
Arnold Welch KIA during the Cologne 1000 bomber raid on 30/31
May 1942 (provided by Nicholas Welch).
Image of F/Sgt
Edward White kindly provided by Nick White (nephew of Edward
White).
16th May 2010
Image of Cpl
Ken Ross provided by his daughter.
The WW1 cemeteries of Noyon,
Roye and St Riguier (photographed by Graham Glover) have been
added.
Identification information regarding Linton
Nightingale.
21st April 2010
Additional Post War squadron names added (courtesy of Fred
Vening) and an individual request from JT
Dallas 'Tex' Payne.
13th April 2010
Image of P/O
APB Hordern provided by Knox Grammar School Archive &
Museum
11th April 2010
Image of
F/O Eltis and details of the 1957 aircrash added
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