J/88359 - P/O - Oscar Leonard Harrington Harding - air bomber 433 Squadron - KIA 25/02/1944
RCAF Casualty List 1033 shows P/O Harding as hailing from Georgetown, British Guiana
Chorley’s 1944 BCL shows him as aircrew on a 433 Sqn Halifax lost on Schweinfurt 24/25 February, 1944
[Source: CWGC, RCAF Casuality List 1033, Chorleys’s; courtesy Alieneyes]
R/95750 - Desmond Michael De Silva - W/O - 218 Squadron - KIA 24/08/1943
[Sources: CWGC and RCAF Casualty List 0918 and Chorley’s; courtesy Alieneyes]
W/O De Silva DFM shows up with parents in Flushing, NY. RCAF Casualty List 0918, however, shows W/O Desmond Michael De Silva DFM as being from Georgetown, British Guiana.
CWGC says 218 Squadron but Chorleys has him lost as a rear gunner on a Stirling from No. 623 Squadron. Both list him as an American from Flushing Meadows, NY City.
RCAF Casualty List 0918 and Chorley’s
67642 - Thomas Reader Russel Wood - F/O - Pilot - 115 sqn - Welington - KIA 3.6.1942
WOOD Initials: T R Nationality: British Guiana Rank: Pilot Officer Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Sunday Guardian 14 June 1942:- PO T R Wood, son of the Hon’ble B R Wood of British Guiana, reported missing after Bremen raid on night June 4/5 1942. Sometime during Oct/Nov last year (1941), he injured his shoulder when forced to bail out after petrol supply ran out.
Possibly this Officer: WOOD, THOMAS READER RUSSELL Initials: T R R Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Flying Officer (Pilot) Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 115 Sqdn.Date of Death: 03/06/1942 Service No: 67642 Additional information: Wellington X3635 Airborne 2300 3 Jun 42 from Marham. Cause of loss and crash-site are not established. Four of those killed are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, but F/O Wood is buried in Becklingen War Cemetery. F/O T.R.R.Wood KIA Sgt J.W.Chapman RNZAF KIA Sgt L.J.Howe KIA Sgt M.J.M.Davies KIA P/O H.B.Pearce PoW Sgt B.F.Wischusen KIA P/O H.B.Pearce was interned in Camp L3, PoW No.556.Notice of award of DFC Gazetted London Gazeette 36108_3383/4 on 23 Jul 1943. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: 26. G. 12.Cemetery: BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY
1389078 - Kenneth Andrew Way - F/S -Pilot - 149 Sqn - Stirling III - KIA 4.4.1943
WAY, KENNETH ANDREW Initials: K A Rank: Sergeant (Pilot) Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 149 Sqdn. Date of Death: 04/04/1943 Service No: 1389078 Additional information: Of British Guiana. Stirling III R9327 OJ-M Op. Kiel Airborne 2039 4 Apr 43 from Lakenheath. Cause of loss not established. Crashed 2257 at Obbekaer, 7 km ENE of Ribe, Denmark. All are buried in Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery.Sgt K.A.Way KIA Sgt N.MacLeod KIA Sgt J.Palmer KIA Sgt R.G.Woodfield KIA Sgt R.P.Bilham KIA Sgt E.G.King KIA Sgt W.E.Norman KIA Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: AIII. 7. 8. Cemetery: ESBJERG (FOURFELT) CEMETERY,DENMARK
(1811281) - P/O Fizul-Karim - British Guiana - commissioned 16.6.44 - Ach/P.N.B. - attested 5.11.42
[Source: NA AIR 2/6876 - Nominal Roll of Coloured Candidates, October 1944]
[Source: Caribbeanmuslims.com]
1811265 - W.R. Luck - British Guiana - attested 5.11.42 - Ach/P.N.B. - commissioned 11.8.43
[Source: NA AIR 2/6876 - Nominal Roll of Coloured Candidates, October 1944]
605825 0 A.P. Clavier - Br. Guiana - attested 31.3.44 - Sgt. Air Gunner
[Source: NA AIR 2/6876]
605691 - V.P. Dias - Br. Guiana - attested 24.9.43 - Sgt. Navigator UK 13.10.44
[Source NA AIR 2/6876]
With No 19 Operational Training Unit “C” Flight, he took off on a cross country flight in a Vickers Wellington LP760 at 11.52 on 20th April 1945. Near to Bank Head Farm, Humble, eight miles to the southwest of Lothian, the Wellington was cruising along at 5,000 feet when eyewitnesses on the ground reported a flash from front to rear. It was just after 12.40. The starboard wing broke away and the aircraft turned over and spun to earth, striking the ground upside down. Debris rained down; there was a wreckage trail of some 2,500 yards, and an opened parachute fell 500 yards beyond this. The investigator’s report concluded that the accident arose through lack of control, perhaps owing to icing or bumpiness, followed by structural failure in the air. The aircraft had “broken up suddenly and violently”, with its heavier parts dropping “practically vertically”.
[Source: Dover War Memorial Project]
605689 - A. Goveia - Br. Guiana - attested 24.9.43 - P/O A/B #2 RC 5.12.44 - UK 18.12.44
165747 - P/O - commissioned 14.7.44
[Source: NA AIR 2/6876]
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