J. Sawyers
PO Sawyers J Reported as KIA but no entry found on CWGC. Trinidad Guardian 12 Mar 1942 quoting 22nd List of West India Committee Circular, listed as KIA, RAF, Bahamas. Possibly POW?
PO Sawyers J Reported as KIA but no entry found on CWGC. Trinidad Guardian 12 Mar 1942 quoting 22nd List of West India Committee Circular, listed as KIA, RAF, Bahamas. Possibly POW?
Aircrew PO Thomas James, LOTHIAN
Service No: J92380 Service: RCAF
Trade/Branch: Air Gnr Squadron(s): 622 Sqn
Station/Unit/Ship: RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Group: 3 Command: Bomber
Nationality: Bahamas Disposal: KIA Age 26 yrs Date Died: 12 Feb 1945
Aircraft 3: Lancaster GI-?
Bob Baxter’s Bomber Command has no Lancaster Raids for 10-12 Feb 1945
Buried At: Brookwood Military Cemetery
Grave/Memorial : 56.H.3
Next of Kin: Son of Albert J. Lothian and Mary H. Lothian, of Fort Charlotte Heights, Nassau, Bahamas.
[Source(s): cwgc - courtesy Jerome Lee]
Aircrew Flt Lt Warren Maurice, LIGHTBOURN
Service No: 119573 Service: RAFVR
Trade/Branch: Pilot Squadron(s): 610 Sqn
Station/Unit/Ship: B.78 Eindhoven
Group: 127 Wing Command: 2TAF
Nationality: Bahamas Disposal: KIA Age 25 yrs Date Died: 14 Feb 1945
Aircraft 1: Spitfire XIV DW-?
was at Bolt Head in July 1943. He was killed on 14th February 1945 aged 25. Destroyed ½ Flying Bomb. Flew as No 2 to Freddie Crewe. Lightbourn and Freddie Crewe were Squadron representatives at wedding of Sousse Venesoen in Anglesey. Flew from Bolt Head in Tiger Moth on 1st August returning to Bolt Head on 2nd. Winds so strong that trains were overtaking the Tiger on return journey. On 14 Feb 1945, a 610 Sqn pilot downed a Me 262.
Buried At: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Grave/Memorial : 1.A.15
Next of Kin: Son of Maurice S. and Ida L. Lightbourn, of Nassau, Bahamas.
[Source(s): cwgc; 610squadron.com, rafcommands - courtesy Jerome Lee]
382324 – J. Maura – Bahamas – attested 25.11.40 – F/L Pilot
109493 – commissioned 22.10.42 – S(erious?) inj(ured?) 27.2.42
[Source: NA AIR 2/6876 - Nominal Roll of Coloured Candidates, October 1944]
Aircrew FS Frank Alfred Conway, MACAULEY
Service No: R65534 Service: RCAF
Trade/Branch: W.Op/ Air Gnr.
Nationality: Bahamas
Disposal: KIA Age 22 yrs Date Died: 16 Sep 1942
Buried At: Bexhill Cemetery
Grave/Memorial : Div. Q. Sec. E. Row A. Grave 1.
Next of Kin: Son of Timothy A. Macauley, and Margaret C. Macauley, of Nassau, Bahamas.
[Source: CWGC]
George Winthrop Sargent, MOSELEY – F/L
Service No: 114927 Service: RAF Pilot, 305 (Polish) Sq
Nationality: Bahamas
Disposal: KIA – Age 25 yrs – Date Died: 26 Nov 1944
Buried At: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Grave/Memorial : Joint grave 12. D. 13-14.
Next of Kin: Son of Daniel Sargent Darling Moseley and Myrtle Howard Moseley, of Nassau, Bahamas.
[Source: CWGC]
1398262 – Sergeant – 78 Sqn – KIA 12/6-1943 (at 28) – Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK
[Source: CG, CWGC]