Crews starting 1944

Listed below are the Pilot’s names of the crews who started Operational duties with the Squadron in 1944.

As I have noted in the main section of this menu item, an † indicates at least one fatality in the crew, although sadly, it is usually more. In some cases, a fatality might not be associated with an Operation, however it still relates to a member of the listed crew. I would also note that, owing to the regular drafting in of airmen from other crews – for whatever reason – there may be occasions where a recorded fatality of an individual is not with their normal crew. In time, this will be noted and cross referenced between the relevant crews.

02 January 1944 – John Charles Lawrence Carey crew

02 January 1944 – Johnny Wainwright crew

02 January 1944 – Anthony Martindale Cook crew

14 January 1944 – William Jarvis Willis crew †

14 January 1944 – Cecil Ernest Armstrong crew †

20 January 1944 – Harold Henry Bruhns crew †

21 January 1944 – Robert Weir Herron crew †

21 January 1944 – Geoffrey Warren Rowberry crew †

11 February 1944 – Henry James Murray crew †

20 February 1944 – Euan Wilfred Sachtler crew †

21 March 1944 – Alexander George Gray crew

21 March 1944 – John Carter Bateman crew

25 March 1944 – Lester Lascelles Bonisch crew †

25 March 1944 – Frank Ernest Stott crew

25 March 1944 – Colin Arthur ‘Lucky’ Megson crew

26 March 1944 – Lindsay Johnson Drummond crew

26 March 1944 – Frederick William Hubbard crew

26 March 1944 – Christopher Nigel Charles Crawford crew

26 March 1944 – Manson Lammas crew †

05 April 1944 – Lawrence Michael O’Connor crew

09 April 1944 – Desmond Charles Brown crew

09 April 1944 – Donald George ‘Hoot’ Gibson crew

10 April 1944 – Henry John Burtt crew †

18 April 1944 – Andrew David MacKenzie crew

20 April 1944 – Hugh Edward Gilmour crew †

10 May 1944 – Richard Bruce Berney crew

10 May 1944 – James Kenneth McRae crew †

10 May 1944 – Francis Charles ‘Foxy’ Fox crew

10 May 1944 – Keith Owen Whitehouse crew †

11 May 1944 – William Robert White crew

24 May 1944 – John Devon Lethbridge crew

24 May 1944 – Noel Alfred Deal Stokes crew †

27 May 1944 – Ralph William Brumwell crew

28 May 1944 – John Dudley Perfrement crew

28 May 1944 – Roy John Alexander Leslie crew

30 May 1944 – John William Anthony Myers crew †

30 May 1944 – Raoul John Wisker crew

02 June 1944 – Thomas Rodgers Donaghy crew †

02 June 1944 – Benjamin William Bateson crew †

02 June 1944 – Edward Howell crew †

03 June 1944 – Colin George Nairne crew †

07 June 1944 – Charles Gordon Washer crew

10 June 1944 – Richard Stockdale Barker crew †

14 June 1944 – David John Moriarty crew inj

14 June 1944 – Eldrid Duke O’Callaghan crew

14 June 1944 – John Keillor ‘Jake’ Aitken crew

14 June 1944 – James Allan Fleming crew †

14 June 1944 – Roland Desmond Ernest Betley crew †

14 June 1944 – Victor Arnold Adolph crew

15 June 1944 – Hoturoa Arnel Dean Meyer crew

15 June 1944 – Harold Whittington crew †

24 June 1944 – Gerald Brian Roche crew †

27 June 1944 – Victor John Andrew crew

30 June 1944 – Garth Reginald Gunn crew †

30 June 1944 – Neilson Arnold Williamson crew

02 July 1944 – Gerald Michael Francis Moore crew

02 July 1944 – Kenneth McIndoe Mackay crew †

02 July 1944 – Nelson Hastings Bright crew

05 July 1944 – Frank Maxwell Timms crew

09 July 1944 – Gordon Lindsay Kennedy crew

15 July 1944 – Neil Douglas Davidson crew †

18 July 1944 – Cyril Desmond Mulcahy crew †

18 July 1944 – Ian Edward Blance crew †

24 July 1944 – Terence Cecil May crew

24 July 1944 – Murray Smith crew

30 July 1944 – Colin Glossop crew

30 July 1944 – Sam Wilson crew

30 July 1944 – Wilson Orchard Hadley crew †

01 August 1944 – Maurice Edward Dare crew

03 August 1944 – John Rees Layton crew

03 August 1944 – James ‘Johnny’ Johnson crew †

05 August 1944 – Godfree Arnold Brunton crew †

05 August 1944 – Francis Colin Wood crew

05 August 1944 – Hubert ‘Hugh’ Rees crew

05 August 1944 – Kenneth William Cooper crew

05 August 1944 – Thomas Christie Waugh crew

09 August 1944 – Henry Charles ‘Harry’ Yates crew

11 August 1944 – Douglas Arthur Severn King crew †

14 August 1944 – John Harold Scott crew †

14 August 1944 – Leslie Arthur Martyn crew †

16 August 1944 – Roy Campbell Earl crew

25 August 1944 – Jack Plummer crew †

26 August 1944 – Patrick Leo McCartin crew †

31 August 1944 – Terrence Arthur Ford crew

31 August 1944 – J. H. Winter crew

31 August 1944 – Donald Francis Atkin crew

03 September 1944 – Louis Thomas Friedrich crew

03 September 1944 – Leonard Boyer crew

05 September 1944 – Alan Russell Galletly crew †

05 September 1944 – Alan Cheyne Baxter crew

05 September 1944 – David Antill Gawith crew

05 September 1944 – Ronald Gordon crew †

06 September 1944 – William John Farr crew

06 September 1944 – Edmund Frederick Robertson crew

06 September 1944 – Robert Gordon Cuming crew

06 September 1944 – Keith Southward crew †

20 September 1944 – Henry Tweed crew

20 September 1944 – Norman McLeod McRitchie crew

20 September 1944 – John Robert ‘Bob’ Rodgers crew

20 September 1944 – Charles Thomas Spain crew

20 September 1944 – Roy Alvin ‘Ossy’ ‘Bill’ Osborne crew

20 September 1944 – James Alexander McIntosh crew †

25 September 1944 – Jeffery Baines crew

07 October 1944 – James Alexander Elmslie crew

14 October 1944 – Alan Roy Bidwell Barton crew

19 October 1944 – Raymond Arthur Cumberpatch crew

19 October 1944 – Eric Frank Butler crew

21 October 1944 – Donald Percy Leadley crew

25 October 1944 – Alexander Dunbar Simpson crew

28 October 1944 – John Mathers ‘Jack’ Bailey crew 2nd Tour

28 October 1944 – Wylie James Wakelin crew

28 October 1944 – Martin Adam Kilpatrick crew

29 October 1944 – Douglas Ross Sadgrove crew

29 October 1944 – Donald James Williams crew

15 November 1944 – Keith Joshua Jones crew

20 November 1944 – John Henry McDonald crew

27 November 1944 – Ernest Joseph Abraham crew

30 November 1944 – John O’Malley crew

02 December 1944 – Kenneth William Roland McMillan crew

04 December 1944 – Douglas St.Clair Clement crew

04 December 1944 – Leonard Walter Hannan crew

08 December 1944 – George Stanley Davies crew †

08 December 1944 – Eric George Parsons crew †

08 December 1944 – John Henry Thomas Wood crew

11 December 1944 – Robert Jaspar Pearson crew

12 December 1944 – Vernon John ‘Taffy’ Zinzan crew

12 December 1944 – Terence Douglas ‘Tim’ Blewett crew †

12 December 1944 – Herbert Wilfred Hooper crew

12 December 1944 – Ronald Christie Flamank crew

23 December 1944 – Haddon Shaw Miles crew †

28 December 1944 – Roderick Bruce Crawford crew

28 December 1944 – Valentine Richard Egglestone crew

28 December 1944 – Raymond John Newton crew  2nd Tour  †