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Unwin,
Frederick Albert
F.A. Unwin
Brother of Sq.Ldr. J.N.B. Unwin, RAF.
?
-
1984
Surrey


Sgt.
? [1381364]
P/O (prob)
12.03.1942 [118388]
(WS) F/O (prob)
01.10.1942
(WS) F/Lt.
12.03.1944
F/Lt.
? (emgcy 15.07.1958)
12.03.1942


commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]



shot down & POW in Stalag Luft 3 (involved in the 'great escape')
Unwin,
John Norman Bernard
J.N.B. Unwin
Brother of F/Lt. F.A. Unwin, RAFVR.

18.06.1924
-
Ldg.Acm.
? [2206957]
P/O (prob)
08.09.1944 [166404]
F/O
01.11.1947, seniority 08.09.1945
F/O RAF
03.03.1948, seniority 08.09.1946
F/Lt. RAF
22.12.1949, seniority 08.03.1948
Sq.Ldr. RAF
01.07.1955 (retd 18.06.1967)
08.09.1944


commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
03.03.1948


short service commission RAF (transferred to Secretarial Branch)
22.02.1949
 
 
permanent commission RAF
22.12.1949


transferred to General Duties Branch
Upperton,
William Hendel
"Bill"
W.H. Upperton
Son of Henry W. Upperton, and Florence M. Scott.
Married ((03?).1944, Brentford district, Middlesex) Margaret Joan "Peggy" Goulden (18.11.1919 - (03?).1973), daughter of Henry Goulden, and Ethel Victoria M. Larkins; one son, two daughters.
05.07.1923
Twickenham
-
05.11.2010
F/Sgt. ? [1338015]
P/O (prob) 17.06.1944 [182231]
(WS) F/O 17.12.1944
(WS) F.Lt. 17.06.1946 (reld 20.06.1949; retaining rank of F/Lt.)
F/O 20.06.1949
F/Lt. 26.04.1952 (reld 01.08.1955)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Aircrew Europe Star Air Eu - -
Defence Medal Def Med - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Croix de Guerre avec étoiles d'argent (France) CdeG 17.04.1947 for exceptional War services rendered in the course of operations in the liberation of France
Worked in film production.
17.06.1944     commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
      275 (Burma) Squadron RAF
20.06.1949     commissioned, RAFVR (Reconstituted Section) (General Duties Branch) [got 16.08.1949 his civil aviator's certificate No. 26101 as a qualified service pilot]
Urmston,
Charles William Brabazon
C.W.B. Urmston (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Cleland)
24.10.1909
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
05.1993
Kensington and Chelsea district, London
P/O (prob) 14.05.1940 [79125]
(WS) F/O (prob) 20.11.1940
(WS) F/O 14.05.1941
(T) F/Lt. 01.06.1942
(WS) F/Lt. 25.05.1943
(WS) Sq.Ldr. 04.12.1943
(WS) W/Cdr. 31.03.1945 (Emgcy List) (reld 24.10.1954; retaining rank of Gp.Capt.)
(A) Gp.Capt. 1945?
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE ? ?
Education: Eton (1928); Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1931, MA 1937).
1930s     army officer, 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
14.05.1940     commissioned, RAFVR (Administrative and Special Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
(07.1945)     Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force/Air (Rear)
Urquhart,
Alexander
A. Urquhart (Photo courtesy of Mr Mark Gamble)
Son of Alexander and Mary Ann Urquhart, of Cupar, Fife.
1920/21 ?
-
30.03.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Lichtenvoorde General Cemetery, the Netherlands, grave 23]
[commemorated at the Scottish War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle]
F/Sgt. ? [1104500]
P/O (prob) 25.01.1943 [141415]
25.01.1943     commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
? - 30.03.1943 bomb aimer, 106 Squadron RAF
[Lancaster Mk III ED596 (ZN-H), with a record of 92 hours of operational flying, went missing on an operation against Berlin. It was airborne 21:25 hrs 29.03.1943 from Syerston. Shot down by a night-fighter (Leutnant August Geiger, III. Gruppe/Nachtjagdgeschwader 1) and crashed 04:29 hrs 30.03.1943 at Lievelde (Gelderland), 4 km NNE of Lichtenvoorde, Holland. They are all buried in the General Cemetery. P/O Mantle gained his DFM while serving with No.144 Sqdn, details Gazetted 30.01.1942. 14.05.1943 the Gazette carried details of his First Bar. S/L E.L. Hayward DFC KIA Sgt G.W.F. Baker KIA F/O J.O. Young DFC KIA P/O A. Urquhart KIA P/O E.H. Mantle DFM & Bar KIA F/S G.V. Pryor DFM KIA Sgt D. Brown KIA This was the first Lancaster Mk. III crew lost by 106 Sqdn.]
       

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