In Memory of
THREE AIRMEN
OF THE
1939-1945
WAR
KNOWN UNTO GOD
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave.
Ronald Walter ABRAMS
Sergeant
165926
Air Gunner
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 20
'THEIR PATH OF DUTY
WAS THE WAY TO GLORY'
Additional information:
Son of George and Amelia Alice Abrams, of Goodmayes, Ilford, Essex.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave.
Frank William BELLAMY
Sergeant
1625609
Wireless Operator [Air]
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 20
Additional information:
Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Victoria Hackett Bellamy, of Sheffield.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave.
Albert Henry BROWN
Sergeant
1292798
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 32
Additional information:
Son of James and Lucy Brown.
Grave/Memorial Reference:
No known grave. Albert is commemorated on Panel 225 at Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom.
William Albert HANNAFORD
Warrant Officer
640428
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 36
Additional information:
Son of William Albert and Rose Hannaford; husband of Marion Sybil Joan Hannaford, of Exeter.
William was 36 and, thus, was well over the average age for airmen employed in Bomber Command duties.
Grave/Memorial Reference:
No known grave. William is commemorated on Panel 213 at Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Robert Henry Standing HART
Flight Sergeant
1671946
Navigator
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 23
'GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN'
Additional information:
Son of Aaron and Ethel Mabel Hart, of Heap Bridge, Bury, Lancashire.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave.
James Brooks HORNBY
Flying Officer
152049
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 21
Additional information:
Son of James Brooks Hornby, and of Louisa Hornby, of Hull.
Grave/Memorial Reference:
No known grave. James is commemorated on Panel 207 at Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Charles John Kenneth HUTCHINS
Squadron Leader
37177
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 27
Additional information:
Son of John William and Gwenthylin Hutchins; husband of Evelyn Millicent Hutchins (nee Usher).
Grave/Memorial Reference:
No known grave. Charles is commemorated on Panel 200 at Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom.
William Christopher McCOY
Pilot Officer
55793
Flight Engineer
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 23
'HIS MEMORY
IS MY GREATEST TREASURE,
R.I.P.'
Additional information:
Son of William and Mary McCoy; husband of Gwenville McCoy, of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Coll. grave.
Arthur Ronald WINCOTT
Flight Sergeant
1580762
149 Squadron
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Tuesday 6 June 1944. Age 20
Additional information:
Son of James and Lucy Brown.
Grave/Memorial Reference:
No known grave. Arthur is commemorated on Panel 223 at Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Cemetery:
BAUDRE CHURCHYARD, Manche, France.
Visiting Information:
The churchyard is always open.
Location:
The village and commune of Baudre is 4 kilometres south-east of Saint-Lô. In the churchyard, 16 metres south of the south-eastern corner of the church, are the graves of seven airmen of the Royal Air Force. Three of them are not identified.
No. of Identified Casualties: 4.
Circumstances:
Night of 5-6 June 1944.
ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND
No.3 Group
No.149 Squadron
Operation: "TITANIC" (D-Day Support)
Crew:
Squadron Leader C J K HUTCHINS (died)
Flight Sergeant W C McCOY (died)
Flying Officer J B HORNBY (died)
Flight Sergeant R H S HART (died)
Flight Sergeant A R WINCOTT (died)
Warrant Officer W A HANNAFORD (died)
Sergeant F W BELLAMY (died)
Sergeant R W ABRAMS (died)
Sergeant A H BROWN (died)
Aircraft: Stirling III LK385 OJ-'C'
Take-off on 5 June 1944 at 2228 hrs from RAF Methwold. Believed to have crashed on 6 June near Baudre (Manche, France), 4 km SSE Saint-Lô. Four are buried in Baudre Churchyard ; the others are commemorated on the Memorial at Runnymede. Two, Flight Sergeant HART and Sergeant BELLAMY, had been attached from the Aircrew School at Methwold.
(Taken from Raf Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War by W R Chorley, Midlands Counties Publications).
