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1206592 F/O. Derek Howse Royal Air Force 51 Squadron from:Harborne, Birmingham (d.26th Jun 1943) I again visited the graves of the crew of a Halifax - JD261 - that was lost on a raid on Gelsenkirchen and put a British Legion cross on all crew man's graves of this aircraft that included my wife's uncle, Flying Officer Derek Howse. I am of Dutch birth and married the niece of D G Howse. My father was in the Dutch Resistance and so I have been brought up on the history of this conflict that affected my family too. The attached photo is of some crew members, one on the extreme right being D G Howse. One can not fail to be moved by the smiles of young and brave men standing by their aircraft. If there are any family members of these men reading this, then I hope that they might care to identify who the others in the photo are, please. 133877 Flying Officer Derek Howse served as an Air Bomber with the 51st Squadron Royal Air Force during WW2 and was killed, age 22, on the night of 25/26th June 1943. He is buried in Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery. Derek was the Son of George Henry Howse, and of Mary Howse, of Harborne, Warwickshire. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.