Royal Air Force War Grave Photos for Reference.

Flight Sergeant GEORGE JEFFREY BURNS
Service Number: 640006
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force
25 Sqdn.
Date of Death: Died 21 November 1944
Buried or commemorated at
AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY
Plot D. Row 9. Joint grave 27.
Netherlands

Sergeant JOHN DALLEY
Service Number: 932761
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
254 Sqdn.
Date of Death: Died 21 November 1944
Age 22 years old
Buried or commemorated at
AMELAND (NES) GENERAL CEMETERY
Plot D. Row 9. Joint grave 27.
Netherlands
Additional Info Son of John and Anne Elizabeth Dalley, of Bromham, Bedfordshire.

 

From the same crew. British & Canadian. (I took these photos over 10 years ago)

Flight Lieutenant WILLIAM GLADSTONE HOFFMAN
Service Number: J/26779
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Canadian Air Force
78 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Date of Death
Died 28 July 1944
Age 21 years old
Buried or commemorated at
ST. JORIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave 12.
Belgium
Country of Service Canadian
Additional Info Son of Eagar and Hazel Hoffman; husband of Nan Hoffman, of Forres, Morayshire.
Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM BELOVED HUSBAND OF NAN QUARRELL

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Flying Officer RUSSELL HARRY WINTER
Service Number: 169680
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
78 Sqdn.
Date of Death: Died 28 July 1944
Age 29 years old
Buried or commemorated at
ST. JORIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Grave 11.
Belgium
Country of Service United Kingdom
Additional Info Son of George and Lilian Winter, of Norwich; husband of Irene Mabel Winter, of Upper Hillesdon, Norwich.
Personal Inscription A TRIBUTE OF LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE TO ONE WE SHALL NEVER FORGET

 

Squadron Leader JOHN CARLETON BETTS
37648, Royal Air Force
who died
on 10 October 1941

Remembered with honour
ELSTREE (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD

 

Remembered Northwood Cemetery,Middlesex


SERGEANT KENNETH ALBERT KING
Service Number: 966959
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

51 Sqdn.

Date of Death
Died 05 July 1941

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at
BREST (KERFAUTRAS) CEMETERY

Plot 40. Row 1. Joint grave 14.

France

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Albert Edgar and May King, of Ruislip, Middlesex.
• Personal InscriptionI THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU. PHILIPPIANS I.3 MUM, DAD, CON. AND DOFF

BURIED OR COMMEMORATED AT
BREST (KERFAUTRAS) CEMETERY
FinistereFrance
Number of casualties: 114
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Remembered Northwood Cemetery,Middlesex





FLIGHT SERGEANT CECIL FREDERICK PURNELL
Service Number: 1395676
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

211 Sqdn.

Date of Death
Died 09 February 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at
TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

Joint grave 23A. F. 2-3.

Myanmar

• Additional Info Son of Herbert and Emily Jane Purnell; husband of Annie Bertha Louisa Purnell, of Neasden, Middlesex.
• Personal Inscription "BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE"

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom

 

My mother was his wife. Here is a story about him.
Photographs taken on HMS Wolsey on 30 May 1940

 

Flight Lieutenant G L MACINTYRE (42718), Royal Air Force) [Royal Air Force WW2 Casualty ]

 

SERGEANT WILLIAM JOHN WILSON
Service Number: 581485
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force

59 Sqdn.

Date of Death
Died 04 June 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at
EDGWARE (ST. MARGARET) CHURCHYARD

• United Kingdom
• Additional InfoSon of Edward Henry John and Ellen Emma Wilson. of Edgware.

 

Pilot Officer S W Ashton, Sergeant W J Wilson, Aircraftman R Wilson: killed; aircraft... | The National Archives
Reference: AIR 81/2210
Description:
Pilot Officer S W Ashton, Sergeant W J Wilson, Aircraftman R Wilson: killed; aircraft accident, Blenheim R3697, 59 Squadron, Eastchurch, 4 June 1940
Date: 1940 Jan 01 - 1947 Dec 31
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: P 352682/40
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Access conditions: Open on Transfer
Record opening date: 30 June 2017

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Photograph is not of Ronalds gravestone :-(

 

Graham there was a software update on the forum a while back that screwed up the photos

please find attached photo

 

Aircraftman 2nd Class JAMES STOREY HOWSON

1355986, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Killed in London age 29
on 26 October 1940
Son of James and Hannah Mary Howson, of Ingleton
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them
INGLETON CEMETERY

The CWGC stone is additional to his being named on the family headstone.
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Sgt Hutson was killed in a Westland Lysander serial T1521 of 8 Air Gunnery School, when the aircraft crashed at Hill of Nigg in Ross & Cromarty, Scotland. Another pilot Sgt Stewart Lee also died in the accident.

 

Thank you for the info
Stewart Lee: Golders Green panel from my collection

SERGEANT STEWART LEE
Service Number: 1319349
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death
Died 26 March 1943

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at
GOLDERS GREEN CREMATORIUM

 

CORPORAL RONALD EMBLETON GREADY
Service Number: 517052
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force

Date of Death
Died 20 November 1940

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at
WEST WYCOMBE (ST. LAWRENCE) CHURCHYARD



United Kingdom

• Country of Service United Kingdom
• Additional Info Son of John Athelstan Gready and of Edith Gready, of High Wycombe.

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Information on casualty below
Corporal R E GREADY (517052), Royal Air Force) [Royal Air Force WW2 Casualty ]

 

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Ronald E Gready
Death Age: 28
Birth Date: abt 1912
Registration Date: Oct 1940
[Nov 1940]
[Dec 1940]
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District: Chippenham
Inferred County: Wiltshire
Volume: 5a
Page: 152

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Remembered Abney Park Cemetery London

SERGEANT REGINALD DEREK SEDDON
Service Number: 1445550
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

514 Sqdn.

Date of Death
Died 20 December 1943

Buried or commemorated at
RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

10. A. 7.

Germany

• Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom

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