A small group of villagers in Kedington Suffolk have been campaigning for and have now got the go ahead for a new memorial to the airmen who lost their lives in the parish between 1938 and 1935. We will be commissioning a sculpted angel for the foyer of the community center and a parchment roll of honour in a glass cabinet. We want very much to include surviving family of the airmen in the process and the unveiling which will be in about a years time. Any help in contacting relatives of these men from across the world would be much appreciated .
Wellesley K7732 148 Squadron 29/9/38
Sgt Cowan
Sgt Newby
AC2 Corp
Stirling MZ262 90 Squadron 22/9/43
Sgt FE Hayman
Sgt JD lAW
Sgt JF Mck Gunn
Sgt GW Moore RCAF
Sgt AJ Lane
Sgt R Payton
FS GL Duffy (survived )
Stirling N6008 1657 HCU 10/2/43
Sgt PSO Carrol RNZAF
Sgt CS Rogers
Sgt RW Smith
Sgt GT Pierce
Sgt Howells (survived)
Sgt Smith tail gunner (survived)
Lancaster NG147/C 186 Squadron
F/lt Tait
Fsgt TB Darney
F/sgt WS Gamble
Sgt T L Lenton
FO HC Dutfield
PO GS Haslam
Sgt P Sumpter
Please share and hopefuly we can invite some family from each crew
USAF Thunderbolt crash in the parish still holding out and defies confirmation of casualty . hopefuly we can get to the bottom of this .
Best regards Kevin
By: spark plug - 15th May 2017 at 18:16
Ken thank you for making contact and for providing the information on Sgt Hayman . I look forward to further correspondence. You are the first family member to make contact with us, hopefully there will be many more . Regards Kevin.
By: Arabella-Cox - 9th May 2017 at 10:16
Sgt Frank Hayman was my mother’s brother (would have been my uncle, had he survived)
Apologies for being pedantic but he is your uncle irrespective……….. I am sorry he did not survive.
By: Ken Endean - 9th May 2017 at 10:07
I have just been informed of this project. Sgt Frank Hayman was my mother’s brother (would have been my uncle, had he survived) and somewhere in the family archives I have a letter from his CO, written after the crash.
By: spark plug - 27th April 2017 at 12:31
If anyone can give me any up to date Squadron association contact details for any of the above it would be very useful . The contacts I have obtained so far are not up to date. Kevin.
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