Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

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Number

Date

Age

Service

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World War Two (31)

Royal Air Force Waddington and other services

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Waddington St. Michael’s church

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

CLARKSON, JOHN WILLIAM

Private

20852

26/01/1918

29

North Staffordshire Regiment. transf. to (260102) 497th Coy. Labour Corps

Son of Short Clarkson and Annie Clarkson.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

MARKS, CRAIG ROYSTON

Second Lieutenant

-

03/05/1917

23

Royal Flying Corps and General List

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

BOUCHER, JOSEPH HENRY

Leading Aircraftman

1267851

07/05/1943

-

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

CAVE, JACK MILTON

Pilot Officer (Pilot)

43700

30/10/1940

21

Royal Air Force, 101 Sqdn.

Son of Milton Knight Cave and Stella May Cave, of

Whakatane, Auckland, New Zealand. His brother Vernon Grenville Cave also died on

service.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

CLEMENTS, JOHN RUSSELL

Sergeant (Observer)

J/5313

15/09/1941

26

Royal Canadian Air Force207 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Canadian

Son of Russell M. Clements and Alma Clements, of

Milton, Ontario

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

COCKERELL, KENNETH ANDRE

Pilot Officer

70850

19/06/1940

21

Royal Air Force, 50 Sqdn.

Son of Harry and Madeleine Cockerell, of Teddington,

Middlesex

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

COX, EDDY STEWART

Sergeant (Air Gunner)

623823

07/09/1941

20

Royal Air Force, 44 Sqdn.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

CRUMP, ERNEST EDWIN GORDON

Flying Officer (Pilot)

82666

15/09/1941

25

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 207 Sqdn.

South Africa.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Crump; husband of YhonaDiane Crump, of Leicester.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

DAVIDSON, ROYFlight Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner )R/91650

21/06/1942

25

Royal Canadian Air Force420 Sqdn. Canadian

Son of George and Mary Davidson; husband of Arleigh

Florence Davidson, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

DAVIS, HERSHEL HOMER

Sergeant (Pilot)

R/81403

20/04/1942

24

Royal Canadian Air Force420 Sqdn.

Canadian

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

DODDS, GILBERT DERRICK

Sergeant (Observer)

R/62216

01/08/1941

24

Royal Canadian Air Force

Canadian

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

FARMER, EDWARD DERYCK

Sergeant (Pilot)

565737

01/08/1940

26

Royal Air Force, 44 Sqdn.

Son of Edward and Edith Mary Farmer; husband of Dora Farmer, of Lincoln.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

FORSYTHE, ALANSergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner )759292

01/08/1941

21

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 44 Sqdn.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

GODFREY, WILLIAM EDGAR

Sergeant (Pilot)

748681

03/04/1941

21

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 77 Sqdn.

Son of John William and Ethel Winifred Godfrey, of

Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

GRACE, JAMES WILLIAM

Aircraftman 2nd Class

1241702

15/09/1941

31

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 207 Sqdn.

Son of James Patrick and Alice Grace.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD MCDONALD

Corporal

565893

23/11/1939

24

Royal Air Force, 50 Sqdn.

Son of Alexander F. Henderson and Maggie Henderson, of Gosforth,

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

LARONDE, GERALD GRENVILLE JOSEPH

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) R/69114

19/04/1942

21

Royal Canadian Air Force420 Sqdn.

Canadian

Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Laronde, of North Bay,

Ontario, Canada.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

LE BLANC SMITH, GODFREY MICHAEL

Sergeant (Pilot)

778260

01/08/1941

24

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 44 Sqdn.

Son of Guy and Lena Le Blanc Smith, of Salisbury,

Southern Rhodesia.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

MATTHEWS, HUGH VERNON

Flying Officer (Pilot)

33389

13/03/1941

23

Royal Air Force, 207 Sqdn.

Distinguished Flying Cross

Son of Ernest Albert Churchward Matthews and of Anna Stewart Matthews (nee Johnston), of Hove, Sussex.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

MURRAY, WILLIAM JAMES

Pilot Officer (Pilot)

J/5991

14/04/1942

20

Royal Canadian Air Force420 Sqdn.

Canadian

Son of Charles and Margaret Murray, of Medicine Hat,

Alberta, Canada.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

McCARTHY, WILLIAM FRANCIS

Pilot Officer (Observer)

J/6361

14/04/1942

22

Royal Canadian Air Force420 Sqdn.

Canadian

Son of Frank McCarthy, K.C., and Bertha McCarthy, of York

Mills, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

McQUADE, WILLIAM JOSEPH

Sergeant (Observer)

R/69567

06/08/1941

25

Royal Canadian Air Force44 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Canadian

Son of Thomas and Sarah McQuade, of Toronto,

Ontario, Canada.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

PARKE, CHARLES ARTHUR

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner )R/64434

25/04/1942

25

Royal Canadian Air Force

Canadian

Son of Leonard and Martha Parke; husband of Isobel Johnstone Parke, of Earls

Court, London.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

PENTENY, LEONARD JAMES

Aircraftman 2nd Class

624358

31/10/1939

18

Royal Air Force, 50 Sqdn.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

PLAYER, GEOFFREY ALBERT

Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner)1165993

19/04/1942

26

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 420 (Royal Canadian Air Force) Sqdn.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

PREST, FRANK BURDETT

Aircraftman 2nd Class

1408408

31/08/1941

20

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 44 Sqdn.

Son of Frank Bismark Prestand Elsie Victoria Prest, of

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

PRITCHARD, JOSEPH CORBIN

Flight Sergeant

R/76625

20/04/1942

25

Royal Canadian Air Force420 Sqdn.

Canadian

Son of Joseph Thompson Pritchard and Ella M.

Thompson Pritchard, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

REDGRAVE, HENRY CECIL

Sergeant

743047

13/03/1941

29

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 207 Sqdn.

Son of Henry William and Mildred Ellen Redgrave; husband of Jessica May Redgrave, of Lincoln.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

RELYEA, WILLIAM ROBERT BAIN

Sergeant (Observer)

R/62627

22/07/1941

24

Royal Canadian Air Force44 (RAF) Sqdn.

Canadian

Son of William O. Relyea, and of Edna Relyea, of Toronto,

Ontario, Canada.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

STACEY, HORACE EDGAR

Corporal

628558

17/09/1945

39

Royal Air Force

Son of William Albert Edward and Clara Stacey; husband of Alice Stacey, of Bracebridge

Heath.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

WATT, ARCHIBALD ALLEN

Sergeant (Pilot)

778354

07/09/1941

26

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 44 Sqdn.

Son of Harold and Maud Watt, of Bulawayo, Southern

Rhodesia

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

WELCH, ROY DESMOND

Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner)747764

13/03/1941

26

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 207 Sqdn.

Son of Martin James Welch and Nellie Welch, of Hove, Sussex; husband of Irene

Welch.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

WICKS, PHILLIP CHARLES LIVESEY

Sergeant (Observer)

910019

03/04/1941

24

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 77 Sqdn.

Son of John Gammon Wicks and Louisa Maria Knight

Wicks, of Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

Rank

Number

Date

Age

Service

War Graves in Waddington churchyard