Airspeed Horsa – aankomen zonder terugweg
De Horsa had geen motor. Geen geluid dat je komst aankondigde. Alleen de wind langs de romp en het besef dat je maar één kans had. Wat begon als een vlucht, eindigde altijd op de grond. En hoe die grond eruitzag, wist niemand zeker.
In de buik van het toestel zaten mannen dicht op elkaar. Wapens, uitrusting, stilte. Geen gesprek, alleen korte blikken. Iedereen wist wat er ging gebeuren. De sleepkabel hield hen nog vast aan het grotere vliegtuig, ergens voor hen in de lucht. Tot het moment kwam dat die verbinding werd losgelaten.
Dan was er alleen nog glijden. Geen weg terug. Geen tweede poging. De piloten stuurden het toestel naar een plek die vaak in het donker lag, soms gemarkeerd, vaak niet. Een veld, een dijk, een open stuk grond tussen bomen en obstakels.
De landing was hard. Altijd. Hout kraakte, aarde sloeg tegen de romp, en binnen werd alles even door elkaar geschud. Maar daarna ging het snel. De deuren open, mannen naar buiten, direct het terrein in. De missie begon op het moment dat het vliegen stopte.
Veel Horsas bleven achter als wrak in het landschap. Gebroken vleugels, gescheurde romp. Ze waren nooit bedoeld om terug te keren. Hun werk was gedaan op het moment dat ze stil lagen.
De Horsa staat voor een ander soort moed. Niet het gevecht in de lucht, maar het vertrouwen in een landing zonder zekerheid. Stil aankomen, en meteen beginnen.
| ADAMS | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, D Squadron. Originally reported missing. Killed when he was thrown through perspex windscreen of Horsa Glider Chalk number 457 as it ditched in the sea off Felixstowe, at high speed, following the shift in the load of a jeep and trailer belonging to a Royal Artillery Forward Observation Unit. The glider broke up. Co-pilot Sgt K. Waterman and six passengers hung onto debris until they were rescued by Air Sea Rescue HSL 2687 from Felixstowe.. . ADAMS - Lieutenant - - |
| ADAMS | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Glider carrying a jeep and two trailers of artillery ammunition, left Down Ampney. When almost over Landing Zone, in free flight, a flak burst close to their right wing rocked the glider; Sgt Adams was hit by shrapnel and slumped in his seat. Sgt Rochard Ennis could not recover flying control, they overshot the Landing Zone and hit some trees, Sgt Ennis, still strapped into his seat, was catapulted through the perspex windscreen and Sgt Adams was crushed by load shifting. First buried in a garden behind psychiatric home at Wolfheze by co-pilot Sgt Richard Ennis and two passengers from glider. . ADAMS - Serjeant - - |
| ALLAN | 1942-05-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | 16 EFTS, Burnaston. nan. At 1910 hrs Miles Magister L 8356 spun in after control lost, at Draycott-in-the Clay, Staffs (SW of Derby). Cause unknown.. . ALLAN - Corporal - - |
| ALLEN | 1942-09-15 00:00:00 | RNZAF nan | 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington. nan. At 0200 hrs Hector K 9706 towing Hotspur BT 505 flew into the ground in low cloud at night near Wytham, Oxon. Pilot (127049 Plt Offr Weller-Poley, Hugh Thomas, RAFVR, buried All Saints', Boxted, Suffolk) and 412180 Sgt Allen, Alistair William, RNZAF, buried Kidlington, both killed. Cause unknown. . . ALLEN - Serjeant - - |
| ALLISON | 24-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . ALLISON - Serjeant - - |
| ANDERSON | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . ANDERSON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| ANDERSON | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, B Squadron. Killed in Action. Originally reported missing in the vicinity of the 'Valkenburg Laan' in Oosterbeek, not far from the white house. The remains of an 'unknown officer' were found in the wood 30 yards north of the track and this is thought to be Lt Anderson as there were only Glider Pilots and 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers in this position and they have all been accounted for excepyt Lt Anderson.. . ANDERSON - Lieutenant - - |
| ANDREWS | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried behind Hotel Hartenstein . . ANDREWS - Serjeant - - |
| ANKERS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Shot by sniper just after landing Horsa Glider No.273. Found propped up against the wheel of his glider by American troops. First buried US Military Cemetery Margaraten . . ANKERS - Flying Officer - - |
| ANSELL | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . ANSELL - Serjeant - - |
| ARMSTRONG | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . ARMSTRONG - Trooper - - |
| ASHWORTH | 1942-10-02 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. Accidentally killed in glider accident. At 1200 hrs Hotspur BT 668 crashed into ground after carrying out a steep dive approach and having insufficient time to pull out of the dive, in field NE of airfield. 4915180 Pte Washington, William, 2nd Batt, South Staffordshire Regt, buried Burslem Cemetery, Stoke-on-Trent, also killed. . ASHWORTH - Corporal - - |
| ASTOR | 24 Mar 45 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . ASTOR - Serjeant - - |
| ATKINSON | 1942-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 2 Glider Training School, Weston. nan. At 1125 hrs Hotspur BT 624 broke up in the air when tug (Miles Master 2 DL 516) stalled & crashed, near Chesterton (SW of Bicester). Tug pilot(1202492 Sgt Watson, Albert Victor, RAFVR, buried Leicester (Belgrave) E.587) also killed.. . ATKINSON - Corporal - - |
| AUSTIN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Killed by friendly fire.Originally buried at Hamminkeln, later reburied in Reichswald War Cemetery. . AUSTIN - Flying Officer - - |
| AYLOTT | 9-10 Jul 43 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . AYLOTT - Serjeant - - |
| BAIRD | 1944-01-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | nan. nan. nan. . BAIRD - Serjeant - - |
| BAKER | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried at Pietersbergseweg near the Hotel Tafelberg. . BAKER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BAKER | 1943-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | Operation ELABORATE. Later ferrying of gliders to North Africa . Horsa HF 109 was prematurely released by Halifax DG 384 off Portugal coast and force landed in the Bay of Biscay. . BAKER - Serjeant - - |
| BAKER | 1945-04-07 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 671 Sqn, Bikram. nan. At 12390 hrs dived into the ground whilst in low flight (possibly stalled off steep climbing turn) and burst into flames 4m SW of Bikram.. . BAKER - Fg-Offr - - |
| BANKS | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 14 Flight, F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed with SSgt W Colin McLaren, Sgt H Parkinson and two others,when two Germam FW 190's attacked Glider Pilot lines oppisite the Hartenstein. First buried in front of the Hotel Tafelberg . . BANKS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BARCLAY | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . BARCLAY - Captain - - |
| BARKER | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . BARKER - Serjeant - - |
| BARON | 1943-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation ELABORATE. Later ferrying of gliders to North Africa . Horsa HF 109 was prematurely released by Halifax DG 384 off Portugal coast and force landed in the Bay of Biscay. . BARON - Serjeant - - |
| BARRIE | 1944-10-02 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Second in Command, G Squadron. Hit while leading patrol, and Died of Wounds. First buried beside Dreyenseweg, 50 metres north of Oosterbeek Station . . BARRIE - Captain - - |
| BASHFORTH | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 8 Flight, D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Mortally Wounded. Originally reported missing . . BASHFORTH - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BASKETT | 1942-10-02 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion, 1st Wing | 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington. nan. Accidentally killed in glider accident. At 1050 hrs Hotspur HH 146 attempting a steep dive approach, and having insufficient time to pull out of the dive, crashed on edge of airfield. Cpl Quarrell was killed outright and Sgt Baskett died in hospital.. . BASKETT - Serjeant - - |
| BATES | 1944-01-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | nan. nan. Died in Fall at Shrewsbury . . BATES - Serjeant - - |
| BATTERSBY | 1945-03-03 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment Independent Squadron | nan. nan. While on parachutist course at Goia dell' Collé, Italy (training for advance DZ clearance parties) Lockheed Hudson dropped a wing and spun into the ground 5 m NW of Giola. Crew, despatchers and two RAF passengers also killed. Possibly killed whilst taking part in a practice parachute drop. . . BATTERSBY - Serjeant - - |
| BAXTER | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed when Horsa glider, Chalk No.365, carrying two jeeps and two troops of No.2 Section, A Troop, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron, crashed and overturned on landing on Landing Zone Z. First buried near a glider in a large field south of the track west of the Psychiatric Hospital at Wolfheze . . BAXTER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BEARE | 1945-06-15 00:00:00 | RAF E Squadron | nan. nan. Committed Suicide. . BEARE - Sergeant - - |
| BEDDOWS | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 119 landed in sea . . BEDDOWS - Serjeant - - |
| BEEVERS | 1942-08-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 1 Glider Training School, Croughton. nan. At 1600 hrs Hotspur BT 793 released when tug's engine failed whilst on cross-country exercise but glider stalled and crashed at Charlbury (N of Croughton). Tug believed to be Hector K 8161. . BEEVERS - Corporal - - |
| BELL | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E/F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Drowned. His bodt was recovered from river Lek, near Tull en't Waal 25 February 1945. . BELL - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BELL | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . BELL - Flt-Sgt - - |
| BENNETT | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider was carrying men of South Staffordshire Regiment ditched in the sea, SSgt Howard and some of the infantrymen survived. . BENNETT - Serjeant - - |
| BENNETT | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . BENNETT - Serjeant - - |
| BENNETT | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . BENNETT - Serjeant - - |
| BEVERIDGE | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Glider 39 (LH 234) hit anti-landing poleon final descent . . BEVERIDGE - Serjeant - - |
| BEWLEY | 1944-12-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, G Squadron. POW. Died of Wounds in a Hospital at Apeldoorn. First buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery . . BEWLEY - Lieutenant - - |
| BINNINGTON | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried beside Dreyenseweg, 50 metres north of the station. . BINNINGTON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BLACKBURN | 1944-05-13 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | 1 HGSU, Tarrant Rushton. nan. Accidentally killed in gliding accident. Whilst on a Night Flying Exercise, at 0215 hrs Horsa LH 520 (1 HGSU), overshot landing and hit tug aircraft, Halifax LL 334 of 298 Sqn which was parked on dispersal with red obstruction light. 1st pilot (2573667 SSgt J. Halford) seriously injured.. . BLACKBURN - Serjeant - - |
| BOND | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Found near wreckage of his glider. . BOND - Flight Sergeant - - |
| BONHAM | 19-20 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Chalk No.124 carrying a jeep plus trailer, two motorcycles and four troops from No.1 Troop of the Polish Anti-Tank Battery, was towed by 644 Squadron Halifax LL357 9U-P, flown by W/O Wells, received two bad flak holes in its port mainplane, caused by large calibre ack-ack. The glider was sucessfully released and was making what appeared to be a perfect touchdown in Landing Zone 'L' near Papendal, when suddenly the nose wheel dug in anda wave of earth was thrown up as the cockpit broke up. The pilots were first buried in a copse close to the glider, Papendal / Johannahoeve . A Polish soldier, Stanislas Pawlowski was also killed . . BONHAM - Serjeant - - |
| BONSEY | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in a garden of a house on Stationsweg. . BONSEY - Serjeant - - |
| BOON | 1944-11-04 00:00:00 | RAFVR 9 RAF course | 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon. nan. Mid-air collision between Hotspur BT 508 (Walker) and HH 134 (Boon) at 1415 hrs on 3 November 19 44 over SE of airfield whilst approaching to land. Sgt J F Boon transferred to 135 USA Generak Hospital at Leominster, but died 0200 hrs 4 November 1944.. . BOON - Serjeant - - |
| BOORMAN | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . BOORMAN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BOORMAN | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the Hotel Schoonord . . BOORMAN - Serjeant - - |
| BORTON | 1943-05-16 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 5 Squadron, 1st Battalion | 295 Sqn, Holmsley South. nan. At 1215 hrs Halifax DG 390 whilst on a flight to retrieve a glider lost control at low altitude following failure of starboard inner engine and crashed 2 miles NNE of Sopley. All three of 5 Sqn and 4 RAF crew also killed (Pilots J10798 Fg-Offr Smith RCAF, J10509 Fg-Offr Collins RCAF, plus presumably flight engineer and rear gunner).. . BORTON - Serjeant - - |
| BOSLEY | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa glider 5003 with radar equipment was towed by 295 Squadron Short Stirling L1633 8E-F, piloted by Flt Lieut Kingdon from R.A.F. Harwell. Glider had tail shot off on run-up to Landing Zone and crashed near Doodewaard / Opheusden. Co-pilot SSgt J.W.R. Harris and 6 passengers of 6341 LWSU also killed (Leading Aircraftman John M. Anderson, Leading Aircraftman James C. Brooks, Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Highton, Leading Aircraftman Edwin H.Lascelles, Aircraftman 1st Class John R. Swann, F/Lt Alexander J. Tisshaw, 6341 Light Warning Unit, RAF). Both Pilots were first buried in a field between Opheusden and Dodewaard. . BOSLEY - Serjeant - - |
| BOWER | 1945-05-08 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 4 Sqn. nan. Road Traffic Accident: Golders Green. Now established to be 4 Sqn but was in original list. May have been attached to H Sqn where an RAF officer was reported killed on VE night when a 15 cwt lorry on liberty run to London crashed at Golders Green.. . BOWER - Flying Officer - - |
| BOWERMAN | 1942-10-03 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion,1st Wing | 29 EFTS, Clyffe Pypard. nan. At 1010 hrs on 30 Sep 42 Miles Magister V 1026 stalled on final turn for forced-landing approach and crashed at Purton, 7m NNW of airfield. Instructor (47721 Plt Offr Graves, Peter John, RAF, buried St. Peter, Clyffe Pypard 3 Oct) killed and Bowerman died of injuries.. . BOWERMAN - Corporal - - |
| BOWLER | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR A Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Killed when Horsa Glider PW 231 was hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed, Flight Sgt Bowler and his second pilot were killed by advancing enemy forces. . BOWLER - Flight Sergeant - - |
| BOYD | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Squadron Quartermaster, B Squadron. Hid on Horsa to stay with Squadron. Reported killed when on patrol with SSgt G.R. Briggs and SSgt A.C. Lawrence. First buried 150 metres south of Hotel Tafelberg. . BOYD - Staff Sergeant (SQMS) - - |
| BRABHAM | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Glider 42 (LH 273) tow-rope broke near French coast and glider ditched. . . BRABHAM - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BRACKSTONE | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Hamilcar 319 with a Morris Commercial C8 artillery tractor, a 17 pounder anti-tank gun and a detachment of eight men on board, overturned on landing due to the soft ground. First buried in the 'Onder de Bomen' General Cemetery, Renkum. Co-pilot SSgt J Shaw dug out by paras, had an injured shoulder and later made POW.. . BRACKSTONE - Serjeant - - |
| BRALEE | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . BRALEE - Serjeant - - |
| BRAMAH | 1947-11-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | nan. nan. Killed in a climbing accident, in fall from a mountain at Aonach Dubh, near Glencoe on 7 November 1947. Post-mortem was carried out at Ballachuilish. . BRAMAH - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BRAZIER | 23-24 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, E Squadron. Horsa Glider, Chalk Number 848 was towed by 271 Squadron Dakota which tok off from RAF Down Ampney. The load consisted of No.3 Detachment of 261 Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, a Clark Crawler bulldozer, a trailer, a motorcycle and twn troopsOriginally reported missing. First buried 100 metres north of Hotel Hartenstein. . BRAZIER - Lieutenant - - |
| BREBNER | 1945-05-11 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | nan. nan. Seriously Injured in a Road Traffic Accident near the Horse and Jockey Hotel on the Bournemouth-Winton Road, Hampshire on 9 May 1945, whilst returning to Bournemouth. Died of his injuries 11 May 1945 . . BREBNER - Flying Officer - - |
| BREBNER | 1946-06-14 00:00:00 | RAF nan | nan. nan. on Active Service. . BREBNER - Corporal - - |
| BRIGGS | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried east of a farm on Valkenburglaan. Reported killed when on patrol with SSgt J.F. Boyd and SSgt A.C. Lawrence.. . BRIGGS - Serjeant - - |
| BRIGGS | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 150 metres south of the Hotel Tafelberg . . BRIGGS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BRIGHT | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . BRIGHT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BRIGHT | 1946-08-27 00:00:00 | RAF nan | No.5 Glider Training School, Wellesbourne. nan. Kiled in flying accident. Took off from Wellesbourne on a training flight. After a short trip the crew decided to 'beat up' Gaydon airfirld. The Pilot, W/O Bright, lost control and crashed on Redlands Farm, near Chesterton Hill at 10.30 killeing both occupants. . BRIGHT - Warrant Officer - - |
| BRIM | 1944-03-31 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | ORTU. nan. At 1000 hrs Tiger Moth DE 620 of GPEU stalled in loop during low-level aerobatics and dived into ground near Hanging Langford, NW of Salisbury from about 500 ft.. . BRIM - Serjeant - - |
| BRISCOE | 1945-04-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, E Squadron. POW. Escaped from hospital at OfLag 9A and vanished. First buried in Margaraten U.S. Military Cemetery . . BRISCOE - Lieutenant - - |
| BROADHEAD | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 124. . BROADHEAD - Serjeant - - |
| BROMLEY | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Believed explosives detonated on heavy landing. . BROMLEY - Lieutenant - - |
| BROWN | 1944-04-28 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 1 HGSU, Fairford. nan. Killed in gliding accident. At 2145 hrs tail broke off, tow-rope broke, and glider spiralled into ground 7miles south of Hungerford, Berkshire. Original roll stated "Coombe" and location is probably Combe, near Linkenholt, Andover. . . BROWN - Serjeant - - |
| BROWN | 1945-03-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. POW. Originally reported missing . . BROWN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BROWN | 24-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Chalk No 164 containing six troops and six motorcycles from HQ/Signals Platoon of !st Battalion, Border Regiment, after an abortive flight in which they landed west of Oxford, near Hinton Waldrist on 17 September. They took off in second lift of 18 September. Originally reported missing. First buried near the House Sonnenberg . . BROWN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BROWN | 1943-10-01 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker (Course 14, D Flt) . nan. Cpl J B Brown in Tiger Moth T 6387 undershot, opened up engine to clear ground., raised the nose and swung left into Miles Magister T 9750, which was approaching to land behind. LSgt G L Vince died at Halton in afternoon. Instructor in T 9750 (1332490 Flt-Sgt Millen, Stanley Arthur, RAFVR, buried Cobham, Kent) also killed.. . BROWN - Corporal - - |
| BROWN | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Body found 9 September 1945 near a brick factory on the south bank of the river Rhine, opposite Renkum and first buried Ritswaard, on the south bank of the river Rhine.. . BROWN - Serjeant - - |
| BROWN | 1942-09-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. At 1035 hrs Tiger Moth L 6943 stalled on first solo when going round after correction of landing and spun in from 60 ft. . BROWN - Corporal - - |
| BROWN | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . BROWN - Serjeant - - |
| BROWN | 1943-03-22 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 296 Sqn. nan. At 1440 hrs, on return from Ex CRUMPET,(parachute ex, part of Ex SPARoad Traffic AccidentN) Whitley LA 827 (pilot 46635 Fg Offr R.T. Hamer) collided in mid-air due to bumpy conditions when flying in formation with Whitley BD 422. LA 827 landed on one wheel at Polbrook, but BD 422 crashed near Fotheringhay. Pilot and four others reported killed. Lt F J Burgess appears to have been travelling as a passenger. (Date originally reported as 1 March 1943). . BROWN - Flight-Sergeant - - |
| BROWNE | 1944-11-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 81 OTU, Sleap. nan. At 0250 hrs Horsa LH 384 hit the gable of a house roof on approach and crashed on to the perimeter track, when pilot believed himself to be overshooting and commenced 360 degree turn to lose height. 2nd pilot (893614 Sgt C Clegg) uninjured.. . BROWNE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| BRUCE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing . . BRUCE - Serjeant - - |
| BRUCE | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . BRUCE - Serjeant - - |
| BUCKTON | 1942-10-15 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | GPEU. nan. At 15 MU, Wroughton at 1615 hrs when taking off crosswind in strong wind port wing dipped and touched ground. Glider then climbed steeply after tug cast off, stalled and crashed. R79206 Flt-Sgt Stewart, Douglas Hamilton, RCAF, buried Brookwood Military Cemetery 33.D.8. also killed.. . BUCKTON - Sergeant - - |
| BULL | 1943-03-22 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 296 Sqn. nan. At 1440 hrs, on return from Ex CRUMPET,(parachute ex, part of Ex SPARoad Traffic AccidentN) Whitley LA 827 (pilot 46635 Fg Offr R.T. Hamer) collided in mid-air due to bumpy conditions when flying in formation with Whitley BD 422. LA 827 landed on one wheel at Polbrook, but BD 422 crashed near Fotheringhay. Pilot and four others reported killed. Lt F J Burgess appears to have been travelling as a passenger. (Date originally reported as 1 March 1943). . BULL - Sergeant - - |
| BURGE | 25-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Flew in Horsa as second pilot to Nick Brown. For several days they were in a slit trench by a road, opposite a house. Burge was wounded in the ear and it bled profusely and despite the place being full of Germans, he set off to walk down the road to the first aid post. That was the last time his pilot, Nick Brown, saw him. . BURGE - Serjeant - - |
| BURGESS | 1943-03-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 296 Sqn. nan. At 1440 hrs, on return from Ex CRUMPET,(parachute ex, part of Ex SPARoad Traffic AccidentN) Whitley LA 827 (pilot 46635 Fg Offr R.T. Hamer) collided in mid-air due to bumpy conditions when flying in formation with Whitley BD 422. LA 827 landed on one wheel at Polbrook, but BD 422 crashed near Fotheringhay. Pilot and four others reported killed. Lt F J Burgess appears to have been travelling as a passenger. (Date originally reported as 1 March 1943). . BURGESS - Lieutenant - - |
| BURKE | 1942-10-23 00:00:00 | Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. Hotspur BT 723 lost tow when rope parted after tug entered cloud, and due to insufficient time to carry out successful forced landing, crashed at Holly Lodge School, Queens Drive, Liverpool.. . BURKE - Lieutenant - - |
| BURNS | 1943-01-08 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | nan. nan. At 1130 hrs a short shell from Larkhill ranges struck Tilshead camp medical centre.. . BURNS - Corporal - - |
| BURRIDGE | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried behind the Weverstraat school . . BURRIDGE - Serjeant - - |
| BURTON | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . BURTON - Serjeant - - |
| CAREY | 1942-11-26 00:00:00 | 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 1525 hrs while carrying out air experience flight for glider troops, Hotspur HH 284 stalled after release at 500 ft while in steep turn and dived into ground. 6 soldiers of 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry also killed (Total 8 killed originally reported). . CAREY - Pte - - |
| CARR | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider took off from Birch and suffered a direct hit by flak, presumably ammunition or explosives on board blew up and it broke up in mid-air and all occupants killed. . CARR - Captain - - |
| CARR | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . CARR - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CARTER | 1945-02-25 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 671 Sqn. nan. At 1320 hrs Tiger Moth NL 968, when attempting emergency landing when lost and short of fuel, tried to extend glide and stalled into the ground at near Saundatti, Karnataka.. . CARTER - Sgt - - |
| CARTLIDGE | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in Onder de Bomen General Cemetery, Renkum. . CARTLIDGE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CASSELDEN | 1943-06-27 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation BEGGAR or TURKEY BUZZARD. Ferrying of Horsas from UK to North Africa 1-28 Jun 43. Killed on Active Service - Flying Accident. Missing on ferrying trip from UK to Salé in Horsa LG 833. Halifax EB 135 also missing (names of crew held at Museum of Army Flying). . CASSELDEN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CASTLE | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Possibly first buried in the Veersweg / Benedendorpsweg area . . CASTLE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CATT | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flew Glider XX 909 when it was hit by flak and crashed in the Hamminkeln area. He was originally buried at the crash site. . CATT - Serjeant - - |
| CAVES | 1945-03-31 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. PoW. . . CAVES - Serjeant - - |
| CHADAWAY | 1942-03-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 16 EFTS, Burnaston. nan. Accidentally killed whilst flying at Burnaston. At 1720 hrs Miles Magister P 2437 Pilot commenced a banked turn to port, increased the bank until the aircraft was almost on its back, then descended in a spiral dive which became steeper and steeper. After about five turns the pilot appeared to have regained control, but when the aircraft was straight and level, the aircraft went into a spin in the opposite direction and it crashed at Dalling Lees, near Derby.. . CHADAWAY - Corporal - - |
| CHADD | 1947-05-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | nan. nan. Died of Sickness: Palestine . . CHADD - Serjeant - - |
| CHADWICK | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. In Glider No.100, with S/Sgt 'Jock' Dow, towed by 644 Squadron Handley Page Halifax LL 352 'Q', piloted by F/O W H Nichol RCAF which left Tarrant Rushton. Glider, containing a load from part of 4 Air Landing Anti-tank Battery, Royal Artillery, the tow rope broke and they cast off some 3.5 miles prematurely in smoke and crash landed in a field / orchard, at Bourgeauville, near Pont l'Eveque. The bottom of the glider being ripped out by an electricity generator. Germans came fronm their watchpoint in a nearbt churcgh tower and from the adjacent farmhouse where they were billeted. Shot and wounded in stomach whilst undoing harness and then taken by the French family into be farmhouse under German guard. Here S/Sgt gave Dick Chadwick some morphine Died of Wounds on farmhouse living room floor a few hours later. First buried by a local family near the house he had died in, but his body was exhumed and transferred in 1946 to St. Désir. S/Sgt Dow was taken Prisoner and put in a truck, but he managed to escape and with the aid of the Resistance made it back to the U.K. in September 1944. . CHADWICK - Serjeant - - |
| CHANDLER | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in a field between Benendorpsweg 119 and the van Hofwegen laundry. Some doubt about date of death as someone else present with him advised he was killed on 24 September 1944.. . CHANDLER - Serjeant - - |
| CHANDLER | 1943-06-27 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion, 1st Wing | Operation BEGGAR or TURKEY BUZZARD. Ferrying of Horsas from UK to North Africa 1-28 Jun 43. Killed on Active Service - Flying Accident. Missing on ferrying trip from UK to Salé in Horsa LG 833. Halifax EB 135 also missing (names of crew held at Museum of Army Flying). . CHANDLER - Serjeant - - |
| CHAPMAN | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | nan. nan. On a winter supply drop in Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffs: 7 crew killed along with Sgt W T Sherry who was accompanying them to see if possible to land a glider in the area and two Newspaper Reporters. . . CHAPMAN - Navigator 2 - - |
| CHARRETT | 1944-04-29 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment H.Q. | nan. nan. nan. . CHARRETT - Trooper - - |
| CHENU | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | RAAF nan | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . CHENU - Flight Sergeant - - |
| CHITTLEBURGH | 20/21 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, D Squadron. Killed in Action, hit by Self-Propelled gun shell. First buried 100 metres west of the Hotel Hartenstein. . CHITTLEBURGH - Lieutenant - - |
| CHURCH | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . CHURCH - Serjeant - - |
| CLARK | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . CLARK - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CLARK | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR A Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flying glider RN 375 when it crashed in the area of Hamminkeln, four miles south of Dingen, four miles due south of Bochult. . CLARK - Flight Lieutenant - - |
| CLARK | 1945-01-06 00:00:00 | RAFVR 18 RAF Course | 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon. nan. On 5 January 1945 at 13.35 hrs was hit by the wing of Hotspur HH 486 when taking off while standing on the tow line pulling out towrope to rope lane. Taken to 135 USA General Hospital, Leominster, and died 0200 hrs 6 January 1945. . CLARK - Sgt - - |
| CLARKE | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Place of first burial not records, but civilians took SSgt Clarke's remains to Oosterbeek War Cemetery. . CLARKE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CLARKE | 1944-04-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 1 HGSU, Fairford. nan. At 2255 hrs Horsa LG 263 hit the control tower while landing at night on 17 April 1944. The intercom failed and the tug thought the glider in distress and released at wrong point on circuit. A drift to port occurred when glider approached from wrong end of flarepath for landing. The airfield lighting was not complete and there was no light on the tower. Sgt C C Morgan (2nd pilot) injured. (On same date death of T/229971 Dvr Swinburne, Harry, RASC, 250 AB Lt Comp Coy RASC (buried Manchester (Philips Park) Cemetery) recorded: passenger in glider?) . . CLARKE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CLEMENTS | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 24 Sqn. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . CLEMENTS - Flight Lieutenant - - |
| CODDINGTON | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in landing crash: glider 162. . CODDINGTON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| COE | 1944-05-08 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 1665 CU, Tilstock. nan. At 1511 hrs Horsa LH 496 while performing diving turns to port after circuits hit the outer DREM lighting ground cables with port wing, was thrown on its back, and crashed 100 yds further on (500 yards north of Tilstock airfield).. . COE - Serjeant - - |
| COLE | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 19 Flight, B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, B Squadron. Horsa Chalk Number 327 left Manston, Kent 17 September 1944, with BHQ Jeep of 1st Air Landing Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery. At Arnhem Bridge. Shot by German SS sentry while PoW at Oosterbeek after escaping from Arnhem bridge area 21 September 1944. First buried beside Dreyenseweg . . COLE - Lieutenant - - |
| COLLINS | 1945-06-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | nan. nan. Accidentally drowned . . COLLINS - Lieutenant - - |
| COLLINS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider 2 hit by flak on descent.. . COLLINS - Serjeant - - |
| COLLINS | 1943-05-16 00:00:00 | RCAF nan | 295 Sqn, Holmsley South. nan. At 1215 hrs Halifax DG 390 whilst on a flight to retrieve a glider lost control at low altitude following failure of starboard inner engine and crashed 2 miles NNE of Sopley. All three of 5 Sqn and 4 RAF crew also killed (Pilots J10798 Fg-Offr Smith RCAF, J10509 Fg-Offr Collins RCAF, plus presumably flight engineer and rear gunner).. . COLLINS - Flying Officer - - |
| CONNELL | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Royal Irish Fusiliers / Glider Pilot Regiment nan | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Originally reported missing. . CONNELL - Lieutenant - - |
| COOK | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR A Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flying glider EX 931 which crashed in the area of Hamminkeln, five miles north of Wesel. . COOK - Flying Officer - - |
| COOK | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Wing of glider shot off by flak and glider crashed near Fijnaart, killing both pilots and Gnr Frederick V Brown. First buried in the General Cemetery, Dinteloord . . COOK - Serjeant - - |
| COOK | 1945-06-21 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | nan. nan. Admitted to Station Hospital at Yatesbury with Cerebal Spine Meningitis 3 June 1945. Later transferred to St Hugh's Hospital, Oxford, suffering from Xstaplylotical Meningitis, where he died on 21 June 1945 . . COOK - Sgt - - |
| COOMBER | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . COOMBER - Serjeant - - |
| COOPER | 1945-04-12 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 671 Sqn, Bikram. nan. Killed in gliding accident. At 0652 hrs Halifax NA 642 took off with Hadrian KH 898 (164935 Fg Offr E.J. Opie RAF and Sgt D.W. Smith RAF) and Hadrian FR 712 on twin tow. Following port outer engine failure on take-off, both gliders were released at 200 ft and the tug turned to port. KH 898 landed in paddy field but tow rope of FR 712 struck trees while still attached to glider, which then crashed. . . COOPER - Flight Sergeant - - |
| COOPER | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Cheshire Regiment / Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Tug aircraft blew up at 500 feetand Glider 127 crashed at Lentini, near the bridge, killing glider pilots and all of load.. . COOPER - Major - - |
| COOPER | 1949-09-22 00:00:00 | Royal Artillery / Glider Pilot Regiment B Sqn | 5 Flt, RAF Wunstorf. nan. Drowned when sailing, Schleswig. . COOPER - Sgt - - |
| COPLAND | 1944-12-01 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 297 Sqn, Earls Colne. nan. At 1130 hrs following long night cross country exercise by 6 Halifaxes, LL 406 struck ground, cartwheeled and burnt out, after starboard outer engine caught fire at 1300 ft, ½m WSW of Shepherds Grove airfield, when a forced landing was attempted. Casualties listed in 297 Sqn Operatiuonal Record Book (PRO Air 27/1648) and notes held at Museum of Army Flying are - F/O G W Cunningham, F/O T E Reilly, Sgt W McK Forbes, Sgt W D Copeland, with SSgt F J Startup GPR. . COPLAND - Sgt - - |
| CORDAS | 1942-11-26 00:00:00 | 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 1525 hrs while carrying out air experience flight for glider troops, Hotspur HH 284 stalled after release at 500 ft while in steep turn and dived into ground. 6 soldiers of 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry also killed (Total 8 killed originally reported). . CORDAS - Pte - - |
| CORKE | 1942-09-15 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington. nan. At 0200 hrs Hector K 9706 towing Hotspur BT 505 flew into the ground in low cloud at night near Wytham, Oxon. Pilot (127049 Plt Offr Weller-Poley, Hugh Thomas, RAFVR, buried All Saints', Boxted, Suffolk) and 412180 Sgt Allen, Alistair William, RNZAF, buried Kidlington, both killed. Cause unknown. . . CORKE - Corporal - - |
| COWAN | 1944-09-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds in a hospital at Apeldoorn. First buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery . . COWAN - Serjeant - - |
| COX | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . COX - Lieutenant - - |
| CRASKE | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 121 reported missing . . CRASKE - Serjeant - - |
| CROFT | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Glider, Chalk No.883 was towed by an Albermarle of 297 Squadron flown by Flying Officer J Coxell. Glider landed in Landing Zone X. First buried in the garden of the Ter Horst family, Benedendorpsweg . . CROFT - Serjeant - - |
| CROOKS | 1945-12-30 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | nan. nan. nan. . CROOKS - Trooper - - |
| CROOT | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . CROOT - Major - - |
| CULVERWELL | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Intelligence Officer, F Squadron. First buried at the junction between Bothaweg and Oranjeweg. . CULVERWELL - Lieutenant - - |
| CUMMINS | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Glider HG453, chalk number 5000 containing sic RAF members of 6080 Light Warning Unit (Radar), was towed by 570 Squadron Short Stirling LK121 8E-F flown by Flight Sgt Culling from RAF Harwell.Short Stirling was hit by flak and caught fire about eight kilometres before reaching Landing Zone 'Z' and crashed. The Glider pilots cut loose and made a forced landing, south of the river Rhine near the village of Hemmen. Reported shot by a sniper while crossing Nijmegen bridge. First buried in front of the Hotel Tafelberg (Co-pilot Glider 5000 believed to be Sgt F. McInnes, wounded and PoW) . . CUMMINS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CUNLIFFE | 1944-05-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident: Stratton . . CUNLIFFE - Trooper - - |
| CUNNINGHAM | 1944-11-29 00:00:00 | RAF nan | 297 Sqn, Earls Colne. nan. At 1130 hrs following long night cross country exercise by 6 Halifaxes, LL 406 struck ground, cartwheeled and burnt out, after starboard outer engine caught fire at 1300 ft, ½m WSW of Shepherds Grove airfield, when a forced landing was attempted. Casualties listed in 297 Sqn Operatiuonal Record Book (PRO Air 27/1648) and notes held at Museum of Army Flying are - F/O G W Cunningham, F/O T E Reilly, Sgt W McK Forbes, Sgt W D Copeland, with SSgt F J Startup GPR. . CUNNINGHAM - Flying Officer - - |
| CURLEY | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Possibly first buried in the area of the cgurch, Benedendorpsweg. . CURLEY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| CUSWORTH | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Killed instantly by a bullet fired by a sniper as he went to get his rifle out of the back of the glider after landing at Hamminkeln. . CUSWORTH - Flying Officer - - |
| CUTHBERT | 1944-02-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | nan. nan. Died at Southampton Hospital of Tuberculosis. . CUTHBERT - Trooper - - |
| DALE | 1944-11-17 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 21 HGCU, Brize Norton. nan. nan. . DALE - AC2 (Yoke Operator) - - |
| DALLIMORE | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action. Originally reported missing . . DALLIMORE - Serjeant - - |
| DANIELS | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried east of Van Borsselenweg / Hoge Oorsprung . . DANIELS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| D'ARCY CLARK | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider took off from Birch and suffered a direct hit by flak, presumably ammunition or explosives on board blew up and it broke up in mid-air, all occupants killed. (Possibly Glider 1 and co-pilot Capt A.M.D. Carr also killed).. . D'ARCY CLARK - Lieutenant - - |
| DAVEY | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Glider, Chalk No.876 carried a jeep, trailer and 75mm howitzer and four troops of the 1st Airbourne Light Regiment, Royal Artillery was towed by 296 Squadron Albermarle V1616 'G' piloted by Flight Lieut Boyer. The glider was sucessfully taken to Landing Zone 'X' and was released at 14.44 hours. The Albermarle had to take evasive action from light flak over the landing zone and although damaged, made a successful crash landing on an emergency runway.First buried in a garden near Benedendorpsweg / Kneppelhoutweg. . DAVEY - Serjeant - - |
| DAVIDSON | 1944-11-17 00:00:00 | RAFVR 9 RAF Course | 21 HGCU, Brize Norton. nan. At 0035 hrs during night flying Whitley LA 873 with Horsa LG 749 still attached banked into the ground at Course Hill Farm, Ducklington (S of Witney), and both burnt out. Also killed: 1336651 WO Strange, John William, RAFVR, buried Burton Abbotts, instructor: and the Whitley crew : Pilot, 1317064 Flt-Sgt Pearce, Royston Grenville, RAFVR, buried Bristol):W.Op/AG, 1416752 Sgt White, Edgar Richard James, RAFVR, buried West Ham): and yoke operator, 1816909 AC2 Dale, Albert Edward, RAFVR, buried Stoke-on-Trent).. . DAVIDSON - Flying Officer - - |
| DAVIES | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . DAVIES - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DAVIES | 1943-05-16 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 5 Squadron, 1st Battalion | 295 Sqn, Holmsley South. nan. At 1215 hrs Halifax DG 390 whilst on a flight to retrieve a glider lost control at low altitude following failure of starboard inner engine and crashed 2 miles NNE of Sopley. All three of 5 Sqn and 4 RAF crew also killed (Pilots J10798 Fg-Offr Smith RCAF, J10509 Fg-Offr Collins RCAF, plus presumably flight engineer and rear gunner).. . DAVIES - Serjeant - - |
| DAVIES | 1942-11-20 00:00:00 | RAAF nan | Operation FRESHMAN . Raid on heavy water plant at Vermork, Norway: 19-20 Nov 42. Killed in Action. Horsa HS 114 crashed in Helleland, 4 km from Halifax B W 7801. Glider Number Two (a Horsa HS114), and its tug (a Halifax W7801 'B' Baker), took off at 18:00 from Wick (R.A.F. Skiteen), Caithness, Scotland. List of crew of crashed Halifax and of all the troops carried held on Freshman Datasheet . . DAVIES - Pilot Officer - - |
| DAWKINS | 1944-12-13 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . DAWKINS - Serjeant - - |
| DAWSON | 1943-12-07 00:00:00 | 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs during poor weather Hotspur BT 822 entered cloud, pilot cast off from tug and apparently stalled and lost control, crashing in field near Collingbourne Ducis. (6 soldiers of 6 Air Landing Brigade also reported killed: pax in glider. 5 names held, all 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals). . DAWSON - Signaller - - |
| DENBY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR A Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Hit by enemy flak while flying Horsa glider PW 231 over the landing ground at Hamminkeln. . DENBY - Sergeant - - |
| DENHOLM | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Cameronians / Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 132 blew up on Landing Zone when it hit river bank. . DENHOLM - Captain - - |
| DENHOLM | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . DENHOLM - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DENWOOD | 1942-10-02 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington. nan. Accidentally killed in glider accident at Kiddlington, with Cpl J N Gullan. At 1030 hrs Hotspur HH 227 attempting a steep dive approach, failed to recover from dive and crashed on edge of airfield. . DENWOOD - Corporal - - |
| DERBYSHIRE | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, G Squadron. Originally reported missing. First buried in the garden of the house of the ter Horst family, Benedendorpsweg . . DERBYSHIRE - Lieutenant - - |
| DEVONPORT | 1943-02-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon. nan. Road Traffic Accident near Shobdon. . DEVONPORT - Corporal - - |
| DITCH | 1944-09-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Body recovered from river Lek 10 March 1945. . DITCH - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DIXON | 1943-08-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | nan. nan. Natural causes . . DIXON - Serjeant - - |
| DOBBINGS | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried near Hoofdlaan / Utrechtseweg. . DOBBINGS - Serjeant - - |
| DODD | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. The book 'Arnhem Lift' tells what he was doing on 20 September 1944 with Louis Hagen. First buried an the corner of Oranjeweg / Botheweg. . DODD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DOIG | 1942-11-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation FRESHMAN . Raid on heavy water plant at Vermork, Norway: 19-20 Nov 42. Killed in Action. Horsa DP 349 broke tow rope due to icing and crashed on Fylgjasdal plateau, was flown by Staff Sergeant M.F. Strathdee, with his co-pilot Sergeant P. Doig. Both glider pilots were killed in the crash. They had taken off from R.A.F. Skiteen, Caithness, Scotland, towed by tug ( Halifax 'A' Apple), took off at 17:45 from Wick. The tug was piloted by Squadron Leader A.B. Wilkinson. This aircraft released its glider and returned to Wick, landing at 03:00 the following morning. The crew of this Halifax were the only people to return from Operation Freshman. A List of all the troops carried held on Freshman Datasheet . . DOIG - Serjeant - - |
| DOORN | 1945-03-27 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident (Motorcycle) at Braintree, Essex . . DOORN - Warrant Officer, Class II - - |
| DORMER | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Found dead underneath his wrecked glider on a landing zone at Hamminkeln. . DORMER - Flight Sergeant - - |
| DORNING-NADIN | 1942-10-13 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. At 1215 hrs Tiger Moth T 6444 struck overhead wire near Princes Risborough, crashed and burst into flames. Instructor (657965 Sgt Thomas, Harold Owen, RAFVR, buried Liverpool (Anfield)) also killed.. . DORNING-NADIN - Corporal - - |
| DOUGHTY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . DOUGHTY - Serjeant - - |
| DOWDS | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . DOWDS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DOWNING | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Adjutant, G Squadron. Killed in Action. First buried near the van Hoofwegen Laundry, Ploegseweg . . DOWNING - Lieutenant - - |
| DRUREY | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 100 metres west of the Hotel Hartenstein . . DRUREY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DUNN | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the Hotel Schoonord . . DUNN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DUNS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 24 Flight, G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . After an abortive sortie, Horsa glider, Chalk No. 43 of 24 Flight, G Squadron went off on the second lift. They carried Major Hugh Maguire, General Staff Officerr of HQ, 1st Airborne Division, four troops and jeep and trailer with Intelligence Office radio equipment, they were towed by a Short Stirling of 190 Squadron. Came down in Landing Zone at Reyerscamp, under small arms fire, they succesfully unloaded and drove to the Hartenstein. Originally reported missing . . DUNS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| DYER | 1944-05-08 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 1665 CU, Tilstock. nan. At 1511 hrs Horsa LH 496 while performing diving turns to port after circuits hit the outer DREM lighting ground cables with port wing, was thrown on its back, and crashed 100 yds further on (500 yards north of Tilstock airfield).. . DYER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| EDMONDS | 1945-10-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | nan. nan. Truck returning from Reading to Hampstead Norris skidded and hit tree branch; crushed by canopy frames. . EDMONDS - Lieutenant - - |
| EDWARDS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Horsa Glider hit by flak in free flight and crashed near Hamminkeln. Co-pilot Sgt J.E. Ramsden wounded. Six members of the Royal Engineers in the glider were also killed. Originally buried one mile north, north-east of the centre of Emmerich. . EDWARDS - Flying Officer - - |
| EGAN | 1945-03-11 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 3 Glider Training School, Exeter. nan. At 1430 hrs Miles Master EM 408 stalled in steep turn at 2500 ft and spun in in vicinity of Rockbeare, NE of airfield. Pilot, 1459612 Flt-Sgt Arthur Edward Leach, RAFVR, and Pupil, Sgt J R Egan GPR both killed.. . EGAN - Serjeant - - |
| ELLERINGTON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR C Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing. First buries 100 yards west of Ringenburg . . ELLERINGTON - Sergeant - - |
| ELLIDGE | 1942-09-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 1 Glider Training School, Croughton. nan. Hotspur HH 402 being towed for first solo by Miles Master 2 DL 519. Tug dived in a sideslip attitude into the ground while towing near Fritwell (2m SW), and towed glider down with it. Pilot (119782 Plt Offr Evans, James Ilott, RAFVR, buried St. Chad, Lichfield) killed. . ELLIDGE - Corporal - - |
| ELLIN | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Took off from RAF Fairford in Horsa Chalk Number 994, towed by a Short Stirling of 190 Squadron piloted by Pilot Officer Sellars on 18 September 1944, but due to engine trouble on the tug the glider had to cast off at South Cerney airfield and the load, belonging to1 Para Brigade, was transferred to the second lift. On 19 September the glider was towed by a 190 Squadron Short Stirling flown by Flying Officer Bebarfield. Evereything went well until they approached the Belgian coast near Oostende, when they ran into low cloud and lost visual contact between the tug and the glider. SSgt Ellin pulled off and the plugs on the end of the tow-rope smashed through the sides of the cockpit, one hit SSht Ellin on the head. The glider ditched in the sea and all the survivors were taken Prisoner by the crew of a German Coastal Battery. The body of SSgt Ellin was washed up near Zeebrugge on 2 October 1941. . ELLIN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| ELLISON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . ELLISON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| ELLSON | 1944-04-14 00:00:00 | Essex Regiment / Glider Pilot Regiment nan | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident Wroughton (Original date reported 13 April 1944). . ELLSON - Captain - - |
| ELMS | 1943-08-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0950 hrs crashed and caught fire during low-level aerobatics near Westhill Farm, Salisbury Road during cross-country training (town not stated, but original report was Zeals, which matches Elms's burial). . ELMS - Serjeant - - |
| ENGLAND | nan | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | nan. nan. Died of wounds received on D Day 6 June 1944. . ENGLAND - Sergeant - - |
| ESSEN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . His glider was hit several times by light anti-aircraft fire before crashing near Hamminkeln. He died later of his injuries. . ESSEN - Flight Sergeant - - |
| EVANS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flying glider RN 375 when it crashed in the area of Hamminkeln, four miles south of Dingen, four miles due south of Bochult. . EVANS - Serjeant - - |
| EVANS | 1942-06-05 00:00:00 | RAF nan | 16 EFTS, Burnaston. nan. At 1230 hrs Miles Magister L 8252 stalled on approach and spun in off turn at Abbotts Bromley RLG. Pupil, Cpl S J Graham, GPR, also killed (buried same location).. . EVANS - Serjeant - - |
| EVANS | 1942-09-07 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 1 Glider Training School, Croughton. nan. Hotspur HH 402 being towed for first solo by Miles Master 2 DL 519. Tug dived in a sideslip attitude into the ground while towing near Fritwell (2m SW), and towed glider down with it. Glider Pilot , Cpl T E Ellidge also killed. . EVANS - Pilot Officer - - |
| EVANS | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . EVANS - Serjeant - - |
| EVANS | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in a field between Benedendorpsweg 119 and the van Hofwegen laundry, Ploegseweg . . EVANS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| FAIRBAIRN | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . FAIRBAIRN - Flying Officer - - |
| FAIRWEATHER | 1945-04-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. PoW. Died after march from POW camp. . FAIRWEATHER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| FAULKNER | 1945-03-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | 3 Glider Training School, Exeter. nan. Hotspur HH 248 turned over after release to starboard onto its back at 2000 ft and went into vertical dive into ground in vicinity of Clyst Honiton (East of Exeter). Believed starboard aileron control became jammed and cleared, or looped over operating lever. . . FAULKNER - Serjeant - - |
| FELTON | 1941-12-19 00:00:00 | 1st Battalion, Border Regiment nan | AFEE Exercise Unit, Ringway. nan. Hotspur BT 488 during airsickness trials cast off from tug due to weather conditions, stalled after releasing tow, recovered from resulting spin but failed to pull out of vertical dive, and dived into ground from 800 ft in a field adjoining Ringway airfield. Reported that 8 killed in all, but only 6 others so far found for this date, all 1st Battalion Border Regiment. . FELTON - Pte - - |
| FENDICK | 1944-10-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. In Glider 1002 which left Fairford on 18 October 1944 bound for Landing Zone X, West of Wolfheze - Badly wounded at Arnhem. He was taken back to England but Died of Wounds in Hospital (Co-pilot T. Smith OK). . . FENDICK - Staff Sergeant - - |
| FERGUSON | 1945-03-31 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Wounded when Glider 5003 hit by tracer and then came under MG fire on landing. PoW at Aschaffenburg. Died of dysentry and malnutrition after march from camp.First buried on a hillside at Aschaffenburg (Co-pilot SSgt Edwards). . FERGUSON - Sergeant - - |
| FIELDEN | 1944-03-31 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment Depot | ORTU. nan. At 1000 hrs Tiger Moth DE 620 of GPEU stalled in loop during low-level aerobatics and dived into ground near Hanging Langford, NW of Salisbury from about 500 ft.. . FIELDEN - Serjeant - - |
| FIRTH | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 100 metres north of Hotel Hartenstein . . FIRTH - Staff Sergeant - - |
| FISHER | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . FISHER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| FITZGERALD | 1945-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 72 Course | 3 Glider Training School, Gaydon. nan. Accidentally killed whilst flying DH 82 Tiger Moth DE 887 on a navigation training flight. At about 1525 hrs a bad cross-windlanding at Gaydon airfield was aborted, as the aircraft was at low flying speed and insufficient height, and was heading for some trees. In raising the nose of the aircraft to avoid the trees, the aircraft stalled and went into a spin and crashed in the transport yard, near to the fuel pumps, bursting into flames on impact. Another pilot, travelling in the rear cockpit, 295329 Lt A.C. Saunders injured (severely burnt) when he went back into the fire trying to rescue Cpl C G Fitzgerald. . . FITZGERALD - Corporal - - |
| FLETCHER | 1944-06-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | 1 HGSU, Fairford. nan. Killed in glider accident. At 2340 hrs whilst preparing for night flying at Fairford, Horsa LH 562 was being towed round the perimeter track at the upwind leg of the runway when the tractor driver saw a Stirling approaching. The driver panicked, abandoned the tractor and the Horsa glider in the path of Stirling LJ869 of 620 Sqn taking off. The undercarriage of the aircraft struck the nose of the glider, which did not have it's Navigation lights switched on.. . FLETCHER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| FOLLINGTON | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. His Horsa glider ran into a wood on the edge of Landing Zone 'S'. First buried in field grave near Wolfheze Psychiatric Hospital. Date shown at grave (23 December 1944) must be an error as by that time the area was in German control.. . FOLLINGTON - Serjeant - - |
| FORBES | 1944-11-29 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 297 Sqn, Earls Colne. nan. At 1130 hrs following long night cross country exercise by 6 Halifaxes, LL 406 struck ground, cartwheeled and burnt out, after starboard outer engine caught fire at 1300 ft, ½m WSW of Shepherds Grove airfield, when a forced landing was attempted. Casualties listed in 297 Sqn Operatiuonal Record Book (PRO Air 27/1648) and notes held at Museum of Army Flying are - F/O G W Cunningham, F/O T E Reilly, Sgt W McK Forbes, Sgt W D Copeland, with SSgt F J Startup GPR. . FORBES - Sgt (W Op) - - |
| FORGAN | 1945-06-29 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 668 Sqn, Fatehjang. nan. At 1240 hrs Tiger Moth of 688 Squadron was being ferried from Dhamial to Fatehjang when it collided with the ground when low flying and burst into flames.The Accident Record Card states 'the pilot carried out unauthorised low flying and crashed into deck'. . FORGAN - Flying Officer - - |
| FORRESTER | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . FORRESTER - Serjeant - - |
| FOSTER | 18-19 Jun 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed while fighting with Free French Forces after escape from PoW Camp . . FOSTER - Serjeant - - |
| FOWKES | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried beside Sonnenberglaan . . FOWKES - Serjeant - - |
| FOWLER | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider crashed at Hamminkeln. . FOWLER - Flying Officer - - |
| FRANKS | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in front of the Hotel Tafelberg . . FRANKS - Serjeant - - |
| FRASER | 1942-11-20 00:00:00 | RAAF 1st Battalion | Operation FRESHMAN . Raid on heavy water plant at Vermork, Norway: 19-20 Nov 42. Killed in Action. Horsa HS 114 crashed in Helleland, 4 km from Halifax B W 7801. Glider Number Two (a Horsa HS114), and its tug (a Halifax W7801 'B' Baker), took off at 18:00 from Wick (R.A.F. Skiteen), Caithness, Scotland. List of crew of crashed Halifax and of all the troops carried held on Freshman Datasheet . . FRASER - Pilot Officer - - |
| FRASER | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa RJ 113 being towed by Stirling IV 5 GR LK 148 of 299 Sqn (F/O Liggins, F/Sgt F H Humphrey, F/Sgt K Crowther; W/O W A Runsdale, Sgt W T Simpson, Sgt D G Gaskin}. Over Farrington Gurney, Somerset, the tail section came apart, tow-rope snapped and the glider crashed near Paulton [5118N 0231W], Double Hills, Somerset. Co-pilot SSgt L J Gardner and 20 passengers of 1 Platoon. 9 Field Coy (AB) Royal Engineers killed (names held on file, all buried Weston-super-Mare 23 September 1944).. . FRASER - Serjeant - - |
| FREEMAN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . FREEMAN - Flying Officer - - |
| FRENCH | 1944-04-12 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 2nd Wing | 296 Sqn. nan. Accidentally killed whilst flying. At 0057 hrs the tug was unable to avoid cloud and Horsa LH 277 cast off at between 1200 -1300 ft and attempted a forced landing, but crashed at high speed, hitting a haystack near Adlestrop (Station Operational Record Book locates as "wood 2m South of Moreton-in- Marsh"). Cable angle indicator not fitted.. . FRENCH - Serjeant - - |
| FREW | 18-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in the garden of Ommershof . . FREW - Staff Sergeant - - |
| FRYER | 1944-07-14 00:00:00 | KRRC / Glider Pilot Regiment 2 AGPTS | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. At 0940 hrs 11 July 44 flying Hotspur BT 538 he misjudged his point of release from the tug aircraft and also his approach. The Pilot cast off downwind instead of upwind of the airfield. He started a circuit and then flew across the airfield instead of flting figures of eight to loose height To avoid a railway, he put nose of glider down and dived from 400 feet at excess speed, over shooting the airfield and crashed into a cornfield. It struck the ground heavily and broke up Lt Col Fryer died at RAF Hospital, Innsworth. The accident was put down to the pilots inexperience, airmanship and ability were at fault. He had 28 hours total solo flying time, of which 1½ hours were on Hotspurs. . FRYER - Lt-Col - - |
| FUELL | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Horsa Glider Chalk Number 267 'Jane' took off from Down Ampney on the night of 5th June 1944, towed by a Dakota, flown by Warrant Officer Don Wood of 271 Squadton, R.A.F. and was to head for Landing Zone V. It carried a motorcycle, a jeep, a 6 pounder anti-tank gun and three gunners from 4 Air Landing Anti-tank Battery crashed heavily at Annebault at 01.30 hrs, 7 miles South-East of Landing Zone 'V'. First buried Annebault, with 4924404 LSgt F.L. Woodcock RA, 4 Air Landing Anti-tank Battery, co-pilot SSgt V.C. Saunders killed, and possibly Bdr J.A. Hill (missing).. . FUELL - Serjeant - - |
| GARDNER | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa RJ 113 being towed by Stirling IV 5 GR LK 148 of 299 Sqn (F/O Liggins, F/Sgt F H Humphrey, F/Sgt K Crowther; W/O W A Runsdale, Sgt W T Simpson, Sgt D G Gaskin}. Over Farrington Gurney, Somerset, the tail section came apart, tow-rope snapped and the glider crashed near Paulton [5118N 0231W], Double Hills, Somerset. Co-pilot Sgt R Fraser and 20 passengers of 1 Platoon 9 Field Coy (AB) Royal Engineers killed (names held on file, all buried Weston-super-Mare 23 September 1944).. . GARDNER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| GAULT | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 19 Flight, B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Chalk Number 340 left Manston, Kent 17 September 1944, with A troop gun of 1st Air Landing Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery. At Arnhem Bridge. Originally reported missing. Shot in head in trench at west side of Arnhem bridge. First buried Arnhem General Cemetery, Moscowa. . GAULT - Serjeant - - |
| GAY | 1952-03-13 00:00:00 | RASC / Glider Pilot Regiment 1911/656 | Operation FIREDOG. Malayan Emergency 1948-1957 (1911 and later 1907 Light Liaison Flights, 656 Air OP Squadron). Auster 6 VF 576 spun in on approach, Kulai Besar. . . GAY - SSgt - - |
| GELL | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. His body was found in a field grave beside Klein Amerikaweg. . GELL - Serjeant - - |
| GIBBONS | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Flak hit between tug and Glider 99 tow-rope broke. . GIBBONS - Serjeant - - |
| GIBBS | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . GIBBS - Serjeant - - |
| GITTINGS | 25-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment HQ 2 Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Missing during withdrawal to the river Rhine. . GITTINGS - Serjeant - - |
| GLADMAN | 1943-06-01 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs on 31 May 43 Hotspur HH 369 stalled on a steep turn, struck a car and crashed into the CO's office of GPEU in a hangar. 951021 Sgt J C Wright injured and Sgt Gladman died Military Hospital, Tidworth. (For 1 June 1943 also recorded LCpl Frank Evans 2nd Batt, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, buried at St. Stephen's, Up Nateley, Hants: any connection?).. . GLADMAN - Serjeant - - |
| GOODALL | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 114 reported missing. . GOODALL - Serjeant - - |
| GOODCHILD | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action, during landing crash: glider 162.. . GOODCHILD - Serjeant - - |
| GOODWIN | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in a garden near Benedendorpsweg / Kneppelhoutweg. . GOODWIN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| GOOLD | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near Hoofdlaan / Utrechtseweg . . GOOLD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| GORDON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . GORDON - Serjeant - - |
| GOSS-ROBINSON, MC | 1942-05-06 00:00:00 | RA 1st Battalion | 2 Glider Training School, Weston. nan. At 1920 hrs Hotspur BT 561 stalled after takeoff too high above tug: the right wing dropped and when the cable detached the aircraft stall-turned to the right and struck the ground almost vertically.. . GOSS-ROBINSON, MC - Major - - |
| GOULD | 23-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First burial place not known, possibly House Sonnenberg. . GOULD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| GOWER | 1943-12-12 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident: Boscombe. . GOWER - Serjeant - - |
| GRAEFE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Hamilcar 262 became detached, tail and fin seen to break off and whole glider disintegrated 2 seconds later. Co-pilot SSgt E L Jarvis also killed.. . GRAEFE - Lieutenant - - |
| GRAHAM | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF A Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flying in Horsa Glider RZ 142, the tail of which was bloen off in flight and it crash landed at Hamminkeln. Originally buried in Hamminkeln. . GRAHAM - Sergeant - - |
| GRAHAM | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. nan. . GRAHAM - Serjeant - - |
| GRAHAM | 1942-06-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 16 EFTS, Burnaston. nan. At 1230 hrs Miles Magister L 8252 stalled on approach and spun in off turn at Abbotts Bromley RLG. Instructor, 1376597 Sgt Gordon Henry James Evans, RAFVR, also killed (buried same location).. . GRAHAM - Corporal - - |
| GRANT | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Seen flying past Hamminkeln in Horsa Glider No.69. After landing they encountered heavy intense enemy fire on the ground. Killed after landing. First buried in temporary cemetery south of Hamminkeln. Co-pilot Fg-Offr R.W.C. Jamieson also killed.. . GRANT - Flight Sergeant - - |
| GRAVES | 1942-09-30 00:00:00 | RAF nan | 29 EFTS, Clyffe Pypard. nan. At 1010 hrs on 30 Sep 42 Miles Magister V 1026 stalled on final turn for forced-landing approach and crashed at Purton, 7m NNW of airfield. Instructor (47721 Plt Offr Graves, Peter John, RAF, buried St. Peter, Clyffe Pypard 3 Oct) killed and Bowerman died of injuries.. . GRAVES - Pilot Officer - - |
| GRAY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crash landed in the Hamminkeln area and was taken prisoner. Later reported as shot at the beginning of April near Wesel / Emmerich. . GRAY - Flight Lieutenant - - |
| GREEN | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . GREEN - Serjeant - - |
| GREENE | 20-22 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the van Hofwegen laundry, Ploegseweg . . GREENE - Serjeant - - |
| GREENHILL | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried at the edge of a field near Bothaweg / Oranjeweg. . GREENHILL - Serjeant - - |
| GREGG | 1943-07-13 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 119 landed in sea. . GREGG - Lieutenant - - |
| GRIFFITHS, AFC | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | RAF nan | 24 Sqn. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . GRIFFITHS, AFC - Flying Officer (W/Op) - - |
| GULLAN | 1942-10-02 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington. nan. Accidentally killed in glider accident at Kidlington with Cpl J E Denwood. At 1030 hrs Hotspur HH 227 attempting a steep dive approach, having insufficient time to pull out of the dive and crashed on edge of airfield. . GULLAN - Corporal - - |
| GWINN | 1944-10-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds at St Joseph Psychiatric Hospital at Apeldoorn. First buried St Joseph Psychiatric Hospital Cemetery at Apeldoorn . . GWINN - Serjeant - - |
| HAIG | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Found lying by the wreckage of his glider. . HAIG - Flight Lieutenant - - |
| HAINES | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Missing, later confirmed Killed in Action. The Horsa glider, Chalk No.67, flown by Staff Sergeant Billy Marfleet and Sergeant Vic Haines was last seen by their tug shortly before they entered thick cloud just before the French coast. The tow-rope broke in the turbulent air and the cold, grey waters of the English Channel, near the Caen Canal, claimed the lives of passengers and crew. Vic Haines's body was washed up on the beach at Quendplage, near Ste Valerie along with a number of other bodies which could not be identified. . HAINES - Serjeant - - |
| HALL | 1943-06-12 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation BEGGAR or TURKEY BUZZARD. Ferrying of Horsas from UK to North Africa 1-28 Jun 43. Killed on Active Service - Flying Accident. Quoted in original document as “Flying Accident: Thiersville”.. . HALL - Serjeant - - |
| HALL | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . HALL - Serjeant - - |
| HALL | 1942-09-01 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 16 EFTS, Burnaston. nan. At 2200 hrs Miles Magister R 1877 crashed while night flying after making 3 left turns at about 400 ft in circuit, on the Burton side of the airfield near Etwell. Cause unknown. Instructor (1222586 Sgt Thornhill, George, RAFVR, buried Spalding Cemetery, Lincs) also killed . . HALL - Corporal - - |
| HAMPSHIRE | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . HAMPSHIRE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HANNAM | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried beside Klein Amerikaweg, Heelsum . . HANNAM - Serjeant - - |
| HANSON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Killed by enemy fire after his glider had crash landed. . HANSON - Flying Officer - - |
| HANSON | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . HANSON - Lieutenant (Captain) - - |
| HARDIE | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Officer Commanding, No.1 Flight, A Squadron. Killed in Action. First buried 100 metres east of the church, Benendorpsweg . . HARDIE - Captain - - |
| HARDY | 1945-05-31 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 3 Glider Training School, Exeter. nan. At 1420 hrs Hotspur HH 354 was cast off from Miles Master DM 448. Glider turned towards airfield and the port wing struck a tree: the glider turned over on its back and crashed. (Originally reported as 25 May 1945).. . HARDY - Serjeant - - |
| HARMER | 9-10 Jul 43 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . HARMER - Serjeant - - |
| HARRIS | 1944-11-16 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Badly wounded, with nine wounds in his legs. He was in a lot of pain; he was talking but weak and was take to a dressing station. Died of Wounds in a hospital at Apeldoorn on 16 November 1944. First buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery . . HARRIS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HARRIS | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . HARRIS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HARRIS | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa glider 5003 with radar equipment was towed by 295 Squadron Short Stirling L1633 8E-F, piloted by Flt Lieut Kingdon from R.A.F. Harwell. Glider had tail shot off on run-up to Landing Zone and crashed near Doodewaard / Opheusden. Co-pilot SSgt J.W.R. Harris and 6 passengers of 6341 LWSU also killed (Leading Aircraftman John M. Anderson, Leading Aircraftman James C. Brooks, Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Highton, Leading Aircraftman Edwin H.Lascelles, Aircraftman 1st Class John R. Swann, F/Lt Alexander J. Tisshaw, 6341 Light Warning Unit, RAF). Both Pilots were first buried in a field between Opheusden and Dodewaard. . HARRIS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HARRISON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . HARRISON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HARRISON | 1941-12-19 00:00:00 | 1st Battalion Border Regiment nan | AFEE Exercise Unit, Ringway. nan. Hotspur BT 488 during airsickness trials cast off from tug due to weather conditions, stalled after releasing tow, recovered from resulting spin but failed to pull out of vertical dive, and dived into ground from 800 ft in a field adjoining Ringway airfield. Reported that 8 killed in all, but only 6 others so far found for this date, all 1st Battalion Border Regiment. . HARRISON - Serjeant - - |
| HARRISON | 1943-06-27 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation BEGGAR or TURKEY BUZZARD. Ferrying of Horsas from UK to North Africa 1-28 Jun 43. Killed on Active Service - Flying Accident. Reported that tail of a Hadrian fell off during move to Oran coast, near Sousse. 12 soldiers of 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment were also reported killed. . HARRISON - Serjeant - - |
| HARRISON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . HARRISON - Lieutenant - - |
| HAYMAN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF C Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flew in Hamilcar No.230. Originally buried in Bocholt area . . HAYMAN - Sergeant - - |
| HAYNE | 1944-02-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. Accidentally Killed whilst flying at Stoke Orchard. At 1603 hrs whilst on a navigation exercise dived into ground after a 90 degree turn to port at Eynsham (W of Oxford). Instructor (1334056 Flt-Sgt Savage, Raymond Frederick, RAFVR) also killed. . . HAYNE - Corporal - - |
| HEADS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . HEADS - Flight Sergeant - - |
| HEBBERD | 1944-06-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | 1 HGSU, Fairford. nan. Killed in glider accident. At 2340 hrs whilst preparing for night flying at Fairford, Horsa LH 562 was being towed round the perimeter track at the upwind leg of the runway when the tractor driver saw a Stirling approaching. The driver panicked, abandoned the tractor and the Horsa glider in the path of Stirling LJ869 of 620 Sqn taking off. The undercarriage of the aircraft struck the nose of the glider, which did not have it's Navigation lights switched on.. . HEBBERD - Serjeant - - |
| HEBBLETHWAITE | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the Hotel Schoonord. . HEBBLETHWAITE - Serjeant - - |
| HEDLEY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing. Hamilcar 284.. . HEDLEY - Serjeant - - |
| HENDEN | 1945-10-01 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | nan. nan. nan. . HENDEN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HIGGINS | 1943-06-27 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation BEGGAR or TURKEY BUZZARD. Ferrying of Horsas from UK to North Africa 1-28 Jun 43. Killed on Active Service - Flying Accident. Reported that tail of a Hadrian fell off during move to Oran coast, near Sousse. 12 soldiers of 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment were also reported killed. . HIGGINS - Serjeant - - |
| HIGHAM | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in a gaerden near Benedendorpsweg / Kneppelhoutweg. . HIGHAM - Serjeant - - |
| HILL | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Crew No.92, who flew from Airfield 'D'. Drowned after the glider ditched. . HILL - Serjeant - - |
| HILL | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . HILL - Serjeant - - |
| HILL | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Hamilcar Glider Chalk Number 326, loaded with two Bren Carriers from 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. Originally reported missing. Craft sank when overloaded on evacuation.Peter Hill was a non-swimmer, drowned trying to cross the river, he was being assisted by a friend, who was wounded by a mortar burst. His body recovered from Rhine 18 November 1944 by people at Maurik who buried his body. . . HILL - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HINE | 1942-08-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 2 Glider Training School, Weston. nan. Accidentally Killed - Gliding accident. Hotspur HH 329 was being towed by a tractor when it was run down by a Miles Master taking off. . HINE - Corporal - - |
| HOBBS | 1944-01-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 570 Sqn, Hurn. nan. At 1620 hrs Horsa LG 722 on a delivery flight from Marham to Hurn (towed by Albemarle V 1756 of 570 Sqn, pilot Lt Schalit) cast off owing to bad weather and attempted a crash landing, but the wing hit a clump of trees and the glider crashed near Broughton, Hampshire (2 miles South of Middle Wallop).. . HOBBS - Serjeant - - |
| HODGES | 1945-03-11 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. PoW Aschaffenburg. Died after march from POW camp. . HODGES - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HOGG | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried at the junction of Oranjeweg and Bothaweg . . HOGG - Serjeant - - |
| HOLDREN | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Possibly first buried in the area of the church at Benedendorpsweg or the river bank. . HOLDREN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HOLLAND | 9-10 Jul 43 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . HOLLAND - Serjeant - - |
| HOLLINGSWORTH | 1944-10-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Second Pilot to SSgt Miller, their glider carried a number of War Correspondents covering Operation Market, including Alan Wood and Stanley Maxted. Soon after landing the Glider Pilots were detailed to help defend the perimeter at Divisional Headquarters. He was detailed to help dress the wounded. He had been seen driving a jeep loaded with wounded during intense German mortaring, to the dressing station at the Hartenstein Hotel. Staying with the wounded he was taken prisoner at Arnhem. In the fiest train of badly wounded and battle-weary trooops of the British and American Airborne troops from Holland who were transported to Stalag XIB at Fallingbostel, arriving on 4 October 1944. Shot in the small of the back, halfway up the steps of his hut by a German guard at Stalag XIB at Fallingbostel for moving too slowly to get back into his hut. The Germans had a rule that all Prisoners were to go into their huts as shelter, and keep away from windows and doors, whilst an air raid was going on. Some prisoners kept going outside to see what was going on and the sentry, who was some 7 or 8 yards away shouted at them to get back inside. It was believed he did not understand the German sentry's order to do so. He was taken to the camp hospital, but died four hours after being shot. He had only arrived at the camp two days before his death. . HOLLINGSWORTH - Serjeant - - |
| HOLLOWAY | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Flew Horsa 1003 from Fairford to Landing Zone Z. Flying time 3hours 10 minutes, with a cargo of five Royal Engineers, jeep and trailer of explosives for the bridge. Killed in Action. Originally reported missing. Citation signed by Lt-Col Iain Murray and General Montgomery reads 'During the period 19th - 25th September 1944 he commanded a section in a house in the Oosterbeek area. He showed great courage in patrol work. When the enemy launched their first big attack against the gun positions, he kept up effective fire with a bren gun throughout the time the house was being demolished by an enemy self-propelled gun at point blank range. By remaining at his post he was largely responsible for breaking up the enemy attack. His complete disregard for his personal safety saved what might have been a serious break-through by the enemy.' SSgt Holloway was fatally wounded Wednesday 20 September 1944 when a German 88mm airburst shell from a Self-propelled gun hit the bedroon of the house, killing an artillery officer and peppering SSgt Holloway with shrapnel. He got medical attention quickly and was taken to Kate Ter Horst's house, which was the Medical Aid Post, where he died later that afternoon. First buried in the garden of the ter Horst house, Benedendorpsweg. . HOLLOWAY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HOLMES | 1945-02-25 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 671 Sqn. nan. At 1320 hrs Tiger Moth NL 968, when attempting emergency landing when lost and short of fuel, tried to extend glide and stalled into the ground at near Saundatti, Karnataka.. . HOLMES - Sgt - - |
| HONEYWELL | 1946-04-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit, Elsham Wolds. nan. Killed in gliding accident. The tug and Horsa RX 777 took off in perfect flying conditions and after climbing to 900 ft began to make a climbing turn to port. As the tug completed it's turn, the glider got into difficulties as it would not respond to 'right stick' movement and was getting serioudly off-station. Sgt Ridggway cast off at this point. In free flight, with full right stick and right rudder applied the gliderremained in it's left turn, and after a spiral desent of 1½ turns, the glider crash and cartwheeled on landing. Aileron cable failure seems to have been the cause, as they had rusted through at the point where the pilot's cabin connected to the fuselage and the glider had not been airworthy on the day of it's final flight. Sgt Homeywell was killedinstantly by a wood splinter, which caused a compound skull fracture and a broken neck. The Second Pilot, Sgt H E Ridgway was seriously injured when he was thrown through the side window (Hospitalised for 14 months in Scunthorpe Hospital. His right leg was broken below the knee, the left ankle was broken. His right rib cage was broken inwards and collapsed his right lung ) An R.A.F. Maintenance Unit Officer stated that rusting was as serious problem with Horsas, due to them being left outside in all wather conditions, and that the cable parted due to rust caused by exceeding maintenance periods [Exceeded a major inspection by some 40 flying hours]. . . HONEYWELL - Serjeant - - |
| HOPGOOD | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Originally on wounded list. Died of wounds. Horsa glider Chalk Number 35 (LH 324) left fron Brize Norton and crashed on landing. Co-pilot Sgt D.F. Phillips also killed, and also Pte J. Aldred (13 PARA), Capt(QM) S. Daisley (13 PARA) and Sig D.I. Davis (6 AB Div Sigs).. . HOPGOOD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HORNBY | 1941-12-19 00:00:00 | 1st Battalion Border Regiment nan | AFEE Exercise Unit, Ringway. nan. Hotspur BT 488 during airsickness trials cast off from tug due to weather conditions, stalled after releasing tow, recovered from resulting spin but failed to pull out of vertical dive, and dived into ground from 800 ft in a field adjoining Ringway airfield. Reported that 8 killed in all, but only 6 others so far found for this date, all 1st Battalion Border Regiment. . HORNBY - Private - - |
| HORROCKS | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . HORROCKS - Lieutenant - - |
| HOSTED | 1943-01-08 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | nan. nan. At 1130 hrs a short shell from Larkhill ranges struck Tilshead camp medical centre.. . HOSTED - Corporal - - |
| HOWE | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Shot down & drowned 100 yards off coast at Cabourg when Glider 123 (PF 715) ditched and came under MG fire. (Co-pilot Sgt W. Shannon POW). . HOWE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HOWELL | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried near Oosterbeek Hoog Station . . HOWELL - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HOWES | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. His remains were found in January 1994 in a field grave at the former House Sonnenberg, near the Hartenstein Hotel, Oosterbeek along with that of Sgt David Thompson. Identification was made based upon the Glider Pilot Regiment cap badge found with the skeleton and a signet ring bearing the initials 'LHH' and inscription 'I love you'. His body was reburied in the Airborne Cemetery at Oosterbeek on Friday 18 September 1998. . HOWES - Serjeant - - |
| HUARD | 1944-10-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds in the RC hospital, Enschede . . HUARD - Serjeant - - |
| HUMPHRIES | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action. His body was found in a field grave beside Klein Amerikaweg, Heelsum . . HUMPHRIES - Staff Sergeant - - |
| HUNT | 1944-05-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 1 HGSU, Keevil. nan. At 1150 hrs Horsa PW 813 went into a vicious stall and dived in at considerable speed. 1/4m N of Keevil. Pilots not strapped in and so hit controls.. . HUNT - Serjeant - - |
| HUNTER | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in garden of the ter Horst house, Benedendorpsweg . . HUNTER - Serjeant - - |
| HUTCHENS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Made a successful landing a mile from the rendevous area but then was fired upon from a wood, fifty yards south of the landing area and was killed. . HUTCHENS - Sergeant - - |
| HUXLEY | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried beside Amsterdamsweg at the corner with Maasbergseweg. . HUXLEY - Serjeant - - |
| HYDE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Made a successful landing in Glider 134 (434?) but later reported missing. Co-pilot Sgt F A Taylor also killed. . . HYDE - Flight Sergeant - - |
| HYDE | 1943-11-15 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. At 1530 hrs crashed during low aerobatics training near aerodrome at Save Hay Farm RLG, Denham. . HYDE - Serjeant - - |
| IMPEY | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . IMPEY - Lieutenant - - |
| IRON | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . IRON - Serjeant - - |
| IRVINE | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, B Squadron. Killed in Action. Originally reported missing. First buried at van Engerphenweg / Pietersbergseweg (near the bench). . IRVINE - Lieutenant - - |
| JACKSON | 1943-03-22 00:00:00 | RAF nan | 296 Sqn. nan. At 1440 hrs, on return from Ex CRUMPET,(parachute ex, part of Ex SPARoad Traffic AccidentN) Whitley LA 827 (pilot 46635 Fg Offr R.T. Hamer) collided in mid-air due to bumpy conditions when flying in formation with Whitley BD 422. LA 827 landed on one wheel at Polbrook, but BD 422 crashed near Fotheringhay. Pilot and four others reported killed. Lt F J Burgess appears to have been travelling as a passenger. (Date originally reported as 1 March 1943). . JACKSON - Flying Officer - - |
| JACKSON | 1943-12-07 00:00:00 | 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs during poor weather Hotspur BT 822 entered cloud, pilot cast off from tug and apparently stalled and lost control, crashing in field near Collingbourne Ducis. (6 soldiers of 6 Air Landing Brigade also reported killed: pax in glider. 5 names held, all 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals). . JACKSON - Signalman - - |
| JAMIESON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Shot down by intense enemy fire near Hamminkeln while flying Glider No.69. Killed by further intense enemy fire after landing. First buried in temporary cemetery south of Hamminkeln. Co-pilot Flt-Sgt G.J.C. Grant also killed.. . JAMIESON - Flying Officer - - |
| JARVIS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Hamilcar 262 became detached, tail and fin seen to break off and whole glider disintegrated 2 seconds later. Co-pilot Lt R.L. Graefe also killed.. . JARVIS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| JEAVONS | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Hamilcar, Chalk No.913 was on fire, it hit trees and it somersaulted on landing near Jonkershoeve. Both pilots were killed. Originally reported missing . . JEAVONS - Serjeant - - |
| JEFFS | 1943-12-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs during poor weather Hotspur BT 822 entered cloud, pilot cast off from tug and apparently stalled and lost control, crashing in field near Collingbourne Ducis. (6 soldiers of 6 Air Landing Brigade also reported killed: pax in glider. 5 names held, all 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals). . JEFFS - Serjeant - - |
| JENNER | 1944-08-15 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment Independent Squadron | Operation DRAGOON. Invasion of the South of France 15 Aug 44. Horsa hit tree on Landing Zone at Draguignan near Frejus . . JENNER - Serjeant - - |
| JOEL | 1944-04-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | Exercise 'Dreme'. nan. Accidentally killed whilst flying. At 2100 hrs during Exercise Dreme with 7 KOSB, Stirling LJ 842 of 196 Sqn 'A' Flt, flown by F/Sgt Lees, hit the top of a tree, cast off Horsa LG 999, which dived into the ground at Warnford, west of Petersfield, and then itself crashed 1m SW of Romsey. The combination was flying low due to local bad weather (cloudbase 700 ft in area of hills 900 ft high). All 26 passengers (No.3 Platoon, A Coy, 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers) were killed, and 7 tug crew. Names held at Museum of Army Flying.. . JOEL - Staff Sergeant - - |
| JOHNSON | 1945-03-30 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. PoW Aschaffenburg. Died after march from POW camp . . JOHNSON - Serjeant - - |
| JOHNSON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR C Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing. First buries 100 yards west of Ringenburg . . JOHNSON - Flying Officer - - |
| JOHNSON | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . JOHNSON - Serjeant - - |
| JOHNSTONE | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried possibly at Hotel by Hotel Hartenstein . . JOHNSTONE - Serjeant - - |
| JONES | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Glider hit by flak on 18 September 1944 lift and controls damaged: glider made a forced landing and crashed near Fijnaart. Came under fire from German troops and was hit in shoulder and was taken prisoner along with pilot, SSgt Ron Watkinson DFM and four members of 1st Air Landing Light Regiment, Royal Artillery. Sgt Jones was nurded for several days by Mrs Bom-van Dis in her home at Fijnaart, where he Died of Wounds. First buried in the General Cemetery, Dinteloord. . JONES - Serjeant - - |
| JONES | 9-10 Jul 43 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . JONES - Serjeant - - |
| JONES | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action. First buried beside Klein Amerikaweg, Heelsum . . JONES - Serjeant - - |
| JONES | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Glider Chalk No. 896 flew in on the second day.Originally reported missing. First buried west of Valkenburglaan . . JONES - Staff Sergeant - - |
| JOYCE | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. nan. . JOYCE - Serjeant - - |
| KEARNS | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | nan. nan. On a winter supply drop in Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffs: 7 crew killed along with Sgt W T Sherry who was accompanying them to see if possible to land a glider in the area and two Newspaper Reporters. . . KEARNS - Engineer 2 - - |
| KEENAN | 1942-06-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 102 GOTU, Kidlington. nan. At 0930 hrs Hotspur BT 789 pulled out of dive approach too low and hit ground approx ½m East of Kidlington. . KEENAN - Corporal - - |
| KELSALL | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider crashed at Hamminkeln railway station. Co-pilot Fg Offr W J Wates also killed. Originally buried in a field on the west side of the railway station at Hamminkeln by an Army Chaplain . . KELSALL - Sergeant - - |
| KELSEY WILKINSON | 1943-04-02 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | nan. nan. Died of injuries received in a glider accident. Loaded Horsa on tow, which crashed in churchyard near Hurn in March 1943. Died at Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe (Bournemouth).. . KELSEY WILKINSON - Serjeant - - |
| KENNARD | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Hamilcar 282 . . KENNARD - Lieutenant - - |
| KENT | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . KENT - Serjeant - - |
| KEOGH | 1941-12-19 00:00:00 | 1st Battalion, Border Regiment nan | AFEE Exercise Unit, Ringway. nan. Hotspur BT 488 during airsickness trials cast off from tug due to weather conditions, stalled after releasing tow, recovered from resulting spin but failed to pull out of vertical dive, and dived into ground from 800 ft in a field adjoining Ringway airfield. Reported that 8 killed in all, but only 6 others so far found for this date, all 1st Battalion Border Regiment. . KEOGH - Pte - - |
| KERR | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . KERR - Staff Sergeant - - |
| KIFF | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 100 metres north of Hotel Hartenstein . . KIFF - Serjeant - - |
| KING | 1943-12-07 00:00:00 | 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs during poor weather Hotspur BT 822 entered cloud, pilot cast off from tug and apparently stalled and lost control, crashing in field near Collingbourne Ducis. (6 soldiers of 6 Air Landing Brigade also reported killed: pax in glider. 5 names held, all 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals). . KING - Lance Sergeant - - |
| KIRTON | 1944-04-13 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident Wroughton . . KIRTON - Trooper - - |
| KITCHING | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 114 reported missing. . KITCHING - Captain - - |
| KNOTT | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 132 blew up on LZ when it hit river bank . . KNOTT - Serjeant - - |
| KNOWLES | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . In Glider No.295 which successfully landed in Landing Zone 'P'Probably first buried in 1st Canadian Army area . . KNOWLES - Flying Officer - - |
| LAIDLAW | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR B Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . In Glider RX 534 which hat hit by flak in mid-air at 10.30am and blew up and crashed. Probably first buried in 1st Canadian Army area, Hamminkeln . . LAIDLAW - Flight Sergeant - - |
| LAIDLAW | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 3 Squadron | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Missing, presumed Killed in Action. Originally reported missing. Glider load included 6 pounder gun. SSgt Laidlaw was unable to swim. . LAIDLAW - Staff Sergeant - - |
| LAWRENCE | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Reported killed when on patrol with SSgt J.F. Boyd and SSgt G.A. Briggs. First buried 150 metres south of the Tafelberg Hotel . . LAWRENCE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| LAWSON | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa glider, Chalk No. 221 took off from Down Ampney with members of the Anti-tank platoon of the Support Company, 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, with a jeep and six pounder anti-tank gun and ammunition. Glider landed in trees near the Landing Zone, with the tail standing up in the air. Originally reported missing. Both Pilots died of their injuries, Sgt Lawson shortly after the crash, WO II died of wounds the next day. First buried at Oosterbeek, north of the Railway. . LAWSON - Serjeant - - |
| LAWSON | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 19 Flight, B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Reported killed in fighting near Arnhem bridge, but also reported as wounded in the shoulder and shot when attempting escape from hospital courtyard with 2 others. Date of death may be 20 Sept 1944. First buried Arnhem General Cemetery (Moscowa RC) . . LAWSON - Serjeant - - |
| LAWTON | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . LAWTON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| LEACH | 1945-03-11 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 3 Glider Training School, Exeter. nan. At 1430 hrs Miles Master EM 408 stalled in steep turn at 2500 ft and spun in in vicinity of Rockbeare, NE of airfield. Pilot, 1459612 Flt-Sgt Arthur Edward Leach, RAFVR, and Pupil, Sgt J R Egan GPR both killed.. . LEACH - Flight Sergeant - - |
| LEAVY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR B Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . In Glider RX 534 which hat hit by flak in mid-air at 10.30am and blew up and crashed. Probably first buried in 1st Canadian Army area, Hamminkeln . . LEAVY - Flying Officer - - |
| LEDBROOK | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Horsa RN 923 shot down and crashed near Hamminkeln. First buried in the Divisional Cemetery at Hamminkeln. . LEDBROOK - Flying Officer - - |
| LEE | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Squadron Sergeant-Major, E Squadron. Horsa glider, Chalk No. 221 took off from Down Ampney with members of the Anti-tank platoon of the Support Company, 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, with a jeep and six pounder anti-tank gun and ammunition. Glider landed in trees near the Landing Zone, with the tail standing up in the air. Originally reported missing. Both Pilots died of their injuries, Sgt Lawson shortly after the crash, WO II died of wounds the next day. First buried in the Onder de Bomen General Cemetery, Renkum. . LEE - Warrant Officer, Class II - - |
| LEVISON | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried poss Oosterbeek station. . LEVISON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| LEVY | 1944-04-12 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 2nd Wing | 296 Sqn. nan. Accidentally killed whilst flying. At 0057 hrs the tug was unable to avoid cloud and Horsa LH 277 cast off at between 1200 -1300 ft and attempted a forced landing, but crashed at high speed, hitting a haystack near Adlestrop (Station Operational Record Book locates as "wood 2m South of Moreton-in- Marsh"). Cable angle indicator not fitted.. . LEVY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| LEYSHON | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried Valkenburglaan, 100 metres south of the junction with Graaf van Rechterenweg . . LEYSHON - Serjeant - - |
| LIGHTOWLER | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Glider 42 (LH 273) tow-rope broke near French coast and glider ditched. . . LIGHTOWLER - Serjeant - - |
| LIVINGSTON | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . LIVINGSTON - Serjeant - - |
| LOGIE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crashed near Hamminkeln. . LOGIE - Sergeant - - |
| LOVE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider No.67 crashed into house on landing. Co-pilot Sgt A W Skeldon also killed.. . LOVE - Sergeant - - |
| LOWE | 1944-05-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 1 HGSU, Keevil. nan. At 1150 hrs Horsa PW 813 went into a vicious stall and dived in at considerable speed. 1/4m N of Keevil. Pilots not strapped in and so hit controls.. . LOWE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| LOWMAN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider No.5 crashed near Hamminkeln. Originally buried at Volgelsang. . LOWMAN - Sergeant - - |
| LUFF | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Believed explosives detonated on heavy landing. . LUFF - Staff Sergeant - - |
| LYON | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . LYON - Serjeant - - |
| MACKENZIE | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Now reported shot by sniper in grounds of present Dreyerwood Hotel.. . MACKENZIE - Serjeant - - |
| MADDOCK | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR A Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crashed flying glider No.RX 234 in the Hamminkeln area. . MADDOCK - Flying Officer - - |
| MALCOLM | 1942-11-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 1525 hrs while carrying out air experience flight for glider troops, Hotspur HH 284 stalled after release at 500 ft while in steep turn and dived into ground. 6 soldiers of 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry also killed (Total 8 killed originally reported). . MALCOLM - Serjeant - - |
| MALTBY | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Royal Artillery HQ 2 Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Intelligence Officer, attached to No.2 Wing. Glider, containing men of 14 Platoon, B Company, 1st Border Regiment, came under fire, Lt Maltby was hit in head by flak (smashing the back of his head) whilst in cockpit of glider over the 's Hertogenbosch area some 15 minutes before landing. Glider came down on Landing Zone 'S', between the Arnhem-Utrecht railway and the Arnhem-Ede road. First buried near the roadside, north of Reijerskamp Farm at Wolfheze (Pilot Lt-Col J.W. Place, CO 2 Wing OK). . MALTBY - Lieutenant - - |
| MANBY | 25-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in a garden near Benedendorpsweg / Kneppelhoutweg . . MANBY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MANN | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in the garden of the ter Horst house, Benedendorpsweg . . MANN - Serjeant - - |
| MANN | 1942-11-26 00:00:00 | 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 1525 hrs while carrying out air experience flight for glider troops, Hotspur HH 284 stalled after release at 500 ft while in steep turn and dived into ground. 6 soldiers of 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry also killed (Total 8 killed originally reported). . MANN - Private - - |
| MANSELL | 1945-03-29 00:00:00 | RAFVR D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider No.293 crashed at Landing Zone 'P' and he was taken prisoner. Escaped from PoW column two days later. On 29 March 1945 he was cornered in a farmyard at the village of Welmar and beaten to death by a gang of Hitler Youth. Body discovered 30 March 1945 by his elder brother, Major Gerald Mansell OC Armoured Recconnaissance unit which captured the village.. . MANSELL - Flying Officer - - |
| MANSFIELD | 1951-07-21 00:00:00 | GPR 1 Indep Sqn | AOP School, Middle Wallop (6 Comms Course). nan. Auster 5 TJ 508 hit a hedge and then HT cables when low flying near Middle Wallop (GR sheet 168 427389). . MANSFIELD - SSgt - - |
| MARFLEET | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Missing, later confirmed Killed in Action. The Horsa glider, Chalk No.67, flown by Staff Sergeant Billy Marfleet and Sergeant Vic Haines was last seen by their tug shortly before they entered thick cloud just before the French coast. The tow-rope broke in the turbulent air and the cold, grey waters of the English Channel, near the Caen Canal, claimed the lives of passengers and crew. . MARFLEET - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MARKS | 1942-11-26 00:00:00 | 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 1525 hrs while carrying out air experience flight for glider troops, Hotspur HH 284 stalled after release at 500 ft while in steep turn and dived into ground. 6 soldiers of 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry also killed (Total 8 killed originally reported). . MARKS - Private - - |
| MARKWICK | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, A Squadron. Killed in Action. First buried near Hotel Tafelberg . . MARKWICK - Lieutenant - - |
| MARRIOTT | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried beside Sonnenberglaan . . MARRIOTT - Serjeant - - |
| MARSHALL | 1941-12-19 00:00:00 | 1st Battalion, Border Regiment nan | AFEE Exercise Unit, Ringway. nan. Hotspur BT 488 during air-sickness trials cast off from tug due to weather conditions, stalled after releasing tow, recovered from resulting spin but failed to pull out of vertical dive, and dived into ground from 800 ft in a field adjoining Ringway airfield. Reported that 8 killed in all, but only 6 others so far found for this date, all 1st Battalion Border Regiment. . MARSHALL - Pte - - |
| MARTIN | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in landing crash of Glider 155. . MARTIN - Lieutenant - - |
| MATHEWS | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried Polderweg, near a pool . . MATHEWS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MATHIAS | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . MATHIAS - Lieutenant - - |
| MAW | 1944-11-17 00:00:00 | RAFVR 9 RAF Course | 21 HGCU, Brize Norton. nan. At 0035 hrs during night flying Whitley LA 873 with Horsa LG 749 still attached banked into the ground at Course Hill Farm, Ducklington (S of Witney), and both burnt out. Also killed: 1336651 WO Strange, John William, RAFVR, buried Burton Abbotts, instructor: and the Whitley crew : Pilot, 1317064 Flt-Sgt Pearce, Royston Grenville, RAFVR, buried Bristol):W.Op/AG, 1416752 Sgt White, Edgar Richard James, RAFVR, buried West Ham): and yoke operator, 1816909 AC2 Dale, Albert Edward, RAFVR, buried Stoke-on-Trent).. . MAW - Sergeant - - |
| MAYES | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in a garden near Benedendorpsweg / Kneppelhoutweg - near Hotel Hartenstein . . MAYES - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MAYNARD | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . MAYNARD - Serjeant - - |
| MCALEER | 1942-11-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon. nan. At 1640 hrs Hotspur BT 659 undershot after low release at 200 ft and hit trees on dive approach ½m east of airfield. Pilot, 1678958 Sgt J Levison, injured. . MCALEER - Serjeant - - |
| MCCARTHY | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . MCCARTHY - Serjeant - - |
| MCEWAN | 1944-04-29 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment H.Q. | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident: Rollestone . . MCEWAN - Trooper - - |
| MCGOWAN | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried near Hotel Schoonord. . MCGOWAN - Serjeant - - |
| MCGREGOR | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Came down in Landing Zone 'A' and was killed in the crash. Originally buried in No.5 Para Brigade Cemetery but was later reburied. . MCGREGOR - Flying Officer - - |
| MCINNES | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR A Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flew Glider XX 909 when it was hit by flak and crashed in the Hamminkeln area. He was originally buried at the crash site. . MCINNES - Flight Sergeant - - |
| MCINTYRE | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | RAF nan | 47 Sqn. nan. On a winter supply drop in Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffs: 7 crew killed along with Sgt W T Sherry who was accompanying them to see if possible to land a glider in the area and two Newspaper Reporters. . . MCINTYRE - Sqn-Ldr - - |
| MCLAREN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . MCLAREN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MCLAREN | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed with Dickie Banks and Sgt H Parkinson and two others when two Germam FW 190's attacked Glider Pilot lines near Hartenstein. First buried south of the Hotel Tafelberg . . MCLAREN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MCLEAN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crashed in the Hamminkeln area. He was first buried by an Army Padre in a field west of Hamminkeln railway station. . MCLEAN - Flying Officer - - |
| MCMANUS | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action. In a trench in front of Hartenstein Hotel, under a constant barrage of mortar fire. Killed as he and Jim McInnes scrambled out of trench during a 'lull' in fighting. Hit by mortar fire near Hartenstein. Originally buried in front of Hotel Tafelbrerg. . . MCMANUS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MCMILLAN | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . MCMILLAN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MCQUEEN | 1942-08-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. At 1810 hrs Hotspur HH 519 made precautionary release shortly after take-off on a full-load exercise, overshot and hit a tree on airfield boundary when turning back. He was taken to hospital where he died two hours later. . MCQUEEN - Corporal - - |
| MIDGLEY | 24-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Took off from Down Ampney in Sunday 17 September 1944. Landed early afternoon North West of Wolfheze. On 24 September 1944 he was defending the North West corner of the perimeter of the woodssurrounding Hartenstein, in the Oosterbeek area. Killed during attack by German flame throwing tanks, following a heavy mortar bombardment. He was killed by a burst of machine-gun fire from a tank whilst he was carrying on end of a stretcher . Mike Brown was also badly wounded in the thighs and legs. First buried at the junction of the road and a firld, Bothaweg / Oranjeweg. . MIDGLEY - Serjeant - - |
| MILLEN | 1943-10-01 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. Cpl J B Brown in Tiger Moth T 6387 undershot, opened up engine to clear ground., raised the nose and swung left into Miles Magister T 9750, which was approaching to land behind. LSgt G L Vince GPRdied at Halton in afternoon. Instructor in T 9750, Flt-Sgt Millen, Stanley Arthur, RAFVR, also killed.. . MILLEN - Flight Sergeant - - |
| MILLER | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . MILLER - Serjeant - - |
| MILLS | 1944-09-28 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Officer Commanding No.11 Flight Flight, E Squadron. Missing on river crossing. Body recovered from the river Grift at Rhenen and was buried in the local General Cemetery. . MILLS - Captain - - |
| MILLS | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, D Squadron. PoW. Killed by the Germans at Brummen whilst a PoW. First buried Enschede. . MILLS - Lieutenant - - |
| MILTON | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . MILTON - Sgt - - |
| MINARDS | 1947-08-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment Ex C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Wounded before 26 September 1944 and taken Prisoner of War at Arnhem. Taken to Apeldoorn and then St. Joseph's. Could not be moved to Germany by train and was liberated by Canadian forces on 13 April 45 and returned to UK by air.. . MINARDS - Sergeant - - |
| MONTAGUE | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 118 . . MONTAGUE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MONTGOMERY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . MONTGOMERY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MOON | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. In Mrs Gerda Bechtold's house from the start of the battle until Wednesday 20 September 1944. Killed on Saturday 23 September 1944. First buried 150 metres south of Hotel Tafelberg . . MOON - Serjeant - - |
| MOORCOCK | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 100 yards west of Hotel Hartenstein . . MOORCOCK - Staff Sergeant - - |
| MOREL | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . MOREL - Serjeant - - |
| MORGAN | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Tug aircraft blew up and Glider 127 crashed Lentini. . MORGAN - Serjeant - - |
| MUIR | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Officer Commanding No.22 Flight, D Squadron. At Arnhem, on Tuesday 19th, the 156th Battalion were preparing to attack the German defensive line along the Dreijenseweg, but their leading A Company were without one of their platoons who were back on the 4th Para Brigade's drop zone protecting the wounded there. It was decided that they should be reinforced by a platoon of thirty glider pilots from D Squadron. Captain Muir commanded this group. During the attack A Company were hopelessly pinned down and their commander, Major R L J Pott, ordered that his men make a desperate bayonet charge. Though trained infantry, the glider pilots were not paratroopers and it was not their fault that they never managed to fully support A Company in the attack. The men from D Squadron came under fire from a German outpost perpendicular to the Company's attack, and it raked their left flank, stopping them in their tracks. Muir was wounded and became a prisoner of war soon after. On the following day Captain Muir was amongst a party of British POW's being marched away from the area in or around Renkum, when a German corporal emerged from a slit trench and fired a captured British weapon at the helpless prisoners, resulting in many wounded. Lieutenant W. H. Skinner, commander of the 261 Field Park Company, RE, was killed instantly, and Muir was left very badly wounded. He died on the Monday 25th September. A German officer who witnessed the atrocity took a rifle from one of his guards and shot the murderer. First buried in Oder de Bomen General Cemetery, Renkum . . MUIR - Captain - - |
| MURPHY | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . MURPHY - Serjeant - - |
| MURPHY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Last seen passing Hamminkeln. He was first buried by an Army Padre in a field west of Hamminkeln railway station. . MURPHY - Sergeant - - |
| NADEN | 24-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried at the junction of the road and field, Bothaweg / Oranjeweg . . NADEN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| NASH | Date not yet known | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Hit by shrapnel from shell after landing and died of wounds. . . NASH - Serjeant - - |
| NASH | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flew fron Fairford, Horsa 431 was shot down in the air and on fire, crashed near Landing Zone 'B', in the Hamminkeln area. Killed in the crash and was first buried in No.5 Para Brigade Cemetery. Co-pilot Sgt R.A. Rowley also killed. . NASH - Flying Officer - - |
| NAYLOR | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . NAYLOR - Serjeant - - |
| NEALE | 1944-09-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Second in Command, B Squadron. Drowned - Originally reported missing. Body recovered from the river Rhine at Amerongen in October 44 and was buried in the local General Cemetery. . NEALE - Captain - - |
| NEEDLEMAN | 1944-04-28 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | 1 HGSU, Fairford. nan. Killed in gliding accident. At 2145 hrs tail broke off, tow-rope broke, and glider spiralled into ground 7m south of Hungerford, Berkshire. Original roll stated "Coombe" and location is probably Combe, near Linkenholt, Andover. . . NEEDLEMAN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| NEILSON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing. Glider 428. Co-pilot Flt-Sgt R J Shepherd also killed.. . NEILSON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| NEILSON | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried 100 metres north of Hotel Hartenstein . . NEILSON - Serjeant - - |
| NELSON | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Killed in Action. Glider flew into a cliff on the Sicily invasion. . NELSON - Serjeant - - |
| NEW | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Flak hit between tug and Glider 99 tow-rope broke. . NEW - Staff Sergeant - - |
| NEWARK | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Royal Army Medical Corps G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the Hotel Hartenstein . . NEWARK - Private - - |
| NEWMAN | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in the garden of a house on Stationsweg . . NEWMAN - Serjeant - - |
| NEWMAN | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in garden near corner of Benedendorpsweg and Kneppelhoutweg. . NEWMAN - Serjeant - - |
| NICHOLSON | 1943-03-22 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 296 Sqn. nan. At 1440 hrs, on return from Ex CRUMPET,(parachute ex, part of Ex SPARoad Traffic AccidentN) Whitley LA 827 (pilot 46635 Fg Offr R.T. Hamer) collided in mid-air due to bumpy conditions when flying in formation with Whitley BD 422. LA 827 landed on one wheel at Polbrook, but BD 422 crashed near Fotheringhay. Pilot and four others reported killed. Lt F J Burgess appears to have been travelling as a passenger. (Date originally reported as 1 March 1943). . NICHOLSON - Flight Sergeant - - |
| NORGROVE | Apr or May 50 | Ox and Bucks L I/GPR SHQ A Sqn or Middleton Stoney Admin Unit | 1 HGCU, Upper Heyford. nan. Hitched a lift in Horsa from dispersal, lost balance when jumping from forward door, and was crushed by port wheel.. . NORGROVE - Tpr - - |
| NORMAN | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . NORMAN - Lieutenant - - |
| NORRIS | 1943-06-27 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation BEGGAR or TURKEY BUZZARD. Ferrying of Horsas from UK to North Africa 1-28 Jun 43. Killed on Active Service - Flying Accident. Missing in trip from UK to Salé in Horsa LG 833. Halifax EB 135 also missing (names of crew held at Museum of Army Flying). . NORRIS - Serjeant - - |
| NORTON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . NORTON - Captain - - |
| NUTTALL | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . NUTTALL - Serjeant - - |
| OCKWELL | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Glider 66 (HS 129) [WOMBAT Mk 1 'Sybil'] carrying an officer and five men from the Royal Engineers, a jeep, trailer, a motorcycle and demolition equipment and a War Correspondant, was towed by Albermarle Tug, flown by Sqdn Ldr Grice. The glider got engulfed in thick black smoke and was being battered by gale force winds in the area near the Merville Battery. The tug vanished and the glider was in free flight, well over the sea. SSgt Hellyer took up the fire axe and hacked away at the cockpit screen in cront of him. As he sat down SSgt Hellyer noticed they were just crossing land at 900 feet, and he could see their Albermarle tug climbing steeply to port, being shot at by tracer fire. The troops were warned to prepare for a crash landing. As the glider came down in a ploughed field, the port wing of the glider hit a Landing Zone obstruction pole causing the glider to slew violently to port and bash it's nose into the ground. SSgtOckwell was killed in the crash and SSgt Hellyer was thrown through the hole he had made in the windscreen, still strapped in his seat. In the darkness he was able to hide up in thick undergrowth where he sucessfully hid from German troops and was able to creep westwards to meet up with Allied Forces . . OCKWELL - Staff Sergeant - - |
| OGILVIE | 1944-09-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Officer Commanding D Squadron. Drowned whilst trying to swim the river at Oosterbeek, in his kilt, saying "We Scots rather throw away our weapons than our kilt". He threw his sten gun in the river and disappeared about thirty yards out. Possibly shot by sniper. Body recovered from the river Rhine at Rhenen on 17 October 1944 and was buried in the local General Cemetery. . OGILVIE - Captain - - |
| O'REILLY | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . O'REILLY - Sgt - - |
| OSBORN | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa glided Chalk Number 126 was towed by 644 Squadron Halifax LL305 2P-A, flown by P/O McConville from Tarrant Rushton. Originally reported missing. Tail of Horsa Glider No.126 , carrying a 1 Polish Para Brigade anti-tank crew, blown off by flak, the glider went into an uncontrolable dive and although the tug pilot forced the nose of the tug up, in an attempt the help the stricken glider, the tow rope parted and the glider plunged into a Dutch field, west of St Michielsgestel, killing both pilots and two of the Polish occupants, Piotr Maslorz and Kazimierz Nowak.. . OSBORN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| O'SULLIVAN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider Crash landed at Landing Zone 'B'. First Pilot, Flying Officer R W Morrison was wounded. . O'SULLIVAN - Flight Sergeant - - |
| OXENFORD | 1944-10-08 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Officer Commanding No.25 Flight, E Squadron. POW following attack on 24 September 1944. Died of Wounds in a hospital at Apeldoorn. First buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery. . OXENFORD - Captain - - |
| PAINTER | 25-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . PAINTER - Serjeant - - |
| PALLETT | 1943-12-07 00:00:00 | 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs during poor weather Hotspur BT 822 entered cloud, pilot cast off from tug and apparently stalled and lost control, crashing in field near Collingbourne Ducis. (6 soldiers of 6 Air Landing Brigade also reported killed: pax in glider. 5 names held, all 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals). . PALLETT - Signaller - - |
| PALMER | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . PALMER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| PALMER | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Royal West Kent Regiment nan | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . PALMER - Captain - - |
| PALMER | 1942-09-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. At 1550 hrs Hotspur HH 332, whilst descending on tow, stalled in the dive, broke up in the air and crashed at Boddington House Farm, (near Staverton, 3 miles SW). Presumed structural failure of tail unit.. . PALMER - Corporal - - |
| PARKINSON | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed when two Germam FW 190's attacked Glider Pilot lines near Hartenstein, one of five killed. First buried near House Sonnenberg . . PARKINSON - Serjeant - - |
| PARKINSON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Killed in Action. Originally buried in Hamminkeln. . PARKINSON - Sergeant - - |
| PATTINSON | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in front of the Tafelberg Hotel. . PATTINSON - Serjeant - - |
| PAUL | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Found underneath his Horsa glider, which had crash landed. . PAUL - Flying Officer - - |
| PAVITT | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . First buried in a field on the west side of the railway station at Hamminkeln. . PAVITT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| PEARCE | 1944-11-17 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 21 HGCU, Brize Norton. nan. At 0035 hrs during night flying Whitley LA 873 with Horsa LG 749, (F/O W Davidson, Sgt D E Maw) still attached banked into the ground at Course Hill Farm, Ducklington (S of Witney), and both burnt out. Also killed: 1336651 WO Strange, John William, RAFVR, buried Burton Abbotts, instructor: and the Whitley crew : Pilot, 1317064 Flt-Sgt Pearce, Royston Grenville, RAFVR, buried Bristol):W.Op/AG, 1416752 Sgt White, Edgar Richard James, RAFVR, buried West Ham): and yoke operator, 1816909 AC2 Dale, Albert Edward, RAFVR, buried Stoke-on-Trent).. . PEARCE - Flight Sergeant - - |
| PEARL | 1943-03-26 00:00:00 | RAF nan | 2 Glider Training School, Weston. nan. At 1610 hrs Miles Master DL 472 crashed SW of airfield when spun in from circuit height. Pupil, Cpl R Renfrey, also killed.. . PEARL - Flying Officer - - |
| PENNY | 1943-11-15 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. At 1530 hrs crashed during low aerobatics training near aerodrome at Save Hay Farm RLG, Denham. . PENNY - Serjeant - - |
| PERCY | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . PERCY - Serjeant - - |
| PERRY | 1954-01-21 00:00:00 | Royal Artillery / Glider Pilot Regiment 1911/656 21 Jan 54 41 | Operation FIREDOG. Malayan Emergency 1948-1957 (1911 and later 1907 Light Liaison Flights, 656 Air OP Squadron). Auster 6 VF 604 failed to return from sortie eastwards towards Ulu Langat from Kuala Lumpur. Aircraft not found till 12 Mar 57. Pax Flt-Lt J. Maulden RAF, 194 Sqn. . . PERRY - Sgt - - |
| PERRY | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Glider 119. Shot by flanking small-arms fire near Ranville. . PERRY - Serjeant - - |
| PETTIT | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | RAF nan | nan. nan. On a winter supply drop in Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffs: 7 crew killed along with Sgt W T Sherry who was accompanying them to see if possible to land a glider in the area and two Newspaper Reporters. . . PETTIT - Flight Sergeant - - |
| PETTITT | 1945-06-22 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident: Witney . . PETTITT - Sergeant - - |
| PHILLIPS | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 50 yards north of the railway station, beside Dreijnseweg . . PHILLIPS - Serjeant - - |
| PHILLIPS | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Originally on wounded list. Died of wounds. Horsa glider Chalk Number 35 (LH 324) left fron Brize Norton and crashed on landing. Co-pilot Sgt D.F. Phillips also killed, and also Pte J. Aldred (13 PARA), Capt(QM) S. Daisley (13 PARA) and Sig D.I. Davis (6 AB Div Sigs).. . PHILLIPS - Serjeant - - |
| PHILLIPS | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the Hotel Schoonord. . PHILLIPS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| PHILLPOTT | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Glider 125 suffered direct hit by flak when approaching coast off Cabourg and broke up in air. Also reported that towrope broke 2m off coast.. . PHILLPOTT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| PICKFORD | 1944-09-27 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in Temporary British Cemetery beside Sophiaweg, Nijmegen. . PICKFORD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| PICTON | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in garden near corner of Benedendorpsweg and Kneppelhoutweg. . PICTON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| PIDDUCK | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Shot on 18 September 1944? whilst attempting to swim the Rhine, with Pte J Young, South Staffordshire Regiment. Their bodies were washed ashore in the garden of a schoolteacher at Elst, who hid the bodies fron German Patrols for a couple of days. . PIDDUCK - Serjeant - - |
| PILKINGTON | 1941-12-19 00:00:00 | 1st Battalion, Border Regiment nan | AFEE Exercise Unit, Ringway. nan. Hotspur BT 488 during airsickness trials cast off from tug due to weather conditions, stalled after releasing tow, recovered from resulting spin but failed to pull out of vertical dive, and dived into ground from 800 ft in a field adjoining Ringway airfield. Reported that 8 killed in all, but only 6 others so far found for this date, all 1st Battalion Border Regiment. . PILKINGTON - Private - - |
| PLOWMAN | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Second in Command of F Squadron. First buried near the Hotel Tafelberg . . PLOWMAN - Captain - - |
| PODMORE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crashed at Hamminkeln. . PODMORE - Sergeant - - |
| POLLARD | 1944-10-15 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | nan. nan. Road Traffic Accident: Bournemouth . . POLLARD - Trooper - - |
| POWELL | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Glider 75 cast off by tug when started to pull up Albemarle tug tail, and ditched in Channel. . POWELL - Serjeant - - |
| POWELL | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in front of The Hillock House, near Zilverberg . . POWELL - Staff Sergeant - - |
| PRATT | 1943-06-11 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard, 18 Army Course. nan. At 1405 hrs on 7 Jun 43 Hotspur HH 125 turned left and sideslipped into the ground from 80ft. Sgt Pratt died at RAF Hospital Innsworth. (Time also reported as 1415 hrs). . PRATT - Serjeant - - |
| PRESTON | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 124. . PRESTON - Warrant Officer, Class II - - |
| PULLMAN | 1944-10-12 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon. nan. Hotspur BT 613 went out of control in steep spiral after tow rope struck by lightning at 2000 ft and crashed. Air Investigations Branch report indicated structural failure of fin. Instructor (Flt-Sgt Fox) escaped by parachute but Sgt R Pullman failed to do so.. . PULLMAN - Sergeant - - |
| PURCELL | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . PURCELL - Serjeant - - |
| QUARRELL | 1942-10-02 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington. nan. Accidentally killed in glider accident. At 1050 hrs Hotspur HH 146 attempting a steep dive approach, failed to recover from dive and crashed on edge of airfield. Cpl Quarrell was killed outright and Sgt Baskett died in hospital.. . QUARRELL - Corporal - - |
| RAGGETT | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried behind the Hotel Hartenstein. . RAGGETT - Serjeant - - |
| RANDALL | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . RANDALL - Serjeant - - |
| RANGER | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in the grounds of Hemels Berg House. . RANGER - Serjeant - - |
| RAYNER | 1945-04-07 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 671 Sqn, Bikram. nan. At 12390 hrs dived into the ground whilst in low flight (possibly stalled off steep climbing turn) and burst into flames 4m SW of Bikram.. . RAYNER - Flying Officer - - |
| READ | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing . . READ - Serjeant - - |
| REDDING | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Place of first burial not records, but civilians took the remains of Sgt Redding's remains to Oosterbeek War Cemetery. . REDDING - Serjeant - - |
| REEVES | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . REEVES - Staff Sergeant - - |
| REILLY | 1944-11-29 00:00:00 | RCAF nan | 297 Sqn, Earls Colne. nan. At 1130 hrs following long night cross country exercise by 6 Halifaxes, LL 406 struck ground, cartwheeled and burnt out, after starboard outer engine caught fire at 1300 ft, ½m WSW of Shepherds Grove airfield, when a forced landing was attempted. Casualties listed in 297 Sqn Operatiuonal Record Book (PRO Air 27/1648) and notes held at Museum of Army Flying are - F/O G W Cunningham, F/O T E Reilly, Sgt W McK Forbes, Sgt W D Copeland, with SSgt F J Startup GPR. . REILLY - Flying Officer (AB) - - |
| RENFREY | 1943-03-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 2 Glider Training School, Weston. nan. At 1610 hrs Miles Master DL 472 crashed SW of airfield when spun in from circuit height. Pilot (123448 Fg-Offr W.W.D. Pearl) also killed.. . RENFREY - Corporal - - |
| RENNIE | 1946-08-27 00:00:00 | RAF nan | No.5 Glider Training School, Wellesbourne. nan. Kiled in flying accident. Took off from Wellesbourne on a training flight. After a short trip the crew decided to 'beat up' Gaydon airfirld. The Pilot, W/O Bright, lost control and crashed on Redlands Farm, near Chesterton Hill at 10.30 killeing both occupants. . RENNIE - Warrant Officer - - |
| REYNOLDS | 1943-04-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | GPEU, Chilbolton. nan. At 1545 hrs Hotspur BT 675 stalled on approach off a gliding turn and spun in near airfield at Chilbolton. 2085916 Sgt Johnny A Sayer, on same course, was seriously injured. . REYNOLDS - Serjeant - - |
| RICHARDS | 24-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . RICHARDS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| RICHARDS | 1943-07-12 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 125A crashed at Capo di Porco. Died of wounds.. . RICHARDS - Serjeant - - |
| RICHARDS | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 24 Sqn. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . RICHARDS - Flight Lieutenant - - |
| RICHARDSON | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the Steenoord brick factory on the South bank of the river Rhine . . RICHARDSON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| RICHARDSON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing . . RICHARDSON - Serjeant - - |
| RICHARDSON | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in front of Hotel Tafelberg . . RICHARDSON - Serjeant - - |
| RICKWOOD | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. The Horsa glider was twice almost turned over by flak burst, and coming in to land it came under heavy machine gun fire but Sgt Rickwood made a perfect landong in a very rough field. The moment they stopped SSgt George Betts and Sgt Rickwood jumped out to unbolt the tail. Machine gun fire was raking the landing zone and holes appeared in the glider. Killed by enemy fire shortly after landing when he was hit in the head. . RICKWOOD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| RIDDLE | 1945-04-12 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 671 Sqn, Bikram. nan. Killed in gliding accident. At 0652 hrs Halifax NA 642 took off with Hadrian KH 898 (164935 Fg Offr E.J. Opie RAF and Sgt D.W. Smith RAF) and Hadrian FR 712 on twin tow. Following port outer engine failure on take-off, both gliders were released at 200 ft and the tug turned to port. KH 898 landed in paddy field but tow rope of FR 712 struck trees while still attached to glider, which then crashed. . . RIDDLE - Flying Officer - - |
| RIDINGS | 1944-06-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Hamilcar Chalk Number 501, named 'Bag of Bagdad' took off from Tarrant Rushton at 02.10am 6 June 1944 carrying a 17 pounder gun, towing truck and gun crew. The Tug aircraft was flown by Flight Lieut Sizmur. At 03.27 whilst flying over the French coast, the tow-rope broke and the glider made a forced landing in an orchard near Villers-sur-Mer. German troops attacked Hamilcar 501just before dawn. SSgt L Ridings was hit by enemy fire with 3 of the gun crew at 0520 hrs and Died of Wounds the next day. His body was found in a field 7 June 1944. His second pilot, Sgt Ron Harris managed to escape and met uo with some Canadian Paratroops, but was taken prisoner a few days later.. . RIDINGS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| RIGG | 6 Jun 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Glider hit another already landed on landing and overturned. . RIGG - Serjeant - - |
| RIORDAN | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | Newspaper Reporters nan | nan. nan. On a winter supply drop in Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffs: 7 crew killed along with Sgt W T Sherry who was accompanying them to see if possible to land a glider in the area and two Newspaper Reporters. . . RIORDAN - nan - - |
| ROBERTS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . ROBERTS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| ROBERTSON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Army Catering Corps F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . ROBERTSON - Private - - |
| ROBINSON | Date not yet known | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Hit by 88m in Hamilcar 239 and Died of Wounds. . . ROBINSON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| ROCHE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . ROCHE - Serjeant - - |
| ROCK | 1942-10-08 00:00:00 | Royal Engineers / Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion (C.O.) | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. On 27 Sep 42 at 2115 hrs Hotspur BT 676 with full load of ballast lost tow when rope broke at 400 ft during night flying, hit cable pole with root of port wing and turned over near Shrewton, Wiltshire. Ballast bags crushed cockpit. Died at Military Hospital, Tidworth of uraemia following operations. Lt P E Robson also injured.. . ROCK - Lieutenant-Colonel - - |
| ROSCOE | 1942-06-14 00:00:00 | Ox and Bucks Light Infantry 1st Battalion | 101 GOTU, Kidlington. nan. At 1615 hrs Tiger Moth R 5029 engine cut at 300 ft and ac stalled and spun in off turn. near Innsworth. Passenger (one possibility 2839 Sect-Offr Grace, Molly Rosamond Evelyn, WAAF, recorded on Runnymede missing register, but doubtful) also killed.. . ROSCOE - 2Lt - - |
| ROSS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Originally reported missing . . ROSS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| ROWLAND | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Wing of glider shot off by flak. Crashed at Fijnaart, both pilots and Gunner Frederick V Brown killed. First buried in the General Cemetery, Dinteloord (Co-pilot Sgt L.A.L. Cook also killed). . ROWLAND - Staff Serjeant - - |
| ROWLEY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Flew fron Fairford, Horsa 431 was shot down in the air and on fire, crashed near Landing Zone 'B', in the Hamminkeln area. Killed in the crash and was first buried in No.5 Para Brigade Cemetery. Co-pilot F/O J K P Nash also killed. . ROWLEY - Sergeant - - |
| ROYLE | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment HQ 1 Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Second in Command, No.1 Wing. Killed in Action, shot by sniper. First buried 100 metres west of the Hotel Hartenstein . . ROYLE - Major - - |
| RUBENSTEIN | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in a field west of Hotel Hartenstein. . RUBENSTEIN - Serjeant - - |
| RUTTER | 1941-12-19 00:00:00 | Royal West Kent Regt / Glider Pilot Regiment nan | AFEE Exercise Unit, Ringway. nan. Accidentally killed in Hotspur BT 488 with a live load, during air-sickness trials. Glider cast off from tug due to deteriorating weather conditions, stalled after releasing tow, recovered from resulting spin but failed to pull out of vertical dive, and dived into ground from 800 ft in a field adjoining Ringway airfield. Reported that 8 killed in all, but only 6 others so far found for this date, all 1st Battalion Border Regiment. A Court of enquiry was held on 21 December 1941 at Thame, this produced the following findings; 1) The pilot stalled at low altitude, recovered from the ensuing spin, but failed to pull out of a vertical dive. 2) The pilot was not strapped in, which may have contributed to delay in recovery from the dive. 3) The pilot may have begun to experience air sickness. . RUTTER - Lance-Serjeant (Acting Sergeant) - - |
| RYAN | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . RYAN - Serjeant - - |
| SALOMONS | 1942-11-26 00:00:00 | 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 1525 hrs while carrying out air experience flight for glider troops, Hotspur HH 284 stalled after release at 500 ft while in steep turn and dived into ground. 6 soldiers of 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry also killed (Total 8 killed originally reported). . SALOMONS - Sgt - - |
| SARGENT | 1943-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation ELABORATE. Later ferrying of gliders to North Africa . Horsa HF 109 was prematurely released by Halifax DG 384 off Portugal coast and force landed in the Bay of Biscay. . SARGENT - Serjeant - - |
| SAUNDERS | 1944-09-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First burial possibly at Renkum. . SAUNDERS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| SAUNDERS | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Horsa Glider Chalk Number 267 'Jane' took off from Down Ampney on the night of 5th June 1944, towed by a Dakota, flown by Warrant Officer Don Wood of 271 Squadton, R.A.F. and was to head for Landing Zone V. It carried a motorcycle, a jeep, a 6 pounder anti-tank gun and three gunners from 4 Air Landing Anti-tank Battery crashed heavily at Annebault at 01.30 hrs, 7 miles South-East of Landing Zone 'V'. First buried Annebault, with 4924404 LSgt F.L. Woodcock RA, 4 Air Landing Anti-tank Battery, co-pilot SSgt V.C. Saunders killed, and possibly Bdr J.A. Hill (missing).. . SAUNDERS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| SAVAGE | 1944-02-07 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. At 1603 hrs whilst on a navigation exercise dived into ground after a 90 degree turn to port at Eynsham (W of Oxford). Pupil, Cpl E A Hayne, also killed. . . SAVAGE - Flight Sergeant - - |
| SAVILLE | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | Newspaper Reporters nan | nan. nan. On a winter supply drop in Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffs: 7 crew killed along with Sgt W T Sherry who was accompanying them to see if possible to land a glider in the area and two Newspaper Reporters. . . SAVILLE - nan - - |
| SCRASE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . First buried in a roadside field near Komderhof. . SCRASE - Flying Officer - - |
| SCUDAMORE | 1942-05-08 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 16 EFTS, Burnaston. nan. Miles Magister P 6447 was in mid-air head-on collision with P 6373 at 2000 ft near Hilton (SW of Derby). Cpl Scudamore baled out but was too low for parachute to come into operation. Other pilot (Flt-Sgt Graesser) flew P 6373 back to base with his pupil.Bill Scudamore was possibly fling a loop andcrashed as he came out of it. . SCUDAMORE - Corporal - - |
| SEPHTON | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 10 Flight. C Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Glider not yet known. Reported killed by a sniper on Landing Zone 'W on D-Day'. . . SEPHTON - Serjeant - - |
| SHAMBROOK | 1943-08-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0950 hrs crashed and caught fire during low-level aerobatics near Westhill Farm, Salisbury Road during cross-country training (town not stated, but original report was Zeals, which matches Elms's burial). . SHAMBROOK - Serjeant - - |
| SHARP | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. After an abortibve sortie, coming down near The Long Leys, west of Cumnor, Horsa Chalk No.229 transferred to the second lift on 18 September 1944. Originally reported missing. First buried beside Sonnenberglaan - Hoofslaan . . SHARP - Serjeant - - |
| SHARROCK | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . SHARROCK - Serjeant - - |
| SHAW | 1944-07-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | ATTDU, Netheravon. nan. Killed in Gliding Accident. At 1440 hrs Hadrian 219704 was on glider pick-up trials when after snatch take-off by Dakota of ATTDU it climbed steeply, cast off at 200 ft and continued to climb, stall-turned and crashed into the ground. . SHAW - Serjeant - - |
| SHEPHERD | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . SHEPHERD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| SHEPHERD | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider 428 crash landed in Landing Zone 'B'. Originally reported missing. Co-pilot SSgt J Neilson also killed. . . SHEPHERD - Flight Sergeant - - |
| SHERRY | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment N Squadron | 87 Flt, Syerston. nan. Volunteered to accompany a winter supply drop by Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn to see if possible to land a glider in the area. The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffordshire: 7 others killed, this being the crew of the aircraft and two Newspaper Reporters . . SHERRY - Serjeant - - |
| SHERWOOD | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crashed near Hamminkeln. Originally buried No.5 Para Regiment Cemetery. . SHERWOOD - Flight Lieutenant - - |
| SHIPP | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Assumed that his body was recovered by U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops on the south bank of the river Rhine after 4 October 1944. First buried US Military Cemetery Molenbeck . . SHIPP - Serjeant - - |
| SHORE | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider No.302 which crash landed in Landing Zone 'P'. Originally reported missing. Died whilst a Prisoner of War . . SHORE - Sergeant - - |
| SHUTTLEWORTH | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment HQ 2 Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Adjutant, No.2 Wing. Killed in Action. First buried in front of Hillock House near Zilverberg . . SHUTTLEWORTH - Captain - - |
| SIMION | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried 50 metres north of Oosterbeek Hoog Station. . SIMION - Serjeant - - |
| SIMPSON | 1944-07-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | ATTDU, Netheravon. nan. Killed in Gliding Accident. At 1440 hrs Hadrian 219704 was on glider pick-up trials when after snatch take-off by Dakota of ATTDU it climbed steeply, cast off at 200 ft and continued to climb, stall-turned and crashed into the ground. . SIMPSON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| SIMPSON | 1943-12-07 00:00:00 | 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs during poor weather Hotspur BT 822 entered cloud, pilot cast off from tug and apparently stalled and lost control, crashing in field near Collingbourne Ducis. (6 soldiers of 6 Air Landing Brigade also reported killed: pax in glider. 5 names held, all 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals). . SIMPSON - Signaller - - |
| SKELDON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider No.67 crashed into house on landing. Co-pilot Sgt A B C Love also killed. . SKELDON - Sergeant - - |
| SMALLWOOD | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds - Hit in the eye. Taken to Aid Station where he died on 24 September 1944. First buried in the garden of the ter Horst house, Benedendorpsweg. . SMALLWOOD - Staff Sergeant - - |
| SMELLIE | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Officer Commanding, No.4 Flight. Killed in Action. First buried in a meadow west of Polderweg . . SMELLIE - Captain - - |
| SMITH | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Missing believed killed, during landings in Sicily 9 July 1943. . SMITH - Staff Sergeant - - |
| SMITH | 1947-02-13 00:00:00 | RAF nan | nan. nan. On a winter supply drop in Halifax RT 922 of 47 Sqn The Halifax crashed at Grindon Moor, 8m east of Leek, Staffs: 7 crew killed along with Sgt W T Sherry who was accompanying them to see if possible to land a glider in the area and two Newspaper Reporters. . . SMITH - Flight Lieutenant - - |
| SMITH | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried in the garden of Pietersberg House. . SMITH - Serjeant - - |
| SMITH | 25-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Reported to have received a chest wound and possibly alive buring the break out. . SMITH - Serjeant - - |
| SMITH | 1942-08-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 296 Sqn, Netheravon. nan. Killed in Gliding Accident. In Hotspur glider being taken up by a Hawker tug aircraft. The pilot of the glider had a habit of flying low behind the tug on take off, and although he had been warned about this practice, he continued to do it. At 1505 hrs on 6 Aug 1942 Hotspur BT 799 got into the slipstream of the tug, gyrated badly, broke free, the pilot lost control, the glider slipped in and hit ground, breaking up. Sgt J E Smith suffered severe head injuries and died. Second pilot, Sgt George F. Cook (ex R.A.M.C.) was injured (fractured femur) and several passengers from an Air Landing Brigade reported injured or killed. . SMITH - Serjeant - - |
| SMITH | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . SMITH - Staff Sergeant - - |
| SMITH | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crashed near Hamminkeln. Originally buried 6th Airborne Divisional Cemetery. . SMITH - Sergeant - - |
| SMITH | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, D Squadron. Killed in Action. First buried in a wood beside Dreyenseweg in the Johannahoeve area. . SMITH - Lieutenant - - |
| SMITH | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried Valkenburglaan, 100 metres south of the junction with Graaf van Rechterenweg. . SMITH - Serjeant - - |
| SMITH | 1943-05-16 00:00:00 | RCAF nan | 295 Sqn, Holmsley South. nan. At 1215 hrs Halifax DG 390 whilst on a flight to retrieve a glider lost control at low altitude following failure of starboard inner engine and crashed 2 miles NNE of Sopley. All three of 5 Sqn and 4 RAF crew also killed (Pilots J10798 Fg-Offr Smith RCAF, J10509 Fg-Offr Collins RCAF, plus presumably flight engineer and rear gunner).. . SMITH - Flying Officer - - |
| SNUSHALL | 18-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried west of Valkenburglaan . . SNUSHALL - Serjeant - - |
| SPARKES | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider No.5 crashed near Hamminkeln. Originally buried at Volgelsang. . SPARKES - Sergeant - - |
| SPENCER | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried in front of the Hotel Tafelberg . . SPENCER - Serjeant - - |
| SPOWART | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Found by glider by American Troops. First buried US Military Cemetery, Margraten . . SPOWART - Staff Sergeant - - |
| STANLEY | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Originally reported missing. Horsa Glider 189, with a load of a jeep, two trailers, with spare ammunition, stores etc and six men of A Coy 12th Devons (Airborne), which was fourth in line, was being towed by a Short Stirling, piloted by F/O Murray, 620 Squadron, fron RAF Fairford when the Stirling side-slipped and exploded in a ball of flame. The towrope broke at 800 feet, some five minutes from the beach-head and glider ditched off Orne estuary at 2055 hrs. The cockpit broke off in impact, Co-pilot SSgt P.P. Turvey drowned in glider cabin in Seine Bay. Sgt E Stanley drowned after surfacing, as did CQMS Dunphy and Ptes Palmer & Nicholls of A Coy 12th Devons (Airborne) (Sgt Budd and 2 others survived, They got into a dingy dropped by the R.A.F. and drifted towards the harbour at Le Havre, were they were picked up by a roving German 'E' boat and made PoW's). Only Palmer and Nicholls bodies were recovered (buried Le Havre). . STANLEY - Serjeant - - |
| STARNES | 1944-07-10 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | ORTU, Hampstead Norris. nan. At 1707 hrs Albemarle P 1593, on a glider-retrieval flight from Hampstead Norris to Kinloss, when flying low in bad weather was seen to spin in and burst into flames at Newton- of-Bruxie. Pilot Fg Offr Fairbairn) and 9 others killed. (Also reported as crashed at Maud, or Peterhead to the East on the coast, when on a Hatson-Dyce run) PRO records states 9 in all killed. Graves in Longside Cemetery for 6 RAF crew. . STARNES - Sergeant - - |
| STARTUP | 1944-11-29 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | 297 Sqn, Earls Colne. nan. Killed in a flying accident. Volunteered to go with a tug crew for air experience: at 1130 hrs following long night cross country exercise by 6 Halifaxes, LL 406 struck ground, cartwheeled and burnt out, after starboard outer engine caught fire at 1300 ft, ½m WSW of Shepherds Grove airfield, when a forced landing was attempted. Casualties listed in 297 Sqn Operatiuonal Record Book (PRO Air 27/1648) and notes held at Museum of Army Flying are - F/O G W Cunningham, F/O T E Reilly, Sgt W McK Forbes, Sgt W D Copeland . . STARTUP - Staff Sergeant - - |
| STATHAM | 1945-03-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. PoW Aschaffenburg. Died after march from POW camp. . STATHAM - Staff Sergeant - - |
| STEAR | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action. Killed when glider hit a white building on landing at Ranville. Co-pilot, 854737 Sgt J E Wilson had both legs broken in landing. . STEAR - Staff Sergeant - - |
| STEVENS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Killed in Action. . STEVENS - Serjeant - - |
| STEVENS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR C Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Hamilcar No.230 safely landed in landing zone. Shot through the head whilst sheltering behind high bank near River Issel, in the fighting area. Originally buried in Bocholt area. . STEVENS - Sergeant - - |
| STEWART | 1942-10-15 00:00:00 | RCAF nan | GPEU. nan. At 15 MU, Wroughton at 1615 hrs when taking off crosswind in strong wind port wing dipped and touched ground. Glider then climbed steeply after tug cast off, stalled and crashed. R79206 Flt-Sgt Stewart, Douglas Hamilton, RCAF, buried Brookwood Military Cemetery 33.D.8. also killed.. . STEWART - Flight Sergeant - - |
| STEWART | 1944-09-23 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed by Mortar bomb on fence of tennis court. First buried 100 metres west of the Hotel Hartenstein. . STEWART - Staff Sergeant - - |
| STONEBANKS | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Glider 110 hit tree near Briqueville. . STONEBANKS - Serjeant - - |
| STRANGE | 1944-11-17 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 21 HGCU, Brize Norton. nan. At 0035 hrs during night flying Whitley LA 873 with Horsa LG 749 still attached banked into the ground at Course Hill Farm, Ducklington (S of Witney), and both burnt out. Also killed: 1336651 WO Strange, John William, RAFVR, buried Burton Abbotts, instructor: and the Whitley crew : Pilot, 1317064 Flt-Sgt Pearce, Royston Grenville, RAFVR, buried Bristol):W.Op/AG, 1416752 Sgt White, Edgar Richard James, RAFVR, buried West Ham): and yoke operator, 1816909 AC2 Dale, Albert Edward, RAFVR, buried Stoke-on-Trent).. . STRANGE - Warrant Officer - - |
| STRATHDEE | 1942-11-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation FRESHMAN . Raid on heavy water plant at Vermork, Norway: 19-20 Nov 42. Killed in Action. Horsa DP 349 broke tow rope due to icing and crashed on Fylgjasdal plateau, was flown by Staff Sergeant M.F. Strathdee, with his co-pilot Sergeant P. Doig. Both glider pilots were killed in the crash. They had taken off from R.A.F. Skiteen, Caithness, Scotland, towed by tug ( Halifax 'A' Apple), took off at 17:45 from Wick. The tug was piloted by Squadron Leader A.B. Wilkinson. This aircraft released its glider and returned to Wick, landing at 03:00 the following morning. The crew of this Halifax were the only people to return from Operation Freshman. A List of all the troops carried held on Freshman Datasheet . . STRATHDEE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| STRATHERN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . STRATHERN - Captain - - |
| STREET | 1943-07-14 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 118C. . STREET - Serjeant - - |
| STUBBINGS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Crashed at Hamminkeln. . STUBBINGS - Sergeant - - |
| SUMMERS | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . SUMMERS - Serjeant - - |
| SUNTER | 1943-05-16 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 5 Squadron, 1st Battalion | 295 Sqn, Holmsley South. nan. At 1215 hrs Halifax DG 390 whilst on a flight to retrieve a glider lost control at low altitude following failure of starboard inner engine and crashed 2 miles NNE of Sopley. All three of 5 Sqn and 4 RAF crew also killed (Pilots J10798 Fg-Offr Smith RCAF, J10509 Fg-Offr Collins RCAF, plus presumably flight engineer and rear gunner).. . SUNTER - Serjeant - - |
| SURRY | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . SURRY - Serjeant - - |
| TARRANT | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 30 metres west of the Hotel Schoonord . . TARRANT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| TAYLER | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Section Commander, A Squadron. Killed in Action. First buried in the Military Cemetery, Grebbeberg, east of Rhenen . . TAYLER - Lieutenant - - |
| TAYLOR | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. Glider 125 suffered direct hit by flak when approaching coast off Cabourg and broke up in air. Also reported that towrope broke 2m off coast.. . TAYLOR - Serjeant - - |
| TAYLOR | 25-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment 16 Flight, F Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Abortive sortie on 17 September, Horsa Glider Chalk No.265 with a three man gun detachment from 1st Battalion, Border Regiment transferred to the second lift on 18 September 1944 as Chalk No.836a, with two bikes, 14 men from 250th (Airborne) Light Composite Company,R.A.S.C. and a Church of England Padre, and was towed out by 437 Squadron. Although one wing was badly shelled by flak the glider made a perfect landing, in Landing Zone 'X'. Originally reported missing . . TAYLOR - Serjeant - - |
| TAYLOR | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider 434 safely landed in Landing Zone 'B', but he was later killed in the ensuing battle. Originally reported missing. Co-pilot Flt-Sgt P N Hyde also killed.. . TAYLOR - Sergeant - - |
| TAYLOR | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near Oosterbeek station. . TAYLOR - Staff Sergeant - - |
| TAYLOR | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds St Joseph Mental Hospital, Apeldoorn and first buried St Joseph Mental Hospital Cemetery, Apeldoorn. . TAYLOR - Serjeant - - |
| TAYLOR | 1943-12-07 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 0935 hrs during poor weather Hotspur BT 822 entered cloud, pilot cast off from tug and apparently stalled and lost control, crashing in field near Collingbourne Ducis. (6 soldiers of 6 Air Landing Brigade also reported killed: pax in glider. 5 names held, all 6th Airbourne Divisional Signals). . TAYLOR - Serjeant - - |
| TELFER | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . TELFER - Captain - - |
| TERRY | 1942-07-03 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. Miles Magister R 1889 stalled on turn during night low flying and spun in, hitting railway signal post, and caught fire: near Taplow, Berkshire. . TERRY - Serjeant - - |
| THOMAS | 1942-10-13 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. At 1215 hrs Tiger Moth T 6444 struck overhead wire near Princes Risborough, crashed and burst into flames. Pupil Cpl R E Dorning-Naden also killed.. . THOMAS - Sergeant - - |
| THOMAS | 1944-09-22 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Officer Commanding, No.15 Flight, F Squadron. First buried in front of the Hotel Tafelberg . . THOMAS - Captain - - |
| THOMPSON | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. His remains, along with those of Sgt Lawrence Howes, were found in January 1994, and later positively identified. His body was reburied in the Airborne Cemetery at Oosterbeek on Friday 18 September 1998. . THOMPSON - Serjeant - - |
| THOMPSON | 1942-11-26 00:00:00 | 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry nan | GPEU, Netheravon. nan. At 1525 hrs while carrying out air experience flight for glider troops, Hotspur HH 284 stalled after release at 500 ft while in steep turn and dived into ground. 6 soldiers of 2nd Batt, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry also killed (Total 8 killed originally reported). . THOMPSON - Cpl - - |
| THOMSON | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Body recovered by the Germans from the river Rhine near Amerongen 3 October 1944 . . THOMSON - Serjeant - - |
| THORNHILL | 1942-09-01 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 16 EFTS, Burnaston. nan. At 2200 hrs Miles Magister R 1877 crashed while night flying after making 3 left turns at about 400 ft in circuit, on the Burton side of the airfield near Etwell. Cause unknown. Pupil, Cpl R E Hall GPR also killed . . THORNHILL - Sergeant - - |
| TOAL | 1949-07-16 00:00:00 | REME/GPR A Squadron | Operation PLANEFARE. Berlin Airlift 1948-49 (85/5 Flt, N Sqn with rotational postings). During Berlin Airlift he was co-pilot on Hastings TG 611 on the start of a return flight to Berlin: The aircraft climbed steeply after take off, until about 150 feet, when it appeared almost vertical, the port wing began to drop, power was reduced. The wing drop corrected and the aircraft, momentarily, assumed level flight attitude, though there was little forward speed. The port wing and nose dropped again and the Hasings went into a steep dive, the nose and port wing struck the ground simultaneously and it burst into flames. It was established that elevator trim tabs were set wrong: in the full nose up positionaircraft stalled and dived into ground at Tegel airfield. . TOAL - Serjeant - - |
| TOBIAS | 1945-06-03 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | HGCU, Brize Norton. nan. Seriously injured 31 August 1942 whilst flying Horsa DF 755, which was being towed by Armstrong Whitworth Whitley BD 438, which hit a tree on take-off at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. He was medically discharged from the R.A.F. 10 December 1943. . TOBIAS - Temp Warrant Officer - - |
| TOMLINSON | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . TOMLINSON - Serjeant - - |
| TOSELAND | 1944-09-26 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds in a hospital at Apeldoorn. First buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery . . TOSELAND - Serjeant - - |
| TURL | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. nan. . TURL - Serjeant - - |
| TURVEY | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Originally reported missing. Horsa Glider 189, with a load of a jeep, two trailers, with spare ammunition, stores etc and six men of A Coy 12th Devons (Airborne), which was fourth in line, was being towed by a Short Stirling, piloted by F/O Murray, 620 Squadron, fron RAF Fairford when the Stirling side-slipped and exploded in a ball of flame. The towrope broke at 800 feet, some five minutes from the beach-head and glider ditched off Orne estuary at 2055 hrs. The cockpit broke off in impact, Co-pilot SSgt P.P. Turvey drowned in glider cabin in Seine Bay. Sgt E Stanley drowned after surfacing, as did CQMS Dunphy and Ptes Palmer & Nicholls of A Coy 12th Devons (Airborne) (Sgt Budd and 2 others survived, They got into a dingy dropped by the R.A.F. and drifted towards the harbour at Le Havre, were they were picked up by a roving German 'E' boat and made PoW's). Only Palmer and Nicholls bodies were recovered (buried Le Havre). . TURVEY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| TYLER | 1943-12-28 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. Hotspur HH 539 on low-release overbanked and hit hedge in the turn and crashed near Wanborough (E of Swindon). Pilot (4615624 Cpl S Wareing) injured.. . TYLER - Corporal - - |
| TYSON | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . First buried in a field on the west side of the railway station at Hamminkeln. . TYSON - Sergeant - - |
| URWIN | 1943-01-08 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | nan. nan. At 1130 hrs a short shell from Larkhill ranges struck Tilshead camp medical centre.. . URWIN - Corporal - - |
| VICKERS | 1945-06-29 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 668 Sqn, Fatehjang. nan. At 1240 hrs Tiger Moth of 688 Squadron was being ferried from Dhamial to Fatehjang when it collided with the ground when low flying and burst into flames.The Accident Record Card states 'the pilot carried out unauthorised low flying and crashed into deck'. . VICKERS - Flying Officer - - |
| VINCE | 1943-10-01 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker (Course 15) . nan. Cpl J B Brown in Tiger Moth T 6387 undershot, opened up engine to clear ground., raised the nose and swung left into Miles Magister T 9750, which was approaching to land behind. LSgt G L Vince died at Halton in afternoon. Instructor in T 9750 (1332490 Flt-Sgt Millen, Stanley Arthur, RAFVR, buried Cobham, Kent) also killed.. . VINCE - Lance-Serjeant - - |
| WADSWORTH | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried 180 metres west of the Hotel Hartenstein. . WADSWORTH - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WAKEFIELD | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . WAKEFIELD - Serjeant - - |
| WALKER | 1944-09-29 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds in St Joseph Psychiatric Hospital at Apeldoorn. First buried St.Joseph Mental Hospital Cemetery, Apeldoorn . . WALKER - Serjeant - - |
| WALKER | 1944-11-03 00:00:00 | RAFVR 9 RAF course | 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon. nan. Mid-air collision between Hotspur BT 508 (Walker) and HH 134 (Boon) at 1415 hrs on 3 November 19 44 over SE of airfield whilst approaching to land. Sgt J F Boon transferred to 135 USA Generak Hospital at Leominster, but died 0200 hrs 4 November 1944.. . WALKER - Sergeant - - |
| WALKER | 1944-04-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Wing | Exercise 'Dreme'. nan. Accidentally killed whilst flying. At 2100 hrs during Exercise Dreme with 7 KOSB, Stirling LJ 842 of 196 Sqn 'A' Flt, flown by F/Sgt Lees, hit the top of a tree, cast off Horsa LG 999, which dived into the ground at Warnford, west of Petersfield, and then itself crashed 1m SW of Romsey. The combination was flying low due to local bad weather (cloudbase 700 ft in area of hills 900 ft high). All 26 passengers (No.3 Platoon, A Coy, 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers) were killed, and 7 tug crew. Names held at Museum of Army Flying.. . WALKER - Serjeant - - |
| WALLACE | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried near Hoofdlaan / Utrechtseweg. . WALLACE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WALSH | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . WALSH - Serjeant - - |
| WALTERS | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Body recovered from river Lek 15 November 1944. . WALTERS - Serjeant - - |
| WARREN | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR G Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Killed in Action, Glider crashed near Hamminkeln. Originally reported missing . . WARREN - Sergeant - - |
| WASHINGTON | 1942-10-02 00:00:00 | 2nd Batt, South Staffordshire Regt nan | 3 Glider Training School, Stoke Orchard. nan. At 1200 hrs Hotspur BT 668 dived into ground when failed to pull out of dive approach, in field NE of airfield. Glider Pilot, Cpl G G Ashworth, also killed. . WASHINGTON - Pte - - |
| WATERHOUSE | 1944-10-04 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. POW. Died of Wounds in a hospital at Apeldoorn and was first buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery, Apeldoorn . . WATERHOUSE - Serjeant - - |
| WATES | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR F Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider No.19 crashed at Hamminkeln railway station at 10.30am. First buried in a field on the west side of the railway station by an Army Chaplain. Co-pilot Sgt K A Kelsall also killed.. . WATES - Flying Officer - - |
| WATSON | 1942-09-24 00:00:00 | RAFVR 1st Battalion | 2 Glider Training School, Weston. nan. At 1125 hrs Hotspur BT 624 broke up in the air when tug (Miles Master 2 DL 516) stalled & crashed, near Chesterton (SW of Bicester). Glider pilot, Cpl R F Atkinson, also killed.. . WATSON - Sgt - - |
| WATSON | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action, Originally reported missing. . WATSON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WATT | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . WATT - Warrant Officer, Class II - - |
| WELLER-POLEY | 1942-09-15 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington. nan. At 0200 hrs Hector K 9706 towing Hotspur BT 505 flew into the ground in low cloud at night near Wytham, Oxon. Pilot (127049 Plt Offr Weller-Poley, Hugh Thomas, RAFVR, buried All Saints', Boxted, Suffolk) and 412180 Sgt Allen, Alistair William, RNZAF, buried Kidlington, both killed. Cause unknown. . . WELLER-POLEY - Pilot Officer - - |
| WELPLY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF D Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . Glider 425 crashed at landing zone 'B'. Co-pilot Sgt D. Ray POW. . . WELPLY - Flying Officer - - |
| WEST | 1947-05-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment N Squadron | 87 Flt, Netheravon. nan. Motorcycle Road Traffic Accident while on weekend pass. . WEST - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WEST | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried at the junction of Oranjeweg and Bothaweg. . WEST - Serjeant - - |
| WEST | 19-20 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa Chalk No.124 carrying a jeep plus trailer, two motorcycles and four troops from No.1 Troop of the Polish Anti-Tank Battery, was towed by 644 Squadron Halifax LL357 9U-P, flown by W/O Wells, received two bad flak holes in its port mainplane, caused by large calibre ack-ack. The glider was sucessfully released and was making what appeared to be a perfect touchdown in Landing Zone 'L' near Papendal, when suddenly the nose wheel dug in anda wave of earth was thrown up as the cockpit broke up. The pilots were first buried in a copse close to the glider, Papendal / Johannahoeve . A Polish soldier, Stanislas Pawlowski was also killed . . WEST - Serjeant - - |
| WEST | 1944-10-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of Wounds in aHospital at Apeldoorn. First buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery . . WEST - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WESTON | 29 Nov 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment nan | Rivenhall. nan. At 1125 hrs Tiger Moth T 7150 of Fighter Command Communications Flight failed to recover from a stall turn while carrying out aerobatics over a populated area, and crashed at 33 First Avenue, Chelmsford.. . WESTON - Lieutenant - - |
| WESTON | 1943-10-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon. nan. At 1615 hrs stalled on approach, bounced and stalled on 2nd bounce when stick pulled back, and hit ground. Back of seat probably became detached, causing pilot to fall backwards . . WESTON - Corporal - - |
| WHEALE | 1943-06-12 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operation BEGGAR or TURKEY BUZZARD. Ferrying of Horsas from UK to North Africa 1-28 Jun 43. Killed on Active Service - Flying Accident, No details. Quoted in original document as “Flying Accident: Thiersville”.. . WHEALE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WHEATLEY | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . WHEATLEY - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WHITE | 25-26 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Hamilcar, Chalk No.913 was on fire, it hit trees and it somersaulted on landing near Jonkershoeve. Both pilots were killed. Originally reported missing . . WHITE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WHITE | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Hamilcar Chalk Number 318 was towed from Tarrant Rushton by Flying Officer McGilveray on the first lift to Arnhem on 17 September 1944 and it crashed and overturned on landing, south east of the Boshoeve near Wolfheve. Died of Wounds. First buried near the Hotel Schoonord . . WHITE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WHITE | 1944-11-17 00:00:00 | RAFVR nan | 21 HGCU, Brize Norton. nan. nan. . WHITE - Sgt (W.Op/AG) - - |
| WHITE | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Died of wounds or injuries. First buried in front of Hotel Tafelberg . . WHITE - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WHITEHOUSE | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Horsa glided Chalk Number 126 was towed by 644 Squadron Halifax LL305 2P-A, flown by P/O McConville from Tarrant Rushton. Originally reported missing. Tail of Horsa Glider No.126 , carrying a 1 Polish Para Brigade anti-tank crew, blown off by flak, the glider went into an uncontrolable dive and although the tug pilot forced the nose of the tug up, in an attempt the help the stricken glider, the tow rope parted and the glider plunged into a Dutch field, west of St Michielsgestel, killing both pilots and two of the Polish occupants, Piotr Maslorz and Kazimierz Nowak.. . WHITEHOUSE - Serjeant - - |
| WHITELEY | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | RAF C Squadron | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . WHITELEY - Sergeant - - |
| WHITTINGTON STEYNER | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Glider 48 last seen in searchlight beam. . . WHITTINGTON STEYNER - Lieutenant - - |
| WHYBORN | 1944-09-20 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . WHYBORN - Serjeant - - |
| WIKNER | 1943-07-10 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. Waco CG4a Glider, Chalk No.13 loaded with troops landed quite fast in a field, Flt-Offr S Fine turned it ti the left, the left wing of the glider caught a tree and it brought the glider to a halt. As Flt-Offe Fine was unbuckling his seat belt he was hit in the shoulder. SSgt Wikner was hit in head during Italian counterattack on Ponte Grande . . WIKNER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WILKINSON | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried 100 metres west of Hotel Hartenstein . . WILKINSON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WILLIAMS | 1945-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | 3 Glider Training School, Gaydon. nan. DH 82 DE 887 was returning from a navigation training flight and at about 1525 hrs a bad cross-wind landing over Gaydon airfield was aborted and during attempt to go round again the aircraft stalled whilst attempting to clear trees following drift, stalled and crashed in the transport yard, burning on impact. Instructor, 295329 Lt A.C. Saunders injured when trying to rescue Cpl C G Fitzgerald. . . WILLIAMS - Serjeant - - |
| WILLIAMS | 1945-02-11 00:00:00 | RAFVR C Squadron | 1 HGSU, Tarrant Rushton. nan. Killed on Active Service - Gliding Accident. In strong wind and low cloud, towed by a 644 Squadron Halifax, Hamilcar LA 737 got out of position, causing the tow-rope to break. The trainee pilot attempted free landing without lowering flaps, and glider overshot selected field and after a last minute tight turn, the glider hit tree near Spettisbury, 2m west of Tarrant Rushton, and a branch killed Flight Sgt Williams. 2nd pilot, Sgt R A W Foster, injured. The subsequent Court of Inquiry felt that the pilot had been converted onto the Hamilcar glider after insufficient experience on Horsa gliders. . WILLIAMS - Flight Sergeant - - |
| WILLIAMS | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. . WILLIAMS - Serjeant - - |
| WILLIAMS | 1944-09-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. His body was recovered from the river Rhine opposite Remmerden on 9 November 1944 and was buried in a field grave there. . WILLIAMS - Serjeant - - |
| WILLIS | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . WILLIS - Serjeant - - |
| WILTON | 25-27 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . WILTON - Serjeant - - |
| WINKWORTH | 1944-09-17 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment C Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. Hamilcar Chalk Number 318 was towed from Tarrant Rushton by Flying Officer McGilveray on the first lift to Arnhem on 17 September 1944 and it crashed and overturned on landing, south east of the Boshoeve near Wolfheve. . . WINKWORTH - Serjeant - - |
| WINSPER | 9 Dec 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. POW. Died of Wounds in a Hospital at Apeldoorn. First buried in the local 'Heidehof' General Cemetery . . WINSPER - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WISEBAD | 1944-09-18 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . WISEBAD - Serjeant - - |
| WITHAM | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . WITHAM - Serjeant - - |
| WITHINGTON | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried on the North bank of the River Rhine by the church . . WITHINGTON - Serjeant - - |
| WOOD | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . WOOD - Serjeant - - |
| WOOD | 18-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron, 2nd Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the Sonnenberg House . . WOOD - Serjeant - - |
| WOOD | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . WOOD - Serjeant - - |
| WOODLAND | 1943-07-09 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Battalion | Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN. Invasion of Sicily 9 - 14 Jul 43. nan. . WOODLAND - Serjeant - - |
| WOODROW | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing. First buried between 'De Noordberg' farm (Fonteinallee) and Koninginnelaan - Heelsum. . WOODROW - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WOODS | 19-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment 3 Flight, B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing 25 September 1944. Glider reported crashed on landing. Remains were found in 1964 in Nijmegan, some 300 yards north-west of the Old Church, Oosterbeek. There was a gold signet ring bearing the initials RW and an AAC cap badge, which suggests they could be the remains of SSgt Roy Woods. . WOODS - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WOODWARD | 1944-12-05 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment Advance Party, Orderley Room Sergeant | GPR reinforcements for India. nan. In Dakota Mk III FL 588 from 24 Squadron R.A.F. with 20 pasengers from Glider Pilot Regiment, who were travelling en-route to India, took off at 9.00 ab 4 December 1944 and at about 15.30 hours which crashed into snow on a mountain between Le Pic Blanc and La Camisette, near Mijanes / Querigut, French Pyrenees. ( R.A.F. crew; F/Lt N O Clement, Pilot, F/Lt M L Richards, Navigator, F/O W P Griffiths, Wireless Operator were all killed) 13 members of the Glider Pilot Regiment were killed, only six surviving the initial crash; Major John F B Blatch DFC, SSgt Baker (Second Degree burns on face. Laceration of scalp and left thigh. Very slight frost bite), SSgt Ainsworth (Second degree burns of hands, two broken ribs. Severe frost bite in both feet, likely to loose end joints from several toes), SSgt Anderson (inj), Sgt Wigmore (Broken left ankle, severe frost bite in both feet and lower left leg. First degree burns of face. May loose part of left foot) and Sgt Henwood (First degree burns of face and hands. Frost bite of feet and hands). The injured were moved into the shelter of the wreckage to try to keep as warm as possible. S/Sgt Anderson died during the night. On 6 December 1944 Sgt Dawkins was wound a few yards from the wreckage and he was made as comfortable as possible, but later died in hospital. Major Blatch and S/Sgt Baker set off at about 10.00am to descend the mountain to get help. They arrive at a French village called Mijanes at about 16.30 hours. A search party set off up the mountain in moonlight, but did not reach the wreckage until midday 7 December 1944. All were taken to Carcassone Hospital, some 50 miles away. Sgt Dawkins was too ill to be moved but all the rest were taken to the 43rd American Hospital, Marseille. Sergeant Dawkins had to have his left leg amputated on 15 December 1944 and he died shortly after that. A search was made after the thaw started in the Spring of 1945 to ensure the six missing bodies were located and buried. . WOODWARD - Serjeant - - |
| WORMLEIGHTON | 29 Nov 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment 1st Wing | Rivenhall. nan. At 1125 hrs Tiger Moth T 7150 of Fighter Command Communications Flight failed to recover from a stall turn while carrying out aerobatics over a populated area, and crashed at 33 First Avenue, Chelmsford.. . WORMLEIGHTON - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WORTHINGTON | 17-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment D Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . WORTHINGTON - Serjeant - - |
| WRIGHT | 1944-06-06 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment A Squadron | Operation OVERLORD (TONGA and MALLARD). 'D-Day': Invasion of France 6 Jun 44. Died of Injuries. Wounded by mortar fire, Landing Zone 'N'. Glider 75 cast off by tug when started to pull up Albemarle tug tail, and ditched in Channel. . WRIGHT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WRIGHT | 1945-03-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment F Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation VARSITY. Airborne operation for crossing of the Rhine 24 March 45 . nan. . WRIGHT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WRIGHT | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . WRIGHT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WRIGHT | 1944-09-24 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment B Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Killed in Action. First buried in a garden near Benedendorpsweg / Kneppelhoutweg. . WRIGHT - Staff Sergeant - - |
| WYATT | 1944-09-21 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the van Hofwegen Laundry, Ploegseweg . . WYATT - Serjeant - - |
| YATES | 1944-09-19 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment E Squadron | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. Originally reported missing . . YATES - Serjeant - - |
| YEATMAN | 24-25 Sep 44 | Glider Pilot Regiment G Squadron, 1st Wing | Operation MARKET. Airborne operation to capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem 17-26 Sep 44. First buried near the railway, Klingenbeeksenweg . . YEATMAN - Staff Sergeant - - |
| YEOMANS | 1942-10-25 00:00:00 | Glider Pilot Regiment 2nd Battalion | 21 EFTS, Booker. nan. At 1030 hrs Tiger Moth DE 456 struck tail of DE 619 when coming in to land at 500 ft. 6405529 Cpl L.J. Crow (DE 456) injured. (Date originally reported as 26 Oct 1942). . YEOMANS - Corporal - - |
