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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:07 pm Post subject: James Wyllie - Whithorn Church |
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The font in Whithorn Church is dedicated to James Wyllie who is buried in the cemetry there.
Name: WYLLIE, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Airforce Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 296 Sqdn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 06/12/1943
Service No: 139322
Additional Information: Son of John Taylor Wyllie and Dorothea Stark Wyllie of Whithorn.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 39. Grave14.
Cemetery: Whithorn Cemetery
FO Wyllie is also named on Whithorn's War Memorial.
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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I hadn't come across 296 Squadron before, an Airborne Forces Squadron responsible for towing troop gliders.
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Kenneth Morrison
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 7749 Location: Rockcliffe Dalbeattie
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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James Wyllie, Flying Officer/Pilot (139322) 296 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 21.
James was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh and worked in Wyllie and Sons grain merchant business in Garlieston, Wigtownshire before he joined the RAF in 1941. After flight training in Canada, he served in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. James was killed in a flying accident and his death was registered at Christchurch, Hampshire.
Born 1922 in Garlieston, Sorbie, Wigtownshire. Son of John Taylor Wyllie and Dorothea Stark (Henry) Wyllie of Whithorn.
Killed on active service on 6 December 1943 and buried in Whithorn Cemetery. (CWG)
[No. 296 Squadron RAF was an airborne forces squadron. With sister squadrons 295 and 297 it formed 38 Wing and in December 1943 were flying Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle aircraft] _________________ Ken |
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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This is now WMR, ex UKNIWM, memorial 72036 |
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Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Wigtownshire Free Press ((/12/1943): Mr and Mrs John T Wyllie, St Ninians, Whithorn, have received intimation of the death on active service of their elder son, Flying Officer James Wyllie. A former pupil of Merchiston Castle School he joined the RAF three years ago. After preliminary training in Canada he was on active service in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. He had recently visited Whithorn while on leave. Flying Officer Wyllie, who was 21, was a young man of promising abilities and of a very likeable disposition and his death will occasion deep regret. |
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