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No. 299 Squadron Royal Air Force January 1944 Increase in Special Duties squadrons 1st May 1944 Planning 6th June 1944 Pathfinders 6th June 1944 Landings 6th June 1944 Stirling lost over Normandy 6th June 1944 Gliders towed to Normandy 23rd Jun 1944 Airdrop 15th Sep 1944 Loading 17th Sep 1944 Accident 17th Sep 1944 In Action 9th October 1944 Relocation 21st February 1945 C.O. killed If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Logbooks Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession? If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you. View Logbook entries Those known to have served with No. 299 Squadron Royal Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. Bossley Alexander. Cairns Frank. Flt.Sgt. (d.12th April 1945) Curry William Richard Fortesque. Flt.Lt. (d.12th April 1945) Griffiths Alan. WO. (d.7th October 1945) McBeath Thomas Albert. PO (d.3rd April 1945) Munroe James Henry. WOI. 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There are:2010 items tagged No. 299 Squadron Royal Air Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. WO. Alan Griffiths 299 Squadron (d.7th October 1945) Alan was returning from Cairo to Shepherds Grove, Suffolk in a Shorts S29 Stirling 1V bomber. En route, the crew informed ground they were short of fuel and elected to divert to Rennes Airport. At 0028LT, the radio operator reported the fuel reserve were estimated for 10 minutes. Two minutes later, while completing a last turn in poor weather conditions, the aircraft nosed down and crashed in flames in a field short of the runway. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire and all 26 occupants were killed. At the time of the accident, visibility was poor due to low clouds, and the airfield was not sufficiently lighted. Crew were: F/O Charles Thomas Dillon, pilot, F/Lt Donald William Lee, navigator, F/Sgt Donald Wareham, flight engineer, W/O Alan Griffiths, bomb aimer, W/O Victor Gerald Last, air gunner, W/O Eric Antony Pether, wireless operator and air gunner. Passengers: Lt Col Alexander John Severs Mackenzie, C/O Dorothy Mary Mackenzie, Cpl Margery Greenfield, Pvt Margaret Jean Mortlock, LAC Agnes Aitchison Maltby, Cpl Edward Vernon Maltby, Sgt Hilda Victoria Timms, Lt Jack Edward Lloyd, Lt Frederick Edmund Withers, Lt Col George Howard Jones, Sgt Marie Elsie Isabel Innes, Sgt John Edward Timms, Cpt Cecil Tom Keates, Pvt Leonard Harold North, Lt John Alexander Leo Carus, AC1 Harry Ronald Goulding, LAC Sidney George Wordsworth, LAC John Ernest Simcock, Maj Samuel Harry Arthur Williams, AC1 Joseph McWilliams. Add to this record. WOI. James Henry Munroe 299 Squadron (d.6th June 1944) For 74 years this hero among many was a lost man. He was but a name on a family tree, however a one line note in a paper file indicated that he had served, which has now led the family to research and be humbled by now knowing what a real man he was paying the supreme sacrifice on D-Day 6th of June 1944. James Munroe enlisted while working at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, Canada as a very fine looking 21 year old young man, with a wife who was eight months pregnant. He trained and trained as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner and was posted overseas in 1943. He and his six man crew (4 Canadians and 2 British) participated in Operation Mallard being in 299 Squadron along with 18 Stirling aircraft towing gliders carrying troops and equipment to reinforce embedded troops holding the bridges over the River Orne and Canal de Caen in France. His aircraft was the only one that did not make it home that day crashing into the ocean off the coast of France. Four bodies were recovered but two were not, his being one of two. He is now memorialized at Runneymeade, Air Forces Memorial, in the UK, as well as the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa where on Remembrance Day 2018 a plaque will be unveiled to honor James and his fellows. He left behind his wife and infant daughter and like all who served, like all who perished, as well as all who stayed home to allow these heroes to defend us all, we can never repay our debt. Let us never forget all those young lives lost on the alter of freedom in defence of Home and Country. Michael Robinson Add to this record. Alexander Bossley 299 Squadron Alexander Bossley served with 299 Squadron, 38 Group. Add to this record. Flt.Lt. William Richard Fortesque Curry 299 Squadron (d.12th April 1945) Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) William Curry is buried in the Thornby Cemetery in Denmark. S Flynn Add to this record. PO Thomas Albert McBeath 299 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. (d.3rd April 1945) Pilot Officer (Air Bomber) McBeath is buried in the Kirke Vaerlose Churchyard in Denmark. S Flynn Add to this record. Flt.Sgt. Frank Cairns 299 Squadron (d.12th April 1945) Flight Sergeant (Navigator) Frank Cairns was the son of George Henry and Florence Cairns of Crosby, Liverpool. He was 23 when he died and is buried directly behind the church in the Helligso Churchyard in Denmark. S Flynn Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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