BOMBER COMMAND: OLD BLUES

[Foureyes]

The great and long-awaited public Memorial to commemorate the 55,573 young men of Bomber Command who died in World War Two will be unveiled by Her Majesty The Queen in Green Park, London on 28 June 2012. The total number of Old Blues who served as aircrew in Bomber Command is not known for certain but was about 2-300 and of those, no less than thirty died in action or on operational training:

BARKER, David Conquest. MaA (31-37); 19 years; 24 May 1940
BARTLETT, Alan. LaA (20-27); 32 years; 13 May 1942
BELDON, Eric Nigel Nicholson. ColB (33-39); 20 years; 31 Aug 1943
CARNEGIE, Ronald Forbes. LaB (22-31); 22 years; 8 July 1944
COSENS, Frank William, DFC. PeA (26-32); 28 years; 15 February 1944
COUTTS, Desmond Christian Frederick. MaB (29-34); 22 years; 3 January 1941
CUSTANCE, Robert Corrie. ThA (34-40); 20 years; 17 December 1943
DAVIS, Howard Leslie. ThB (29-38); 21 years; 8 June 1942
DOWNER, George Lionel DFC. PeA (29-36); 23 years; 14 January 1944
ELLIOTT, Alec. MaA/MidA (29-38); 25 years; 5 January 1945
GALES, Philip Frank Weller, MiD. ThA (29-37); 22 years; 23 September 1942
GILLING Jack Humphrey. MaA (30-36); 20 years; 4 July 1940
GWYN Herbert John Compton. LaA (31-38); 23 years; 29 January 1944
JACOBS, Thomas Frederick. ColA (31-36); 21 years; 10 January 1942
LEWIS, Ronald George. MaB (32-38); 21 years; 3 September 1942
MACINTYRE, James Galt. ColB (24-30); 28 years; 29 July 1940
McKINLAY, Allen. MidB (20-25); 34 years; 22 November 1942
OLIVER, Jack Russell. MaA (31-1936); 22 years; 27 March 1943
O'NEILL, William Francis. ColB (24-29); 31 years; 22 May 1944
PASCOE, Philip Jocelyn. MidB (22-28); 32 years; 29 June 1943
SCOTT-SMYTH, Thomas Laidlaw, DFC. PeB (24-29); 26 years; 11 September 1940
SELWYN, Harold Morrey. ThA (27-35); 22 years; 3 July 1940
SEWARD, Frederick Phillip. LaB (31-36); 23 years; 29 June 1943
STREET, Richard. PeA (32-39); 21 years; 27 January 1944
TELLING, Robert Douglas. MaB (28-35); 24 years; 19 January 1942
UNDERY, Edwin Maurice MBE. MidA (20-27); 37 years; 20 October 1948
WILLIAMS, David Hamilton. MidA (31-37); 23 years; 5 January 1945
WIMBERLEY, Michael Arabin. MidA (32-40); 21 years; 24 March 1944
WODEHOUSE, Sydney Edward. LaB (31-36); 24 years; 17 June 1944
WOODHOUSE, Geoffrey Clayton Rance. MaB (27-32); 29 years; 10 April 1945

Full details of these and all other Old Blue World War Two deaths are given in the book “Freedom We Died For You” obtainable from the CHOBA Manager.

[Mid A 15]

(a little).

Did anybody see the ITV documentary about Bomber Command earlier this week?

[Fjgrogan]

Yes, I watched it - also the dedication service for the memorial.