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24th August 1943On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Ashburner. Norman. P/O (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Barrass. Richard. Sgt (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Bye. Verner Charles. P/O (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Crampton. Charles . Sgt. (d.24th Aug 1943 )
- Edgar Frank Shepley. F/Sgt. (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Fraser. George William. Sgt (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Gleeson. Thomas James. Sgt (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Laverick. Harold. P/O (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Lowe Jonny William. Sgt. (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Naffin Robert Clarence. F/Sgt. (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Peace. Walter Thomas. Sgt (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Pendlebury Norman. Sgt. (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Ryan Patrick Joseph. F/O (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Steven Andrew John Kerr. Sgt. (d.24th August 1943)
- Weaver Victor Alfred. Flt.Sgt. (d.24th Aug 1943)
- Wright Noel William. Sqd.Ldr. (d.24th August 1943)
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F/Sgt. Robert Clarence Naffin. Royal Australian Air Force, . (d.24th Aug 1943) My Grand Father, Flight Sergeant Robert Clarence Naffin 416601 RAAF, died age 23 on 24th August 1943. Son of Clarence and Grace Naffin, husband of Diana Stephanie Naffin. My Mother was a year old when he died. I was a few weeks old when she died and my Grand MaMa and her 2nd husband brought me up until I was 7 when my Grand MaMa died. Until now I have not been able to find out about him due to a sense of loyalty towards my Grand MaMa's 2nd husband which is daft because he abandoned me after she died. However he has now died and I feel free to search. I cannot find him in English birth records so maybe he was born elsewhere.
Editor's Note: As Robert served in the RAAF it is very likley that he was born in Australia. P.Hilt
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F/O Patrick Joseph Ryan. Royal Air Force, 101 Squadron. (d.24th Aug 1943) On the 24th August 1943 the 101 Squadron lost their lives on returning from a bombing raid over Berlin. The aircraft was never recovered and it is possible that it came down over the English channel.
Names of crew:
- John Phillip Mahoney ; Captain
- Patrick Joseph Ryan
- Archibald Eric Thomas Hill
- Dennis Marshall Walder
- Frederick Edward Phillips
- John William Lowe
- Joseph Eric Woodgate
My uncle was Patrick Joseph Ryan he was aged 24 when he lost his life. Although he was childless when he died I wanted to record the few small details that I have in the hope that they might be of interest to any possible descendants of the other crew members. I also hoped that someone else might have other information that could be added to their story.
Patricia Calder
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P/O Norman Ashburner.. RAF, 12Sqd.. (d.24th Aug 1943) Pilot Norman Ashburner was killed on 24th August 1943 flying Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 with 12sqd.
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Sgt Richard Barrass. . RAF, 12Sqd.. (d.24th Aug 1943) Flt Eng Richard Barrass died on 24th August 1943 flying in Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 of 12sqd
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P/O Verner Charles Bye.. RAF, 12Sqd.. (d.24th Aug 1943) Nav. Verner Bye died 24th August 1943 in Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 of 12sqd
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Sgt George William Fraser.. RCAF, 12Sqd.. (d.24th Aug 1943) George Fraser was the Mid Upper Gnr. of Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 with 12sqd
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Sgt Thomas James Gleeson.. RAF, 12Sqd.. (d.24th Aug 1943) W/Op Thomas Gleeson was killed on 24th August 1943 in Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 of 12sqd
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P/O Harold Laverick.. RAF, 12Sqd.. (d.24th Aug 1943) Bomb aimer Harold Laverick was killed on 24th August 1943 in Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 of 12sqd
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Sgt Walter Thomas Peace. . RAF, 12Sqd.. (d.24th Aug 1943) Rear Gnr. Walter peace was killed on 24th August 1943 in Lancaster DV158 PH-A2 of 12sqd
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Sqd.Ldr. Noel William Wright. Royal Air Force, 77 Squadron. (d.24th August 1943) Noel William Wright was my father's cousin They were both born and raised on the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia.
Noel was an only child whose mother passed away after he was born. My father grew up with Noel and with a lot of cousins. Dad recalls how Noel was hopeless at driving a car, never getting used to the clutch and brakes, angaroo hopping down the road!
Another memory of my father's, was when he received a letter from Noel, stating that he had a few close calls while on previous bombing missions, he had a feeling his time was just about up. When Dad finally received this letter, Noel was killed over Berlin 24 August 1943. Ross Mc Mahon
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Sgt. Norman Pendlebury. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 100 Squadron. (d.24th Aug 1943) Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Norman Pendlebury was the Son of Arthur and Jessie Pendlebury, of Poynton, Cheshire.
He was aged 21 when he died and is buried in the Magleby (Langeland) Churchyard in Denmark.
s flynn
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F/Sgt. Frank Shepley Edgar. Royal Air Force, 622 Squadron. (d.24th Aug 1943) Frank Edgar was a friend of my aunt. They had worked in a department store in Whangarei, New Zealand. He went to Canada to train before going to the UK and joining Bomber Command based at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk. 622 Squadron was established on 13th of August 1943 and conducted attacks on German industrial targets until April 1945. Flying a Stirling MIII BF251 the crew departed on 23rd of August 1943 at 20.45 hours, The Operation Name was Berlin. Frank's aircraft crashed near Doberitz, Germany on 24th of August 1943. Frank was aged 24. His name is on the RAF War Memorial at Runnymede and on the War Memorial in Whangarei NZ.Carol Walker
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Sgt. Andrew John Kerr Steven. Royal Air Force, 78 Squadron. (d.24th August 1943) The week before he died John Steven was on the raid of Peenemunde but his aircraft crash landed just after departure. All the crew survived with only the captain suffering any injuries. The captain remained in hospital for a short time and the rest of the crew, apart from my uncle, John, were sent to training units.
He joined a new crew for the next raid, Berlin, on the night of the 23rd/24th of August 1943 as the navigator. For some reason that I have been unable to discover, he baled out just after completing the bombing of Berlin. Unfortunately, he drowned in a lake. You may say he was unlucky but I think he was fated to die as the crew of the aircraft died when they were shot down over France the following week. A John K Steven
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Flt.Sgt. Victor Alfred Weaver. Royal Air Force, 90 Squadron. (d.24th Aug 1943) My mother Enid Fogg's first husband was Victor Weaver from Wolverhampton (known as Vic) and he was a Flight Sergeant in 90 Squadron at Wratting Common which had been adopted in lieu of West Wickham in August 1943.
Vic and his crew died in a Stirling on a return trip from a bombing raid on the city of Germany on the night of 23rd/24th of 1943. The plane was shot down by enemy fire and crashed in the Ijsselmeer, some 15km East of Marken. Four crew members are named on the panels at Runnymede Memorial, one of whom is Victor Alfred Weaver and two lie at Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery, while Sgt A.E.Lloyd rests in Vollenhove (Stad - Vollenhove) General Cemetery. The crew members were
- F/S K W Longmore RAAF
- Sgt R L Jones
- Sgt C J Purcell
- Sgt L M Stormer RCAF
- F/S V A Weaver
- Sgt A E Lloyd
- Sgt G C Jeffreys
Vic left his childhood sweetheart and five month old baby son called Brian. My mother married my father after the war, who had been a Japanese prisoner of war for four years in Stanley Camp Kowloon. As a child I remember vividly visiting Runnymede Memorial with my parents and being too young to understand why my mother was so upset there. She had obviously found Vic's name on a panel. Despite re marrying, my mother told me a year before her death in 2005 that she had always had a place in her heart for Vic and was proud that he had taken part in fighting for Britain and her son's freedom from Nazi tyranny. On the 11th of November 2018, we will remember them. Margaret Horrox
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