Sunderlands at Castle Archdale

 

 

  Sunderland’s that crashed with loss of life while based here in W.W.2.

 

3^rd December 1941.  W3988.  201 Sq. Crashed Doonbeg. Co. Clare.

P/O Wilfred S.Emmet, Eric Marker, Sydney J. Epps, Maurice W.G. Fox, Eric W. Jackson, Arthur E. Bennett, Arthur Doncaster, Frederick W. Lea, Andrew P. Walker.

22^nd December 1941. at 1-30am. W3998. 201 Sq. Crashed on take off Mount Batten. 11 Died.  ( Lough Erne based) Flt.Lt. D.J. Fletcher, Pilot. Sgt. G.F.H. Booth, Pilot. Plt. Off. W.W. Ince, Navigator. LAC. J.B. Hides, Fl. Mechanic-Engines. LAC. J.W. Douglas,(A Canadian) Fl. Mechanic. A/C. R. Cunningham, Armourer. Cpl. J.H. Martin, Fitter. A/C. K.W. Bennett, Instrument Repairer. Sgt. H.S. Lodge, W/O,A/G. Sgt. A. Penny, W/O A/G. &  F/Sgt. H.F. Mitchell, A/G.

 

5^th February 1942.         W3977.  201 Sq. Crashed in Donegal Bay. Inward bound  to Lough Erne. Fl./LT. Smith, P/O. Bartlett, P/O. Smith, F/O Kitchen, Fl. Serg. Mason, Fl.Serg. Clare, Serg. Smith, Serg. Rolfe, Serg. Jones, Gerg. Nutt, Serg. Jacobson, A/C/M. Hopkinson.

 

31^st July 1942. W4025.  201 Sq. Shot down by Friendly convoy Fire.

F/Lt. James Robert Traill, F/L. Walter Harry Wakefield, P/O. John Allen. F/Segt. James Andrew Collins, F/Serg. Maurice John Tomley, Sgt. William Bluck, Sgt. John Robert Goodings, Sgt. Harry Scarce, Sgt. Norman Williams.  All RAF. Sgt. Clifford Gurnet Fort, RAAF. Sgt. Vivian Lewis. RAAF.

 

1^st August 1942.  W4000.  201 Sq. Blew up by own depth charge after ditching near convoy WS21. (All RAF)

F/Lt. Wilfred Leonard Cox, P/O Arthur Alfred Webster, P/O Robert William Wilkins, F/Sgt. Harold Abbott, F/Sgt. Leonard Battersby, Sgt. Arthur Corfield Somerset Clive-Davies, Sgt. Frank Henry William Gurnett, Sgt. Donald Kenyon, Sgt. William Jack Mansbridge, Sgt. George Falconer Muir, Sgt. Philip Ralph Field.

 

 25^th May 1943.  DD846. 422 Sq. Crashed off Clare Island, Co. Mayo.

F/O. E.F. Paige- D.F.C., F/O J.W. Clarke, Sgt. W.G. Hopps, Sgt. R.B. Bryers & W/O W.R. Thompson all RCAF –  Sgt. D.A. O’Dowd, Sgt. D.H. Richardson, Sgt. R. Sherwood, Sgt. J. Rowe, Sgt. J. Hird, Sgt. D. Purvis, Flt Sgt Edwin Watson

                                                                                                     All RAF

30^th June 1943.  DD857.  201 Sq. Crashed landing on Lough Erne.

P/O. James Leslie Hodgens, Sgt. Thomas Galbraith Grosvenor.

 

 

4^th August 1943.   DD859.  423 Sq.  Shot down by U-boat – U489. F/O Harry Bertram Parliament &  W/O John Stanley Kelly. RCAF.

 Sgt. Herbert Gossop, F/Sgt. James Brown Horsburg & Sgt. Frank Hadscroft, – RAF.

 

22^nd August 1943. DD848. 201 Sq.  Brandon Head,  CO.Kerry.

F/O. Guy Nelson Wilkinson, F/Lt. Charles Seymour Grossey, F/Lt. Arthur Charles Griffin, F/Sgt. Norman Baron Pickford, F/Sgt. Joseph William Burton. F/Sgt. John Robert Coster, F/Sgt. Walter Noel Pitts, Sgt. George Frederick Walter Tilt.   All RAF.

 

17^th October 1943.  JM 712. 422 Sq.  Damaged by U-470.

F/L. Woodwark & F/Sgt. L.T. Needham, R.A.F.

 F/O Chesley B. Steeves &  F/L. Paul T. Sargent.  RCAF.

 

11^th November 1943. DP 181. 423 Sq. Bow split open landing on Lough Erne.

W/O2 William D. Scott, W/O1. Charles McDowell  Hardcastle, F/O Rowland W. Hill, F/O. Walter G. Arnold, P/O Gordon I. Raymond. RCAF.

 

13^th November 1943. Sunderland DD863. 423 Sq. Lost at Sea Near Donegal coast.

Flt. Lt. A.F. Brazenor, Flt. Sgt. S.G. Brockway, Flt. Sgt. R.J. Money, Sgt. H.W. Fell, Sgt. H.E.E. Attwood, Sgt. M.F. Flynn, Sgt. D. Bigmore, Sgt. L. Morgan, Flt. Sgt. R.W. Stiff. All RAF.

 P/O R.H. Wilson & F/O H.B. Pharis. RCAF.

 

18^th November 1943. W 4036. 201 Sq. Crashed at Maghoo, Lough Erne.

Sgt. Elvet Parry, RAF, Sgt. John Bosanko Green, RAF, F/Lt. Douglas James Dolphin.  RCAF.

 

20^th November 1943.  W6031.  422 Sq. Sunk by U-648.

F.Sgt. Bruce Goulden Burton, F/Sgt. Robert Aird Park, Sgt. Norman Percival Cook, Sgt. Ronald Montague Fisher, Sgt. Noel Neil Lewis, Sgt. Walter McKay. All RAF. F/O Charles Gordon Gorrie, F/O. Wilfred Sydney Johnston, F/O. Robert Harry Strauss, F/O.  Jan David Butler Ulrichsen, F/Sgt. Norman Barrett.   All RCAF.

 

 

 

 

 

5^th Dec. 1943.  W6013. 423 Sq. Knockalyd Mountain, Co. Antrim.

LAC. Edward Lowson, F/Sgt. David Cowan Douglas, F/Sgt. Donald Thomas Bromhead, Sgt. George Wilkinson, S/Ldr. Philip Michael Hermann Thomas, Sgt. Christopher George Edward Wellington, Sgt. Randell Hunter. All RAF.

F/O Herbert Douglas Blair, RCAF. F/O. Frank Moss, RAAF.

31^st January 1944.  DW 110. 228 Sq.  Blue Stack Mountain, Donegal.

Fl.Lt. H.C. Armstrong, Fl.Lt. M.L. Gillingham, F/O. M.V. Waring. Serg. C. Greenwood, Serg. J. Parsons,  Serg. E. Copp. All RAF. F/S. Frederick G. Green, RCAF.

 

19^th February 1944.  W 6028. 422 Sq.  Trory Hill, near St. Angelo.

Sgt. R.W. Bodsworth, RAF. P/O Leslie A. Hebenton. RCAF.

 

24^th May 1944.   DV 990.  422 Sq. Shot down by U-921.

Sgt. P.D. Andew, Sgt. D.J. Harvey, F/O G.B. Gingell, & F/S. L.W. Guggiari all RAF. F/L. Edgar W. Beattie, W/O James C. Burke, W/O2 Keith M.G. Fleming,  F/O Thomas E. Frair, F/O George E. Holley,  P/O. John H. Hamilton, Sgt. John C. Seeley, P/O Claude Senton. All RCAF.

 

12^th June 1944.   ML760.  201 Sq.  Was shot down by U- boat, off the Bay of Biscay. (at this time ML760 was based at Pembroke Dock, had been at Archdale)

The Pilot, Squadron Leader Ruth was deputizing for Les Baverstock who was on leave due to his father’s death. The crew who died was the normal Baverstock crew. Sqn. Ldr. W.D.B. Ruth, Pilot/Captain. Fg.Off. C.J. Griffith, Pilot. F.Sgt. J.C.L. Humphrey, Fl. Eng.  F.Sgt. J.W. Hobson, Fl/Eng., Fg. Off. P.A.C. Hunt, Nav., F.Sgt. D.J.M. Currie, W/O/ A/G., Sgt.D.E. South, W/O. A/G. F.Sgt. D. Sharland, W/O, Mechanic, A/G.  F/Off. A.V. Philp, W/O. F.Sgt. F. Foster, A/G. & Sgt. J.R. French, A/G.

 

12^th August 1944. NJ175.   422 Sq. Cashelard, Donegal. Near Belleek.

F/L. Evan Campbell Devine, P/O . John Reginald Forrest, F/O. Roy Thomas Wilkinson. All R.C.A.F.

 

6^th September 1944. ML 823.   423 Sq.  Crashed at sea. N/W Donegal, Bloody Foreland.

F/O Frederick W. Greenwood.  F/O Edwin E. McCann,  Captain. F/L George F. Cornwell.(Buried at sea)  F/O Herbert S. Seibold, W/O Joseph A.R. Dore, all RCAF,    Serg. Lawrence Patrick Quinn, F/O.Kenneth M. Liddle,  Serg. Nigel McCall Anderson,  Serg. John Edwin Caton all RAF.

 

 

 

11^th February 1945. NJ183. 423 Sq. Caught fire after take off, Crashed at Knocknagor, near Irvinestown.

Fl.Lt. John D.Ross, F/O. John A.McLennan, F/O. Terence R.Hailstone, F/O. James R.Seeger, F/O. Morley Wilbee, W/O2 Edward F.Knibbs, F/E. E. Cruickshank, P/O. J. Gringrich, W/O2. Jean Marie Soucie.  RCAF.   Fl. P.Woolatt & Fl.Sgt. B. Ramsden, R.A.F.

 

 

14^th March 1945. ML743.   461/201 Sq. Struck Mountain near Killybegs, Co. Donegal.

F/Lt. James George Robinson, F.Sgt. Frederick Nicholas George Ford, F/O. Edward Norman Cave, F/Sgt. Norman Davison, F/Serg. Stanley Bernard Frith, F/Lt. Denis Ralph Hatton, F/Lt. Vivian Howkins, F/Serg. George Reginald Kennedy, Sgt. James McAvoy, F/Sgt. David John Thomas Twist. All RAF.  F/Lt. John Percival Garrard. RAAF. P/O. Robert Douglas Albert Becker, RCAF.

 

 

14^th October 1942.  201 Squadron – Loss of pinace boat and maintenance crew on Lough Erne.  All R.A.F.

Lac. Francis Hart, Cpl. Frank Stafford, AC1 Walter James Lanham, AC2 John Smith Falconer Thomson, AC1 Robert McAndrew, AC1 David Pullar, AC2 Owen Edwards, LAC. William John Thomas, Cpl. John M. Butchart, AC2 William Arthur Barton.

 

 

23 crashes.    192 Fatalities.    Other deaths  10.