Aircrew Remembered Aviation Personal Histories and Databases (2024)

#Name*First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.BornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See NoteAircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMissionIncidentFateCommemoratedPhoto (Click to Expand)Referring DatabaseNotesLinks/Archive Reports2001SymesFelix John StewartCpt172271Age 27PassengerArmyArmy Air Corp2nd SAS Regt.1944-07-23StirlingIVLJ882L9-HRAF Fairford, GloucestershireSOE 'Rupert' See archive report for further details KilledGraffigny-Chemin Communal Cemetery. Collective grave 12-22 Read Archive Report2002TalbotHenry JamesPilot Officer45946Age 24PassengerRAFCoastal Command 18 Group98Sqn
1941-05-26Fairy BattleIP2330Kaldadarnes, IcelandFerry Flight from KaldararnesDisappearedKilledReykjavik Cemetery (Fossvogur) Grave C46-20. Son of Henry James Talbot and Phyllis Talbot, of North Shields, Northumberland.
In August 2000, melting ice on a remote glacier on Iceland revealed the wreck of Battle P2330 and its crew, the aircraft having disappeared whilst on a ferry flight from Kaldrarnes, Pilot Flying Officer Arthur Kavhan Round (36201), Wireless-Operator Flight Sergeant Reginald Albert Hopkins (751763), passengers Flight Sergeant Keith Garrett (620449) and Pilot Officer Henry James Talbot (45946) were buried at Reykavik War Cemetery on Sunday August 27th 2000.2003TallisDudley Arthur RonaldPilot Officer48958Age 21Air/GnrDFM

RAFBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1942-05-30WellingtonICR1235OR-ORAF Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwickshire2255KolnSee archive report for further detailsKilled Age 21Rheinberg War Cemetery. Collective grave 14.C. 15-19Son of Cornelius Leslie and Nellie May Tallis, of Shirley, Birmingham, EnglandRead Archive Report2004TallisDudley Arthur RonaldSergeant48958 (624867 ?)Shirley, BirminghamAir/GnrRAFBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1940-11-14WhitleyVP5097DY-QLinton on Ouse1642BerlinCrashed near King's Lynn NorfolkInjured2005TallisDudley Arthur RonaldSergeant48958 (624867 ?)Shirley, BirminghamAir/GnrRAFBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1940-11-06WhitleyVT4135DY-SLinton on Ouse2015MerseburgCrashed landing at base2006TallisDudley Arthur RonaldSergeant48958 (624867 ?)Shirley, BirminghamAir/GnrRAFBomber Command102Sqn (Ceylon)
1940-12-21WhitleyT4273DY-OCrash landed on return2007TannerSidney ThomasSergeant578649Flight EngineerRAFBomber Command78 Sqn
1944-06-07HalifaxIIIMZ636EY:TRAF Breighton, Yorkshire22:59JuvisySee Archive report for detailsKilledBretigny-Sur-Orge Communal Cemetery. Collective grave 2
Read Archive Report2008TannerArthur JamesSergeant4131481920New ZealanderPilotRNZAFBomber Command15Sqn
1942-10-16StirlingIR9312LS-CBourn1815GardeningHit by flak the a/c crashed at Pont due Cens NW outskirts of Nantes at 0030 hrs. The a/c ran 200 meters on its belly, crossing four parcels of land, scattering its components throughout its course and tearing the hedgesKilledNantes Communal Cemetery Plot L Row B Grave 9Son of Francis Arthur and Gladys May Tanner, of Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand2009TansleyEric ArthurPilot Officer151744Bomb AimerDFC

RAFVRBomber Command158Sqn
1944-06-02HalifaxIIILV792NP:ERAF Lissett22:16TrappesSee archive report for detailsSafeRead Archive Report2010TatarSemon GeorgePilot Officer42684Age ?CanadaObserverRAFCoastal Command248Sqn1940-05-20BlenheimIVFP8437WR-?RAF Gosport, HampshireTraining FlightCaught in slipstream of 42 squadron Beaufort I L4501. See archive report for further brief detailsMissing - believed killedRunnymede Memorial. Panel 10rom Courtenay, British Columbia , Canada. No further details - further information sought.

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2011TaylorLachlanSig.2385791Age 21PassengerArmyRACAttd. GHQ Liaison Regt1944-07-23StirlingIVLJ882L9-HRAF Fairford, GloucestershireSOE 'Rupert' See archive report for further details KilledGraffigny-Chemin Communal Cemetery. Collective grave 12-22 Read Archive Report2012TaylorWilliam JamesSergeant40777520 November 1914, Port Pirie, SA, AustraliaAustralianWireless Operator/Air GunnerRAAFBomber Command460 Sqn RAAF
1942-07-02WellingtonIVZ1381UV:HBreighton23:27BremenSee Archive Report for detailsKiAReichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 15 Row C Grave 14.Archive Report2013TaylorKenneth AlseyPilot Officer568299PilotRAFVRBomber Command218 Sqn
1943-01-27StirlingIN6077HA:VRAF Downham Market, Norfolk17:03GardeningSee archive report for further detailsKilledHannover War Cemetery. Coll. Grave 3. A11-17
Read Archive Report2014TaylorArthur NormanFlight Sergeant 1537765(Age 29)UKAir BomberRAFVRBomber Command300Sqn (Polish)
1944-08-26RAF Faldingworth. Location : . , Rheinberg War Cemetery - Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal, Germany. Coll Grave, Plot 18, Row A, Graves 21-25
Son of Arthur and Eveline Taylor, of Belfast, Northern Ireland; husband of Marion Taylor2015TaylorNorman Henry ArthurWarrant Officer Class IR84381CanadianWireless Op/Air GunnerRCAFBomber Command405Sqn RCAF
1943-06-11HalifaxIIHR797LQ-AGransden Lodge2300DusseldorfFlak damaged near Amsterdam, ditched in the North Sea, 80 km west of IJmuiden NLDied of exposureRunnymedeParadie database2016TaylorHarold AlvanSergeantR/55406CanadianObserverRCAFBomber Command44Sqn
1941-08-31HampdenIAD726KM-YWaddington2040KölnCrashed in the North Sea 25 miles east of Harwich, Essex.KilledAdegem Canadian War cemetery IV.F.11.Paradie Archive Database Washed ashore on Belgium coast

Son of Arthur W. and Alice I. Lynn Taylor, of Richmond, Province of Quebec

2017TaylorVincent NelsonSergeant818137October 1920 in Monkton, Pembroke, WalesFlight EngineerRauxAFBomber Command57 Sqn
1944-12-11LancasterIPD263DX:GEast Kirkby12:33Heimbach Dam (Urfttalsperre), GermanyThe aircraft crashed in an isolated wood at Gemund Forst near to the target at Heimbach. Reason for loss unknownKilledRheinberg War Cemetery Coll.Grave 10.A. 1-4
The crew were initially buried near their crashed aircraft and reinterred on the 1st April 1947

Son of Arthur Francis and Gertrude Muriel (née Cook) Taylor. Husband to Dorothy Mary (née Cleaver) Taylor of Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

2018TaylorDouglas Arthur AllenSergeant1321755RAFVRBomber Command75Sqn RNZAF
1943-07-05StirlingIIIEF436AA-AMepal2345Gardening Stirling was lost without trace whilst on a mine-laying sortie (Gardening) off the Frisian island. Claimed by Oblt Georg-Hermann Greiner Killed Age 21Runnymede Panel 166.Stirling EF436, piloted by Flight Sergeant R. Thomas, was lost without trace whilst on a mine-laying sortie off the Fresian islands, on 5-6 July 1943. All the crew were killed. Reliable reports from the Dutch said that the aircraft had been shot down by a night fighter over the sea, 12 miles North West of Terscherlling (the middle island of the Southern Frisian Group) at approximately 02:31 hours. The night fighter was captained by Oblt. Georg-Hermann Grenier, of IV/NJG1, this was his sixth kill out of a total of 51. The kill is confirmed in Grenier’s war records.

Attacker Oblt Georg-Hermann Greiner

2019TaylorArthur FrederickSergeant18199231925Air Gunner (Mid Upper)RAFVRBomber Command77 Sqn
1944-06-22HalifaxIIIMZ702KN:QFull Sutton22:45LaonFrom Sgt Dade’s statement: At about 00:40 hrs en route home a terrific bang was felt on the port side of the a/c which rocked the a/c all over the sky. Fg Off Hoar and Sgt Hagger bailed out of the aircraft. Sgt Dale took the skippers parachute up to the co*ckpit and found him slumped over the stick. He tried to move the pilot but then the aircraft went into a dive after which he clipped on his parachute and bailed out. As he floated down to his left he saw an explosion as the a/c hit the water.KilledRunnymede Memorial Panel 238Son of Fred and Elsie Taylor, of Hinckley, Leicestershire2020TaylorArthur Charles HiltonSergeant413914AustraliaRAAF22Sqn RAAF
1943-05-24RAAF Honour Roll2021TaylorJohn ArthurSergeant1355410Age 25Wireless Operator/Air GunnerRAFVRBomber Command11 Operational Training Unit. 6 Group1941-10-11WellingtonIcT2556K RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire 2035Training See archive report for further brief details KilledCity Of London Cemetery And Crematorium, Manor Park. Square 240. Grave 109839 Read Archive Report 2022TaylorRaymond JonathanLACNZ/442296Age 22New ZealandPassengerRNZAFTransport Command40 Squadron (RNZAF)1945-09-24C-47B DakotaNZ3526-Whenuapai, Auckland, New Zealand530TransitSee archive report for further brief details and his lossMissing - believed killedBourail Memorial. Panel 9 Courtesy AWMMBorn on the 07 May 1923 at Mosgier. Enlisted on the 04th May 1944 at Harewood. Son of George Taylor and of Isabella McKay Taylor (née Shore), of Allanton, Otago, New Zealand. A patrolman serving with No. 3 Service Unit.

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2023TedderArthur Richard BrianFlying Officer7066621st July 1916 in LondonPilotRAFBomber Command139 Sqn (Jamaica)
1940-08-03BlenheimIVL9239XD:NRAF Horsham St Faiths06:07Cherbourg AerodromesSee archive report for further detailsKilledBayeux War Cemetery. Collective grave XVI. C.23Read Archive Report2024TerryFrank ArthurPilot Officer1395091923PilotRAFVRBomber Command7 Sqn
1943-04-10StirlingIR9275MG:YOakington23:27FrankfurtProbable claim by Flakgruppe Saar, 1./schw. Flak Abt. 742, 4./schw. Flak Abt.365 and 3./schw. Flak Abt. 637 coming down at Koerich, 14km WNW of Luxemburg.at 04:00 hrs.

As far as it can be deduced this crew were the only Bomber Command crew to lose their lives in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg during 1943 (Nachtjagd Combat Archive (1 January - 22 June) 1943 Part 1 - Theo Boiten)

KilledLuxembourg (Hollerich) Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave 12-17
Son of Arthur Benjamin and Isabel Francis Terry, of Strood, Kent2025TerryArthur LewisWarrant Officer409770AustraliaRAAF17 OTU RAF1944-06-08RAAF Honour Roll2026Terry JrJohn BinfordSergeant3492644925th April 1914AmericanBall Turret GunnerAM (2 Oak Leaf Clusters)

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USAAF8th Air Force848th Bomber Squadron (490th Bombardment Group (H))1945-03-17B-17G43-380467W:?Eye (Station #134), Suffolk, EnglandBitterfeld, GermanySee Archive report for detailsKiANetherlands American Cemetery, Margraten in Plot B, Row 17, Grave 28
Archive Report2027TetraultJoseph Octave Arthur RemiFlying OfficerJ23910NavigatorRCAFBomber Command425 (Alouette) Sqn RCAF
1944-05-22HalifaxIIILK810KW:YRAF Tholthorpe, Yorkshire00:10le MansSee Archive report for detailsKilledLe Mans West Cemetery. Plot 38. 1939-45 Row C. Grave 37Paradie Archive DatabaseRead Archive Report2028TevershamFrederick StanleyBritishFarmerBomber Command426Sqn RCAF
1944-03-09HalifaxVIILW206OW:QRAF Linton on Ouse, Yorkshire15:17VolkelSee Archive reportKilled Archive Report on loss2029ThomasAlbertSergeant1652801NavigatorRAFVRBomber Command35Sqn (Madras Presidency)
1944-12-24LancasterIIIPB366TL-SRAF Graveley, Cambridgeshire1535Koln See archive report for further details KilledYystalyfera (St.David) Church burial ground, LLangiwg Read Archive Report 2030ThomasArthur Evans CoslettFlight SergeantR19123115th September 1922 in Goven, SakatchewanCanadianAir Gunner (Rear)RCAFBomber Command106 Sqn
1944-06-27LancasterILL974ZN:PMetheringham22:55VitryClaim by Hptm Hans-Karl Kamp Stab III./NJG4 - 2-15km West of Chalons-sur-Marne (AJ 2): 01:49. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive (12 May 1944 - 23 July 1944) Part 3 - Theo Boiten). Crashed at Thibie (Marne), 11 km WSW from the centre of Châlons-sur-Marne.KilledDieppe Canadian War Cemetery, Hautot-sur-Mer, M.14Paradie Archive DatabasePosthumously commissioned and promoted to Plt Off. (J88633)

Son of David Coslett and Mary Jane Thomas, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

2031ThomasArthur WilliamSergeant1437035UKAir GunnerRAFVRBomber Command106Sqn
1943-02-03LancasterIW4770ZN-OSyerston1805Hamburg?KilledHannover War Cemetery grave 11. F. 17. GermanyAccident ReportCWGC2032ThomasArthur EdgarSergeant1262993Bomb AimerRAFVRBomber Command78Sqn
1942-09-26HalifaxIIW7822EY-Linton on Ouse2009FlensburgHit by II-V Zug 2/lei. Flak Abt 832 and light Sylt based Marine Flak. Crashed 1,500m East of the boat house of Hornum in Wadden Sea at 2301 hrsKilledRunnymede Memorial Panel 93At 2302hrs a message was received "may be forced to land without further signal, both outer engines unserviceable, attacked by fighters, petrol shortage". The a/c was known to be flying over the sea W of the Danish coast when the message was received. Nothing further was heard from the a/c and it failed to RTB. In 1948 it was concluded that the missing crew had lost their lives at sea.2033ThomasArthur EdgarSergeant1262993Bomb AimerRAFVRBomber Command78Sqn
1942-09-08HalifaxIIW1252EY-Middleton St George2016FrankfurtHit by flak and damaged the aircraft was later abandoned at 5,000ft in the vicinity of Abthorpe 3 miles South West of Towcaster. Prior to the pilot ordering the crew to bale out he had been attempting to make an emergency landing unfortunately every time the speed was reduced the aircraft became impossible to handleSurvived - Killed in Action 27 Sep 194278 Sqn Halifax W78222034ThomasDouglas StanleyLACNZ/436105Age 20New ZealandPassengerRNZAFTransport Command40 Squadron (RNZAF)1945-09-24C-47B DakotaNZ3526-Whenuapai, Auckland, New Zealand530TransitSee archive report for further brief details and his lossMissing - believed killedBourail Memorial. Panel 9

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Born on the 18th December 1924 at Dunedin. Enlisted on the 17th April 1943 at Omaka. Son of Stanley Thomas (died 21st January 1975, age 83) and of Cecilia Gertrude Thomas (nee McCrone - died 16th July 1966, age 74), of 196 Bay View Road, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. A wireless operator serving with No. 3 Service Unit.

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2035ThomasArthur EdwinFlight Lieutenant101580September 19102nd NavigatorRAFVRBomber Command38 Wing1942 -11-19HalifaxIIW7801?RAF Skitten17:50Operation FreshmanSee Archive report for detailsKilledHelleland Churchyard, Grave 6Read Archive Report2036ThomasYestyn LlewellynPilot OfficerJ/27202Age 22CanadaPilotRCAFTraining Command13 EFTS (RCAF)1943-11-18HarvardII3087-RCAF St. Hubert, QuebecTrainingSee archive report for further detailsKilledWhitby Cemetery (Mount Lawn). Grave Plot 1. Lot 24. Block 6. Sector G. Born on the 03rd June 1921 in Port Talbot, Wales. Educated at King St. School and Whitby High School. Worked as a Lithographic Plate Maker prior to service for Arthur and Jones 585 Adelaide Street, Toronto. Enlisted on the 25th May 1942. Trained at No. 13 Elementary Flying Training School and No. 2 Service Flying Training School.

Son of David John (A W/O 2. serving in the RCAMC - died 20th April 1987, age 88) and Mildred Daisy Thomas (née Woodco*ck - died 08th April 1969, age 75), of 425 Dundas Street, Whitby. Ontario, Canada. Brother of Richard William Thomas R89170 who also served in during WWII. Service number prior to commission R/167199. Epitaph: 'Through Adversity To The Stars'.

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2037ThompsonArthur TelfordFlying Officer39353PilotRAFBomber Command37Sqn
1939-12-18WellingtonIaN2935LF-HRAF Feltwell, Norfolk940ReconnaisanceRead archive report for further detailsMissing - believed killedRunnymede Memorial, Surrey. Panel 1 Read Archive Report 2038ThompsonCharles GeorgeSergeant1637596Flight EngineerRAFVRBomber Command166Sqn
1943-12-16LancasterIIIJB639AS-SRAF Kirmington, Lincolnshire1620BerlinCrashed at Little Walk Farm, Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire on returnKilledCambridge City Cemetery Grave 14716A Read Archive Report 2039ThompsonCharles EdwardPilot Officer1487611915NavigatorRAFVRBomber Command100Sqn
1943-06-21LancasterIIIED556HW-BGrimsby2309KrefeldCrashed at 0132 hours at Rucphen (Noord Brabant), 6 km E of Roosendaal, Holland.KilledBergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery 24.B.2
Son of Charles Arthur and Margaret Mary Thompson; husband of Winifred Olive Thompson, of Quinton, Birmingham2040ThompsonThomas RobinsonSergeant10626881922Wireless Operator/Air GunnerRAFVRBomber Command226Sqn
1942-08-04BostonIIIAL679MQ-XSwanton MorleyTraining Took off from RAF Swanton Morley for RAF Ouston for Operation Dryshod.

The a/c lost an engine on final approach to RAF Ouston Crashed near the airfield.

Died of woundsSheffield (Intake Village) Cemetery Section U Grave 443.The names of the other two crew members are not known

Operation Dryshod - This was an Allied amphibious training exercise by elements of what would become Lieutenant General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson’s Allied 1st Army in preparation for ‘Torch’ (August 1942).

Son of Thomas Edwin and Eva Alice Thompson, of Sheffield. His brother Ronald also died on service

2041ThompsonHector FrancisSergeant9205201920NavigatorRAFVRBomber Command50Sqn
1942-02-21HampdenIAE394VN-MSkellingthorpeKoblenzReturning from bombing a railway junction to the West of Koblenz the a/c aircraft crashed into ‘Haleys Terrace’ York at 0218 and was destroyed

The ORB records that shortly after leaving the target the Navigator became unconscious; the Pilot then set course for home base after obtaining ‘fixes’. The Navigator then recovered, but whilst coming in from the North Sea one engine failed, and the a/c then encountered severe icing conditions. Shortly after the second engine failed due to fuel exhaustion and the crew were ordered to abandon the aircraft.

KilledThurlby (St. Germain) Churchyard Joint Grave A1. Son of Arthur and Lucie Thompson, of Croydon, Surrey.

The aircraft ran low on fuel due to navigational errors and crossed the Yorkshire coast on one engine and then began to ice up. This made control difficult, and when the second engine cut the pilot ordered ‘bail out’. The pilot saw one crew member bail-out so then jumped himself; unfortunately two of the crew had not escaped and were killed when the a/c hit the road outside the Rowntrees factory at York remaining substantially intact. WO Mapp parachuted to safety but the other crew member’s parachute failed to deploy properly as he hit trees in Haxby Road and was killed. The lower escape hatches were jammed shut probably due to the ice formations on the a/c and the other two airmen were unable to get out of the aircraft before it crashed. The aircraft was destroyed. (50 Squadron in WWII)

2042ThompsonJ TFlight Sergeant1314255Air Gunner (Rear)RAFVRBomber Command617 Sqn
1944-12-21LancasterIME561KC-TWoodhall Spa16:54PolitzOn return to base the crew were ordered to divert to Ludford Magna and land by aid of FIDO, due to fog blanketing the local area. On approach to the diversion airfield, the Lancaster’s port wing brushed the ground causing the bomber to crash at 02:40 hrs at Tealby, 3 miles ENE of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.Injured

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2043ThompsonLeslie St ClairSergeant1323406Age 20BritishNavigatorRAFVRBomber Command630Sqn
1944-05-11LancasterIME737LE-SRAF East Kirby, Lincolnshire2228Bourg-LeopoldCrashed Herenthout {Antwerpen}KilledSchoonselhof Cemetery. Grave IVa.D.5
Courtesy Plane HuntersSon of Ernest St. Clair Thompson and Emily Mary Thompson, of Streatham, London, England. Epitaph: 'Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends'.

Info courtesy John Jones

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2044ThompsonArthur TheophilusCorporal2399AustraliaRAAF1Sqn RAAF
1941-05-07RAAF Honour Roll2045ThompsonPeter Horwood ArthurPilot Officer400845AustraliaRAAF2Sqn RAAF
1942-03-31RAAF Honour Roll2046ThompsonArthur AlanSergeant401199AustraliaRAAF3 (C) OTU RAF1942-03-09RAAF Honour Roll2047ThompsonArthur W.2nd LieutenantPilot OfficerO-794181AmericanNavigatorUSAAF8th Air Force93rd Bombardment Group (H), 409th Bombardment Squadron (H), 2nd Air Division1943.08.01B-24 'Honky Tonk Gal'D42-40265YM:WSite #7, Benghazi, LibyaPloesti (Operation Tidal Wave), RomaniaSee Archive report for detailsPoW, Unknown campRead Archive Report2048ThorleyArthur FrancisFlying Officer3929AustraliaRAAFRAAF 2 Air Ambulance1943-09-17RAAF Honour Roll2049ThorntonRichard AndrewPilot Officer155349W/Op/Air/GnrRAFVRBomber Command408Sqn RCAF
1943-10-22LancasterIIDS778EQ-URAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire1756Kassel See archive report for further information KilledHanover War Cemetery. Collective grave 15.G.2-7 Read Archive Report 2050ThorntonArthur ThomasPilot Officer410792AustraliaRAAF103Sqn RAF
1944-04-10RAAF Honour Roll