Leading Aircraftwoman (LACW) Nan Menzies Roberts 2116233 WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) was the daughter of David and Annie Duncan Menzies Kirk, 20 County Place, Perth and the wife of LAC Albert Pearson Roberts, 7 Polnoon Avenue, Glasgow. On 25 March 1945, a Hawker Typhoon Mk. Ib MN236 of RAF No. 55 Operational Training Unit […]
Leading Aircraftwoman Ethel Cassidy 896633 WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) was tragically killed whilst walking with another Aircraftwoman along a road shortly before 11 pm on Saturday 28 March 1942. The Cornishman newspaper of 2 April 1942 reported the following: REDRUTH TRAGEDY Girl Dies Following Car Accident A tragedy occurred outside Redruth […]
Sergeant Patrick Cameron RAF (573311) was an air gunner aboard Consolidated B-24 Liberator VI EW277. His squadron was part of the RAF 205 group consisting of US (daytime) and British (primarily night-time) long-range heavy bomber units under the command of Major General James H Doolittle. On 14 June 1944, age […]
Flight Sergeant Colin David Brough RAFVR (1570574) was the observer of the six-man crew on board a Douglas C-47 Skytrain (Dakota DC-3) KG747 when it crashed on 8 June 1946 in Nigeria. The aircraft was on route from Kano Airport (now Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport), Nigeria to Lagos/Ikeja Airport […]
Flight Sergeant Alan Reid Beveridge RAFVR (748353), served with RAF 10 Squadron. On 13 March 1941, he was the second pilot of an Armstrong Whitley type V, serial Z6496 bomber. The aircraft took off from RAF Disforth at 2035 hours to bomb Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft was struck by flak […]
Pilot Officer Peter Gordon Anderson RAFVR (88023) of 20 Balhousie Street, Perth, the only son of Margaret Crawford Logan Anderson and the late Peter Anderson, agent of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. Peter Anderson was 22 years of age, he was educated at Perth Academy and Strathallan. Prior to […]
Sergeant David Taylor Adams was killed in a Lockheed Hudson Mk VI accident on 7 January 1943 during take-off from RAF Takoradi in Ghana, West Africa. He was from 10 Keir Street, Bridgend, Perth, the son of Mr and Mrs D T Adams and was a wireless air gunner with […]
