Joseph Somerton
"Joe"
West Derby district, Lancashire ??
-
07.09.1940
(KIA) [age 25 ?]
[Orpington (St Mary Gray) Cemetery
|
(A) P/O (prob) |
16.03.1934 [34171] |
|
P/O |
16.03.1935 |
|
F/O |
16.10.1936 |
|
(A) F/Lt. |
16.10.1937 |
|
F/Lt. |
16.10.1938 |
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.06.1940 |
|
DFC |
30.07.1940 |
? |
| 16.03.1934 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) |
| (06.1940) |
- |
01.07.1940 |
23 Squadron
RAF [his Bristol Blenheim Mk. IF [YP-X] crashed near Newmarket while on nihgt patrol; baled out into safety, two others died] |
| 01.07.1940 |
- |
17.08.1940 |
attached,
92 Squadron RAF |
| 17.08.1940 |
- |
07.09.1940 |
Commanding
Officer, 234 Squadron
RAF (Middle Wallop) [his Spitfire Mk.1 P9466 was shot down at 18.25 hrs over Kent by enemy aircraft and crashed near Biggin Hill] |
| 5
victories, of which 4 official: 1 Ju 88 21.08.1940, 1 Bf 109 24.08.1940, 2 Bf
109 06.09.1940 |
Charles Patrick
Son of Charles William Patrick O'Connor, and Constance Wharton Price.
Husband of Mary Loveday O'Connor, of Burrington, Devon; ... children (one son?).
St Marylebone district, London
-
13.11.1944
(MPK) [age 25]
[Runnymede Memorial, panel 203]
|
Sgt. |
581059 |
|
P/O (prob) |
09.08.1941
[46516] |
|
P/O |
09.08.1942,
seniority 09.08.1941 |
|
(WS) F/O |
09.08.1942 |
|
(WS) F/Lt. |
09.08.1943 |
|
MID |
? |
? |
| 09.08.1941 |
commissioned,
RAF
(General Duties Branch) [emergency commission] |
||
| ? |
- |
13.11.1944 |
407
Squadron RAF (Coastal Command) [seconded to the RCAF to do special duties (with a new type radar when missing over the Irish sea & NW approaches)] |
Finan
Son of Florence O'Driscoll, and of Eily O'Driscoll; husband of Elizabeth Marion Herdman O'Driscoll, of Kensington, London.
Liverpool
-
16.01.1942
(KIA) [age 25]
[Singapore Memorial, column 411]
|
(A) P/O (prob) |
24.08.1936 [39109] |
|
P/O |
03.07.1937 |
|
F/O |
03.07.1939 |
|
F/Lt. |
03.09.1940 |
|
(T) Sq.Ldr.
|
01.12.1941 |
|
39|45
St |
? |
? |
|
Pac
St |
? |
? |
|
Def
Med |
? |
? |
|
BWM |
? |
? |
| 28.06.1936 |
joined
RAF |
||
| 24.08.1936 |
first
commission RAF - General Duties Branch |
||
| started flying Tiger Moths at Filton
Flying Training School |
|||
| 03.07.1940 |
transferred,
Reserve of Air Force Officers (and called up for air force service) |
||
| ? |
- |
16.01.1942 |
34 Squadron
RAF (flying Hawker Hart, then Hawker Audax, then Bristol Blenheim Mk1's, until the squadron was re-equipped with Mk1V Blenheim's) |
Donald Gordon
Married Iris "Fluff" Jones (12.04.1915 - 18.12.12006) (who was renowned for being one of only two nursing sisters present at the Normandy landings; she remarried 1949 Maj. William Bower).
-
13.06.1943
(KIA) [age 26]
[burial 15.06.1943 Flushing (Vlissingen) Northern Cemetery, the Netherlands, E.20]
|
(A) P/O (prob) |
09.08.1937 [40010] |
|
P/O |
24.05.1938 |
|
F/O |
24.12.1939 |
|
(A) F/Lt. |
1940? |
|
F/Lt. |
24.12.1940 |
|
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
01.03.1942 |
|
|
DFC |
11.02.1941 |
? |
| 09.08.1937 |
|
|
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
| (1941) |
44 Squadron
RAF |
||
| ? |
- |
13.06.1943 |
180
Squadron RAF [took off about 08.45 hrs in his Mitchell II [FL677] for an attack on the Schelde Shipyard & Dornier aircraft wing factory at Flushing, the Netherlands; was shot down over sea by Marineflakabteilung 810 at 09.16 hrs some 2½ km WNW of Flushing, 800 m from the dunes] |
George Robert
-
|
Sq.Ldr. |
01.07.1936 |
|
W/Cdr. |
? |
|
(T) Gp.Capt. |
01.01.1943 (retd
01.10.1945) |
| 01.04.1918 |
first
commission RAF |
||
Montagu Douglas
-
|
Sq.Ldr. |
01.12.1936 |
John Anthony
"Tony"
Married Phyl (predeceased him); one daughter.
-
15.05.2008
Surrey
|
P/O |
15.03.1935
[37117] |
|
... |
... |
|
W/Cdr. |
01.07.1947
(retd 29.11.1957; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.) |
|
|
DFC |
30.07.1940 |
? |
| 15.03.1935 |
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) |
||
| ... |
- |
... |
... |
William Alfred
-
|
Sq.Ldr. |
01.12.1936 |
| qualified
at specialist engineering course |
Maxwell Norman
"Max"
Married (01.1944) Audrey Mary Horsfall.
|
|
Parkstone, Poole district, Dorset
-
01.08.1980
Topsham, Exeter, Devon
|
P/O (prob) |
20.04.1928 [27040] |
|
P/O |
13.04.1929 |
|
F/O |
20.10.1929,
seniority 13.10.1929 |
|
F/Lt. |
16.08.1937 |
|
(T) Sq.Ldr. |
03.09.1941 |
|
(WS) Sq.Ldr. |
21.12.1944 |
|
OBE |
01.01.1959 |
New
Year 59 |
| 20.04.1928 |
commissioned,
RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] |
||
| 08.10.1932 |
transferred,
Reserve of Air Force Officers |
||
| (1932) |
|
|
ADC
to the Governor of Nyasaland [gained pilot's licence # 10829 at 12.10.1932] |
| 11.08.1936 |
transferred
from Class C to Class A |
||
| 28.08.1939 |
|
|
mobilized |
| 12.1941 |
|
|
escaped
from Hong Kong |
| air attaché at the Chungking Embassy |