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spoons · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: Challoch Episcopal Church WW2

Not listed on UKNIWM

Location, in Challoch (Episcopal) church at OS Map Ref NX 385 675

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Paul

I was intrigued why the last man's date of death was not clear. It turns out he died in 1941, not 1940 as on the plaque.

Name: MALET-WARDEN, JOHN HAMISH
Initials: J H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 78 Sqdn.
Date of Death: 17/08/1941
Service No: 989146
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave 12. B. 1-3.
Cemetery: JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
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Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

www.kinnethmont.co.uk

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject:

JOHN HAMISH MALET-WARDEN – age 19 – Sergeant/Pilot (989146) 78 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Born 1921 in Edinburgh. Son of Captain Edward Cecil Malet-Warden, R.N. and of Agnes Helen (Pennycuick) Malet-Warden.
Killed in Action – 17 August 1941.
Commonwealth War Grave – Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Netherlands.

From lostbombers.co.uk
"Serial Range Z6720 - Z6764. 45 Whitley Mk.V. Delivered by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft between 21Apr41 and 26May41. Contract No.106962/40. Z6754 was one of three 78 Sqdn Whitleys lost on this operation. See: Z6577; Z6823. Airborne 2305 16Aug41 from Middleton St.George. Cause of loss not established. Crashed 0350 at Buggenum (Limburg), 5 km NNW of Roermond, Holland. All are buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery. Sgt J.H.Malet-Warden KIA Sgt J.C.Beardmore KIA Sgt A.J.R.Millard-Tucker KIA Sgt G.H.P.Buchanan RCAF KIA F/S A.Brown KIA "
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Ken

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

DOUGLAS McMILLAN DREW, B.A. (Oxon) – age 35 – Flying Officer/Navigator (145376) 115 Squadron, Bomber Command, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Born 1909 in Newton Stewart, Penninghame Parish. Son of James Lawson Drew and of Mary Walker (MacMillan) Drew of Newton Stewart.
Killed in Action – 23 April 1944.
Commonwealth War Grave – Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany.

From lostbombers.co.uk
"Serial Range ND324 - NE181 This aircraft was one of 600 Lancaster Mk.111s ordered from A.V.Roe (Chadderton) and delivered from Dec43 to May44 with Merlin 38 engines. ND753 was delivered to 115 Sqdn ex-75 Sqdn Mar44. Performed no operations with No.75 Sqdn lost on first Key Operation with No.115 Sqdn When lost this aircraft had a total of 40 hours. Airborne 2302 22apr44 from witchford. Hit by Flak and crashed at Unterrath in the northern outskirts of Dusseldorf, bursting into flames on impact. All are buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. F/O Drew had attended Oxford University, gaining a BA Degree. P/O R.E.Chantler KIA Sgt J.B.Tweedie KIA F/O D.M.Drew KIA F/S R.L.Francis RCAF KIA Sgt D.P.Nash KIA Sgt K.Farmer KIA Sgt W.N.W.Brown RAAF KIA "

Is it unusual at this stage of the war to have a Canadian and an Aussie in the crew?
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Ken

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:15 am Post subject:

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:18 am Post subject:

And the other two men named.

Driver Parker is buried in the churchyard

PARKER, HUGH DAVID
Rank: Driver
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Age: 35
Date of Death: 05/10/1945
Service No: 1893393
Additional information: Son of Hugh and Jessie Parker; husband of Annie Young Parker, of Carsluith, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Cemetery: CHALLOCH (ALL SAINTS) EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHYARD

STEWART, PATRICK KENNETH MONTGOMERY
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 06/06/1940
Service No: 53716
Additional information: Son of Colonel Patrick Alexander Vansittart Stewart and Mildred Annie Stewart (nee Ferrers Guy), of Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot E.2. Grave 180010.
Cemetery: BROMPTON CEMETERY

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:37 pm Post subject:

HUGH DAVID PARKER – age 35 – Driver (1893393) Royal Engineers.
Born 1910 in Penninghame. Son of Hugh and Jessie Black (Marshall) Parker. Husband of Annie Young (Cringles) Parker of Carsluith, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbrightshire who he married in 1929 in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.
Died – 5 October 1945 of Tuberculosis at home in Carsluith.
Commonwealth War Grave – Challoch (All Saint) Episcopalian Churchyard.

PATRICK KENNETH MONTGOMERY STEWART – age 27 – Captain (53716) 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers.
Born 1912 in Farnham, Surrey. Son of Colonel Patrick Alexander Vansittart Stewart, C.B.E. D.S.O. and of Mildred Annie Ferrers (Guy) Stewart of Little Corsbie, Newton Stewart.
Died of Wounds – 6 June 1940.
(Patrick was wounded at Dunkirk and died in hospital in Dartford, Kent)
Commonwealth War Grave – Brompton Cemetery, London.
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Ken

stuartn · Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551

This is now WMR, ex UKNIWM, 71951