1381860 – Joseph G. Ferris  [Also recorded as Joseph Orman Ferris] – Grenada – Sergeant – 214 Squadron – KIA 15 October 1942

Sergeant JOSEPH G. FERRIS
Service Number:                      1381860
Regiment & Unit/Ship:          Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve  214 Sqdn. Stirling Mark I R9146 BU-S
Date of Death:                          Died 15 October 1942
Buried or commemorated at UDEN WAR CEMETERY Netherlands,  Coll. grave 4. B. 10-12.

From:  https://214squadron.org.uk/Crews_and_losses/Crews_and_losses_Stirling.htm

Took off at 20:00 on a mission to Cologne. Shot down by a night fighter and crashed at 22:56 roughly 1 km South of the railway station of Oss (Noord Brabant), Netherlands. All are buried at Uden War Cemetery.

An article was prepared by Mr Joop Thuring for the regional newspaper about 25 years ago to publish details for the locals / eye-witnesses in view of the circulating rumours. Occasionally Joop visits their graves at Uden.

Crew of Stirling Mark I R9146 BU-S consisted of :

FS Raymond Gerard Brasnett, R/86619, Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Royal Canadian Air Force, KIA 15 October 1942
Sgt Joseph Ferris, 1381860, Air Bomber, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, KIA 15 October 1942
Sgt Harold Hancocks, 1314850, Air Gunner, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, KIA 15 October 1942, Aged 21
Sgt Jack Holmes, 996754, Flight Engineer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, KIA 15 October 1942, Aged 30
Sgt Leslie Frank Meadows, 1381714, Navigator / Bomber, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, KIA 15 October 1942, Aged 28
Fg/Off John Mitchell Paape, 411932, Pilot, Royal New Zealand Air Force, KIA 15 October 1942, Aged 28
Sgt Kenneth Penwill Stibbs, 1182389, Air Gunner, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, KIA 15 October 1942, Aged 20

[Source : Joop Thuring, Air War Researcher in The Netherlands and Chorley. Date record last updated : 9 October 2010 – Courtesy AD]

Sergeant

[Source: CG]

No 24 OTU RAF Honeybourne between May and July 1942
[Photograph courtesy of the family of P/O FW Hargreaves who went to 102 Squadron as a Bomb Aimer and then Navigator]