BENNETT – Roy Clement

Name: BENNETT, ROY CLEMENT
Initials: R C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Aircraftman 2nd Class
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 26
Date of Death: 28/11/1946
Service No: 714463
Additional information: Son of Ernest Samuel and Gladys Bennett; husband of Carmen Mineve Bennett, of Vineyard Town, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot H/3. Grave 198.
Cemetery: OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY

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BELL – Robert Leslie

Name: BELL, ROBERT LESLIE
Initials: R L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 194 Sqdn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 02/02/1946
Service No: 1895338
Additional information: Son of William John Bell, and of Alice Leila Bell, of Kingston, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave 16A. E. 18-22.
Cemetery: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

KJ996 Dakota 1V 194 Sqdn – control of the aircraft was lost when it was flying in turbulent conditions and it dived into the ground:
W/O P.S. Rowland Pilot
Flt/Sgt R.L. Bell Co-Pilot
Flt/Sgt R.J.Hughes Nav
Flt/Sgt R.Scrivens W.Op
Flt/Sgt G.T.H. Rowland Instrument Fitter – Passenger

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BECKFORD – Victor Elliott

Name: BECKFORD, VICTOR ELLIOTT
Initials: V E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Aircraftman 2nd Class
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death: 23/08/1945
Service No: 714783
Additional information: Son of Ernest T. Beckford and Druscilla D. Beckford, of Orange Bay, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 24. E. 12.
Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

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AIKEN – Aston Karl

1800670 – A.K. Aiken – Jamaica – attested 30.12.41 – Ach/Pilot
153221 – F/O – commissioned 28.8.43

[Source: NA AIR 2/6876 – Nominal Roll of Coloured Candidates, October 1944]

Name: AIKEN, ASTON KARL
Initials: A K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer (Nav.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 107 Sqdn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 08/08/1944
Service No: 153221
Additional information: Son of Eugene R. Aiken and Louise R. Aiken, of Kingston, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: CONNANTRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Seems to be Mosquito NS820 107 Missing from patrol E of Paris 8.8.44

Also killed

Name: TAYLOR, WILBURN MACMILNE
Initials: W M
Nationality: Canadian
Rank: Flying Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit Text: 107 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 08/08/1944
Service No: J/ 13398
Additional information: Son of Miller H. Taylor, and of Marjory Taylor, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. B.A. University of Saskatchewan.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: CONNANTRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

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MTU Course Bicester Oxon 1944


No 9 Mosquito Course Canada 1944

[Pictures courtesy Karl Aiken, Jamaica]

See further information by Audrey Elcombe in the addition below.

ADAM – William Ward

Name: ADAM, WILLIAM WARD
Initials: W W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 57 Sqdn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 15/03/1940
Service No: 39838
Additional information: Son of William P. C. Adam and Mary Violet Woolery Adam, of Port Maria, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 14.
Cemetery: CHAMBIERES FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY, METZ

Blenheim IV L9249 on night reconnaissance. Possibly victim of Allied AA fire. Crashed near Orny, south-east of Metz, 23.45 hrs.

Flying Officer (Pilot) William W. Adam
LAC Frederick J. Mantle 621138 (WOp./Air Gnr.)
Sgt G. Park – baled out, slightly injured

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BARROW – Gordon Archibald

1383405 – Gordon Archibald Barrow – Barbados – W/O – Ach/W.Op/A.G. – attested 31.12.40
P/War 17.9.42

[Source: NA AIR 2/6876 – Nominal Roll of Coloured Candidates, October 1944]

Back row: C.P. King, J.S. Partridge, A.A. Walrond, J.L.L. Yearwood, M.R. Cuke, E.W. Barrow - Front row: G.D. Cumberbatch, A.P.C. Dunlop, H.E.S. Worme, G.A. Barrow, A.O. Weekes, B.F.H. Miller.

The Barbados Second Contingent
Back row: C.P. King, J.S. Partridge, A.A. Walrond, J.L.L. Yearwood, M.R. Cuke, E.W. Barrow – Front row: G.D. Cumberbatch, A.P.C. Dunlop, H.E.S. Worme, G.A. Barrow, A.O. Weekes, B.F.H. Miller.

Subsequently killed were: Sgt. Charles Parnell King, Sgt. Arthur Adolphus Walrond, Pilot Mark Radford Cuke, Sgt. Grey Doyle Cumberbatch, Flying Officer Andrew P.C. Dunlop, Pilot Officer Bruce F.H. Miller

The First Contingent, the Harold Wright Contingent as is became known, sailed 27th July 1940 and was recruited for the forces generally. However, the Second Contingent were recruited for the RAF and departed Barbados in November 1940. The 12 men selected included Errol W. Barrow, who would survive the war, enter politics and eventually become Barbados’ first Prime Minister (1966-1976)

[Source: Barbados at War 1939-1945 by Warren Alleyne, privately published 1999, p.9]

In 2008 the Barbados Postal Service issued a set of stamps commemorating their men who served in the Royal Air Force in WW2. More »

 

 

Sgt Gordon Archibald Barrow

Errol Barrow‘s cousin Sgt Gordon Archibald Barrow who served as a gunner with RAF 214 Squadron was shot down over Belgium on 17th September 1942. He and fellow gunner Sgt R.J.Cox survived and spent the remaining war in Stalag 8B/Stalag 344 Prisoner of War camp located near the town of Lamsdorf in what was then known as Upper Silesia (now called Łambinowice, in Poland).

Their aircraft a Short Stirling Mark I bomber R9350 BU-T aircraft was shot down on the homeward-bound leg of a bombing mission against the Krupp’s Steel Works at Essen in Germany just after midnight on 17 September 1942 at Bomal (Brabant), 16 miles SSE of Leuven, Belgium. R9350 BU-T was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Walter Ehle of the Stab II./NJG 1, who was flying a Messerschmitt Bf 110 F-4 from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield. The two rear gunners of R9350 BU-T survived. The five other crew of R9350 BU-T were killed in action and are buried at Heverlee war cemetery Belgium.

Crew of Short Stirling Mark I bomber R9350 BU-T – who were killed in action
– WO Stephen Austin Levenson, 745292, Pilot, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Nationality : United Kingdom, KIA 17 September 1942.
– FS Stuart Spencer Newcomb, 999799, Observer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Nationality : United Kingdom, KIA 17 September 1942, Aged 29.
– Sgt George Bullimore Melton, 101474, Flight Engineer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Nationality : United Kingdom, KIA 17 September 1942, Aged 29.
– Sgt William James Davies, 1266757, Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Nationality : United Kingdom, KIA 17 September 1942, Aged 34.
– Sgt Laurence Charles Tillin, 1186959, Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Nationality : United Kingdom, KIA 17 September 1942, Aged 28.

Crew of Short Stirling Mark I bomber R9350 BU-T – who survived
– Sgt G A Barrow, Mid Upper Gunner, Nationality : Barbados, POW 17 September 1942 Stalag 8B/Stalag 344
– Sgt R J Cox, Rear Gunner, Nationality : United Kingdom, POW 17 September 1942 Stalag 8B/Stalag 344

[Source: Peter Burton]

WORME – H.E.S.

Back row: C.P. King, J.S. Partridge, A.A. Walrond, J.L.L. Yearwood, M.R. Cuke, E.W. Barrow - Front row: G.D. Cumberbatch, A.P.C. Dunlop, H.E.S. Worme, G.A. Barrow, A.O. Weekes, B.F.H. Miller.

The Barbados Second Contingent
Back row: C.P. King, J.S. Partridge, A.A. Walrond, J.L.L. Yearwood, M.R. Cuke, E.W. Barrow – Front row: G.D. Cumberbatch, A.P.C. Dunlop, H.E.S. Worme, G.A. Barrow, A.O. Weekes, B.F.H. Miller.

Subsequently killed were: Sgt. Charles Parnell King, Sgt. Arthur Adolphus Walrond, Pilot Mark Radford Cuke, Sgt. Grey Doyle Cumberbatch, Flying Officer Andrew P.C. Dunlop, Pilot Officer Bruce F.H. Miller

The First Contingent, the Harold Wright Contingent as is became known, sailed 27th July 1940 and was recruited for the forces generally. However, the Second Contingent were recruited for the RAF and departed Barbados in November 1940. The 12 men selected included Errol W. Barrow, who would survive the war, enter politics and eventually become Barbados’ first Prime Minister (1966-1976)

[Source: Barbados at War 1939-1945 by Warren Alleyne, privately published 1999, p.9]

In 2008 the Barbados Postal Service issued a set of stamps commemorating their men who served in the Royal Air Force in WW2. More »

PARTRIDGE – J.S.

Back row: C.P. King, J.S. Partridge, A.A. Walrond, J.L.L. Yearwood, M.R. Cuke, E.W. Barrow - Front row: G.D. Cumberbatch, A.P.C. Dunlop, H.E.S. Worme, G.A. Barrow, A.O. Weekes, B.F.H. Miller.

The Barbados Second Contingent
Back row: C.P. King, J.S. Partridge, A.A. Walrond, J.L.L. Yearwood, M.R. Cuke, E.W. Barrow – Front row: G.D. Cumberbatch, A.P.C. Dunlop, H.E.S. Worme, G.A. Barrow, A.O. Weekes, B.F.H. Miller.

Subsequently killed were: Sgt. Charles Parnell King, Sgt. Arthur Adolphus Walrond, Pilot Mark Radford Cuke, Sgt. Grey Doyle Cumberbatch, Flying Officer Andrew P.C. Dunlop, Pilot Officer Bruce F.H. Miller

The First Contingent, the Harold Wright Contingent as is became known, sailed 27th July 1940 and was recruited for the forces generally. However, the Second Contingent were recruited for the RAF and departed Barbados in November 1940. The 12 men selected included Errol W. Barrow, who would survive the war, enter politics and eventually become Barbados’ first Prime Minister (1966-1976)

[Source: Barbados at War 1939-1945 by Warren Alleyne, privately published 1999, p.9]

In 2008 the Barbados Postal Service issued a set of stamps commemorating their men who served in the Royal Air Force in WW2. More »

SMITH – Henry Vernon

Name: SMITH, HENRY VERNON
Initials: H V
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 10 Sqdn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 20/06/1940
Service No: 39692
Additional information: Son of Vernon and Gwendolen Smith, of St. Michael, Barbados; husband of Margaret Smith.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Row A. Grave 14.
Cemetery: HONINGTON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD, Suffolk

Whitley V – serial P4960. Hit tree on landing, broke up and on fire, Ampton Park, 3 miles of Honington airfield, Suffolk.

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F.O. H. F. V. Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[photograph from Concise & Illustrated Military History of Barbados 1627-2007 by Major Michael Hartland]

 

SKINNER – John Walrond Seymour

Name: SKINNER, JOHN WALROND SEYMOUR
Initials: J W S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Lieutenant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 640 Sqdn.
Age: 31
Date of Death: 03/06/1944
Service No: 108951
Additional information: Son of Herbert Seymour Skinner and Gladys Cottle Skinner, of St. Michael, Barbados.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Row 1. Coll. grave 27-29.
Cemetery: DREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Halifax MZ677 – crashed near Boutigny-sur-Opton, Eure-et-Loir, 18 km E of Dreux, France.

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