Pathfinder Squadron RAF

- Killed - Friendly Fire - Murdered - Injured - POW - Interned - Evaded - Not Injured - Unknown

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	2/12/1943	Berlin	DZ479	Mosquito IV	T/o Oakington. Hit by flak at 32,000 feet over Berlin and later abandoned near Caen (Calvados) France

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Sgt	L R	Simpson
	Sgt.	P W	Walker

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	5/01/1944	Berlin	DZ616	Mosquito IV	T/o 0123 Oakington, crashed two minutes later at Dry Drayton, 6 miles NW of Cambridge.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	F F	Fahey	AFM		31		406352	CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY	2651081	6/01/1944
	F/Lt	S C	Hicks	MID		34		400322	CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY	2651183	6/01/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	8/01/1944	Frankfurt	DZ293	Mosquito IV	T/o 1819 Oakington.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	S/L	E I J	Bell	DFC
	F/O	J R B	Battle

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	8/01/1944	Frankfurt	W4072	Mosquito IV	T/o 1821 Oakington. Crashed 2045, following loss of power from the starboard engine, into the sea off East Mersea, about 7 miles SSE of Colchester, Essex.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	I H	Hanlon	DFC
	F/O	F K	Evans	DFM		24		127520	CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY	2651076	8/01/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	1/02/1944	Berlin	DZ551	Mosquito IV	T/o 1813 Oakington. Crashed near Hannover.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	P/O	A P	Willmott			22		159468	HANOVER WAR CEMETERY	2101361	1/02/1944
	P/O	J D	Hughes			23		145336	HANOVER WAR CEMETERY	2074492	1/02/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	7/05/1944	Tours	DZ478	Mosquito IV	T/o 0109 Woodhall Spa to bomb the airfield.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	P K	Turner			26		26697	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	1809132	13/08/1943
	W/O1	J F	Hewson			25		747760	NANTES (PONT-DU-CENS) COMMUNAL CEMETERY	2391756	8/05/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	7/05/1944	Training	DZ422	Mosquito IV	Crashed at Woodhall Spa, coming down near the bomb dump, following a single engined approach.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	T L	Hogg	DFC		29		42310	KIRK ONCHAN (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD	3058525	7/05/1944
	F/Lt	R	Woodhouse			30		46300	OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY	2437178	7/05/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	27/05/1944	St Valery	DZ468	Mosquito IV	T/o 0020 Woodhall Spa to mark a coastal battery. Lost without trace.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	P S	Foxcroft	DFC				128047	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	1270329	28/05/1944
	F/O	D H	Acworth	DFC		21		141163	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	1082531	28/05/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	8/06/1944	Rennes	DZ353	Mosquito IV	T/o 2347 Woodhall Spa to bomb rail facilities. Crashed between Orgeres (Ille-et-Villains) and St-Erblon, two villages roughly 7km and 8km respectively S of Rennes.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	H	Steere	DFC DFM		30		46016	ST. ERBLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY	2846463	9/06/1944
	F/O	K W	Gale	DFC		24		404241	ST. ERBLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY	2846462	9/06/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	29/06/1944	Beauvoir	DZ482	Mosquito IV	T/o 1237 Woodhall Spa to destroy a flying bomb facility. Hit be flak soon after releasing markers and the crew baled out at 3,000 feet, leaving their aircraft to crash just to the SW of Boubers-sur-Canche (Pas de Calais), 12 km SSW of St-Pol-sur-Ternoise.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	J G deB	Platts
	F/O	C G	Thompson

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	29/06/1944	Beauvoir	DZ516	Mosquito IV	T/o 1236 Woodhall Spa to mark a flying bomb site. Believed to be homebound when their aircraft was destroyed by a premature in flight explosion from a V1 flying bomb, launched from a nearby site.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	J A	Saint-Smith	DFC DFM		26		403380	ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION	2952707	29/06/1944
	F/O	G E	Heath	DFC DFM		26		6025	ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION	2952605	29/06/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	26/07/1944	Givors	DZ636	Mosquito IV	T/o 2312 Woodhall Spa to bomb rail communications. Crashed at Letra (Rhone), a small village on the N side of the main road twixt Lyon and Charolles.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	D K	Flaherty			23		155505	LETRA COMMUNAL CEMETERY	2718634	27/07/1944
	F/O	J	Christie			32		53421	LETRA COMMUNAL CEMETERY	2718633	27/07/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	18/09/1944	Bremerhaven	DZ635	Mosquito IV	T/o 1903 Woodhall Spa. Crashed 2210 at Schiffdorf on the eastern outskits of Bremerhaven.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	N B	Rutherford	AFC		31		68194	BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY	2389822	18/09/1944
	P/O	F H	Stanbury			27		54874	BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY	2389973	18/09/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	19/09/1944	Rheydt	KB267	Mosquito XX	T/o Woodhall Spa. Crashed, homebound, near Steenbergen (Noord Brabant), where both are buried.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	W/C	G P	Gibson	VC DSO + DFC +		26		39438	STEENBERGEN-EN-KRUISLAND ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY	2766520	19/09/1944
	S/L	J B	Warwick	DFC				156612	STEENBERGEN-EN-KRUISLAND ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY	2766521	19/09/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	26/09/1944	Karlsruhe	DZ521	Mosquito IV	T/o 0229 Woodhall Spa. Crashed 0253 near King's Lynn, Norfolk.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	A	Matheson			21		158113	CONINGSBY CEMETERY	2417221	27/09/1944
	F/O	A T	Fitzpatrick	DFM		22		414015	CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY	2651090	27/09/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	27/09/1944	Kaiserlautern	KB366	Mosquito XX	T/o 0250 Woodhall Spa.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	H E	Brown			29		J/8965	RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY	2042555	28/09/1944
	F/Lt	H W	Cowan			29		67107	RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY	2042793	28/09/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	7/10/1944	Walcheren	KB195	Mosquito XX	T/o 1236 Woodhall Spa to carry out a photographic reconnaissance of the target area. Lost without trace.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	G E	Bray					88650	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	1530351	7/10/1944
	F/O	P N	Herbert	DFC				142135	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	1799964	7/10/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	19/10/1944	Training	KB215	Mosquito XX	T/o 1145 Woodhall Spa. Fifteen minutes later while practising marker bombing over the range at Wainfleet, one of the bombs detonated in the bomb bay, causing considerable structural damage.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	H V	Bland
	F/O	R H	Cornell			33		152793	CONINGSBY CEMETERY	2417204	19/10/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	30/10/1944	Walcheren	DZ640	Mosquito IV	T/o 1101 Woodhall Spa to mark gun batteries on the island. Last heard on R/T, in contact with another Squadron crew, at 1205 reporting that a TI had exploded in the bomb bay and they were bailing out over the sea.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	A G	St. John			30		404472	OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY	2082076	30/10/1944
	F/O	L V J	Dick			28		J/17187	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	232188	30/10/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	22/11/1944	Trondheim	DZ642	Mosquito IV	T/o 1842 Woodhall Spa to mark U-Boat pens. On return the pilot called to ask permission to land at Scatsa. At the time there was complete cloud cover at 1,000 feet and after acknowledging his second course instructions, nothing further was heard. Subsequently the wreckage of the Mosquito was found 1500 feet above sea level on Royal Field Hill, Shetland.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	P/O	J A	Reid
	F/O	W D	Irwin			34		J/16115	CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM, MANOR PARK	2734089	22/11/1944

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	29/12/1944	Gardening	DZ650	Mosquito IV	T/o 1923 Woodhall Spa for operations over the River Elbe, but swung off the runway, crashing out of control. No injuries reported.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	H V	Olliver

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	1/02/1945	Siegen	DZ627	Mosquito IV	T/o 1714 Woodhall Spa. Believed hit bt flak and crashed.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	R	Baker			24		102137	REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY	2036686	1/02/1945
	Sgt.	D G	Betts					612515	REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY	2036917	1/02/1945

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	19/02/1945	Bohlen	KB401	Mosquito XXV	T/o Coningsby, borrowed by 54 Base and flown by the Master Bomber assigned to the Bohlen raid. Hit by flak and crashed in the target area.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	W/C	E A	Benjamin	DFC +		25		77777	BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY	2078707	20/02/1945
	F/O	J E	Heath	DFM				171190	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	1799839	20/02/1945

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	13/03/1945	Training	NS536	Mosquito XVI	Wrecked 1128 after overshooting the airfield at Voscombe Down in Wiltshire. No injuries reported.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	A M	McLellan

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	17/03/1945	Training	ML906	Mosquito IX	T/o 1530 Woodhall Spa, starboard engine failed. On landing port throttle jammed and crash landed at 1715.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/O	A M	McLellan

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	27/03/1945	Gardening	DZ599	Mosquito IV	T/o 1939 Woodhall Spa for minelaying duties over the River Elbe. At 2201 ditched off the Frisians.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Sgt	W	Barnett
	F/Sgt	J A	Day			20		431092	RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL	232024	28/03/1945

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	5/05/1945	Training	KB625	Mosquito XXV	T/o 1047 Woodhall Spa veered to starboard, over corrected and swung 180 which removed the undercarriage.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	F/Lt	D J	Moore

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	14/06/1945	Training	DZ418	Mosquito IV	Crash landed 0057 on return to Woodhall Spa from a night cross country exercise. No injuries reported.

	Rank	Init	Surname	Decoration	Unit	Age	Disposition	Service No.	Cemetery	CWGref	Deceased
	W/O	N K	Shannon

Sqn	Date	Task	Desig	Type	Comments
627	3/07/1945	Training	KB416	Mosquito XXV	T/o 1450 Woodhall Spa. Port engine failed. Crashed on landing 1740, bursting into flames. Cpl Stephen Cogger entered the blazing wreckage and extricated P/O Finlayson and then returned to attempt the rescue of the pilot, but was beaten back by the flames. Cpl Cooper was subsequently awarded the George Medal.

F/Lt

D N

Johnson

28

133387

SOUTHPORT (DUKE STREET) CEMETERY

3/07/1945

P/O

J D

Finlayson