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603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, Canongate Church

 
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:35 pm    Post subject: 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, Canongate Church Reply with quote

Not listed on UKNIWM

Location inside Canongate Church, Edinburgh at OS Map Ref NT 264 738.

This memorial was unveiled by the Queen on 2nd July 1989.









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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sqn Ldr Gifford DFC shot down the first German aircraft over British Soil. Full story is at http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1933

F/O C W Goldsmith, Spitfire IIa P7439 was on patrol when shot down by ME109 of JG51 south of Maidstone at 1405 and died the next day. He is buried at Hornchurch, age 23.

F/O R McG Waterston, Spitfire I X4273’K’ shot down by ME109 of JG3 over London 1830, age 23.

P/O W P H Rafter, Spitfire IIa P7449, plane dived into the ground south of Broomfield, cause not known. He had previously been wounded and his spitfire written off in combat with an ME109 on 5th September. He was aged just 19 when he died.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

26 April Sgt. A.S. Darling

Also commemorated on Auchterarder WW2 Memorial;

http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=2347

Name: DARLING, ANDREW SMITTON
Initials: A S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Pilot)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 91 Sqdn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 26/04/1941
Service No: 740544
Additional information: Son of Peter and Mary Ann Greig Darling, of Auchterarder; husband of Margaret Robertson Darling, of Ayr.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. 5 B. Grave 34.
Cemetery: AUCHTERARDER CEMETERY
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sgt A S Darling, Spitfire IIa P7615 - Shipping Recce, shot down and killed by ME109 of II/JG51 on 26 Apr 1941. He was previously shot down on 13th March in Spitfire IIa P7368 whilst on op Circus. On that occasion he crash landed at Dungeness after combat with JG51.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jack Dawson Green served with 603 Sqn and was killed on 17 March 1945 but is not listed on this memorial.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22348940
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WMR 88747
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Name: DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, LORD DAVID
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Squadron Leader (Pilot)
Service Number: 73704
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 544 Sqdn
Date of Death: 2/8/1944
Age: 32
Additional Information: Son of Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton, 10th Duke of Brandon, and of the Duchess of Hamilton (nee Poore); husband of Lady Douglas Hamilton (nee Stack). B.A.(Oxon).
Cemetery: Berwick St John (St John the Baptist) Churchyard.

Also named on Avendale Old Parish Church Memorial and Strathaven War Memorial.
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