This casualty has popped up in my local Parish Magazine. 57 Sqd was based here.
A relative wishes to know more.
I have all the information from CWGC and Chorley Bomber Command Losses 1942.
Can anybody add anything?
Thanks in advance
Moggy
By: Moggy C - 10th March 2011 at 09:53
Just before this disappears for ever can I appeal if anybody can tie up a nightfighter claim with the loss?
It was a rough old raid on Essen. About 100 Wellingtons and 11 Stirlings took a 10% loss rate for the placing of just 22 HE bombs on Essen, killing 6 Germans, presumably civilian.
A picture of the aircraft would be magic, but I’m guessing that is shooting for the moon.
Moggy
By: Moggy C - 9th March 2011 at 09:22
Thanks Robert.
That is so sad, another wartime father who never saw his child.
Moggy
By: Robert Whitton - 9th March 2011 at 09:05
That’s interesting as the letter to the Parish Mag purports to come from one Crispin Paine, who speaks of Peter as his father.
He encloses a picture of him said to have been taken during his time training in Canada.
Moggy
In my view “Ancestry” is better for more recent BDM’s
BIRTH
Name: Crispin C Paine
Mother’s Maiden Surname: Hobday
Date of Registration: Jul Aug Sep 1942
Registration district: Bromley
Registration county: Surrey,Kent
Volume Number: 2a
Page Number: 1487
MARRIAGE
Name: Crispin C Paine
Spouse Surname: Marden
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1969
Registration district: Oxford
Registration county (inferred): Oxfordshire
Volume Number: 6b
Page Number: 3159
By: Moggy C - 9th March 2011 at 08:40
That’s interesting as the letter to the Parish Mag purports to come from one Crispin Paine, who speaks of Peter as his father.
He encloses a picture of him said to have been taken during his time training in Canada.
Moggy
By: Alan Clark - 8th March 2011 at 23:41
I’ve done some checks on the FreeBMD site and have the following
Peter J Paine, born September Quarter 1917, Edmonton District (covered parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex) (Mother’s maiden name was Pakeman).
He had/has a brother, Michael C Paine, both December Quarter 1920 (also in the Edmonton district).
Their parents were married in the Pancras district of London in the March Quarter of 1916.
Peter married Ruth Hobday in the Bromley district in the June quarter of 1941, she was born in the December quarter of 1920 in the West Derby area of Liverpool. Her birth was registered as Ruth R Hobday.
They didn’t seem to have had any children in the few months they were married.
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