754780 – Flight Sergeant – RAFVR – Pilot – 214 Sqn. – Wellington – KIA at 19

Son of Alexander and Drusilla Elder, of Westminster, London.

[Source: CMHA]

1397457 – Flight Sergeant – Pilot – 90 Sqn, 3 Group – Short Stirling – KIA

Volunteer ETS, trained at Piarco. Stirling bomber BK723 took off from RAF Wratling Common at 1800hrs 3 Oct 1943 for mission against Kassel. This was his 1st mission. Aircraft was severely damage by flak over target. Aircraft ditched in the middle of the North Sea at approximately 2030hrs on its way home. All 7 crew perished. Body never recovered. Name commemorated at Runnymeade Memorial, Panel 147.

[Source: CMHA]

[Trinidad Guardian 18 January 1944 – Courtesy Jerome Lee, CMHA]

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[Photographs: CMHA]

1399230 – M.E. Cipriani – Sgt – Ach/P – attested 19.11.41
D.F. 22.10.43

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

1399230 – Flight Sergeant – Pilot – 158 Sqn, Bomber Command, 4 Group – Halifax – KIA at 25Volunteer ETS; Trained at Piarco; KIA on 22 Oct 1943. Halifax W297 took off from Lissett airfield at 1745hrs on 22 Oct 1943; bombing mission on Kassel; aircraft failed to return. No survivors. Buried at Hanover War cemetery, Germany, Plot 1, Row C, Grave 3. Kasel raid comprised 569 aircraft – 322 Lancs., 247 halifax; loss rate 7%. Raid was exceptionally accurate and resulted in a firestorm – Son of Emmanuel Paul and Lelia Inez Cipriani, of Port of Spain, Trinidad.

[Source: CMHA]

1810279 – Flight Sergeant – Navigator – 228 Sqn, Coastal Command – Sunderland – KIA at 26

Aircraft was engaged on an anti submarine patrol when it crashed into the sea at 2035hrs on 27 Apr 1945. 7 of the 13 crew members perished. Sunderland RN283, North sea patrol; pilot Flt Lt Chapman. Body never recoved; name listed on Runnymeade Memorial to the RAF Panel 270. Son of Albert Joseph and Mary Charles, of St. Joseph, Trinidad, West Indies.

[Source: CMHA]

Name: CHARLES, HILTON DAVID
Initials: H D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 228 Sqdn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 27/04/1945
Service No: 1810279
Additional information: Son of Albert Joseph and Mary Charles, of St. Joseph, Trinidad, West Indies.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 270.
Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

[Source: www.WW2chat.com]

[photograph from CaribbeanRollOfHonour-ww1-ww2.yolasite.com]

533809 – Flight Sergeant – Pilot – 35 Sqn, Linton-on-Ouse – Halifax – KIA

Enlisted in RAF 1936, underwent pilot training in 1940. On 31st March 1942, he was the pilot of Halifax R9496 TL-L part of a 34 aircrfat raid on the Tirpitz in Norway. His aircraft was seen to have completed the attack on Tirpitz and his aircraft was seen to crash on egress. All crew were killed. He is buried in Trondheim Stavne Cemetery. born on 19th September, 1915, at Roxborough second son of Robert Bruce Archibald and Amelia Harries ArchibaldStavne Cemetery

[Source: CMHA]

Website Archie in the RAF

1810280 – Flight Sergeant – RAFVR – Bombardier – No3 Group, 75 (NZ) Sq – Lancaster ME450 – KIA at 23

Fg Off N Thorpe, took off from RAF Mepal at 261052Feb1945 to bomb Dortmund. The aircraft returned to base in formation with other squadron aircraft, but over the base turned to starboard, lost height and crasehed near the gas works at Chatteris, Cambs. Crash occured at 261610Feb1945. Buried at Cambridge City Cemetary, Cambs. Grave # 15516 Son of Bertha Alfred, of Port of Spain, Trinidad

[Source: CMHA]

Name: ALFRED, JOSEPH MCKENZIE
Initials: J M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 75 Sqdn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 26/02/1945
Service No: 1810280
Additional information: Son of Bertha Alfred, of Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 15516.
Cemetery: CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY

F/S. Alfred was lost on the following raid
26 February 1945.
75 Squadron.
Lancaster I ME450 AA-W
Op. Dortmund

The aircraft took off from Mepal at 1052 hrs to carry out a raid on the Hoesch benzol-oil production facility. On return crashed near Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.

[Source: www.WW2chat.com]

1398262 – Sergeant – 78 Sqn – KIA 12/6-1943 (at 28) – Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK

[Source: CG, CWGC]

[picture copyright Mrs. Olga Reid; courtesy Mrs. Angela Robinson]

Halifax JD145 Mission to Bochum

Took off at 22.57 from Linton-on Ouse. Lost in the sea off the Dutch coast. Five, including Sgt Jordan who came from Nassau in the Bahamas, are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, while Sgt Payne is buried in Vredenhof Cemetery on the island of Schiermonnikoog; Sgt Wright is buried on Terschelling in Westerschelling General Cemetery.

F/Sgt M Baxter
Sgt A McD Young
Sgt W H Jordan
Sgt J N Angus
Sgt C W Payne
Sgt E Wright
Sgt E G Westall

[source: Herkirantoor, see additions below]

Bochum Raid: Looking at the time Wilbur’s plane and crew were shot down by Major Rolf Leuchs, they probably never reached the target on that occasion, but were possibly returning home due to an mechanical problem with the aircraft. They set off from Linton on Ouse in Yorkshire at 22:57 on the 12 June 1943. The rest of the squadron dropped their bombs over the target at approx. 01:40 on the 13 June 1943, but JD145 was shot down at 01:35 near Texel in the Netherlands by Leuchs (who was flying nightfighter missions from the airbase at Leeuwarden, aka ‘Fliegerhorst Leeuwarden’)

Wilbur’s crew were not originally scheduled for the Bochum mission, as the bomb aimer, Jack Angus, was supposed to be best man at his brother (Charles) wedding that weekend, but they were required to make up the crew numbers for that mission from which he never returned.

Operations Records Book: click on pictures to enlarge

[source: Mrs Angela Robinson]

1259434 -Sergeant – KIA 17/5-1943 – Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK

[Source: CG, CWGC]

Name: HAMILTON, JOHN LEOPOLD
Initials: J L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 16 O.T.U.
Date of Death: 17/05/1943
Service No: 1259434
Additional information: Son of Arthur Charles and Isabella Hamilton, of Browns Town, St. Ann”s Bay, Jamaica, British West Indies. Solicitor.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 152.
Memorial: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Whitley V – 10 OTU – anti sub patrol – serial Z9438 – shot down by Ju 88 over Biscay Bay. (See: Chorley’s Bomber Command Losses Vol. 7 page 221) 6 crew killed.

[Source: www.WW2chat.com]

Sergeant – KIA – Oxford (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire, UK

[Source: CG]

1394300 – Jackson Dunbar (Jack) Arthur – Grenada – Sergeant – KIA 17 September 1943 – Oxford  (Botley) Cemetery, Oxfordshire, UK

[Courtesy AD]