IN PROUD MEMORY OF
THE 97 SQUADRON CREWS LOST ON BLACK THURSDAY WHO FLEW TO BERLIN FROM BOURN AIRFIELD BUT WHEN THEY RETURNED WERE UNABLE TO LAND DUE TO THICK FOG
– JB119, CRASHED AT RAF BOURN –
KILLED
DUNCAN FORBES MACKENZIE, PILOT
JOHN TOWLER PRATT
WILLIAM ALFRED COLSON
INJURED
ROBERT MARSHAL
ANTHONY HUNTER
WILLIAM LANG, RAAF
KEITH KIRBY
– JB243, CRASHED AT RAF GRAVELEY –
KILLED
ERNEST ALFRED DEVERILL, PILOT
ALEXANDER RUSSELL
JOHN THOMAS BROWN
FRANCIS ROY FARR
RALPH CROSSGROVE, RNZAF
DONALD JAMIESON PENFOLD
INJURED
JAMES BENBOW
– JB219, CRASHED NEAR RAF GRANSDEN LODGE –
KILLED
JAMES KIRKWOOD, PILOT
EDWARD GEORGE HUBBARD
ROBERT CHARLES STEWART
GEORGE ALEXANDER WIGLEY
RONALD GEORGE CLEEVE
LEONARD MADLEY
JOHN KILLEN
– JB117, CRASHED NEAR RAF GRAVELEY –
KILLED
IAN MACDONALD SCOTT, RAAF, PILOT
CHARLES WILLIAM COLLISHAW
SAMUEL JOSEPH PEEK
DOUGLAS RAYMOND IRVINE, RCAF
SIDNEY GEORGE PARROTT
KENNETH EDGAR FOXCROFT, RAAF
CLIFFORD LIONEL HOPE, RCAF
– JB176, CRASHED BETWEEN RAF BOURN AND HARDWICK –
KILLED
EDWARD THACKWAY, PILOT
GEORGE GRUNDY
JACK POWELL
LESLIE KENNETH ALEXANDER GRANT, RCAF
ROBERT ANTHONY LAWRENCE
LESLIE NORMAN JOHN LAVER, ‘LES’,
UNINJURED BUT DIED ON 14 JANUARY 1944 WITH ANOTHER CREW OVER THE DUTCH ISLAND OF TEXEL
PETER HUGHES MACK, ‘JOE’
THE ONLY SURVIVOR OF THIS CREW, HE DIED ON 1 AUGUST 1994
– JB963, LOST OVER BERLIN ON THAT SAME NIGHT –
KILLED
DAVID JAMES BRILL
ROWLAND ERNEST HANDLEY
JOHN STONE
NORMAN GREGOR MCINTYRE, RAAF
ROBERT BUTLER
HARRY CHAPPELL
GORDON JAMES LITTLE, RCAF
ERNEST JOHN BATTLE, RAAF
THESE WERE THE WORST LOSSES OF THE WAR FOR
97 SQUADRON AND BOURN AIRFIELD
REST IN PEACE