By: Ross_McNeill - 23rd August 2005 at 07:45
Umm..
I suppose a few miles up the road from your beloved Driffield is what I would call a “major” Bomber Command cemetery.
Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery
“Nearly all of the 988 Second World War burials in Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery are of airmen, two-thirds of them Canadian. (1 of the burials is an unidentified R.A.F. airman), Many of these men died in the military wing of Harrogate General Hospital.”
One closing thought.
The number of graves here is approximately the number of Bomber Command Airmen that failed to return on one night from one raid in 1944.
Regards
Ross
By: archieraf - 22nd August 2005 at 22:02
The CWGC website does have lists of each cemetery. It helps if you know the name of the cemetery, however, you can use their search facility more generally. Using the drop down box change ‘casualty’ to ‘cemetery’ and try a search by cemetery. Using the search term ‘yorks’ gives 4 results and using the search term ‘lincs’ gives 2 results. Try some variations on the theme (ie: Yorkshire or a specific town/village) and you will probably come up with more.
If you click to select a cemetery it will give you a page telling you a little info about the cemetery and how many casualties there are. Clicking on the ‘cemetery reports’ button will let you see all the casualties buried in that particular cemetery.
Hope this helps.
By: Guzzineil - 22nd August 2005 at 20:04
They were the 3 crew that didnt make it out of the Vulcan crash at Heathrow.. Neil.
By: Papa Lima - 22nd August 2005 at 19:22
This seems to be a suitable place to present a question that I have been pondering for a long time.
The three graves shown here are in Waddington village churchyard, and I was living in Lincoln at the time of the funerals, as a 13-year old, having moved from RAF Waddington at the age of 11.
The gravestones all bear the same date, 10 October 1956, and commemmorate three Squadron Leaders; A. E. Gamble, aged 35, J. W. Stroud, aged 29, and L. J. Eames, aged 32.
As I am in Sweden, I cannot refer to any public records, but I wonder if anyone could tell us the background to what appear to be three tragic deaths.
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August 22, 2005 at 4:39 pm