Hello again. this will be my last requst of the week. I am hoping anyone knows the full names and nationality of the following airmen I have listed. P/O AK Chappell Sgt GP Clark Sgt CFJ Cole Sgt AW Cook Sgt ND Copeland Sgt HW Coussens and Sgt GP Cox Again you guys have been a great help and I appreciate it very much.
Again, from Men of Battle of Britain: 80808 P/O Alan Kingsley Chappell, 236 Squadron b. 1914 Southport, Lancs. Joined RAFVR 1937. Posted to 236 Sq August 1940. Post 413 Sq 1941, Staff until 1943 and then 612 Sq. Left RAF 1945. Died 1993. 144706 Sgt A/G Godfrey Percival Clark, 604 Squadron Joined RAF 1939. Joined 604 Sq August 1940. In late 1940 posted to Bomber Command. Commissioned 1943. DFC 1944. Left 1947. Died 1995. 745971 Sgt Obs Charles Frederick John Cole, 236 Sq Joined RAFVR 1939. Joined 236 Sq September 1940. 131140 Sgt A/G Arthur Wilson Cook, 604 Sq Joined RAFVR July 1939. Joined 604 Sq August 1940. Later awarded DFM 1942 for recconnaisance work. Commissioned 1942. Released 1945. Died 1990. 54595 Sgt WoP/AG Norman Downey Copeland, 235 Squadron Joined RAF March 1938. Posted to 235 Sq May 1940. To 272 sq November 1940. To 404 Sq May 1941. Commissioned 1943. Released 1946. 120161 Sgt Pilot Herbert William Coussens, 601 Squadron Born 1920. Joined RAFVR March 1939. Joined 601 Sq Sept 1940. Yo 73 Sq Nov 1940. Commissioned 1942. Remained in RAF until 1963. 580644 Sgt OBS Gilbert Parish Cox, 236 Squadron Joined RAF Feb 1939. Posted to 236 Sq Sept 1940. Hope that helps?
IIRC this subject is mentioned in John Ray's The Battle of Britain - in the chapter that also mentions the links between Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Sholto Douglas and Douglas Bader. There's mention of a mess dinner where this was discussed, and Bader said he would have no qualms about doing it. Conversely, there are no records of the LW ever doing it. OR "officially" british RAF pilots ever doing it. I belive three foreign service aircrew were killed on the ground in 1940 by both Home Guard and civilians, Poles AND Czechs. The Fifth Columnist Scare making "untrained observers" wary of foreign-speaking people dropping out of the sky in RAF uniforms may have had a lot to do with this....:mellow:
Hello again. this week I'm looking the full names of nine "P" airmen from the Battle of Britain and if anybody knows them, I would love to hear from them. Sgt ME Parry Sgt AG Patston Sgt HJ Pavitt P/O CBG Peachment Sgt LL Pearse Sgt DE Pearson Sgt WD Penfold Sgt SG Preater Sgt NAJ Price Oh and there really is NO rush.
Hello again. this week I'm looking the full names of nine "P" airmen from the Battle of Britain and if anybody knows them, I would love to hear from them. Sgt ME Parry Sgt AG Patston Sgt HJ Pavitt P/O CBG Peachment Sgt LL Pearse Sgt DE Pearson Sgt WD Penfold Sgt SG Preater Sgt NAJ Price Oh and there really is NO rush. Montague Edward Parry Arthur George Patston (got down as LAC not Sgt) Harold John Pavitt Charles Barton Gower Peachment Leslie Lewis Pearse Dennis Edward Pearson William David Penfold Stanley George Preater Norman Albert Joseph Price Using the same Ref book as Paul. It was no rush.
Well done, Gage. Not quite as in depth as you, Paul. But nice to help out. Thanks again Gage, you and Paul have been a great help to me and I will not forget it. Again, no problem.
I remember coming across the memoirs of a South African pilot in the BoB a while ago on the net; "Snapper" looks to have been an RAF R/T abbreviation for fighter escort...? But was applied to ALL LW monoplane fighter escorts; "All" in the sense that when his squadron got their scramble orders and details of the incoming raid on the wing, the escorts had been mis-identified by the ROC from the ground as the "legendary" He113!
Hello again. today I am looking for the full names of four "L" pilots from BoB. Sgt JT Lawrence Sgt L Ledger Sgt FT Lerway P/O AG Little again you guys have been great help and I do appreciate it.
Hello again. today I am looking for the full names of four "L" pilots from BoB. Sgt JT Lawrence Sgt L Ledger Sgt FT Lerway P/O AG Little again you guys have been great help and I do appreciate it. John Thornett Lawrence Leslie Ledger Frederick Thomas Lerway Arthur Guthrie Little
I remember coming across the memoirs of a South African pilot in the BoB a while ago on the net; "Snapper" looks to have been an RAF R/T abbreviation for fighter escort...? But was applied to ALL LW monoplane fighter escorts; "All" in the sense that when his squadron got their scramble orders and details of the incoming raid on the wing, the escorts had been mis-identified by the ROC from the ground as the "legendary" He113! I wasn't sure if it was just a nickname for R/T within a few squadrons or it was R/T abbreviation throughout the RAF that Summer. Snapper seems to be a very fitting name for a 109.
Well, in reality there only WAS one German monoplane fighter at that point in the war; the He113 scare was clever disinformation. I've got a reprint of the 1941 Sackville-Sneath "Aircraft Recognition" and it was STILL being listed as a front-life LW type as late as that...
One last requst for today. does anyone know the full names of the following "W" pilots. F/O DS Wallen Sgt WB Ward Sgt TA Warren Sgt WHJ Westcott P/O RD Westlake P/O DC Wilde P/O MA Williams Sgt W Wilson and P/O WD Wiseman this will be my last requst for the next few days and again there is no rush.
Dennis Stanley Wallen. William Barlow Ward. Thornton Arrowsmith Warren. William Henry James Westcott. Richard Douglas Westlake. Denis Clifton Wilde. Mark Alan Williams. William Wilson. William Douglas Wiseman.
TRICK'R TREAT today I am looking for the full names of twelve "S" Airmen from BoB and as usuall if anybody knows whom I'm talking about, I would love to hear from them and as usuall there is no rush to find them. Sgt AK Sandifer F/Lt RH Scott F/O JB Selway Sgt RJ Sharp F/Lt CDE Skinner P/O EL Smith Sgt GA Southorn Sgt GH Spencer Sgt RM Steele F/Lt PAM Stickney Sgt CHS Sumpter Sgt JE Symonds
