MacDonald,
Alan David
|
12.10.1896
Glasgow, Scotland
- |
|
|
Macdonald,
George Peter
|
22.04.1899
-
? |
P/O (prob) RAFO |
05.05.1925 [24078]
(reld 09.05.1927) |
F/O |
09.05.1927 |
F/Lt. |
01.11.1931 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.10.1937 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.06.1940 |
W/Cdr. |
01.12.1943 (retd
26.02.1948; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) |
(T) Gp.Capt. |
01.07.1943-01.11.1947 |
|
05.05.1925 |
|
|
commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) |
09.05.1927 |
|
|
short
service commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
09.05.1927 |
|
|
24
Squadron RAF (Northolt) |
26.08.1927 |
|
|
25
Squadron RAF (Hawkinge) |
30.12.1929 |
|
|
8
Squadron RAF (Aden) |
27.11.1931 |
|
|
RAF
Depot Uxbridge |
12.02.1932 |
|
|
25
(Fighter) Squadron RAF (Hawkinge) |
01.10.1934 |
|
|
84
(Bomber) Squadron RAF (Shaibah, Iraq) |
01.06.1936 |
|
|
permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
09.07.1936 |
|
|
15
(Bomber) Squadron RAF (Abingdon) |
? |
- |
02.07.1937 |
completed the specialist armament course at the Air Armament School, Eastchurch |
03.07.1937 |
|
|
No. 1
Flying Training School RAF (Leuchars) |
24.04.1940 |
|
|
transferred, RAF (Technical Branch) |
23.09.1943 |
- |
13.11.1945 |
Commanding Officer, No.1 Air Gunners School &
Station Commander, RAF Pembrey |
? |
- |
1948? |
Commanding
Officer, RAF Station Walney Island |
|
MacDonald,
Trevor de Trafford
Son in a family with one brother and two
sisters.
Married (10.05.1941) Elizabeth Slee, of Devon; two daughters.
|
02.12.1920
South Africa
-
24.10.1999
Durban, South Africa
|
F/Cadet
|
04.1939
|
P/O (prob)
|
07.03.1940 [33571]
|
P/O
|
07.03.1941
|
(WS) F/O
|
07.03.1941
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
07.03.1942
|
F/Lt.
|
21.05.1946,
seniority 07.09.1943
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1953
|
W/Cdr.
|
01.01.1959 (retd
03.12.1965; own request)
|
|
04.1939
|
|
|
entered RAF
College Cranwell as Flying Cadet straight from school
|
07.03.1940
|
|
|
first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch)
|
|
|
|
served with
Bomber Command; various appointments (e.g. India, Ceylon & Malta)
|
10.03.1948
|
|
|
transferred,
Technical Branch
|
|
MacDougall,
Ralph Ian George
Son (with three sisters and one brother) of
Ewan Alan MacDougall (1874-1916), and Maude Kate Harriett Greenin (1875-1951).
Married (31.03.1944, St Luke's Church, Haifa, Palestine) ...; ... children (one
daughter?). |
08.08.1911
-
22.07.1994
Ramsbury, Marlborough district, Wiltshire |
P/O (prob) |
14.03.1930 [29041] |
P/O |
14.03.1931 |
F/O |
? |
F/Lt. |
14.09.1935 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.06.1941 |
Sq.Ldr. |
04.09.1947 |
F/Lt. |
28.01.1952,
seniority 14.09.1935 (retd 09.08.1966; retaining rank of W/Cdr.) |
|
14.03.1930 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
|
|
|
served with:
43 (F) Squadron RAF, 235
Squadron RAF, 56 Squadron RAF, 17 Squadron RAF (Battle of Britan) |
14.03.1941 |
|
|
transferred,
Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service) |
04.09.1947 |
|
|
extended service commission, RAF (Secretarial Branch) |
28.01.1952 |
|
|
permanent commission |
|
Macfie,
Colin Hamilton
Son of Dr Ronald Bute & Nini Macfie.
Married (1947) Beatrice Mary Hogg (1922-1975); two daughters, one son.
|
12.06.1920
Cheltenham
-
07.12.1981
Attadale, Strathcarron, Wester Ross
|
(A) P/O
|
12.03.1939 [90657]
|
P/O
|
27.07.1939
|
F/O
|
03.09.1940
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
03.09.1941
|
F/Lt.
|
01.07.1946
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1946,
seniority 01.07.1944
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1952
(retd 18.10.1963; medical unfitness)
|
|
DFC
|
08.08.1941
|
*
|
* This flight commander has
carried out many operational sweeps over enemy territory. He has at all times
displayed efficiency and qualities of leadership which have proved of great
value. He has destroyed two and damaged a further three of the enemy's
aircraft.
|
12.03.1939
|
|
|
first
commission Auxiliary Air Foce (General Duties Branch)
|
12.03.1939
|
-
|
(09.1939)
|
611
(West Lancashire) Squadon RAF
|
09.1940
|
-
|
05.07.1941
|
"A"
Flight Leader, 616 Squadron RAF
[shot down, during "Circus 33" in his Spitfire IIb P8651 QJ-N "St. Helens" which crashed in the village of Pitgam, 15 km south of Dunkirk, France;
Macfie baled out safely and was captured, probably in the village of Eringhem]
|
05.07.1941
|
-
|
1945?
|
prisoner
of war in German capitivity
|
01.07.1946
|
|
|
transferred
to RAF (permanent commission)
|
05.1947
|
-
|
11.1949
|
CO
3 (Fighter) Squadron RAF
|
|
Mack,
Arthur William
|
20.01.1916
Wellington, New Zealand
- |
(A) P/O (prob) |
24.10.1937 [40244] |
P/O |
24.08.1938 |
F/O |
24.03.1940 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
24.03.1941 (reld
01.01.1944; on appointment to RNZAF) |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.07.1943 |
|
DFC |
24.09.1943 |
* |
* This officer formerly completed a tour of
operational duty in Bomber Command. Latterly in fighter operations at night.
Squadron Leader Mack has displayed great keenness and tenacity. During a
recent operational flight, and when some 430 miles from base, his aircraft
struck an object and four feet of the starboard wing of his aircraft was
broken off and all except two feet of the starboard airleon. Despite this,
Squadron Leader Mack flew the aircraft to base. This officer has set a very
fine example. |
24.10.1937 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
24.08.1941 |
|
|
transferred, Reserve of Air Force
Officers (and called up for air force service) |
(1943) |
|
|
605
Squadron RAF |
|
Mackay,
Ian Grant
Son of Frederick William Mackay, and Amie Clara
Archer.
Married Joanna King; one daughter. |
30.06.1913
Dewsbury, Yorkshire
-
14.10.1973
Sussex Gardens, Paddington district, London |
F/Cadet |
? |
P/O |
17.12.1932 [33031] |
F/O |
17.06.1934 |
F/Lt. |
01.11.1936 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.04.1939 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.03.1941 |
(WS) W/Cdr. |
16.05.1945 |
W/Cdr. |
01.10.1946 (retd
23.07.1963; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) |
|
Education: Wheelwright Grammar School, Dewsbury; RAF
College, Cranwell (King's Cadet on a prize cadetship).
17.12.1932 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
01.12.1934 |
|
|
811
(FTB) Squadron (Gosport) |
1936/37 |
|
|
selected for armaments course |
1943? |
- |
1944? |
Station
Commander, RAF Coningsby |
16.11.1944 |
- |
1945? |
Station
Commander, RAF Kirmington |
|
Mackenzie,
Andrew Ronald
|
?
- |
Sq.Ldr. (retd)
|
01.01.1931
|
|
|
Macmillan,
Alexander Charles
Son (with two sisters) of Alexander Mac N
MacMillan (1889-1968), and Louise Yvonne De Ville (1888-1962).
Married 1st (03.08.1940, Swindon, Wiltshire) Gladys Gertrude Bessant (23.06.1918
- 1965); ... children (one son?).
Married 2nd ((12?).1965, Huntingdonshire) Mary R. Lucas. |
02.10.1917
Wirral, Merseyside
-
04.11.1986
Worcester |
Army: |
|
Gnr. |
27.04.1935 |
Bdr. |
02.08.1939 |
L/Sgt. |
01.12.1939 |
A/Sgt. |
23.05.1940 |
Sgt. |
26.03.1941 |
RAF: |
|
Sgt. |
30.06.1941 [657467] |
P/O (prob) |
27.03.1942 [123594
& 48185] |
(WS) F/O (prob) |
01.10.1942 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
27.03.1944 |
F/Lt. |
16.08.1946,
seniority 27.09.1945 (retd 08.04.1960) |
|
27.04.1935 |
|
|
joined, Royal Regiment of Artillery [falsified date of birth to 08.04.1917 to be
able to join] |
30.06.1941 |
|
|
transferred, RAF |
|
|
|
pilot
training in Canada |
27.03.1942 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
27.04.1942 |
|
|
No. 3 Air
Crew Reception Centre RAF |
? |
- |
07.07.1943 |
4 Squadron
RAF
[Mustang I AG421 was shot down
over Holland after a Rhubarb mission attacking Bergen airfield (near Alkmaar).
The aircraft crash landed at 06:08 hrs at Groote Keeten (Abeestede). Captured.] |
1943 |
- |
1945 |
POW in
German captivity (Stalag Luft III) |
15.08.1946 |
- |
15.06.1952 |
extended service commission |
16.06.1952 |
- |
08.04.1960 |
permanent commission |
07.10.1960 |
- |
31.01.1961 |
Royal
Auxiliary Air Force (Reconstituted) (General Duties Branch) |
01.02.1961 |
- |
07.10.1961 |
Royal
Auxiliary Air Force Reserve of Officers |
|
Macrostie,
Keith Ernest
Son of W/Cdr. Reginald
David Gorrie Macrostie, MBE, RAF, and Irene May Buckland. |
(09?).1920
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
-
15.06.1941
(KIA) [age 21]
[Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria, J.10] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
17.09.1938 [41192] |
P/O |
25.07.1939 |
F/O |
03.09.1940 |
|
17.09.1938 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short
service commission] |
? |
- |
15.06.1941 |
pilot, 208
Squadron RAF (flying Lysanders) |
|
Macrostie,
Reginald David Gorrie
Married 1st ((06?).1915, Kingston district,
Middlesex / Surrey) Irene May Buckland (1891? - (09?).1933); ... children (son
F/O Keith Ernest Macrostie, RAF).
Married 2nd ((06?).1935, Uxbridge district, Middlesex) Eleanor Irene Williamson
(13.12.1908 - 09.1995). |
26.12.1888
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
(12?).1975
Poole district, Dorset |
Cpl. RFC |
? |
2nd Lt. RFC |
? |
Lt. RFC |
20.04.1919 (without pay & allowances) |
F/O |
01.04.1918? [10122] |
F/Lt. |
01.07.1926 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.02.1935 (retd 01.01.1940 & re-employed) (reverted to retd 21.04.1948;
retaining rank of W/Cdr.) |
|
MBE |
03.06.1919 |
Egypt |
|
MID |
01.01.1941 |
? |
|
|
|
|
enlisted & commissioned service, Royal Flying Corps |
01.04.1918 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (Stores Branch) |
23.06.1924 |
|
|
29
Squadron RAF (Duxford) |
18.09.1924 |
|
|
8
Squadron RAF (Iraq) |
02.01.1927 |
|
|
HQ
RAF, Egypt |
02.02.1928 |
|
|
Heliopolis Details |
15.12.1929 |
|
|
No. 4
Stores Depot RAF (Ruislip) |
30.01.1937 |
|
|
RAF
Station Manston (for equipment duties) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
MacRury,
Archibald
"Archie"
Son of Archibald MacRury, crofter, and Mary
MacRury, of Lochboisdale, Isle of South Uist. |
06.07.1914
Stoneybridge, South Uist, Scotland
-
26.10.1940
(MPK) [age 26]
[Runnymede Memorial, panel 6] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
12.09.1938 [41125] |
P/O (prob) |
28.11.1938 |
P/O |
12.09.1939 |
F/O |
28.11.1939 |
|
Education: Glasgow University.
12.09.1938 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (Equipment Branch) [short service commission] |
01.01.1940 |
|
|
transferred, RAF (General Duties Branch) (Air Gunners) |
? |
- |
26.10.1940 |
42 Squadron
RAF (Coastal Command)
[His Beaufort I N1159 AW- took off from Wick
at 13:08 hrs for a shipping strike operation. It released the torpedo at the
Norwegian vessel H.J. Kyvik in Aspo Fjord. The Beaufort was then shot down by
Messerschmitts Bf109 of 4./Jagdgeschwader 77 into Sogne Fjord. All four crew
members were missing, presumed killed.] |
|
MacWilliams,
John Patrick
Son of Patrick and Mary MacWilliams.
Husband of Charlotte MacWilliams, of Inverness. |
09.03.1920
-
22.02.1945
(MPK) [age 24]
[Malta Memorial, panel 18. column 1] |
Cpl. |
? [631117] |
P/O (prob) |
29.04.1944 |
(A?)
F/O |
1945? |
|
29.04.1944 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
|
Madge,
Alan John
Son of Albert John Madge, and Ethel Susan
Dickson.
Married (27.09.1947, Tyler's Green, Buckinghamshire) Joan Colston
|
(06?).1918
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
01.12.1947
(aircraft accident)
|
(A) P/O (prob)
|
07.09.1936 [39098]
|
P/O
|
13.07.1937
|
(A) F/O
|
26.09.1938
|
(A) F/Lt.
|
11.02.1939-06.03.1939
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
03.09.1940
|
F/Lt.
|
07.01.1946
25.02.1947, seniority 01.12.1942
|
(A) Sq.Ldr.
|
25.02.1947,
seniority 06.08.1942
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.11.1946,
seniority 04.04.1942
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.08.1947
|
|
07.09.1936
|
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties
Branch) [short service commission]
|
19.09.1936
|
-
|
21.05.1937
|
No.
2 Flying Training School RAF (Digby)
|
22.05.1937
|
-
|
04.07.1937
|
214
(Bomber) Squadron RAF (Feltwell, Brandon, Suffolk)
|
05.07.1937
|
-
|
1939
|
88
(Bomber) Squadron RAF (Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wiltshire)
|
1939
|
-
|
11.05.1940
|
88 Squadron
RAF (AASF, BEF France)
[his Fairey Battle 1 [P2251 RH-D] took off
09.45 hrs from Mourmelon for an operation against Bouillon; the aircraft was
shot down by Flak, crashed between Vaux-sur-Sûre (Belgium) and Bercheux (Luxembourg)
and, being wounded, he was captured]
|
11.05.1940
|
-
|
1945
|
POW in
German captivity [#631] in Dulag Luft (hospitalized 05.1940-08.1940), then
from 06.1941 Stalag Luft II, from 07.1941 Stalag Luft I, from 05.1942 Stalag
Luft III
[producer, director and actor in many of the camp theatre productions at Dulag Luft and Stalag Luft
III together with Rupert Davies (of Maigret TV fame) Peter Butterworth (‘Carry On’ film actor) and John Casson (son of Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike)]
|
13.07.1940
|
|
|
transferred to reserve (and called up
for air force duty) [while in captivity]
|
07.01.1946
|
|
|
permanent commission
|
01.12.1947
|
|
|
killed
in Airspeed Oxford PH355 of 1 PRFU (RAF Moreton in the Marsh, Gloucestershire)
that spun into the ground at Blockley
|
|
Malan,
Adolph Gysbert
"Sailor"
South African
Son of William Adolph and Evelyn Forde Malan;
married 1938, Lynda Irene Fraser; one son one daughter.
|
24.03.1910
Wellington, Cape Province, S Afr
-
17.09.1963
S Afr
|
P/O
|
01.1937 [37604]
|
F/O
|
06.07.1938
|
F/Lt.
|
06.07.1940
|
(A) Sq.Ldr.
|
08.08.1940
|
(A) W/Cdr.
|
1941?
|
(T) W/Cdr.
|
01.09.1942
|
(WS) W/Cdr.
|
01.07.1943
|
(A?)
Gp.Capt.
|
? (retd 05.04.1946)
|
|
DSO
|
24.12.1940
|
*
|
|
DSO
|
22.07.1941
|
**
|
|
DFC
|
11.06.1940
|
***
|
|
DFC
|
13.08.1940
|
****
|
|
MID
|
17.03.1941
|
?
|
Belg
|
CdeG
|
04.11.1941
|
?
|
Czech
|
MC
|
15.03.1946
|
?
|
|
CdeG
|
?
|
?
|
|
LegH
|
?
|
?
|
* This officer has commanded his squadron with
outstanding success over an intensive period of air operations and, by his
brilliant leadership, skill and determination has contributed largely to the
successes obtained. Since early in August, 1940, the squadron has destroyed at
least 84 enemy aircraft and damaged many more. Squadron Leader Malan has
himself destroyed at least eighteen hostile aircraft and possibly another six.
** This officer has displayed the greatest courage and disdain of the enemy
whilst leading his wing on numerous recent operations over Northern France.
His cool judgment, exceptional determination and ability have enabled him to
increase his confirmed victories over enemy aircraft from 19 to 28, in
addition to a further 20 damaged and probably destroyed. His record and
behaviour have earned for him the greatest admiration and devotion of his
comrades in the wing. Recently the wing has scored heavily against the enemy
with 42 hostile aircraft destroyed, a further 15 probably destroyed and 11
damaged.
*** During May, 1940, this officer has led his
flight, and on certain occasions his squadron, on ten offensive patrols in
Northern France. He has personally shot down two enemy aircraft and possibly
three others. Flight Lieutenant Malan has displayed great skill, courage and
relentless determination in his attacks on the enemy.
**** Since the end of May, 1940, this
officer has continued to lead his flight and, on many occasions the squadron,
in numerous successful engagements against the enemy. During the Dunkirk
operations he shot down three enemy aircraft and assisted in destroying a
further three. In June, 1940, during a night attack by enemy aircraft, he shot
down two Heinkel 111's. His magnificent leadership, skill and courage have
been largely responsible for the many successes obtained by his squadron.
|
Education: Wellington Public School, South Africa;
South African Training Ship, General Botha; RAF
Staff College (psa, 06.1945).
1927
|
|
|
joined the Union Castle Line of the
Mercantile Marine as Cadet at the age of 15; became officer, 1930; served as
officer in same firm and as officer in Royal Naval Reserve
|
1935
|
-
|
06.01.1942
|
short
service commission RAF
|
20.12.1936
|
-
|
10.03.1941
|
74 Squadron
|
08.1937
|
-
|
|
acting
Flight Commander, A Flight, 74 Squadron
|
08.08.1940
|
-
|
10.03.1941
|
Commanidng
Officer,
74 Squadron
|
10.03.1941
|
-
|
08.1941
|
Commanding
Officer, Biggin
Hill Wing
|
08.1941
|
-
|
10.1941
|
Chief
Flight Instructor, 58 Officer Training Unit, Grangemouth
|
10.1941
|
-
|
|
to the US
to meet and lecture with the US Army Air Corps
|
late
1941
|
-
|
01.01.1943
|
Commanding
Officer, Central
Gunnery School
|
06.01.1942
|
|
|
transferred to reserve (RAFO)
|
01.01.1943
|
-
|
|
Commanding
Officer, RAF
Station Biggin Hill & sick leave
|
01.11.1943
|
-
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 19
Fighter Wing, 2nd TAF
|
03.1944
|
-
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 145 Wing
|
07.1944
|
-
|
|
Commanding
Officer, Advanced
Gunnery School
|
1945
|
-
|
1946
|
a member of
the Directing Staff at RAF Staff College
|
19.07.1940
11.08.1940
13.08.1940
11.09.1940
22.10.1940 |
|
|
30.5
victories:
1 Bf 109
2 Bf 109
1 Do 17
1 Ju 88
1 Bf 109
|
Returned to South Africa, 1946.
Literature: Oliver Walker, Sailor Malan (1953)
|
Malins,
William Edward Vernon
"Bill" / "Major"
Son of William Vernon Malins, and Agnes
Lilian Steele.
Married (21.03.1942, St Mary's Church, Chesterton)
Norah Daphne Dickins; two sons, three daughters.
|
26.09.1915
Bicester district, Oxfordshire
-
[08.2008 still alive at Oxfordshire]
|
(A) P/O
|
04.06.1938
[40838]
|
P/O
|
04.04.1939
|
F/O
|
03.09.1940
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
03.09.1941
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1944
|
(WS) Sq.Ldr.
|
13.12.1944
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
21.02.1947,
seniority 01.09.1945
|
Wg.Cdr.
|
01.07.1951
(retd 08.05.1952; own request)
|
|
DFC
|
06.08.1940
|
France
13.05.40 *
|
* Early on the morning of
13th May, this officer was on reconnaissance in the neighbourhood of
Tirlemont. Under heavy fire he
descended to 50 feet to ascertain the nationality of the hostile troops. Pilot Officer Malins has distinguished himself on several
occasions by his excellent reconnaissance over the enemy.
|
04.04.1938
|
-
|
01.06.1938
|
No.
1 Elementary Flying Training School RAF (Hatfield)
|
14.06.1938
|
-
|
02.01.1939
|
No.
5 Flying Training School RAF (Sealand)
|
27.01.1939
|
-
|
30.04.1939
|
No.
1 School of Army Co-operation RAF (Old Sarum)
|
12.03.1939
|
|
|
first
commission RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
|
04.05.1939
|
-
|
12.07.1942
|
4
Squadron RAF (Odiham, then from 03.10.1939 Mons-en-Chaussee, then Douai, then
Lille Ronchin, then Aspelaer (Belgium), then Clairmarais (St Omer), then from
27.05.1940 Ringway, then from 08.06.1940 York)
|
12.07.1942
|
-
|
29.05.1943
|
268
Squadron RAF (Snailwell, then from 29.05.1943 Odiham)
|
02.06.1943
|
-
|
03.08.1943
|
Air Ministry, Special Duties List (Norfolk House)
[HMS Hilary (ocean boarding vessel)] (invasion of Sicily 10.07.1943)
|
12.08.1943
|
-
|
31.12.1943
|
231
Squadron RAF (No. 128 Airfield)
|
01.01.1944
|
-
|
13.09.1944
|
Air
Ministry (DTO) [16.06.1944 transferred
to reserve (and called up for Air Force service) [dated 04.04.1942]]
|
14.09.1944
|
-
|
01.11.1945
|
Wing
Commander (Operations), 35 Wing RAF
|
01.11.1945
|
-
|
10.08.1946
|
Officer
Commanding RAF Station Volkenrode, near Braunschweig (BAFO)
|
09.02.1947
|
-
|
31.12.1948
|
Air
Ministry (DDPA) [from 21.02.1947 permanent commission RAF]
|
01.01.1949
|
-
|
10.07.1949
|
Officer
Commanding RAF Station Woodvale
|
10.07.1949
|
-
|
15.10.1951
|
Air
Ministry (Selection Boards)
|
|
|
|
RAF
Station Newton (for refresher flying course)
|
10.01.1952
|
-
|
08.05.1952
|
RAF
Station Fassberg (British Army of the Rhine)
|
|
Mallet,
Maurice Bradbury
"Jumbo"
Only son of Maj. Thomas Henry Maurice
Mallet, and Florence
Mallet, of Coleraine, Ulster.
Married (12.07.1941, St. Luke s Church, Torquay, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Pamela
Brown, elder daughter of Mr & Mrs Colin McNab Heys Brown, of Scotsbrae, Torquay;
one son. Pamela Mallet remarried (07.04.1952) Patrick Hugh Henderson.
Residence: (1942) Paisley, Renfrewshire. |
1917 ?
-
17.09.1942
(KIA) [age 25]
[Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, The Netherlands, JJ, collective grave
128-130] |
(A) P/O (prob)
|
15.04.1939 [41939]
|
P/O (prob)
|
06.11.1939
|
P/O
|
06.02.1940
|
(WS) F/O
|
06.11.1940
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
06.11.1941
|
|
15.04.1939
|
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
|
(1940)
|
|
|
pilot, [224
? or 242?] Squadron RAF *
|
?
|
-
|
17.09.1942
|
pilot, 12
Officer Training Unit (OTU)
[taken off at 20.24 hrs at Chipping Warden
for an operation against Essen with a Wellington III bomber [BJ650]; it was
intercepted by a night-fighter and sent down to crash in a swimming pool at
Veldhoven, six kilometres SW of Eindhoven]
|
* served together with A.A. Greenberg &
A.H.
Deacon, but not completely clear whether this was in 242 Sqn or perhaps 224
Sqn
|
Mangles,
Roland Arthur Ross
|
29.05.1901
-
(03?).1976
Swindon district, Wiltshire |
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.08.1936
|
W/Cdr.
|
01.01.1940
|
(A) Gp.Capt.
|
? (retd 27.09.1948)
|
|
20.12.1921
|
|
|
first
commission
|
|
|
|
qualified
at specialist armament course
|
|
Mann,
Albert Sydney
"Bertie"
Married Winifred "Win" O'Donnell, WRAF
(16.01.1925 - 23.10.2009); two sons.
|
14.06.1919
Kingston district, Surrey
-
30.12.2009
St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight (formerly
of Westfield Park, Ryde)
[Ashey Cemetery, Section I, Plot 1116] |
P/O |
05.09.1937 [40126] |
(WS) F/O |
12.02.1940 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
12.02.1941 |
F/Lt. |
01.07.1946,
seniority 01.12.1942 |
(A) Sq.Ldr. |
? |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.06.1942 |
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
30.07.1945 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.11.1947,
seniority 01.08.1947 |
W/Cdr. |
01.07.1952 |
Gp.Capt. |
01.01.1967 (retd
14.06.1974) |
|
DFC |
23.06.1944 |
* |
* In May, 1944, this officer was detailed to
reconnoitre a heavily defended target in Northern France. In the face of
considerable light anti-aircraft fire, Squadron Leader Mann executed a most
successful run over the target and secured excellent results. His skill and
coolness were beyond praise. This officer has completed a large number of
sorties and has invariably displayed a high degree of determination and
devotion to duty. |
05.09.1937 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
|
|
|
31
Squadron RAF (NW Frontier of India) |
|
|
|
28
Squadron RAF (NW Frontier of India & Burma) |
12.07.1941 |
- |
30.06.1946 |
transferred,
Reserve of
Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service) |
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 63 Squadron RAF |
(1944) |
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 268
Squadron RAF |
01.07.1946 |
|
|
permanent
commission |
|
|
|
chief
flying instructor at RAF Valley, in Anglesey |
09.03.1959 |
- |
? |
Commander,
RAF Station Bicester |
|
|
|
Commander, RAF Kai Tak (Hong Kong) |
|
|
|
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe |
|
Manton,
James Edward
|
23.08.1905
Brighton, Sussex
-
(06?).1979
Taunton district, Somerset |
Boy |
18.01.1921 [335970] |
Cpl. |
? |
Wt.Offr. |
25.09.1937 |
F/O (prob) |
27.09.1939, seniority 19.06.1939 [35371] |
F/O |
27.09.1940 |
(A) F/Lt. |
(1940) |
(WS) F/Lt. |
11.02.1941 |
F/Lt. |
27.09.1942, seniority 19.06.1942 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.07.1943, seniority 01.12.1941 |
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
01.06.1946 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.10.1946
25.02.1947, seniority 01.06.1945 |
W/Cdr. |
01.07.1947 (retd 01.07.1956; own request) |
|
OBE |
31.05.1956 |
HM's birthday 56 |
|
GenSM |
? |
& clasp Southern Desert Iraq |
|
IndGSM |
? |
& clasp 1936-37 |
|
LSGCM |
18.01.1939 |
- |
|
MID |
01.01.1941 |
? |
|
MID |
01.01.1943 |
? |
|
18.01.1921 |
|
|
enlisted, RAF |
1921 |
- |
1923 |
Cranwell (Boys Wing) No 3 entry (for apprentice training as a Fitter Driver
(Petrol)) |
1936 |
- |
1937 |
served at NW Frontier, India |
1938 |
|
|
RAF
Stradishall |
27.09.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) |
|
Marshall,
Alfred Ernest
Son of Alfred Ernest Marshall (1890-1968), and Hilda Beatrice Godden
(1891-1982).
Married ((12?).1938, Sunderland district, Co. Durham / Tyne and Wear) Beatrice
Mary Hagel (24.02.1912 - 26.10.1994), daughter (with two sisters and one brother)
of Henry Hagel (1879-1948), and Margaret Alice Gray (1879-1956); one son, one
daughter. |
15.05.1915
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
27.11.1944
(KIA) [age 29]
[Hitchin
Cemetery, Hertfordshire, NW extension, grave 381] |
Aircraft Apprentice |
01.1931
[565286] |
Sgt. |
? |
P/O (prob) |
12.08.1941 [47124] |
(WS) F/O |
12.08.1942 |
(A) F/Lt. |
1942? |
(WS) F/Lt. |
12.08.1943 |
|
DFC |
06.10.1942 |
? |
|
DFM |
06.06.1941 |
* |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Afr St |
- |
- |
|
AirCrEur |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
* This airman has displayed outstanding skill,
courage and devotion to duty whilst engaged on active operations against the
enemy. He has personally destroyed 15 enemy aircraft. On a recent occasion
he took off to engage the enemy whilst a fierce ground attack was being made
against the aerodrome. |
? |
- |
13.05.1940 |
6
Operational Training Unit RAF |
13.05.1940 |
- |
05.1941 |
73 Squadron RAF (DFM) |
12.08.1941 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties
Branch) [emergency commission] |
11.1941 |
- |
01.1942 |
instructor,
71 Operational Training Unit RAF |
01.1942 |
- |
02.1942 |
instructor, 73 Operational Training Unit RAF |
02.1942 |
- |
04.1942 |
instructor,
71 Operational Training Unit RAF |
04.1942 |
- |
01.08.1942 |
250
Squadron RAF (DFC) |
08?.1942 |
- |
07.1944 |
instructor, 51 Operational Training
Unit RAF |
07.1944 |
- |
27.11.1944 |
25 Squadron RAF |
victories: |
|
|
16
and 2 shared destroyed; 2 probables, 1 damaged, 1 V-1 destroyed, 17 shared
destroyed on the ground |
From Christopher Shores & Clive Williams, Aces
high (1994): "Alfred Marshall from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, joined the RAF
and was posted to 73 Squadron in France in May 1940 as a Sergeant. He saw
action during the retreat through France and in the Battle of Britain, where
on 7 September his Hurricane, P3863, was badly damaged, obliging him to
force-land, sustaining slight injuries. In November 1940 he accompanied the
unit aboard HMS Furious to West Africa, and thence across the continent to
Egypt. Here he saw much action during the First Libyan Campaign, his most
notable day proving to be 3 January 1941. In the morning he engaged five
S-79s bombing HMS Terror near Bardia, claiming three shot down and a fourth
damaged. That afternoon he, Flying Officer Jas Storrar and the commanding
officer strafed an airfield, claiming eight aircraft destroyed between them.
On 23 April, however, on landing after an engagement, he was wounded during
a strafing attack on his airfield. He left the unit the following month, and
on 6 June 1941 was awarded a very well-deserved DFM. Commissioned in August
1941 whilst on non-operational duties, he was posted to 250 Squadron in
April 1942, where he quickly became a flight commander. He ended his second
tour on 1 August 1942, returning to the UK and receiving a DFC in October.
He served as an instructor at 51 OTU until July 1944, when he joined 25
Squadron to become a night fighter. With this unit he shot down a V-1, then
during October, intercepted and shot down a V-1 launching
He111."
Literature: Terry R. Clegg. Alfred Ernest Marshall: 47124 Sgt Pilot
British 73 Squadron. In: For the few - a promise kept: family history and
temple work of the pilots and aircrew who flew in the Battle of Britain
July-October 1940 (2004). |
Martin,
Derek Dudley |
see: |
Butcher,
Derek Dudley Martin |
|
Martin,
Frank Rayner
Son (with one brother and one sister) of
Clifton William Martin (1900-1991), and Alice Beatrice Reynolds (1898-1994).
Married (06.02.1966, Nevada, USA) Rosemary Sawtelle. |
14.10.1921
Eye, Suffolk
-
17.10.2002
Valletta, Malta |
Sgt. |
?
[581345] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
26.08.1943 [52776] |
P/O (prob) |
21.10.1943 |
P/O |
21.04.1944 |
(WS) F/O |
21.04.1944 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
21.08.1947-01.01.1948 |
F/O |
01.11.1947, seniority 21.10.1945
05.1948, seniority 21.10.1944 |
F/Lt. |
26.02.1948 (reserve 22.02.1950; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.) |
|
26.08.1943 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency
commission] |
17.04.1946 |
|
|
extended service commission |
01.01.1947 |
|
|
transferred, RAF (Aircraft Control Branch) |
22.02.1950 |
|
|
transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers (Class C) |
? |
- |
08.09.1955 |
emergency list (commission relinquished on enrolment in the RAAF) |
|
Martin,
Lionel George
Son (with one sister and one brother) of George
Martin (1874-1947), and Minnie Engledow (1876-1943).
Married ((12?).1923, York district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Gertrude Anne
Welch (12.01.1900 - (12?).1975); two sons.
|
15.01.1900
Plaistow, Essex
-
07.1984
Portsmouth district, Hampshire |
P/O (prob) |
08.05.1926 [22200] |
P/O |
08.11.1926 |
F/O |
08.11.1927 |
F/Lt. |
01.04.1932 (reld 08.05.1936) |
Sq.Ldr. RAFO |
02.03.1938 (reactivated 01.09.1939) |
(T) W/Cdr. RAFO |
01.01.1943 (Emgcy List) (reld 10.02.1954; retaining rank of
W/Cdr.) |
F/Lt. RAFO |
11.03.1949 [192851] (reld 23.09.1960) |
|
OBE |
01.01.1946 |
New Year 46 |
|
MID |
14.06.1945 |
? |
|
08.05.1926 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
08.05.1936 |
|
|
transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class A) |
11.09.1942 |
|
|
transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers (Administrative and Special Duties
Branch) |
1943 |
- |
1945 |
Station
Commander, Seaplane Experimental Station RAF (Felixstowe) |
11.03.1949 |
|
|
commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (Secretarial Branch) (Class CC) |
|
Mason,
Neville Walter Frederick
|
05.09.1903
Chapel en le Frith district, Derbyshire
-
10.1994
Eastbourne district, Sussex |
|
|
Masterman,
Cedric Audley
see: Old
Farnhamians' Association
|
25.09.1914
-
05.2000
Salisbury, Wiltshire
|
F/O
|
16.10.1937
[37199]
|
(A) W/Cdr.
|
?
|
W/Cdr.
|
01.07.1948
|
|
OBE
|
?
|
?
|
|
DFC
|
?
|
?
|
|
1935
|
|
|
joined RAF; flew
Hawker Audex viplanes at the NW Frontier (India), returned home 1939
|
1939
|
|
|
225 Squadron
|
10.1941
|
|
|
CO 72 Squadron
|
01.1942
|
-
|
04.1942
|
Wing
Leader Biggin Hill
|
1942
|
|
|
fighter staff,
Malta
|
1943
|
|
|
Wing Commander Training,
Kenya
|
|
|
|
203 Sqn
|
|
|
|
staff duties, Lord Mountbatten
(Delhi & Burma)
|
|
Matheson,
Geoffrey Charles
Son of Sir Charles George Matheson, DSO, RD
(1876-1948), and Olive Beryl Palmer (1881-1943).
Married ((09?).1941, Maidenhead district, Berkshire) Margaret Ethel Bickers
"Margo" Robinson (14.12.1922 - 09.2004), elder daughter of Capt. & Mrs J.T.B.
Robinson, of Littleover, Derbyshire. Margo Matheson remarried (1947) Peter Bryan
Cheetham Legg (1911-1983).
|
22.06.1912
Bushey, Hertfordshire
-
24.08.1943
Ford, Sussex
[age 31]
[Runnymede Memorial, panel 118] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
06.01.1937 [39363] |
... |
... |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.12.1941 |
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
12.10.1942 |
|
06.01.1937 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
? |
- |
24.08.1943 |
418 RCAF
Squadron |
|
Matson,
Bernard Nelson
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of the Rev. Leonard Matson, MA (1852-1912),
and Catherine Suckling Baron (1865?-1940).
Married (31.12.1931, St Margaret's, Putney,
Wandsworth district, London) Muriel Nellie Eldridge (09.05.1909 -
10.1985), daughter of Mr & Mrs A.H. Eldridge, of Putney; two sons, one daughter.
Residence: (1944) Andover, Hampshire. |
18.09.1908
Stevington, Bedford district, Bedfordshire
-
04.05.1944
Ranikhet, India
(died on active service of poliomyelitis) [age 35]
[Delhi War Cemetery, India, 4.E.12] |
P/O (prob) |
13.09.1929 [28158] |
P/O |
13.09.1930 |
F/O |
13.03.1931 |
F/Lt. |
13.03.1935 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.08.1938 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.12.1940 |
(A) Gp.Capt. |
04.1944 |
|
Education: St Edmund's School, Canterbury.
13.09.1929 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
28.08.1929 |
|
|
No. 5
Flying Training School RAF (Sealand) |
09.08.1933 |
|
|
Home
Aircraft Depot RAF (Henlow) |
25.09.1935 |
|
|
permanent commission [qualified at specialist torpedo course E (T) 29.11.1935] |
24.04.1940 |
|
|
transferred, RAF (Technical Branch) |
|
Maurice,
Alfred Price
|
18.04.1892
-
(09?).1960
Colchester district, Essex |
Sq.Ldr. (retd)
|
01.01.1925 (retd
18.04.1937)
|
Hon. W/Cdr.
|
11.05.1939
|
(WS) W/Cdr.
|
09.07.1942
|
(A) Gp.Capt.
|
?
|
|
DFC
|
?
|
?
|
|
01.04.1918
|
|
|
first
commission RAF
|
09.09.1939
|
-
|
31.03.1946
|
recalled to
active service
|
|
Maxwell,
Victor Edwin
Son of Thomas Maxwell (1870-1940), and Margaret
Mary Harris Maxwell (1879-1970).
Husband of Susan Dorothea Maxwell, of Harlow, Essex. |
18.08.1906
Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland
-
23.02.1944
hospital, Westminster, London
[Brookwood
Military Cemetery, Surrey] |
Aircraft Apprentice |
01.1924 [364915] |
Sgt. |
? |
P/O (prob) |
30.04.1934 [36004] |
P/O |
30.04.1935 |
F/O |
30.10.1935 |
F/Lt. |
30.10.1937 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.06.1939 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.06.1941 |
|
MID |
24.09.1941 |
? |
|
MID |
11.06.1942 |
? |
|
MID |
? |
? |
|
01.1924 |
|
|
joined RAF |
30.04.1934 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
30.04.1934 |
|
|
School of Army Co-operation (Old Sarum) |
27.04.1936 |
- |
12.07.1936 |
Flying Instructors' course, Central Flying School (Category B) |
13.07.1936 |
|
|
staff, No. 10 Flying Training School (Tern Hill) |
17.09.1937 |
- |
01.04.1940 |
seconded
for service under the Government of Southern Rhodesia |
(03.1941) |
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 237 (Rhodesian) (Army Co-operation) Squadron RAF |
|
May,
Faulkner Michael Vane
Married ((06?).1935, Plympton district,
Hampshire) ... Lockhart. |
(06?).1905
Portsmouth, Hampshire
- |
|
Education: psa.
|
|
|
qualified
at specialist navigation course |
|
Mayes,
Walter Robert
Son (with three brothers and
four sisters) of William Edward Mayes (1869-), and Jessie Mary
Manthorpe (1867-).
Married ((12?).1916, Yarmouth district, Norfolk) Dorothy May Ward (11.10.1895 -
1982); one daughter.
|
30.09.1895
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
-
04.05.1961
Harrow Weald, Middlesex |
Chief Petty Officer Mechanic 2nd grade |
? [ON F.695] |
Sgt.Maj. II |
? [200965] |
Cd.Engr.Offr. |
? |
F/O (prob) |
19.09.1933,
seniority 11.09.1933 [35006] |
F/O |
19.09.1934 |
F/Lt. |
14.04.1939 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.09.1940 |
(A) W/Cdr. |
(1941) |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.12.1941 |
(WS) W/Cdr. |
31.07.1944 (retd
22.10.1945; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) |
(A?)
Gp.Capt. |
1945? |
|
OBE |
24.09.1941 |
? |
|
DSM |
01.05.1918 |
Royal Naval Air Service |
|
AFM |
23.08.1919 |
voyages of Airship R.34 from UK to USA and back |
|
AFM |
04.06.1921 |
? |
|
MID |
14.01.1944 |
? |
|
19.09.1933 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) |
From "A contemptible little Flying Corps"
by I. McInnes & J.V. Webb: "Born 10 October, 1893 *. Enlisted 10 August,
1912 directly into Corps. As 1AM Airship Detachment earned 1914 Star and bar
being posted to RNAS 18 October, 1914 as Leading Mechanic No. 695. Chief
Petty Officer (2nd Class) (Rigger Airships) 30 April, 1917. Awarded
Distinguished Service Medal in May, 1918 as Chief Petty Officer 2 Class
although by that date in 1918 RAF Muster Roll he is listed as 200695 Master
Mechanic (Rigger Airships). As SM2 he was awarded an Air Force Medal in
London Gazette 23 August, 1919 for his part as First Coxswain in the Airship
R.34's double crossing of the Atlantic from Scotland on 2 July, 1919 to New
York and returning by 13 July, 1919. Later in London Gazette 4 June, 1921 he
was awarded a bar to his Air Force Medal for services in the Airship R.36
flying over Bath when the rudder and elevators broke loose and he and Flight
Sergeant S. J. Heath A.F.M. climbed on top of the ship and repaired damage.
(Only five bars to the A.F.M. were awarded from 1918 to 1939.) On 16 April,
1925 in a fierce westerly gale, he was one of a skeleton crew of 20 who on
board the R.33 at Fulham were carried away from their mooring and spent 30
hours battling the elements over the North Sea before bringing the airship
back to her base. Promoted WO1 1 October, 1928. Awarded his RAF L.S.&G.C.
w.e.f. 10 August, 1930. He was commissioned Flying Officer (Commissioned
Engineering Officer) with seniority from 19 September, 1933. In the 1937 Air
Force List he is shown as an Equipment Staff Officer at Fighter Command HQ
Stanmore, Middlesex. Personal No. 35006. Awarded 1937 Coronation Medal.
Squadron Leader 1 September, 1940 with an O.B.E. Promoted Wing Commander
(Technical) (E) 14 January, 1944 and in 1946 Air Force List shown as Group
Captain O.B.E., D.S.M., A.F.M., and bar. Retired 22 October, 1945. Last
noted in April, 1961 Air Force List."
* Provided an incorrect date of birth for Air Force service. |
McBratney,
Vincent Herbert Alexander
"Mac"
Son (with one sister) of Alexander McBratney (1883-1955), and Jane Amelia
Campbell (1879-1952).
Married (04.07.1940, Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland) Patricia Millar
(01.11.1917 - 31.03.2000), daughter (with two brothers) of Herbert Walton Millar
(1882-1949), and Dora Blackstock (1883-1972); one daughter, two sons. |
15.07.1913
Blackabbey, Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland
-
09.01.1996
Adelaide, South Australia |
(A) P/O (prob) |
01.09.1933 [34085] |
P/O |
01.09.1934 |
F/O |
01.04.1936 |
F/Lt. |
01.04.1938 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.01.1940 |
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
01.04.1941 |
(A) W/Cdr. |
01.01.1941-31.08.1941 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.09.1941 |
(WS) W/Cdr. |
04.06.1945 |
(A) Gp.Capt. |
04.12.1944-01.01.1946,
22.01.1946-03.10.1946 |
Sq.Ldr. |
02.04.1946, seniority
01.09.1945
25.02.1947, seniority 01.01.1941 |
W/Cdr. |
01.07.1947, seniority 01.10.1946 (retd 03.10.1947; own request)
(re-commissioned 04.06.1951, seniority 01.03.1951) (reverted to retd 16.07.1959; retaining rank
of Gp.Capt.) |
|
AFC |
01.01.1942 |
New Year 1942 |
|
MID |
01.01.1943 |
? |
|
MID |
08.06.1944 |
? |
|
Education: attended school in Magherafelt and
Belfast; intermediate staff course at Camberley (w 1945, qs 1947; psc(m)).
01.09.1933 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF
(General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
01.09.1933 |
- |
15.09.1933 |
Depot
RAF (UK) (supernumerary, for short discipline course) |
16.09.1933 |
- |
01.09.1934 |
No. 5
Flying Training School RAF (RAF Station Shotwick, UK) (for flying training;
01.09.1934 flying badge) |
02.09.1934 |
- |
01.01.1935 |
RAF
Station Calshot (UK) (supernumerary; for floatplane training) |
02.01.1935 |
- |
07.06.1935 |
RAF
Station Calshot (UK) (supernumerary; for flying boat pilot's course) |
07.06.1935 |
- |
21.05.1936 |
201 (Flying Boat)
Squadron RAF (RAF
Station Calshot, UK) (for flying duties; 10.03.1936 qualified 1st Pilot (Night)) |
22.05.1936 |
- |
18.06.1936 |
Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment RAF (Felixstowe), UK (temporary) |
19.06.1936 |
- |
04.12.1938 |
230
Squadron RAF (Middle East (Egypt), from 04.08.1936 Coastal Command (Overseas), from
16.10.1936 Far East) (for flying duties, from 01.11.1937-30.04.1938 as Adjutant)
(21.07.1938 qualified 1st Pilot Vildebeeste) |
05.12.1938 |
- |
22.01.1939 |
No. 1
Depot RAF (Uxbridge, UK) (supernumerary; for leave) |
23.01.1939 |
- |
26.03.1939 |
Central Flying School RAF, Montrose (UK) (for flying instructors' course) |
27.03.1939 |
- |
31.12.1939 |
No. 8
Flying Training School RAF (RAF Station Montrose, UK) (for flying duties, as flying
instructor) |
01.01.1940 |
- |
09.06.1940 |
No. 11 Service Flying
Training School RAF (as chief flying
instructor) * |
10.06.1940 |
- |
22.10.1940 |
1 (Coastal)
Operational Training Unit RAF (RAF Station Silloth, UK) (supernumerary; for flying
duties) |
23.10.1940 |
- |
30.06.1941 |
2 (Coastal)
Operational Training Unit RAF (RAF Station Catfoss, UK) (as chief instructor) |
01.07.1941 |
- |
18.08.1941 |
Commanding
Officer, 413 (RCAF) Squadron (Coastal Command, RAF Station Stranrear, UK) |
22.08.1941 |
- |
28.07.1942 |
Commanding
Officer, 120 Squadron RAF (Nutts Corner, UK) |
29.07.1942 |
- |
09.08.1942 |
120 Squadron RAF (Nutts Corner,
UK)
(supernumerary, for flying duties & from 07.08.1942 supernumerary) |
10.08.1942 |
- |
29.03.1943 |
111
Operational Training Unit (RAF Station
Nassau (Bahamas)) (as chief flying instructor) |
30.03.1943 |
- |
03.05.1943 |
Delegation
P U (Overseas) (as flying instructor) |
04.05.1943 |
- |
04.06.1943 |
No. 1
Personnel Despatch Centre RAF (West Kirbt, UK) (supernumerary; disembarked 11.05.1943; leave from
13.05.1943) |
05.06.1943 |
- |
02.07.1943 |
HQ No. 15 Group RAF (Liverpool, UK) (supernumerary) |
03.07.1943 |
- |
02.08.1944 |
HQ No. 15 Group RAF
(Liverpool, UK) (as group training inspector) |
03.08.1944 |
- |
03.12.1944 |
HQ Coastal
Command (Northwood, UK) (supernumerary) |
01.09.1944 |
|
|
transferred
to Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service) |
04.12.1944 |
- |
31.12.1945 |
Station
Commander, RAF Station East Fortune (East Lothian, Scotland, UK) |
01.09.1945 |
|
|
permanent
commission |
01.01.1946 |
- |
21.01.1946 |
HQ Coastal Command (Northwood, UK) (supernumerary) |
22.01.1946 |
- |
30.07.1946 |
HQ Coastal Command (Northwood, UK) (for training) |
31.07.1946 |
- |
02.10.1946 |
RAF Station Benson (UK) (temporary) |
03.10.1946 |
- |
18.08.1947 |
Commanding Officer, 230 Squadron RAF (RAF Station
Calshot, UK) |
19.08.1947 |
- |
03.06.1951 |
RAF Station Calshot (UK) |
04.06.1951 |
- |
20.07.1951 |
Officers Advanced Training School (RAF Station Bircham Newton,
UK) (supernumerary; under training, for 59 course) |
23.07.1951 |
- |
05.01.1954 |
HQ Coastal Command (Northwood, UK) (Operations
Officer in Air 1) |
06.01.1954 |
- |
19.01.1954 |
HQ Coastal Command (Northwood, UK) (supernumerary;
pending posting to USA at Dirctorate of Staff (Training) for briefing Armed
Forces Staff College course) |
20.01.1954 |
- |
05.02.1954 |
Air Ministry Unit (UK) (on embarkation to USA) |
06.02.1954 |
- |
30.06.1954 |
SDL/MISC/1023D (USA) (to attend course at Armed
Forces College, Norfolk, Va., USA) |
01.07.1954 |
- |
11.08.1954 |
SDL/MISC/1023D (USA) (British Joint Services
Mission, Washington, DC, USA) |
12.08.1954 |
- |
02.04.1956 |
SDL/MISC/1023D (USA) (on assuming duty with US Navy
(Staff Officer on Operations Staff of Commander Air Force, Atlantic Fleet,
Norfolk, Va., USA)) |
03.04.1956 |
- |
28.06.1956 |
Air Ministry Unit (UK) (supernumerary, pending
embarkation to UK) |
29.06.1956 |
- |
15.07.1956 |
Air Ministry Unit (UK) (supernumerary; disembarked
06.07.1956; leave 07.07-04.09.1956) |
16.07.1956 |
- |
10.06.1958 |
Commanding Officer, Air/Sea Warfare Development Unit
(RAF Station St Mawgan, UK) |
11.06.1958 |
- |
16.07.1959 |
HQ No. 19 Group RAF (Mount Batten, UK) (as Senior
Officer in charge of Administration) (20-29.04.1959 School of Works Study
(Hendon, UK) (supernumerary; attendance 93 Works Study Appreciation) |
Obtained civil aviator's certificate (No. 23775)
at 18.12.1947, being a qualified service pilot.
Published: Born to fly : the memoirs of Vincent McBratney (2015).
* Service record shows 'home service'. 11 SFTS was located at Yorkton,
Saskatchewan, Canada, so inexplicable. Possibly serving at a different numbered
SFTS. |
McCarthy,
William Ronald Berriman
Son (with one sister) of Cornelius McCarthy, and Ethel Thomas, of Treforest, Pontypridd,
Glamorgan. |
(03?).1920
Pontypridd district, Glamorgan
-
27.08.1942
[age 22]
[Runnymede Memorial, panel 70] |
Cpl. |
? [655252] |
P/O (prob) |
04.10.1941 [46904] |
|
DFC |
27.07.1943 |
with effect from 23.08.1942 |
|
04.10.1941 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF
(General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
? |
- |
27.08.1942 |
218 (Gold
Coast) Squadron RAF |
|
McClean,
Harry Philip
Son of William Newsam McClean (1874-1968),
civil engineer, and Agnes Maude Whipham (1877-1942).
Married (02.07.1937, Kensingston district,
London) Millicent "Bunny" Madge Moles (24.03.1909 - 31.12.1987), divorced
wife of Edward Uzielli Bloor (1901-1976); one daughter. |
19.08.1910
Seaview, Isle of Wight
-
01.2000
Bullingdon district, Oxfordshire |
P/O (prob) |
29.05.1934 [70417] |
P/O |
29.11.1934 |
F/O |
29.11.1935
1940?, seniority 25.09.1932 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
02.06.1941 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.07.1943 |
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
18.03.1944 (emgcy list; reld 19.08.1955, retaining rank of W/Cdr.) |
|
Engineer. Obtained aviator's licence (No. 11192),
taken on a Redwing Genet 80 h.p. at the Eastern Counties Aeroplane Club,
25.06.1933.
29.05.1934 |
|
|
commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class
AA(i)) |
(08.1942) |
|
|
pilot, 239
Squadron RAF (Dieppe raid) |
11.11.1943 |
- |
12.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, 4 Squadron RAF |
|
McConnell,
Roderick Hugh
"Derry"
Eldest son of Clarence Henry Quenton McConnell
(1887-).
Married (04.04.1940, St Augustine's Church, Tunbridge Wells) Cynthia Mary
Gambier Falkner (1920 - 13.05.2010), daughter of Gilbert Evelyn Falkner
(1885-1926), and Edith Walburga Pownall (1893-1978); one son, two daughters. |
1917
Ceylon
-
16.03.1950
(flying accident; died when his Vampire
crashed into the sea off the Lincolnshire coast during the evening of Thursday
16 March) |
P/O |
19.12.1936 [33268] |
F/O |
19.06.1938 |
F/Lt. |
19.06.1940 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.09.1941 |
Sq.Ldr. |
20.11.1942, seniority 01.09.1941 |
(A) W/Cdr. |
1942 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.07.1943-01.11.1947 |
W/Cdr. |
01.01.1949 |
|
DSO |
07.07.1944 |
* |
|
DFC |
22.11.1940 |
? |
|
MID |
08.06.1944 |
? |
* This officer has completed a large number of
reconnaissance and anti-shipping sorties since the award of the
Distinguished Flying Cross. As Commanding Officer of his squadron he has set
an outstanding example of courage, and by his leadership has been largely
responsible for the exceptional success attained. Wing Commander McConnell
has completed three tours of operational duty and has proved himself an
excellent officer and commander, both on the ground and in the air. |
Education: Tonbridge School (1930-1934; Judde House;
Football XV 1934); RAF College, Cranwell (1935-1936; prize scholarship).
19.12.1936 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) |
|
|
|
first pilot
of RAF Coastal Command to use rocket projectiles in action against the enemy |
1939 |
- |
1942 |
Coastal
Command: |
1940 |
- |
1941 |
Officer
Commanding, No.1 Coast Artillery Co-operation Flight, Detling (DFC) |
1942 |
- |
1943 |
Gibraltar |
1942 |
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 254 Squadron RAF |
1943 |
- |
1945 |
Coastal
Command: |
1943 |
- |
04.1944 |
Commanding Officer, 235 Squadron RAF
(DSO) |
1944 |
|
|
Staff
College |
1945 |
|
|
BAFO,
Germany |
1945 |
- |
1946 |
Transport
Command, SEAC |
|
|
|
Wing Commander Flying, Banff |
|
McConnell,
Robert Hay Stewart
"Rory"
Son of Rev. W.J. McConnell, of Belfast. |
25.07.1912
Markethill, Co. Armagh
-
23.08.1940
[Wick Cemetery, Scotland, section O,
collective grave 414] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
03.03.1933 [34023] |
P/O |
03.03.1934 |
F/O |
03.09.1935 |
F/Lt. |
03.09.1937 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.06.1940 |
|
DFC |
31.05.1940 |
? |
|
Education: Campbell College, Belfast
(09.1926-07.1930; Yates's House; scholar; school prefect; 1st XV 1929-30; boxing
1929-30; VIII, 1930).
Nigerian Police Force.
03.03.1933 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
18.02.1934 |
|
|
RAF
Base Calshot (specialized in flying boats) |
06.07.1937 |
|
|
240
(Flying Boat) Squadron RAF (Calshot) |
09.09.1938 |
|
|
Reserve of Air Force Officers (Class C) |
09.1935 |
- |
08.1940 |
served with
general reconnaissance squadrons in Coastal Command |
? |
- |
23.08.1940 |
269 Squadron
RAF (Wick)
[Hudson I T9299 [UA-Y] took off for training
for first flight on type. Engine cut on overshoot and the Hudson, stalled, spun
in and caught fire. Sq.Ldr. McConnell and P/O S.J. Herring were killed.] |
|
McDiarmid,
Pierce
Son of Thomas McDiarmid, a cotton factor.
Married Janet Dick.
|
26.01.1896
Blackburn, Lancashire
-
13.10.1984
Bath district, Somerset |
Air Mech. |
1915
[F4161] |
F/Sgt. |
?
[204161] |
Wt.Offr. |
? |
F/O (prob) |
20.07.1934 [35017] |
F/O |
20.07.1935 |
F/Lt. |
14.04.1939 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.09.1940-01.11.1947 |
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
...-01.01.1948 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.12.1941-01.11.1947 |
(WS) W/Cdr. |
25.12.1945 (retd 26.01.1946; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) (re-employed
26.01.1946-11.12.1947) |
(A) Gp.Capt. |
(1946) |
|
OBE |
13.06.1946 |
HM's birthday 46 |
|
AFM |
12.07.1920 |
Palestine |
|
Left school at age of 14 to become an engineering
apprentice in Manchester.
1915 |
|
|
enlisted, Royal Naval Air Service (served in France) |
04.1918 |
|
|
transferred, RAF |
(1920) |
|
|
216
Squadron RAF (Palestine) |
1927 |
|
|
one
of the two engineers on the pioneering flight from Cairo to the Cape and return
in Fairey 3Fs (while serving with 47 Squadron in Egypt) |
20.07.1934 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (Technical Branch) (Commissioned Engineer Officers) |
20.07.1934 |
|
|
No. 3
Stores Depot RAF (Milton) |
20.06.1936 |
|
|
Aircraft Depot, Hinaidi, Iraq |
1939 |
- |
1942 |
served at
Air Ministry |
01.01.1940 |
- |
(10.1940) |
Deputy Directorate of Repair and Servicing (2), Department of the Air Member for
Supply and Organisation |
1942 |
- |
1946 |
British Air
Commission, Washington, DC (USA) |
Worked for 17 years in the government contracts
department of the Plessey Co. Ltd. |
McDonald,
Arthur William Baynes
|
14.06.1903
-
26.07.1996 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.12.1936 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.01.1940 |
W/Cdr. |
14.04.1942,
seniority 01.01.1940 |
(T) Gp.Capt. |
01.12.1941 |
(WS) Gp.Capt. |
26.08.1943 |
(A) A/Cdre. |
26.02.1943 |
... |
... |
Air Marshal |
01.07.1958 |
|
AFC |
01.01.1938 |
? |
|
Education: psa; qualified
at specialist engineering course; additionally qualified at university course
in engineering.
... |
- |
... |
... |
31.12.1938
|
|
|
Staff,
Directorate of Repair and Maintenance |
01.01.1940 |
|
|
Assistant
Director of Repair and Servicing (1) |
28.08.1940 |
|
|
Engineering
Officer, No 6/56 Operational Training Unit RAF |
1941 |
|
|
Staff, HQ
Fighter Command RAF |
1942 |
|
|
Air Defence
Commander, Ceylon |
16.11.1943 |
|
|
Air
Officer Training, HQ Air Command,
South-East Asia |
16.04.1945 |
|
|
Air Officer Commanding, No 106
Group RAF |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
McDonald,
Ernest Hector
"Mac"
Husband of Edith Daisy McDonald, of
Portsmouth.
|
(06?).1900
Warwick district, Warwickshire
-
14.11.1944
(KIA) [age 44]
[Choloy War Cemetery, France, 2A.A.8]
|
Wt.Offr.
|
?
|
F/O (prob)
|
11.04.1938,
seniority 06.04.1938 [35180]
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
06.03.1940
|
F/Lt.
|
11.04.1941,
seniority 06.04.1941
|
(A) Sq.Ldr.
|
?
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.06.1942
|
(WS) Sq.Ldr.
|
1943,
seniority 01.01.1941
|
(A) W/Cdr.
|
?
|
(WS) W/Cdr.
|
09.05.1943
|
(A) Gp.Capt.
|
?
|
|
CBE
|
01.01.1945
|
New
Year 45 [posthumously, with effect from 13.11.44)
|
|
MBE
|
24.09.1941
|
?
|
|
MID
|
11.06.1942
|
?
|
|
MID
|
01.01.1943
|
?
|
|
11.04.1938
|
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (Commissioned Engineer Officer, later Technical Branch)
|
?
|
-
|
14.11.1944
|
144
Maintenance Unit (killed on duty)
|
|
McEvoy,
[Sir] Theodore Newman
|
21.11.1904
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
28.09.1991
Chichester district, Sussex |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.04.1937 |
... |
... |
Air Chief Marshal |
? |
KCB 1956 (CB 1951); CBE 1945 (OBE 1941) |
Education: psa.
|
|
|
qualified
at specialist engineering course |
|
McGlashan,
Kenneth Butterworth
Married; three daughters.
|
28.08.1920
Beardsen, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
-
31.07.2005
Australia |
(A) P/O (prob) |
18.03.1939 [42138] |
P/O (prob) |
06.11.1939 |
P/O |
13.03.1940 |
F/O |
06.11.1940 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
06.11.1941 |
F/Lt. |
15.08.1946, seniority 01.09.1945 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.01.1949 (retd 29.08.1958) |
|
AFC |
08.06.1950 |
? |
|
Education: Glasgow Academy (?).
18.03.1939 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
18.03.1939 |
- |
01.06.1939 |
No.
11 Elementary & Reserve Flying Training School RAF |
02.06.1939 |
- |
06.11.1939 |
No. 9
Flying Training School RAF (Hullavington) |
07.11.1939 |
- |
16.12.1940 |
245
Squadron RAF (Leconfield, then Hawkinge)
[While on patrol 31.05.1940 in Hurricane Mk.
I (P2732) shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 near Dunkirk. Force-landed and
returned safely to UK by ship.] |
17.12.1940 |
- |
16.11.1941 |
96 Squadron
RAF (Cranage) |
17.11.1941 |
- |
19.07.1942 |
instructor,
60 Operational Training Unit RAF (East Fortune) |
20.07.1942 |
- |
11.09.1942 |
87 Squadron
RAF (Charmy Down) |
12.09.1942 |
- |
24.01.1943 |
536
Squadron RAF (Predannack) |
25.01.1943 |
- |
14.06.1944 |
264
Squadron RAF (Warmwell) [13.03.1943 transferred to reserve, and called up for
air force service] |
15.06.1944 |
- |
01.1946 |
posted to
2nd Division BOAC (Cairo, Egypt) |
01.1946 |
|
|
No. 1
Ferry Unit RAF (Pershore) |
15.08.1946 |
|
|
extended service commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
15.06.1948 |
|
|
permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
Emigrated to Australia, 1964.
Published: Down to earth : a fighter pilot's
experiences of surviving Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Dieppe and D-Day (with
Owen Zupp; 2007) |
McIntosh,
Ian Alexander
Son of Norman Alexander McIntosh and Caroline
Emily Bayly.
Married Betty King McIntosh (09.12.1917 - 28.02.1993); four daughters, one son. |
17.03.1915
-
05.01.1995
[Deepwater General Cemetery, NSW, Australia] |
P/O |
17.01.1939 [40632] |
F/O |
17.08.1940 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
17.08.1941 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.07.1946,
seniority 01.07.1943 |
|
MID |
13.06.1946 |
? |
|
17.01.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
17.01.1942 |
|
|
transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service) |
|
McKenna,
Hugh Walter
"Mac"
Son of Hugh and Mary McKenna.
Married 1st ((09?).1905, Fulham, London) Florence May Sweet (16.05.1884 -
(09?).1910); one son.
Married 2nd (10.07.1918, St John, Worlds End) Helene Lawrence Lallemand (1886 -
).
|
04.10.1886
Paddington district, London
-
21.06.1948
Stagbury House, Chipstead, Surrey Mid Eastern district |
? |
? [07230] |
F/Lt. |
31.12.1920 |
Sq.Ldr. RAFO |
01.04.1929 |
|
DCM |
? |
? |
|
12.12.1928 |
|
|
transferred, Royal Air Force Reserve of Officers
(Class B) |
03.09.1939 |
|
|
recalled to
service |
|
McNair,
Robert Wendell
"Buck"
see: Canadian
air aces & heroes |
15.05.1919 Springfield, NS. Canada - 15.01.1971 |
|
10.1943
|
|
|
Wing Leader Biggin
Hill
|
|
McNeill,
Cameron William
Washington
Post obituary
|
1918 ? Chesley, Ont., Canada -
28.07.2004
Georgetown Residence, Washington, DC, USA
|
P/O
|
27.06.1939
[41043]
|
F/O
|
03.09.1940
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
03.09.1941
(reld 12.06.1944)
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1944
|
W/Cdr. RCAF
|
1950s
|
|
Atl
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
Pac
St
|
?
|
?
|
|
Cor
M
|
1953
|
?
|
|
CD
|
?
|
&
1st clasp
|
|
27.06.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch)
|
(02.1940)
|
|
|
220
Squadron RAF (RAF Thornaby, Tees Bay) (Coastal Command)
[flew the Hudson that first spotted the Altmark on
16.02 1940 (links: book
1, book
2)]
|
27.06.1942
|
|
|
transferred,
Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service)
|
12.06.1944
|
|
|
transferred,
RCAF
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
01.07.1952
|
-
|
15.09.1952
|
Wing
Commander, 19 Wing RCAF (RCAF Station, Comox)
|
09.1952
|
-
|
09.1954
|
Commanding
Officer, 407 Squadron RCAF
|
|
McRae,
Donald Henry Thrower
Married ((12?).1955, Salisbury district,
Wiltshire) ... Myerscough. |
28.05.1920
Islington district, London
-
(12?).1981
Exeter district, Devon |
F/Sgt.
|
?
[580918]
|
P/O (prob)
|
31.10.1941
[47725]
|
(WS) F/O (prob)
|
01.10.1942
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
1943?
|
(WS) Sq.Ldr.
|
31.10.1943
|
F/Lt.
|
29.05.1947,
seniority 01.09.1945
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.01.1954
(retd 28.05.1969)
|
F/O RAFVR
|
12.06.1972
(reld 12.06.1976; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.)
|
|
DFC
|
04.08.1942
|
?
|
|
31.10.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
|
(1942)
|
|
|
88 Squadron
RAF
|
29.05.1947
|
|
|
extended
service commission
|
15.09.1948
|
|
|
permanent
commission
|
12.06.1972
|
|
|
commssioned,
RAFVR (Training Branch)
|
|
Medd,
Joseph
|
?
- |
Sgt. |
? [568452] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
31.12.1941,
seniority 28.10.1941 [47616] |
|
31.12.1941 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF
(Technical Branch) [emergency commission] |
|
Meigh,
Alan Cotton
|
?
-
|
(A) P/O (prob)
|
01.04.1939 [41859]
|
(A) P/O
|
21.10.1939
|
P/O
|
23.01.1940
|
(WS) F/O
|
21.10.1940
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
21.10.1941
|
|
OBE
|
01.01.1976
|
New
Year 76
|
|
01.04.1939
|
|
|
first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
|
?
|
-
|
04.06.1940
|
pilot, 77
Squadron RAF
[Taken off 21.03 hrs at Driffield in his
Whitley V bomber [N1522-G] on an operation against Gelsenkirchen. While flying
over Gent (Belgium) an engine caught fire, and Meigh sent a message saying he
was making for Abbeville (France), but this was quickly followed by a second
signal indicating the crew were bailing out. Captured]
|
04.06.1940
|
-
|
1945?
|
POW (#
2267) in German captivity at Stalag Luft III
|
13.11.1945
|
|
|
transferred
to reserve (dated 23.01.1943) and called up for Air force service
|
Geologist. Managing director, Soil Mechanics, Ltd.
|
Mellor,
Harry Manners
Of Norcott Bembridge, Isle of Wight. |
(06?).1903
St George Hanover Square, London, Surrey
-
26.05.1940 |
|
|
Michelmore,
Arthur Clifford
"Cliff"
|
11.12.1919
Cowes, Isle of Wight
-
17.03.2016
Petersfield, Hampshire |
Sgt. |
?
[568213] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
15.04.1943 [51465] |
P/O (prob) |
29.07.1943 |
(WS)
F/O |
29.01.1944 |
(WS)
F/Lt. |
15.10.1946 (reld 15.03.1949; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.) |
(A) Sq.Ldr. |
? |
|
15.04.1943 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (Technical Branch) [emergency commission] |
TV presenter & producer.
|
Michell,
John Peter
Married ... Ward; ... children (one son?). |
13.03.1915
Argentina ?
-
10.2004
Salisbury district, Wiltshire |
(A) P/O (prob) |
08.03.1937
[39552] |
P/O |
17.12.1938 |
(WS) F/O |
03.09.1940 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
03.09.1941 |
(A) Sq.Ldr. |
(03.1945) |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.07.1945 |
|
MID |
13.06.1946 |
? |
|
08.03.1937 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
21.12.1940 |
|
|
transferred, Royal Air Force Reserve of Officers (and called up for air force
service) |
(03.1945) |
|
|
HQ 23rd (Chindit)
Infantry Brigade |
|
Miller,
Hayden Hugh James
Married (02.1942) Marygold Rix; one son, four
daughters.
|
31.03.1914
Eureka, Auckland
-
07.07.2009
Ashwood Park Retirement Village, Blenheim, New
Zealand
|
(A) P/O (prob)
|
23.03.1940 [43041]
|
P/O (prob)
|
13.07.1940
|
P/O
|
11.09.1940
|
(WS) F/O
|
13.07.1941
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
13.07.1942
|
(A) Sq.Ldr.
|
(1944)
|
(A?) W/Cdr.
|
(1945)
|
|
OBE
|
01.01.1946
|
New
Year 46 *
|
|
DFC
|
06.06.1941
|
**
|
|
AFC
|
08.06.1944
|
***
|
|
MID
|
11.06.1942
|
****
|
|
MID
|
01.01.1943
|
*****
|
|
MID
|
14.01.1944
|
******
|
|
MID
|
14.06.1945
|
*******
|
* Wing Commander Miller has been employed as
the Chief Instructor at this unit [24 OTU RAF (Wellington)] for nearly a year. During this time the
Training Wing has been completely re-organised and has changed its record
within [93] Group from being the Station which had sustained the greatest
number of flying accidents per hour flown, to the Station with the fewest
number of accidents per hour flown. For the first three months of the year no
less than 6,800 hours per accident were flown which was in itself a very
notable achievement. In addition, during one month the Unit achieved top place
in every subject in the Group Order of Merit. This outstanding improvement has
been largely the result of Wing Commander Miller’s self-sacrificing efforts
and devotion to duty. He has always been available at all hours of the day and
night and his efficiency and unstinting application to his work have won the
confidence and respect of all the personnel on the Wing and on the Station.
** This officer has completed numerous operational missions. Throughout these
flights he has displayed great determination and a complete disregard of enemy
opposition. He has attacked many objectives in enemy and enemy occupied
territory with marked success. On one occasion, he completed an operation over
Turin in almost impossible weather conditions. His courage and skill have
inspired confidence in every crew of which he has acted as captain.
*** This officer has been employed as Group flying instructor at this unit [HQ
91 Group RAF] since November, 1943. Previously, as a flying instructor and
flight commander he did outstanding work in No 22 OTU. His new duties, which
he has performed with conspicuous success, entail visiting all Operational
Training Units, where he examines and tests flying instructors and air crews
under training in their various duties, both in the air, by day and night, and
on the ground, paying particular attention to detail. To this work, Squadron
Leader Miller has brought the utmost tact, patience and efficiency. He has
completed a total of 680 hours flying on OTU instructional duties.
**** For meritorious service with 22 OTU RAF (Wellington) as a Flt Lt.
Participated in the first ‘1000’ bomber raids on 30/31 May and 1/2 Jun
1942.
***** For meritorious service with 22 OTU, 91 Group RAF (Wellington), as an
Actg Sqn Ldr.
****** For meritorious service with HQ 91 Group RAF, as a Sqn Ldr.
******* For meritorious service with 24 OTU RAF (Wellington).
|
Teacher at a Hamilton school.
29.08.1939
|
|
|
joined RAF
|
23.03.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
|
11.09.1943
|
|
|
transferred,
Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for Air Force service) [NZ1996
& 132166]
|
22.09.1943
|
-
|
16.12.1946
|
transferred,
RNZAF (Member RNZAF contingent London Victory Parade 08.06.1946)
|
1940
|
-
|
(1941?)
|
77 Squadron
RAF (Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire)
|
05.11.1940
|
|
|
captain
of a Whitley which carried out a solo night attack on Turin, flying through
atrocious weather en-route to and from the target. After flying for over 11
hours they were forced, through lack of fuel, to ditch at sea. The crew were
all picked up, from their dinghy, by an RN trawler 4½ miles off the NE coast
of England [read account]
|
15.12.1940
|
|
|
crash landed Whitley T4138 on the North
Yorkshire Moors
|
|
|
|
spent most of the rest of the war at
bomber units, refining training and maintenance manuals and pilot training
instructions in an attempt to cut hundreds of accidental deaths
|
05.1941
|
-
|
11.1943
|
22 Operational Training Unit
(Wellsbourne)
|
11.1943
|
-
|
1944
|
HQ 91
Group RAF
|
1944
|
-
|
1945
|
24 Operational Training Unit (Wellington)
|
17.08.1950
|
-
|
31.03.1969
|
RNZAF
Reserve
|
|
Milne,
Richard Maxwell
"Dickie" / "Max"
Married 1st ((09?).1940, Hampstead district,
London; marriage dissolved) Josephine Rosemary James; ... children (one
son?).
Married 2nd ((03?).1947, Kensington district, London) Agnes M.C. "Berti"
Hodgson; ... children (one son?). |
1919
Boroughmuirhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
- |
(A) P/O (prob) |
05.09.1937 [40129] |
P/O |
12.07.1938 |
F/O |
12.01.1940 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
12.01.1941 |
F/Lt. |
01.11.1947,
seniority 01.12.1942 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.03.1942 |
(WS) Sqd.Ldr. |
01.05.1943 |
(A) W/Cdr. |
01.1943? |
|
DFC |
30.08.1940 |
* |
|
DFC |
07.11.1941 |
** |
* Flying Officer Milne has personally
destroyed seven enemy aircraft, and seriously damaged a number of others. He
has led his section throughout with skill and courage, and has set an
example to other members of the squadron.
** Acting Squadron Leader Richard Maxwell Milne, D.F.C., after assuming
command ot R.A.F. Squadron No. 92 in September, 1941, led 19 offensive
operations over enemy territory. In the course of these operations, Squadron
Leader Milne destroyed at least three and damaged two enemy aircraft,
bringing his total victories to 11 destroyed, two probably destroyed, and 11
damaged. His leadership has been characterised by dash and good judgment. |
05.09.1937 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
18.09.1937 |
|
|
No.
11 Flying Training School RAF (Wittering) |
07.05.1938 |
|
|
No. 8
Armament Training Station RAf (Evanton) |
|
|
|
151 Squadron
RAF (France) |
09.1941 |
- |
? |
Commanding
Officer, 92 Squadron RAF |
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 222 Squadron RAF (North Weald, Essex) |
01.1943 |
- |
14.03.1943 |
Wing Leader, Biggin
Hill Wing RAF (captured) |
14.03.1943 |
- |
1945? |
POW in
German captivity (12.07.1943 transferred to reserve, and called up for air force
service) |
|
Moloney,
Thomas Francis
|
04.04.1905
-
08.1986
North Dorset, Dorset
|
|
|
|
|
qualified
at specialist signals course
|
|
Montgomery,
Alexander Hutchinson
|
(09?).1904
Winchester, Hampshire
-
|
|
MBE
|
?
|
?
|
|
Education: psa
|
Moody,
William Trevor
Son of William James Moody (1891-1955), and
Elsie Lilian Nehm (1892-1982).
Married ...; ... children (one son?). |
17.07.1921
Bath, Somerset
-
12.05.1992
Sutton, Surrey |
F/Sgt. |
? [572360] |
P/O (prob) |
30.06.1944 [55786] |
(WS) F/O |
30.12.1944 |
|
30.06.1944 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
|
|
|
flew Spitfires in Photo Reconnaissance support |
|
Moon,
Herbert John
Son of ... Moon, and Mary Ellen Moon. |
14.04.1907
Stoke Devonport, Plymouth, Devon
-
(09?).1981
Barnstaple district, Devon |
F/Sgt. |
? [363517] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
31.12.1941, seniority 03.09.1941 [47615] |
P/O (prob) |
21.01.1942, seniority 24.09.1941 |
(WS) F/O (prob) |
01.10.1942, seniority 24.09.1942 |
(T) F/Lt. |
01.01.1944 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
01.04.1945 |
F/Lt. |
17.07.1947, seniority 01.09.1945 (retd
14.04.1962; retaining rank of Sq.Ldr.) |
|
31.12.1941 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF
(Technical Branch) [emergency commission] |
17.07.1947 |
|
|
extended service commission |
06.05.1952 |
|
|
permanent commission |
|
More,
James Winter Carmichael
"Hank"
Son of Dr. John More and Mabel Winter More.
|
(09?).1910
Kettering district, Northamptonshire
-
12.09.1944
(KIA) [age 34]
[Singapore Memorial, column 431]
|
Flight Cadet
|
?
|
P/O
|
26.07.1930 [26161]
|
F/O
|
26.01.1932
|
F/Lt.
|
26.01.1936
|
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.10.1938
|
(A) W/Cdr.
|
08.08.1940
|
(T) W/Cdr.
|
01.12.1940
|
Gp.Capt.
|
?
|
|
OBE
|
?
|
?
|
|
DFC
|
30.07.1940
|
?
|
|
Education: RAF College, Cranwell
26.07.1930
|
|
|
first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch)
|
04.1940
|
-
|
08.1940
|
CO 73
Squadron RAF (France, Battle of Britain)
|
|
Morgan,
Whitworth Archibald Cecil
Married (19.04.1936, Baghdad, Iraq) Pamela M.
Hodgson, daughter of Col. & Mrs P.E. Hodgson, of Charterhouse. |
13.05.1894
Pill, near Bristol, Bedminster district,
Gloucestershire
-
25.10.1975
Pavenham, Bedford district, Bedfordshire |
2nd Lt. |
1915 |
Lt. |
01.01.1917 |
F/O |
28.10.1915 |
F/Cdr. (& A/Capt.) |
30.10.1916 |
F/Lt. |
? |
Sq.Ldr. |
12.12.1928 |
W/Cdr. |
01.07.1935 |
Gp.Capt. |
01.01.1939 (retd
13.07.1940) |
|
MBE |
01.01.1961 |
New Year 61: Divisional Accident Prevention
Organiser, Eastern Division, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents |
|
MC |
27.07.1916 |
France * |
|
BWM
14|20 |
- |
- |
|
VM |
- |
- |
* For conspicuous gallantry and skill. With
other pilots he attacked an enemy reconnaissance of nine machines. Under
heavy machine-gun fire he got within twenty yards of one of them, shot the
Observer and brought the machine down in our lines. |
Education: Lancing College; Royal Military College,
Sandhurst.
1915 |
|
|
commissioned, The Welsh Regiment (gained aviator's licence (No. 1950), taken on
a Maurice Farman Biplane at the Military School, Farnborough, 07.10.1915) |
28.10.1915 |
|
|
seconded, Royal Flying Corps |
30.10.1916 |
|
|
Flight Commander, RFC |
01.04.1918 |
|
|
temporary commission, Royal Flying Corps (wounded) |
01.08.1919 |
|
|
permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
? |
- |
17.07.1922 |
Instrument Design Establishment (Inland Area) |
17.07.1922 |
- |
16.10.1922 |
RAF
Depot (Inland Area) (supernumerary) |
16.10.1922 |
|
|
specialized in photographic duties, School of Photography (Inland Area)
(supernumerary) |
09.04.1923 |
|
|
No. 1
Flying Training School (Netheravon) |
21.09.1926 |
|
|
HQ
RAF Iraq |
09.03.1929 |
- |
12.1929 |
School of Photography (South Farnborough) |
30.12.1929 |
- |
15.01.1932 |
10
(Bomber) Squadron RAF (Upper Heyford, then Boscombe Down) (for flying duties) |
28.01.1932 |
- |
1934? |
photographic officer, No. 22 Group RAF (South Farnborough) |
10.10.1934 |
- |
07.11.1936 |
HQ
RAF Iraq (Hinaidi) (for photographic duties, later as Senior Personnel Staff
Officer) |
14.12.1936 |
|
|
Commanding Officer, RAF Station Lympne |
26.09.1938 |
|
|
Commanding Officer, RAF Station Upper Heyford |
? |
- |
? |
? |
|
Morgan-Weld-Smith,
Reginald Gilbert Squarey
Changed last name from Morgan-Smith to Morgan-Weld-Smith by deed poll of
28.11.1938.
Son of Reginald Morgan [from 1938 Weld-]Smith (1875-1964), and Mita Drinkwater
Carver (1882-1962), of Seend, Wiltshire.
Married (18.07.1936, All Saints' Church, Marden, Devizes district, Wiltshire) Joan Margaret
Niven (? - 07.06.1993), of Strathblane, Stirlingshire, second daughter of Mr &
Mrs Charles H. Niven, of Marden Grange, Devizes, Wiltshire [she remarried
09.09.1944 Lt.Col. Alastair
Stevenson Pearson, The Parachute Regiment]; two daughters. |
27.05.1911
Staines district, Middlesex
-
01.08.1940
(KIA) [age 29]
[St Pierre-en-Port Communal Cemetery, France] |
P/O |
10.10.1932,
seniority 10.10.1931 [05224] |
F/O |
10.04.1933 |
F/Lt. |
10.04.1936 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.12.1938 |
(A) W/Cdr.
|
? |
|
MID |
01.01.1941 |
?
(since reported missing) |
|
Education: BA (Cantab.).
10.10.1932 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
|
|
|
...
(Army Co-operation) Squadron RAF |
03.04.1935 |
|
|
Headquarters, Inland Area, Stanmore (Personal Assistant to Air Marshal Sir
Charles Burnett) |
27.04.1936 |
- |
12.07.1936 |
Flying Instructors Course, Central Flying School (Category B) |
13.07.1936 |
|
|
RAF
College, Cranwell |
01.06.1937 |
|
|
614
(County of Glamorgan) Squadron RAuxAF |
12.1938 |
|
|
air
staff at HQ of an Army-Co-operation Group |
? |
- |
01.08.1940 |
Commanding
Officer, 59 Squadron RAF
[His Blenheim L8792 "A" had taken
off from Thorney Island and failed to return from an attack on Cherbourg; for
details see KentFallen
(under P/O D.H. Davis). His body washed ashore 22.08.1940 at St Pierre en
Port, France.] |
|
Morison,
Robert Brian
|
07.12.1920
-
12.03.2007
Richmond, Surrey
|
(A) P/O (prob)
|
23.12.1939 [33516]
|
...
|
...
|
Gp.Capt.
|
01.07.1959 (retd
31.07.1965)
|
|
DFC
|
?
|
?
|
|
AFC
|
?
|
?
|
|
23.012.1939
|
|
|
first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch)
|
|
Mortimer,
Edward Patrick
biography
(with photos) at Clifton Rugby Football Club website
|
17.03.1911
-
07.08.1940
[Bury Cemetery, Huntingdonshire, row B, grave 21]
|
(A) P/O (prob)
|
23.01.1936,
seniority 20.01.1936 [37521]
|
P/O
|
18.11.1936
|
F/O
|
18.05.1938
|
F/Lt.
|
18.05.1940
|
|
23.01.1936
|
|
|
first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
|
? |
-
|
07.08.1940
|
killed in a
flying accident
[pilot of a Blenheim MkIV P4902 that
stalled and spun into the ground near Cranfield on the evening of 7th August
1940]
|
|
Morton,
John Edward Stewart
|
?
- |
P/O |
17.01.1940 [36245] |
(WS) F/O |
17.01.1941 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
17.01.1942 |
(WS)
Sq.Ldr. |
21.03.1943
(transferred to reserve, and called up for air force service 17.01.1945) |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.1947, seniority
01.09.1945 |
W/Cdr. |
01.07.1947 |
Gp.Capt. |
01.07.1956 (retd
03.07.1965) |
|
DFC |
05.01.1943 |
* |
|
MID |
01.01.1945 |
? |
* This officer has taken part in many sorties
in the Mediterranean area, including attacks on Sicily, Bizerta and Tunis;
he has also participated in sorties over Germany. In November, 1942, in a
raid on Bizerta docks, Squadron Leader Morton had to attack from an
extremely low level owing to thick cloud over the target area. In spite of
heavy opposing fire he pressed home his mission and all his bombs fell on
important objectives. In December, 1942, he successfully bombed a merchant
ship. This officer is an outstanding pilot whose courage and determination
have set a splendid example. |
17.01.1940 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties
Branch) [short service commission] |
(1942) |
|
|
40 Squadron RAF (DFC) |
17.01.1945 |
|
|
Reserve of
Air Force Officers |
01.1947 |
|
|
permanent commission |
|
Morton,
Richard Henry
|
31.05.1913
-
14.06.1983
West Clandon, Guildford, Surrey South Western district |
(A) P/O (prob) |
05.08.1939 [42422] |
P/O (prob) |
06.04.1940 |
P/O |
12.06.1940 |
(WS) F/O |
06.04.1941 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
05.02.1942 |
F/Lt. |
09.05.1946
28.02.1947, seniority 01.01.1943 (reld 31.05.1958; retaining rank of
Sq.Ldr.) |
|
AFC |
01.01.1942 |
? |
|
05.08.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties
Branch) [short service commission] |
07.1940 |
- |
09.1940 |
226
Squadron RAF (flying Battles & Demons) |
10.1940 |
- |
05.1941 |
150
Squadron RAF (flying Battles & Wellingtons) |
06.1941 |
- |
08.1943 |
Chief
Gunnery Instructor, 23 Operation Training Unit RAF (Pershore) (AFC) (flying
Wellingtons, Tiger Moths, Manchesters & Lancasters)
[1000
bomber raid to Cologne on 31/05/42 - shot down a JU88 on his birthday; 06.1943
BAT course at Stanton Harcourt] |
08.08.1943 |
- |
02.1944 |
hospitalised |
02.1944 |
- |
10.1945 |
Air
Ministry |
12.06.1945 |
|
|
transferred
to reserve (and called up for air force service) |
09.05.1946 |
|
|
extended service commission |
07.11.1946 |
|
|
transferred to Class C |
17.05.1949 |
|
|
transferred from Class C to Class A |
|
Moseby,
William George
Son of ... Moseby, and ... Bowman.
Married ...; ... children (one son?). |
16.06.1914
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
24.05.2000
Mid Devon district, Devon |
(A) P/O (prob) |
30.09.1935 [37327] |
P/O |
? |
F/O |
06.02.1938 |
(A) F/Lt. |
06.02.1939-02.09.1939 |
F/Lt. |
06.02.1940 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.03.1941 |
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
26.06.1942 |
Sq.Ldr. |
26.03.1946,
seniority 01.09.1945
25.02.1947, seniority 01.06.1944 |
(A) W/Cdr. |
26.03.1942 |
(T) W/Cdr. |
01.06.1942 |
(WS) W/Cdr. |
19.04.1944 |
W/Cdr. |
01.07.1948,
seniority 01.07.1947 |
(A) Gp.Capt. |
19.10.1943 |
Gp.Capt. |
01.07.1957 (retd
16.06.1964) |
|
DSO |
30.11.1943 |
? |
|
DFC |
20.08.1943 |
? |
|
MID |
01.01.1943 |
? |
|
DFC(US) |
13.09.1949 |
? [awarded 15.08.1944] |
|
30.09.1935 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short
service commission] |
06.08.1941 |
|
|
Reserve of
Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service) |
(1940) |
|
|
40 Squadron
RAF |
(1943) |
|
|
153
Squadron RAF (DSO, DFC) |
26.03.1946 |
|
|
permanent commission |
|
Moulton-Barrett,
Edward Selwyn
|
29.11.1895
India
-
(03?).1967
Newton Abbot district, Devon |
Sq.Ldr.
|
01.04.1935
|
(WS) W/Cdr.
|
28.07.1942
|
(A) Gp.Capt.
|
? (retd 29.01.1946)
|
|
01.04.1918
|
|
|
first
commission RAF
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Mounsdon,
Maurice Hewlett
|
11.02.1918
Lichfield
-
06.12.2019 |
(A) P/O |
23.10.1939 [42871] |
P/O (prob) |
17.05.1940 |
P/O |
24.08.1940 |
(WS) F/O |
17.05.1941 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
17.05.1942 |
|
23.10.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
03.06.1940 |
- |
31.08.1940 |
56 Squadron
RAF |
|
Mulford,
William Edwin
Son of George Edwin William Mulford
(1881-1946), and Laurie Emma Harrington (1881?-1958).
Married ((09?).1938, Hendon district, Middlesex) Elsie Winifred Norman (18.06.1914 -
12.1984),
of Ramsgate, Kent; two sons. |
01.09.1914
Wealdstone, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
12.06.1943
(KIA) [age 28]
[Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery, the Netherlands, collective grave 2.AA.11-12] |
(A) P/O (prob) |
16.04.1935 [37202] |
P/O |
16.04.1936 |
F/O |
16.11.1937 |
(A) F/Lt. |
01.06.1939 |
F/Lt. |
16.11.1939 |
(T)Sq.Ldr. |
01.12.1940 |
|
16.04.1935 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF
(General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
16.04.1935 |
|
|
RAF
Station Uxbridge |
04.03.1936 |
|
|
58
(Bomber) Squadron RAF |
12.07.1937 |
- |
(05.1939) |
No.
10 Flying Training School (Ternhill) |
|
|
|
50 Squadron
RAF |
23.11.1942 |
- |
12.06.1943 |
pilot ("A"
Flight Commander), 431 (RCAF) Squadron (Burn, Yorkshire)
[Wellington X HE 392 SE-L took off at 23.25
hrs 11.06.1943 for an operation against Düsseldorf. Crashed 02:46 hrs at Zijpe,
the Netherlands, being shot down by a Me110 from Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.] |
|
Mulligan,
Allen Roy
|
23.02.1915
Bingara, NSW, Australia
-
|
P/O
|
26.08.1937 [40058]
|
F/O
|
26.05.1939
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
03.09.1940
|
F/Lt. RAAF
|
02.10.1945 (reld
05.06.1946)
|
|
DFC
|
24.09.1940
|
*
[investiture by Governor-General at Sydney, 24.03.47]
|
|
MID
|
13.06.1946
|
?
[Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 07.04.1949]
|
* One night in August, 1940, this officer
carried out a successful low-flying attack from 150 feet on the Dortmund-Ems
Canal. He displayed the utmost skill, determination, courage and devotion to
duty in pressing home his attack, in spite of intense opposition from the
ground and a knowledge of the reception that would be awaiting him over this
area. Flight Lieutenant Mulligan has carried out a total of twenty-three
operational flights and has at all times set an excellent example to other
pilots by his enthusiasm, keenness and courage. His work as an operational
pilot has been outstanding.
|
15.07.1936
|
|
|
enlisted
|
26.08.1937
|
|
|
first
commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
|
?
|
-
|
12.08.1940
|
pilot, 83 Squadron RAF
[Taken off from Scamton with his Hampden P4340 OL- to attack targets along the
Dortmund-Ems Canal. As he plunged through the curtain of tracers
and shells his port engine was hit by Flak and exploded into flames. Jettisoning his
bomb load quickly, Mulligan climbed swiftly to 2,000ft and then ordered his
crew to bale out. As the last man left the stricken bomber, Mulligan followed
and saw his aircraft dive into the ground and explode. Taken prisoner near
Mesum on the west bank of the Ems River, 7 km SSE of Rheine, Germany.]
|
12.08.1940
|
-
|
1945?
|
POW (# 166)
in German captivity at Stalag Luft III
|
11.07.1944
|
|
|
transferred
to reserve (dated 26.08.1942) and called up for Air Force service
|
02.10.1945
|
|
|
commission
relinquisehd (dated 27.08.1942) on appointment to RAAF
|
05.06.1946
|
|
|
discharged from Central Flying School
|
|
Mullineaux,
James John
Son of James Mullineaux, and Violet Ann J. Bamford
(1889-1978).
Married ((06?).1940, Newmarket district,
Cambridgeshire) Emma Eva M. Chapman (22.08.1920 - 02.1984); three children. |
09.05.1918
Erdington, Birmingham, Aston district, Warwickshire
-
05.09.1978
Newmarket, Cambridgeshire |
Aircraftman 1st class |
? [547644] |
P/O (prob) |
24.08.1942
[49699] |
(WS) F/O (prob) |
24.02.1943 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
24.08.1944 |
F/Lt. |
01.11.1947,
seniority 24.02.1946 |
|
DFM |
16.01.1940 |
* |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
AirCrEur |
- |
- |
|
Def
M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
* This aircraftman was rear gunner in an aircraft
of a formation which carried out operations over an enemy naval base in
December, 1939. In spite of heavy enemy anti-aircraft fire and repeated
attacks he displayed great courage and coolness, bringing down, by his
well-controlled and accurate marksmanship, one enemy fighter in flames and, in
conjunction with his under turret gunner, destroying a second aircraft. |
(12.1939) |
|
|
B Flight,
149 Squadron RAF
[tail gunner in the Wellington that was
later fished out of Loch Ness] |
24.08.1942 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
? |
- |
28.08.1942 |
101
Squadron RAF
[his Wellington bomber X3391 SR-A took off from Stradishall and crash-landed, due to technical trouble, apx. 40 km NW of
Mannheim; captured] |
03.09.1942 |
- |
02.05.1945 |
prisoner of
war (in Dulag Luft, then Stalag 344 09.1942-08.1944, then Stalag Luft III
08.1944-04.1945; liberated at Lubeck; PoW No. 26833) |
|
Covering
remarks of the A.O.C.: ‘This is the second occasion in which the above-mentioned
Air Gunner has been instrumental in destroying enemy aircraft. On both occasions
he has shown exemplary coolness and courage, and has maintained a
well-controlled and accurate fire. On the first occasion his support fire
against an enemy aircraft attacking another member of his formation largely
contributed to its destruction.’
James John Mullineaux,
a native of Erdington, Birmingham, was born in May 1918 and, after ‘a third try
at factory life convinced him that he was not cut out for that kind of life’,
joined the Royal Air Force in 1937. An A.C. 1 by the outbreak of hostilities, he
volunteered for duties as an Air Gunner, and was posted to No. 149 Squadron, a
Wellington unit operating out of Mildenhall, Suffolk. The unit’s first
operational sortie of the War was carried out on 3 September 1939, when three of
its Wellingtons carried out an armed reconnaissance of the North Sea, while on
the following day its first bombing mission was flown against enemy warships at
Brunsbuttel - and Mullineaux flew in Squadron Leader P. I. Harris’ aircraft on
the latter occasion, although an alternative target near Tonning was attacked.
Indeed Mullineaux went on to complete numerous sorties before ending his first
operational tour in June 1940, one of the most memorable of which was the above
cited daylight attack on enemy shipping at Wilhelmshaven on 18 December 1939: it
was to prove a very costly affair, the Wellingtons of 9, 37 and 149 Squadrons
running into no less than four crack Luftwaffe fighter squadrons - of the enemy
pilots who took part in the action, eight later won the Knight’s Cross, four
added Oakleaves, three Swords and two Diamonds.
Fortunately for posterity’s sake, Mullineaux’s own account of this epic sortie
was published in Robin Holmes’ history of “R for Robert”, One of Our Aircraft:
‘About five minutes flying time from the harbour we encountered heavy, accurate
flak which soon forced the formation to open up. In we went straight and level
for about ten minutes, the flak getting heavier and more accurate. I could feel
bursts and very soon the whole sky seemed full of black puffs. I was sure one
would find its mark and blow us clean out of the air. Luck was with us, we did
not get hit and very soon altered course and headed out to sea on a reciprocal
course. This was our bombing run. It was during this run that I first saw little
black specks on the horizon and within seconds, as it were, I recognized them as
Me. 109s and Me. 110s. Our bombing run completed, the fighters came in to attack
and very soon the whole sky seemed full of them. I estimated their strength to
be about 100. I called frantically “Fighters!” Immediately Austin took up
position in the mid under turret and Pilot Officer Innes [the 2nd Pilot] went to
the astrodome. We had not long to wait before the first fighter came in to
attack our aircraft. It was an Me. 110. Innes was first to see it. In he came
and I could see his machine-guns blazing away. I opened fire at 300 yards and
continued to fire until he broke away at 20 yards. No sooner had he broken than
another attack took place and this continued throughout the engagement. During
the short spells I looked around the sky and could see our bombers going down in
flames. This had a great effect on me as I had been pumping bullets into the
attacking aircraft and did not seem to get any results. Another fighter came up
and no sooner had it attacked and I opened up than it seemed to blow up. My
bullets had found their mark. The captain shouted “Good show, Mullineaux.” That
was all I needed. I got stuck in with added zest and it was not long before the
second went down. He came dead astern. I opened up at 400 yards. The Mid-Under
Gunner was also firing at him and between us we blew the aircraft out of the
air. Other attacks came again and again. I could hear the Front Gunner firing
over the inter-com and he too shot one down. But after a while my ammunition ran
out. I called frantically to the captain for more. He sent the 2nd Pilot down
but in his excitement he opened the door of my turret and simply threw it at me.
The result was that I had no assistance to load both guns. I did however manage
to get one gun going after a while and throughout the rest of the engagement I
kept it going and with the aid of the Mid-Under Gunner kept most of the fighters
from firing accurately at us, from astern ... ’
Not mentioned by Mullineaux is the fact he and his crew witnessed Wellington N.
2961 ditching in the sea on the way home, or that their dinghy became entangled
in the tail-plane when it was released to assist the downed airmen - an
emergency landing thus ensued at Coltishall. He was awarded an immediate D.F.M.,
the relevant recommendation also noting that he had already contributed to the
destruction of another enemy aircraft. A day or two following the 18 December
raid, Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, the C.-in-C. Bomber Command,
arrived at Mildenhall to hear the full story, one eye witness recalling:
‘This was quite an occasion. Our A.O.C., Baldwin, the Station Commander, Franky
Coleman, Kellett, and others all crowded into Kellett’s office while
Ludlow-Hewitt, surrounded by a galaxy of Staff Officers, asked questions. Star
turn, Aircraftsman First Class, Jimmy Mullineaux, was brought in so that the
C.-in-C., Ludlow-Hewitt, could talk to this hero, which indeed he was (I was
very proud of him), but after a time it was all too much for him; the eminent
“Brass Hats”, the questioning and the Braid so affected him that my highly
strung, modest, little Jimmy suddenly said, full of courtesy and respect to the
last, “May I faint please,” which he promptly did, into the arms of Sandy Innes,
who carried him out. He was but an A.C. 1 and very young, one of the first
D.F.Ms of the War’ (One of Our Aircraft refers).
On 2 January 1940, Mullineaux claimed another brace of enemy aircraft - ‘one
certain and one probable’ - when his Wellington was attacked by a formation of
Me. 110s during a reconnaissance patrol. Nonetheless, his pilot was compelled to
make ‘his escape by diving at full throttle to sea-level’: the two remaining
Wellingtons in their formation were less fortunate, both being shot down.
Mullineaux remained operational with No. 149 until the end of June 1940,
regularly flying in the crew of Squadron Leader Harris, and, on a strike against
Aalborg aerodrome on the night of 20-21 April, in the company of his C.O., Wing
Commander R. Kellett, D.F.C., A.F.C., who was aboard for the ride - a
combination of heavy anti-aircraft fire and the brightness of the searchlights
prevented them from finding their exact target. And with the advent of the
invasion of the Low Countries in May, No. 149 was detailed to attack Waalhaven
aerodrome, in addition to mounting a strike against the bridges on the Meuse,
when Mullineaux’s ‘aircraft [was] damaged by enemy action’. Further attacks on
enemy troop movements ensued in June, but tragedy struck on the final sortie of
his first operational tour, on the 11th, when a member of groundcrew was
instantly killed by one of his Wellington’s propellers as it returned to
dispersal after a sortie against road communications at Soissans.
Posted to a conversion unit at Waterbeach at the end of the same month,
Mullineaux was “rested” until being commissioned as a Pilot Officer, soon after
which he returned to an operational footing with No. 101 Squadron, another
Wellington unit, based at Bourn in Cambridgeshire, in July 1942. Thus ensued no
less than four sorties to Duisberg, in addition to strikes against Bremen,
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kassel, Saarbrucken and Wilhelmshaven.
But on the night of 28-29 August 1942, when detailed to attack Nuremburg, his
Wellington developed mechanical failure and his pilot was compelled to make a
crash-landing 40 kilometres N.W. of Mannheim - the crew scrambled clear as the
aircraft was enveloped in flames. In his subsequent P.O.W’s “debrief”,
Mullineaux stated that he was slightly wounded on the same occasion, and was
captured at Landotan on 3 September 1942, thereby suggesting that he managed to
evade for a few days.
Having then been briefly detained in Frankfurt, he was incarcerated in Stalag
344 at Lamsdorf until August 1944, when he was transferred to Stalag Luft III at
Sagan, scene of the “Great Escape”. He also stated that on one occasion he
exchanged identities with an Army Private and escaped from a working party on a
railway, but was recaptured at Stettin by a Dock Policeman. Possibly this was
the occasion that he was on the run for three months, passing himself off as a
Walloon. If so, he ultimately fell foul of the Gestapo, ‘who beat him so
severely that finally he shouted in German, “Stop it. I’m a British officer.”
Instantly the Gestapo interrogators snapped to attention and saluted him’ (Robin
Holmes’ history, One of Our Aircraft, refers).
Mullineaux, who had been advanced to Flight Lieutenant in August 1944, was
finally liberated at Lubeck in May 1945, but ‘suffered a series of nervous
breakdowns resulting from the treatment he had received as a P.O.W.’; sold with
an original wartime newspaper cutting reporting the award of his D.F.M.,
together with a copy of Robin Holmes’ history, One of Our Aircraft. |
Mullins,
Alfred George
"Fred"
Son of Robert Mullins, and Rosina Elizabeth
Hurn.
Married (1945) Audrey May Downing; three sons, one daughter.
|
04.03.1922
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
15.08.2008
|
Acm. 2nd cl.
|
09.08.1939
[652352]
|
Acm. 1st cl.
|
24.02.1940
|
Ldg.Acm.
|
01.08.1940
|
(T) Sgt.
|
22.11.1942
|
(T) F/Sgt.
|
23.11.1943
|
P/O (prob)
|
09.12.1943 [54153]
|
P/O
|
09.06.1944,
seniority 09.12.1943
|
(WS) F/O
|
09.06.1944
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
09.12.1945 (reld
04.02.1946) (Emgcy List reld 01.07.1959; retaining rank of F/Lt.)
|
|
DFM
|
14.09.1943
|
*
|
* On every sortie, even over the most dangerous
targets, the skilful handling of the engines displayed by Sergeant Mullins has
given his pilot complete confidence. He has taken part in raids on Belrin and
in the 'round trip' raids on Friedrichshafen and Spezia. On many missions,
this airman's work has called for special mention by his captain. His ability
and devotion to duty have been highly praiseworthy.
|
09.08.1939
|
|
|
enlisted
RAF (rated as Aircraft Hand, then Fitter Mechanic, then Fitter II E)
|
09.08.1939
|
-
|
10.09.1939
|
No. 1 Depot
RAF (Uxbridge)
|
10.09.1939
|
-
|
08.12.1939
|
3
(Training) Wing RAF (Cosford)
|
08.12.1939
|
-
|
12.07.1941
|
No. 6
Flying Training School RAF
|
12.07.1941
|
-
|
15.08.1941
|
455 (RAAF)
Squadron (Swinderby)
|
15.08.1941
|
-
|
16.10.1941
|
No. 3
School of Technical Training RAF (Blackpool)
|
16.10.1941
|
-
|
30.07.1942
|
408
Squadron RAF (Lindholme)
|
30.07.1942
|
-
|
21.09.1942
|
422
Squadron RAF
|
21.09.1942
|
-
|
04.12.1942
|
No. 4
School of Technical Training RAF (St Athan)
|
04.12.1942
|
-
|
03.02.1943
|
1660
Conversion Unit RAF (Swinderby)
|
03.02.1943
|
-
|
23.07.1943
|
61 Squadron
RAF (Flight Engineer on 30 operations in aircrafts QR-Q & PR-l)
|
23.07.1943
|
-
|
29.03.1945
|
81
Operational Training Unit RAF
|
09.12.1943
|
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch)
[emergency commission]
|
29.03.1945
|
-
|
12.04.1945
|
School of
Air-Sea Rescue RAF (Calshot)
|
29.08.1945
|
-
|
02.10.1945
|
No. 4
School of Technical Training RAF (St Athan)
|
02.10.1945
|
-
|
04.02.1946
|
1380
(Training) Conversion Unit RAF
|
04.02.1946
|
|
|
released
from No. 100 Personnel Dispersal Centre RAF
|
|
Mundy,
John Douglas
|
14.05.1919
-
25.05.2006
Hull, East Yorkshire |
(A) P/O (prob) |
23.01.1939 |
P/O (prob) |
21.10.1939 |
P/O |
23.01.1940 |
F/O |
21.10.1940 |
(WS) F/Lt. |
21.10.1941 |
F/Lt. |
25.02.1947,
seniority 01.12.1942 |
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.04.1946,
seniority 01.07.1945 |
Sq.Ldr. |
01.08.1947 (retd
14.05.1958) |
|
DFC |
11.02.1941 |
? |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
AirCrEur |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
23.01.1939 |
|
|
commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
(01.1940) |
- |
(04.1940) |
pilot, 101
Squadron RAF |
(1941) |
|
|
pilot, 83
Squadron RAF (DFC) |
? |
- |
28.09.1941 |
pilot, 49
Squadron RAF
[Hampden AD733. 28/29 September, 1941; Target
Frankfurt: With a gap of nearly two weeks since the previous operation, 49
Squadron was asked to provide 14 Hampdens for a small scale attack on Frankfurt.
4 aircraft were scrubbed from the trip, and just before take-off a fifth
suffered tail wheel collapse at the taxiing point. At 22.50hrs the squadron
started to launch the first of 9 aircraft. Of the aircraft that reached the
target area, 4 bombed successfully and 2 had to abort their attempts. Of the 30
Hampdens and 14 Wellingtons dispatched on the raid, 1 Wellington and 1 Hampden
failed to return; the missing Hampden was that piloted by F/Lt Mundy DFC (AD733)
from 49 Squadron. The cause of this loss has not been established, but happy to
say the crew survived to become POW's.] |
28.09.1941 |
- |
1945 |
POW (No.
656) in German captivity (Stalag Luft I & Luft III) |
23.01.1943 |
|
|
transferred
to reserve (and claled up for air force service) |
23.05.1946 |
|
|
extended service commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
16.02.1949 |
|
|
permanent commission, RAF (General Duties Branch) |
Paediatrician. LRCPI & LM, LRCSI & LM 1965,
MFCM 1974, DPH Liverpool 1970, DCH RCPSI 1968 (RCSI). Member, British
Medical Association & Hull Medical Society. |
Murchie,
Ian Thomas Alexander
|
11.12.1922
-
05.2007 still alive at Mt. Eliza,
Vict., Australia |
Cpl.
|
?
[573954]
|
(A) P/O (prob)
|
15.04.1943
[51464]
|
P/O (prob)
|
29.07.1943
|
P/O
|
29.01.1944
|
(WS) F/O
|
29.01.1944
|
(WS) F/Lt.
|
29.01.1947
02.03.1948, seniority 15.10.1946
|
F/O
|
24.07.1947,
seniority 29.07.1944
|
F/Lt.
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25.07.1947,
seniority 29.01.1947
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Sq.Ldr.
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01.01.1954
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W/Cdr.
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01.01.1960
(retd 22.06.1968; own request)
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1936/37
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22.06.1968
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RAF
service, initially serving in the ranks; stationed in England, Africa, South America, United States (were he worked at the Jet Propulsion
Lab) and Singapore
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15.04.1943
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commissioned,
RAF (Technical Branch, later Engineering Branch) [emergency commission]
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24.07.1947
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extended
service commission
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16.10.1948
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permanent
commission
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MSc, MIMechE, FRAeS, DCAe.
Worked for The Swire Group at HECO (Hong Kong Engineering Company) attaining the
position of General Manager, finally retiring from there in 1981-2.
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Muschamp,
George Allen Rodolphe
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1898 ?
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(12?).1956
Aylesbury district, Buckinghamshire |
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qualified
at specialist engineering course; additionally qualified at university course
in engineering; qualified by examination as interpreter
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