If you have an interest in 75(NZ) Squadron RAF or if you have any extra information about any of the individuals or topics mentioned in this blog, I would love to hear from you.
You can contact me directly by email – info@75nzsquadron.com
If on first contact, or subsequently to contacting me, you wish to donate items, whether they be logbook pages, photographs etc, I would personally suggest you use an internet based file transfer site called DropBox. I have used this website since before I started the blog and others have used it successfully to transfer information to me. The process is quite simple and the following takes you through the steps necessary to share files with me;
Go to DropBox.com and register – this is just an email address and a password.
Once you have registered, download the application and install it on you machine – I am a Mac user, but I would imagine it’s essentially the same for a PC – after installation of the app, you should see it appear in your desktop finder window as a new folder called DropBox.
Copy the files you wish to transfer and place them in a new folder – named appropriately.
Drop this folder onto the DropBox Folder – if you then click on the DropBox Folder and then on your folder, you will see the transfer files have small blue ‘loading’ icons on them – when the files have uploaded, these blue icons will change to green ticks. When this has happened, right mouse click on the folder (with the files in them) and pick Share Folder.
Your web browser will open and a window will appear with a super imposed window over it – add info@75nzsquadron.com as the share address and click ok
I will then receive a notification and can then download the files…………….
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I have found your site very interesting and my uncle aged in his late 80’s brother- Jack Edmond Lovewell (found in the roll of honour) died whilst mine laying in 1943. I just wondered if there was anything further you could tell me about him that I could pass onto my uncle, that you may have discovered during the research of your fathers’ service with the squadron?
Regards,
Simon Bevan
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Hello Simon
Many thanks for contacting be about your uncle’s late brother. Unfortunately I don’t have anything to hand regarding Jack or his crew, but if you mail me at info@75nzsquadron.com, I think I can send you something that will let you find the raids he flew on and the boys he flew with.
all the best and Happy Christmas
Simon
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Hello Simon,
Looking for siblings of H.E Rousseau and lineage. Your surname seem to be a link.
He was pilot in squadron 75 .
Could you send a message to andreboxus@gmail.com.
Regards
André
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Hello, I wonder if you have any more photos of crew ect? My father in law was Maurice wiggins and my mother in law is still alive and would love any photos of maurice with his crew. We have several pics simler to yours which maurice took with his old camera which you may find interesting.
I look forward to hearing from you
Many thanks.
John.wood.
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Hello John
Fantastic to hear from you. Perhaps the easiest way to carry on this conversation is if, in the first instance, you email me at;
info@75nzsquadron.com
I look forward to hearing from you, as I think a few more people will that I know.
all the best
Simon
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Hello Simon. My father was Herbert Wigglns a Flight Sergeant navigator born in 1913 who served in my75 RAF.
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HI Paul
Great to hear from you – I would love to hear about anything you know of Herbert – Interstingly, having looked through the Nominal Roll, he has no apparent connection with a Pilot and therefore crew – I will look through the Operational Record Books at the weekend to find him nad try to give you some information about the boys he flew with – do you know approximately when he was with the Squadron?
all the best
Simon
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Hi my father served with 1653HCU he was Alfred Broyden Birch. Just wondered if you have any info on him. He was at Chedburgh and Stradishall.
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Hi Graham
many thanks for reaching out – unfortunately I don’t have access to CU records – you might try contacting the UK National Archive at kew. Do you know which squadron he went to after training? – If its not 75(NZ), there might still be the chance that someone reading this blog might know something about the squadron he flew with…..
If you let me know what you have, who knows, something might come to light….
cheers
Simon
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Simon,
First of all many thanks for setting up this site.
‘A’ Flight group photograph, March 1945 in front of PB820 JN-V
No 69 is my Father, Thomas (Tom) Benson, although as he came from Limerick in Southern Ireland he was often called “Paddy”. He was in F/L Lukins crew.
I haven’t see the two photographs : ‘A’ Flight and the Squadron picture you use as a header since 1962 at my Grandparents house. Sometime in the early 1970’s they were lost in a house fire.
I had planned to go to Hendon this year and trawl through their collection of photographs to see if I could get copies. Were the ones on your site from your Farther or Hendon. If they were from Hendon do you have any reference numbers I could use to order copies.
Thanks again
Brian
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Hi,
It was to come across this photo of ND756, you have on your site. My father Aubrey Charles Kirk, was Rear Gunner, he was on the flight when it was shot down over France. Dad had a photo of the plane, but different to this photo, good to have another one of it.
Thanks.
Debbie
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My uncles was James Samuel Battersby F/O Pilot /2nd pilot 75[ NZ ] squadron.
My father was John Bryan Battersby – he flew in the Pacific.
FABULOUS to have all this info.
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Hi Mary, I’d love to hear from you regarding your father’s service in the RNZAF. His nae has come up in a research project I am working on. Would you mind emailing me at dave_daasnz@hotmail.com please? Thanks very much.
Kind regards,
Dave Homewood
RNZAF Historian
Wings Over New Zealand
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Hi Simon
My father flew with 75 Squadron as a sergeant pilot in 1945 His name is Roy George Tawa Iles svc number 4212581 I was wondering if you could help me track down other members of his crew that he flew with from February to July/August 1945?
Thanks Simon Iles
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I have sent you an email Simon
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This site has been invaluable for me. I will be at James Allison McConnell’s grave in September in Valencienne. If anybody has relatives buried there, especially if they flew with my great-uncle, J.A.Mc., I would be pleased to take photographs for them.
robin.mcconnell.nz@gmail.com
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Hi simon
Was Andrew the son of Jacob Randrup Moller Hawera??
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Hello Simon
I was excited to find your site yesterday. My uncle Dud was John Dudley Perfrement DFC.
The family has always been proud of him. I have learned more about his WW II time from your site than I knew before, I did not know he had flown so many missions in such a short time.
Please contact me if you would like any photos or any more info about him.
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Hi
You have a very interesting site my great uncle Vincent John O’Loughlin was a rear gunner in the below aircraft and as far as we knew it was shot down but did not know details. So this has helped us fill in some blanks.
Unfortunately we do do have further details on him. So if you have any furthers details about him, his records and his crew I would love to see it. My Great Auntie was Beryl Margaret O’Loughlin (Powell)
Lancaster Mk.I HK596 AA-O
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Dear Sir,My father was Canadian and his name was John Edward Milner and he trained as a pilot in Canada flying tigermoths and avro Ansons.He was sent to RAF ST Athan to train as a flight engineer then joined his crew at 1653 HCU North Luffenham training on Lancasters.He did ten Operational flights, then three Operation Manna flights and then nineteen Operation Dodge flights with C Flight 115 SQDN at RAF Witchford and RAF Graveley.My father passed away 28th OCT 2017 AGED 93.He told me 75 sqdn was their sister SQDN down the road at RAF MepalH went on to have a 14 year career in the RAF as a PILOT then becomimg an airline pliot until he retired in april 1984.Did anyone in 75 sqdn no him or `115 crews
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Hi I am attempting to find out information about my step father Geoffrey Fallowfield Rear Gunner with the squadron does anyone have any record of him
Kind regards
Michael Barnes
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Hi Michael – Geoff flew as Rear and Mid Upper Gunner with Harry Yates crew. David, Harry’s son contacted me a while ago and I am sure he would love to hear from you.
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Belated reply, Michael, but you can contact me through Simon’s website email. Very pleased to tell you what I know of Geoff (whom I met and to whom my wife and I actually served dinner at my Dad’;s home in 1978). Do get in touch if you are still interested.
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Hello,
I have just found this very informative site. One of my great-uncles was (final rank) Wing Commander Arthur ‘Artie’ Ashworth, who flew with 75 Sqdn from the end of January 1941 through to the 29th of August 1942, when he left to join the H.Q. of the newly formed Pathfinder Force.
Please note the website I have provided is about this WWII hero, and includes – in his own words – his recollection of his time at RAF Feltwell.
I hope you have read a copy of his younger brother Vince’s biography on him. Uncle Vince has a plethora of information and photos on Uncle Arthur.
Kind regards
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Hello, I found your site a while ago and it has an absolute treasure trove of information which I would have struggled to find elsewhere.
So, my search relates to Colin Frank Bates, he was a mid-upper gunner and rear gunner flying with L. T Friedrichs crew from September 1944 until January 1945.
Colin was my grandfathers 1st cousin, he was also an only child and unmarried with no children when he was killed.
He was born on 9th October 1924 at 117 Halkin St, Leicester, the home of his grandmother Rebecca Montgomery and his parents George & Mabel Bates. Mabel and my great grandmother were sisters.
Colin then shows up on the 1939 register, still at the same address and his occupation is recorded as an Engineers Improver.
According to Forces War Records Colin enlisted in the RAF in Birmingham during or after 1942. Then next time he shows up is on transfer to RAF Oakington on 28th August 1944 with one or two other members of the L.T Friedrich crew from Base 31 -I assume this is RAF Methwold and this is a training base?
As a family we know next to nothing about Colin, we do not even have a photograph so we don’t even know what he looked like.
What we do have is a short diary excerpt (found amongst my grandads papers after he died). This diary excerpt is in Colin’s own hand and cover the few weeks from Thursday 21st September 1944 to Friday 13th October 1944. This fits in nicely with the first month and a bit of his first tour -he even mentions one or two of the ‘trips’ including Emmerich, Calais and Sarsbruck.
He mentions he flew once or twice with McRitchie crew but he not detailed in the list of crew for the dates mentioned -would this be usual?
I believe his first tour ended in mid-November with his second tour starting in December 1944 where he was changed to rear gunner -would the change from mid-upper to rear gunner been usual, would they be quite interchangeable positions?
The L. T Friedrich crew, as you know, were all killed in action, being shot down by enemy fighters over Germany on 5th January 1945 and are subsequently buried in Sage War Cemetery, Germany.
As I mentioned Colin was an only child, unmarried and childless when he was killed and as his diary excerpt was in my grandads possession and now my dads I almost feel an obligation to make sure he isn’t forgotten but then he is detailed in the pages of your fantastic website so he won’t be.
Just a few of my thoughts.
James Montgomery
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