Lancaster plane crash

SHIRLEY, WILLIAM LAWRENCE

Initials: W L

Nationality: New Zealand

Rank: Flying Officer

Regiment/Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force

Unit Text: 582 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Age: 22

Date of Death: 23/09/1944

Service No: 424529

Additional information: Son of Sidney Shirley, and of Hilda Shirley (nee Lawrence), of Wangani, Wellington, New Zealand.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 8. AA. 11.

Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

 

HILL, FRANK DAVID

Initials: F D

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Flying Officer (Nav.)

Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: 582 Sqdn.

Age: 21

Date of Death: 23/09/1944

Service No: 132036

Additional information: Son of Frank and Augusta Letitia Hill, of West Park, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 21. D. 11.

Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

 

EVANS, DESMOND CHARLES

Initials: D C

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Sergeant (Flt. Engr.)

Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: 582 Sqdn.

Age: 22

Date of Death: 23/09/1944

Service No: 1836534

Additional information: Son of Illtyd and Blanche Evans, of Llantwit Major; husband of Elsie Ellen Evans, of Llantwit Major.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Cemetery: LLANTWIT MAJOR (TABERNACLE) CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPELYARD

 

SMITH, DUNCAN LEWIS THOMAS

Initials: D L T

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber)

Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: 582 Sqdn.

Age: 23

Date of Death: 23/09/1944

Service No: 1389708

Additional information: Son of William Thomas Smith and Nora Mary Smith, of Snaresbrook.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Square 240. Grave 111928.

Cemetery: CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM, MANOR PARK

 

MITCHELL, COLIN JAMES

Initials: C J

Nationality: Australian

Rank: Flight Sergeant

Regiment/Service: Royal Australian Air Force

Age: 24

Date of Death: 23/09/1944

Service No: 417981

Additional information: Son of William and Una Myrtle Kerr Mitchell; husband of Aileen Elizabeth Mitchell, of Kyancutta, South Australia.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 4. O. 11.

Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

 

BURCH, GEORGE JOHN

Initials: G J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Flying Officer

Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: 582 Sqdn.

Age: 20

Date of Death: 23/09/1944

Service No: 159512

Additional information: Husband of Margaret May Burch, of Tilbury.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 4. Grave 249.

Cemetery: THURROCK (CHADWELL ST. MARY) CEMETERY

 

ALSTON, WILLIAM ARTHUR GEORGE

Initials: W A G

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Leading Aircraftman

Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: 582 Sqdn.

Age: 22

Date of Death: 23/09/1944

Service No: 1509278

Additional information: Son of Arthur William George and Florence Alston; husband of Norah Charlotte Florence Alston, of Upper Holloway, London.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 21. D. 10.

Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

 

 

 

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