BYNOE – Quintin Alexander
Flight Sergeant – Air Gunner – B24
[Source: CMHA]
605653 – A.Q. Bynoe – Trinidad – attested 5.943 – Sgt. Wireless Operator #5 OTU 25.10.44
[Source: NA AIR 2/6876]
BERNARD – R.A.
Sergeant Feb 1945 – RCAF – Navigator – Lancaster – 30 missions, CEO Agostini Bros 1998
[Source: CMHA]
CUMMING-BART – Jerome Thomas Ellis
J26608 – Flying Officer – RCAF – Air Gunner – 426 Sqn – Lancaster DS770 – KIA at 25 on 2 December 1943, Raid on Berlin – Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery
Son of Jerome Michael and Judith Imelda Cumming-Bart.
[Source: CMHA]
BAHADOOR-SINGH – A.R.A.
Pilot – AC2 June 1942 – Educated QRC – Fighter pilot
[Source: CMHA]
Reported in the Lincolnshire Echo – Wednesday 17 December 1941, p.3.
From Trinidad
A PARTY of eight R.A.F. recruits have just arrived in London from Trinidad to complete their training. They have done their initial and elementary flying training at home under the Trinidad Air Training Scheme, which has already supplied the R.A.F. with several batches of partly-trained men. Although the eight newcomers plunged straight out of the warmth and sunshine of Port of Spain into the depth of an English winter they express themselves as delighted to be here, another step on the road to wings. They are surprised to find much of Londonstill standing, and gratified at the hospitality and friendship they have received. One of the first people to welcome them was Lord Moyne, Secretary of State for the Colonies. They were enabled to send personal messages home through the B.B.C. This means of telling their families of their safe arrival was greatly appreciated. Reception of the West Indies programme is very good, they state. The programme is regarded locally as an invaluable link with the many men from the Colony who are serving in the Forces here… [One] man is of Rajput origin. He is Ram Bahadoor Singh, formerly of the “Trinidad Guardian,” and brother of the ex-President of the Oxford Union.
[Courtesy Audrey Dewjee]
APACK – Kenwyn George (Kenneth)
Sergeant (in 1945) – Air Gunner – Bombers
[Source: CMHA]
605650 – K.G. Apack – Trinidad – attested 5.9.43 – Sgt. Wireless Operator #5 OTU 25.10.44
[Source: NA AIR 2/6876]
ANDERSON – David J.
Sergeant – RCAF – Navigator – Little Rissington? – Mosquito
[Source: CMHA]
ANDERSON – Basil Courtnay
Rear Gunner – 218 Sqn – Lancaster – POW
[Source: CMHA]
1802306 – Basil Courtnay Anderson – Trinidad – 158 Sqdn – Sgt – Rear Gunner
Sergeant Basil Courtnay Anderson was shot down on the night of 8-9 October, 1943, on a 500 bomber raid to Hannover. He left RAF Lissett in East Yorkshire as a rear gunner in Halifax bomber no. LW371 of 158 Squadron, which was hit just before arriving at the target. The fuel tank and no. 2 engine on the left were on fire and Basil reported seeing the flames lick his turret. Pilot John Clifford Mattey ordered his crew to abandon the aircraft. Having repeated the drill many times, the whole crew jumped within 30 seconds and all landed safely.
Basil Anderson was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Stalag 4B in Mühlberg-an-der-Elbe, along with the rest of the crew.
[Source: http://www.evasioncomete.be, courtesy AD]
From left to right: Basil Anderson, Alan Steen, George Harris, John Mattey, Maurice Airey, Raymond Wootton and Ronald Duck
[photo: The Anderson Family]
[Trinidad Guardian 18 January 1944 – Courtesy Jerome Lee, CMHA]
ALSTON – Raymond Anthony Croll
Raymond ALSTON, known as ‘James’ or ‘Jimmy’
Pilot – DC3 – Staff Pilot, No Ops, Son of Lt. Col Roy Alston
[Source: CMHA]
126625 – Raymond Anthony Croll ALSTON – Pilot – Whitley, DC3, Stirling – 299 Sqn – D-Day and more
[Source: Robert Alston]
His service number on enlistment was 1391735 which became 126625 when he was commissioned Pilot Officer.
[Courtesy AD]
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