Husband and Wife Service Casualty WW2

LANCE SERJEANT ANITA MARY HARDING
Service Number: W/108550
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Auxiliary Territorial Service

Date of Death
Died 05 June 1942

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at
NETLEY MILITARY CEMETERY

2211.

United Kingdom

• Secondary Unit, Regimentattd. 504 Bty., 148 (M) H.A.A. Regt. Royal Artillery
• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoDaughter of Herbert and Hannah Brown; wife of Arthur Gordon Edward Harding, who also died on service.
• Personal InscriptionHER HUSBAND PILOT OFFICER A.G.E. HARDING WAS LOST ON AIR OPERATIONS 9TH JULY 1942 AGE 29
• Anita Mary Harding (unknown-1942) - Find a Grave...

PILOT OFFICER ARTHUR GORDON EDWARD HARDING
Service Number: 103555
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death
Died 09 July 1942

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Panel 70.

United Kingdom

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Arthur and Lucy Frances Lottie Harding, of Harrow, Middlesex. His wife Anita Mary also died on service.

Pilot Officer Arthur Gordon Edward Harding...

 

Pilot Officer A G E HARDING (103555), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve) [Royal Air Force WW2 Casualty ]

 

On 11 February 1945, 152227 F/O Raymond Julius Guy Manning, pictured above, married 16489 Cadet Ensign Diana Mary Portman, F.A.N.Y., attached to HQ Force 139, in the chapel of a private house in Laureto, Italy. Both were 21 and enjoyed a honeymoon in Florence.

On 19 February 1945 they boarded a Lockheed Hudson (FK608) at Peretola for the flight back to Naples. Shortly after takeoff, the port engine misfired and despite efforts from the pilot to stabilize the aircraft it slammed into the ground, killing all 10 aboard.

Flying Officer Raymond Julius Guy Manning | War Casualty Details 2379048 | CWGC
Cadet Ensign Diana Mary Manning | War Casualty Details 2379047 | CWGC
Flight Lieutenant Harry Barron Cooper | War Casualty Details 2613900 | CWGC
Flight Lieutenant Ronald Harpin | War Casualty Details 2614220 | CWGC
Flight Sergeant Guy Joseph D'Assonville | War Casualty Details 2613943 | CWGC
Staff Serjeant Charles James Withey | War Casualty Details 2379677 | CWGC

O-904625 Major William Neely Mallory, Intelligence Officer attached HQ US12th Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel John Howard Faust, Assistant Artillery Officer
O-901773 Major Donald M. Kerr, Transportation Officer
Lieutenant Colonel John Thorton Walker, Air Liaison Officer and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark's pilot

Regards,

Dave

 

Hope you don't mind Clive the wife didn't die in service but she sadly died alongside her husband who was.


Details from Graves and graveyards in Furness - Furness Stories Behind the Stones



Leading Aircraftman John Waite & Joan Waite had been married for a week when he was called back to his base less than three weeks after D-Day. V1 flying bombs had started landing in London on 13th June 1944, and the Waites were killed by one that landed in Westminster on Saturday 24th June.

On Tuesday 27th June, this made the front page in the North Western Evening Mail, alongside news of the fall of Cherbourg:

BARROW MAN AND BRIDE KILLED BY FLYING-BOMB

Recalled to his base in the South of England whilst honeymooning in Barrow, a 23 years old member of the RAF and his 19 years old bride, are both reported killed by enemy action.

There deaths are believed to have been caused by a flying bomb.

This is the tragic news received by Mrs. Timmington, of 41 Anchor-road, of her son, L.A.C. John Frederick Waite and his bride, formerly Miss Joan Harris, of Littlehampton, Sussex.

‘The news was a terrible blow,’ Mrs. Timmington told an “Evening Mail” reporter, ‘they only married a week last Saturday.’

‘John was on 14 days leave, but was recalled, and with Joan’s home being in Sussex she travelled south with him. They had not completed their journey, when they were killed.
We were informed only of John’s death at first, but after we had given the police a description of Joan we were informed yesterday that she was also amongst the victims.’

‘They were so happy when they left us and it is hard to realise they have both been killed.’

L.A.C. Waite was in the Merchant Navy before joining the R.A.F. in 1941, leaving the offices of Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong to join the Monarch of Bermuda as a bell-boy at the age of 15 years.

When his ship was sunk in 1941 he was unable to get another one immediately and applied for transfer to the R.A.F. He has since been serving with an air-sea rescue squadron.

North Western Evening Mail, Tuesday 27th June 1944



Name: John Frederick Waite
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Death Date: 24 Jun 1944
Military Base: Littlehampton, Sussex
Service Number: 1493839
Unit: 29 Asr Marine Craft Unit
Command: Coastal Cmnd
Residence Place: Barrow In Furness, Lancashire
Burial Place: Barrow-In-Furness Cemetery, Lancashire
Notes: Lac Waite's Wife Was Killed in the Same Incident