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19th September 1944On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Chalkley Frank Douglas. F/O. (d.19th Sep 1944)
- Chatwin Rex Joseph. Sgt. (d.19th Sep 1944)
- Edgerton Clifton Ferris. Sgt. (d.19th Sept1944)
- Gibson Guy Penrose. Wg. Cdr. (d.19th Sept 1944)
- John Ewart Stephan. Sgt. (d.19th Sep 1944)
- Kelly Thomas George. L/Cpl. (d.19th Sep 1944)
- Roebuck Ernest. Lt. (d.19th Sep 1944)
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Sgt. Rex Joseph Chatwin. Royal Air Force, 106 Squadron. (d.19th Sep 1944) Uncle Rex was my mother's brother who died on 19th September, 1944. He was 19 years old. He was based at RAF Metheringham and was "tail end charlie" gunner on a Lancaster bomber that was shot down either on the way or on the way back from a night bombing raid to Rheydt. The plane crashed at Elmpt.
We believe of the 7 occupants, 6 were killed but this has not been confirmed.
Carole Roden
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L/Cpl. Thomas George Kelly. British Army, 48th Royal Tank Regiment Royal Armoured Corps. (d.19th Sep 1944) Thomas Kelly died aged 31, he was born in Kingston in 1913.
Thomas is buried in Gradara War Cemetery and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall. Vin Mullen
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Lt. Ernest Roebuck. British Army, 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment. (d.19th Sep 1944) Lieutenant Ernest Roebuck of B Company, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment took part in Operation Market Garden, centred on Arnhem in Holland, most widely known through the film "A Bridge Too Far". Until recently, all that the family had to remember his war service by were his medals, which of course he never saw himself, as they were issued after his death, and his bamboo swagger stick. My brother and I were proud to visit Arnhem itself in September 2014, for the 70th anniversary of the battle and its associated commemorative events.
From accounts and records I saw on our visit, I have pieced together some of the likely facts about my uncle's contribution and what happened to him. He was in the 1st Airlanding Division, formed specially for the operation, and dropped on either 17 or 18 September 1944 (most probably the former) at the dropping zone north west of Arnhem. According to the Roll of Honour in the Hartenstein Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek, Ernest Roebuck was first buried at the St Elizabeth Hospital. From this record, I have deduced that he most probably died close by. In the evening of 18 September, two platoons of B company of the South Staffs regiment, in which Ernest was a lieutenant, are recorded as approaching the aforesaid hospital and then taking up positions slightly to the south of it. From there, on the next day, they were ordered to press forward towards the bridge at Arnhem itself. According to an account available from history.net, published originally in World War II Magazine and subsequently online on 12 June 2006, "...section leader, Corporal Arthur Stretton, ...ordered an 'O Group'(orders group) with the platoon officer Lieutenant A. J. Roebuck..."
I am grateful for this account, but must offer a correction: there was only one Roebuck among those killed in the operation, and he was my uncle Ernest. I suspect that the initials quoted above might be wrong. Still, the same account, by Private Robert C. Edwards, makes it clear that "when the leading platoons reached the open spaces east of the hospital...[at] the wide-open exposed riverside stretch of the road in front of [it]...everything suddenly let loose". It seems most likely that it was then or during the push shortly afterwards that my uncle died.
My brother Jonathan Goodhead and I were privileged to be able to visit Ernest's grave at the war cemetery in Oosterbeek on Saturday 20 September 2014, to lay a wreath on behalf of all the surviving family members. We revisited the next day, just before the major 70th anniversary commemorative service there, when we briefly added Ernest's swagger stick on top of the wreath. The service itself was most moving, especially when an army of school children laid flowers on each of the graves. We are sincerely grateful to the Dutch people of Arnhem and Oosterbeek, to the War Graves Commission and to all others concerned for their generous and moving welcome and their insistence on retaining and supporting these annual events. Clive Goodhead
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Wg. Cdr. Guy Penrose Gibson. VC, DSO, DFC Royal Air Force, 627th Sqd.. (d.19th Sept 1944) 109 Squadron is showing a Mosquito loss in 1944. In 1943 109 Sqn was merged to 627 Sqn. The loss of the Mosquito in 1944 you have is incorrect. The Mosquito loss in 1944 is one of the most famous and was September 18/19 1944. The Pilot Wing Commander Guy Gibson DFC DSO his navigator was Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick. They were on an operation as Pathfinder and Gibson was MASTER BOMBER when they crashed on the way home in Holland at Steenbergen where there is a memorial at the crash site and in a local park. Jim Drummond
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Sgt. Ewart Stephan John. Royal Air Force, 295 Squadron. (d.19th Sep 1944) Ewart John flew as Flight Engineer on Stirling L170, easy peter on the 19th September 1944 on a mission to reisupply paratroopers at Arnhem, Holland during operation Market Garden. Out of 17 planes, sadly, only Ewart and the rest of his crew, along with two serving airborne soldiers, were shot down near the village of Eede. Only the rear gunner and one of the soldiers have a known grave situated at Adegem Canadian Cemetary.Pete Mansell
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