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19th June 1944On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Abraham Cyril Ernest. (d.19th June 1944)
- Abraham Cyril Ernest. A/Able Sea. (d.19th Jun 1944)
- Apitz Kenneth John Nielsen. Flt.Sgt. (d.19th June 1944)
- Cooper Norman Athol . Flt.Sgt. (d.19th June 1944)
- McCallum Joseph. Ldg.Sea. (d.19th Jun 1944)
- Oyston Roger Lightfoot. Capt. (d.19th Jun 1944)
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Stories from 19th June 1944
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Abbott. RAF, Military Police. A flying bomb which dropped out of the sky on June 19th 1944, at approx' 9.30pm. I was 14 at the time and used to sit on our coping with an old pair of opera glasses and a steel helmet, watching all the doodlebugs flying over. I watched this particular one passing right over where I was sitting and suddenly the motor stopped I raced indoors shouting to my Mum and Dad (on leave RAF police) to duck as I slammed the front door. The bomb hit the area behind a row of shops and a surface shelter, I was rather cut up by glass from the front door and smashed my right arm. Unfortunately my friend Roy Reid next door lost his Mum and baby brother, I believe there were 17 or more killed, my parents received some injuries from glass, etc. This all took place between 86 Gaskarth Road sw12 and Hazlebourne Road and the surrounding area of London. The first on the scene were The Salvation Army and the Boy Scouts. Robert Abbott
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Capt. Roger Lightfoot Oyston. British Army, 2nd Btn. Derbyshire Yeomanry. (d.19th Jun 1944) I am trying to find out about the war history of my father and also if possible to locate some existing English family members of my father - Roger Lightfoot Oyston, who died in June, 1944 on D day in Normandy.
I was born in September 1944. Three years later my mother remarried and moved with her children and new husband back to her family in Melbourne, Australia. My step-father was John Balawaider - a demobbed member of the Polish Air Force, who had been stationed in Britain.
It would be of great value to me to discover any information about my father and his family. He was born in 1912, in Bridlington, Yorkshire, travelling to Australia prior to WW2, where he met my mother. They moved to Britain where my mother lived until 1947.
I have a commemorative certificate bequethed by my mother that states that my father died for his "King and Country" as a member of the Derbyshire Yeomanry.
My mother's name was Sheila Florance. She built up a singular career as an actress, most notably in "Prisoner" in Australia and also internationally. Philip Michael Oyston
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Ldg.Sea. Joseph McCallum. Royal Navy, HMS President III. (d.19th Jun 1944) Joseph McCallum died aged 27, he was born in Jarrow in 1917, son of John William and Mary Annie McCallum (nee Knight) of Jarrow.
He is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.Vin Mullen
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Flt.Sgt. Norman Athol Cooper. Royal Australian Air Force, 59 Squadron. (d.19th June 1944) Norman Athol Cooper's place of rest is the Tamlaght Finlagan Church of Ireland Churchyard in Ballykelly, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.Doug McElroy
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Flt.Sgt. Kenneth John Nielsen Apitz. Royal Australian Air Force, 59 Squadron. (d.19th June 1944) Kenneth Apitz's place of rest is the Tamlaght Finlagan Church of Ireland Churchyard in Ballykelly, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.Doug McElroy
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A/Able Sea. Cyril Ernest Abraham. Royal Navy, SS Garoet. (d.19th Jun 1944) My great-uncle Cyril Abraham was just 22 years old when he was lost with all but 10 hands on the S.S. Garoet, a Dutch steam merchant vessel of 7,118 tons built in 1917. On 19th of June 1944, when en route from Bombay and Marmagoa to Durban, she was torpedoed by German submarine U-181 and sunk. From a total crew of 99, 89 crew were lost.
Cyril had been detailed to the SS Garoet, it is told in our family, after he either overstayed his leave or went AWOL to attend, and be best man at, his younger brother's wedding in Northampton in December 1943. As the story goes, he was detailed as a member of the DEMS (Defence Equipped Merchant Ships), gunners especially trained at shore bases like HMS President III, for defence on merchant vessels. They were typically equipped with 12-pounder anti-aircraft guns, 3-inch or 6-inch guns, or older Lewis guns. They operated whatever guns were installed on supply ships on critical missions, and the postings were considered highly hazardous. Our family believes that Cyril was posted on a particularly dangerous route as part of his punishment for the leave violation.
S.S. Garoet, operating in the Indian Ocean and taking supplies from India to Africa, was hit by two torpedoes fired by U-181 and sank within two minutes. Eleven days later, on 30th of June, 5 crewmen were picked up by the British mule transport S.S. Nirvana and taken to Durban. On 4th of July, 5 other crew were rescued after 16 days at sea and having drifted over 550 miles WNW, they were landed at Mauritius on 9th of July. Kim Ribbans
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