Crews starting 1945

Listed below are the Pilot’s names of the crews who started Operational duties with the Squadron in 1945.

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.

05 January 1945 – Ronald Wynn Russell crew

05 January 1945 – Noel Humphrey Thorpe crew †

06 January 1945 – Charles Mackenzie Stevens crew

06 January 1945 – Sidney Lewis ‘Buzz’ Spillman crew

13 January 1945 – Cyril Henry ‘Mac’ Baigent crew

28 January 1945 – Wallace Bassett Martin crew

28 January 1945 – Kenneth James Rothwell crew

28 January 1945 – Donald Winter Thomson crew

29 January 1945 – Wi Rangiuaia crew

02 February 1945 – Matthew Watson crew

03 February 1945 – Leslie George Scott crew

03 February 1945 – Esmond Edgar Delwyn Ware crew

13 February 1945 – Maurice James ‘Monty’ Adamson crew

14 February 1945 – Russell Ashley Banks crew

16 February 1945 – Laurence Douglas McKenna crew

16 February 1945 – Louis Eldon Bernhardt ‘Ben’ Klitscher crew PoW

16 February 1945 – Eric Morton Ohlson crew

18 February 1945 – Bernard Lincoln Lukins crew

19 February 1945 – Trevor Cyril Cox crew

19 February 1945 – Ian Taylor crew

19 February 1945 – James Shaw crew

22 February 1945 – Derek Singleton Barr crew †

22 February 1945 – Duncan Matthew Stevenson crew

22 February 1945 – Alan Frederick Woodcock crew

23 February 1945 – Thomas Wagner Good crew

26 February 1945 – Jack Colin Parker crew

01 March 1945 – Cyril Vernon Opie crew

02 March 1945 – Harold James Dean Treewheela crew

05 March 1945 – William Evenden crew

05 March 1945 – Owen Joseph Cook crew

05 March 1945 – Gordon Foster Cleminson crew

06 March 1945 – Frederick Robert Bader crew

09 March 1945 – Robin James Hamilton crew

09 March 1945 – John Somers McLernon crew

09 March 1945 – Albert George Bone crew

09 March 1945 – William Mallon crew

09 March 1945 – Donald Babington Shearer crew

10 March 1945 – Leslie Gordon ‘Bill’ Sinclair crew

12 March 1945 – Douglas Fairbairn crew

12 March 1945 – Kiwi Ernest Amohanga crew

17 March 1945 – Robert Sinclair Milsom crew

18 March 1945 – Ivan Silvester Carroll crew

18 March 1945 – Ronald Thomas Clarkson crew

18 March 1945 – William Edward Robert Alexander crew

18 March 1945 – Aeneas Hendry McLeod crew

20 March 1945 – Alfred Errol Brown crew

21 March 1945 – Allan Francis Thompson crew

29 March 1945 – Charles Raymond Wagstaff crew

29 March 1945 – Richard John Urlich crew

29 March 1945 – Eric Lloyd Kennedy Meharry crew

04 April 1945 – Stanley Maurice George Peryer crew

09 April 1945 – James Colin Westbrooke crew

09 April 1945 – Peter Lloyd Trevarthen crew

14 April 1945 – Robert Elliot crew

14 April 1945 – Allan Ralph Baynes crew †

14 April 1945 – Charles Harold Lumsden crew

14 April 1945 – William George Reay crew

14 April 1945 – Ivan Edgar Reddish crew

20 April 1945 – Ronald Norman Drummond crew

20 April 1945 – William Roy Brinsden crew

20 April 1945 – Barry Leonard David ‘Binks’ Anderson crew

30 April 1945 – Eric Charles Munt crew

30 April 1945 – Edward Ralph Plowman crew

30 April 1945 – William Caverhill Turnbull crew

30 April 1945 – George William Parry crew

07 May 1945 – Roy George Tawa Iles crew

07 May 1945 – John Simpson Young crew

10 May 1945 – Alexander Stewart Ballingall crew

14 June 1945 – Thomas Godfrey Lister crew

14 June 1945 – James Alexander Sutherland crew

18 June 1945 – Alfred George Daly crew

19 June 1945 – William Leslie Hardie crew

28 June 1945 – William Keith Rendall crew