Could any body add any details to the demise of this individual. I cannot find a single thing about him on the Internet, so was hoping someone may be able to add the wheres, whens, hows and whys. BRANNAN, JOHN ROBERT Rank: Pilot Officer Trade: Air Gnr. Service No: 52826 Date of Death: 02/10/1943 Age: 31 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Grave Reference Sec. 116. Row I. Grave 11. Cemetery GRIMSBY (SCARTHO ROAD) CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of James Michael and Harriet Mary Brannan, of Grimsby; husband of Connie Brannan, of Birkby, Huddersfield. Appreciated as always Tony
Hi Tony, From page 252 of Chorley's Volume 7, (OTU Losses). Unit was No. 15 OTU. A training exercise. Your man was the only officer in a crew of six. In the matrix appears last so Air Gunner as you pointed out. Kite was a Wellington X, serial LN497, t/o at 1101 from Hampstead Norris for a cross-country. Ran into bad weather and in steadily worsening visibility crashed 1226 into the side of a hill on Swindhope Common near Westgate. Other five crewmen(in order of Chorley's maxtrix) Sgts Lay, Creamer, Nichol. Postlethwaite and Churn. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2764218/ http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2623512/ http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2406829/ http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2699927/ http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2706261/ Regards, Dave
Remembered Beaconsfield War Memorial,Buckinghamshire and Headstone from Beaconsfield Cemetery CHURN, THOMAS BERNARD Rank: Sergeant Trade: Air Gnr. Service No: 1586295 Date of Death: 02/10/1943 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Grave Reference Grave 1792. Cemetery BEACONSFIELD CEMETERY, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Additional Information: Son of Ronald Cyril and Gertrude Mary Churn, of Beaconsfield.