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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

BIEVILLE Sur ORNE Churchyard (Calvados France)

Photo Courtesy Alain Octavie (Fr)
http://liberty-jeep.info/

Sgt Henry William Aparicio
The son of Ernest A. and Mary L. Aparicio, of Bow, London, Henry was bon in London on 16/02/1924 and enlisted on 22/04/1943.
The Albermale Aw.41 - s/n V1773 took off from Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, for the Mallard operation, to strengthening bridgehead of the 6th Airborne, east of the river Orne.
At about 9 P.M., after to have droped his Horsa glider over Ranville, the plane was shot by the shooting of a launch featured in the Caen Canal.
for his nephew Ernie Aparicio

5 casualties

APARICIO HENRY WILLIAM
United Kingdom Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 297 Sqdn. Age: 20 Date of Death: 06/06/1944 Service No: 1894252

CHATTERTON HENRY JOHN
United Kingdom Sergeant (Air Bomber) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 297 Sqdn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 06/06/1944 Service No: 1600622

COOPER STEPHEN PERCY
United Kingdom Flying Officer (Nav.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 297 Sqdn. Date of Death: 06/06/1944 Service No: 144675

LONG RICHARD HUGHES
United Kingdom Flying Officer (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 297 Sqdn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 06/06/1944 Service No: 150300

MUIR ROBERT TELFORD
United Kingdom Sergeant (W. Op. [Air]) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 297 Sqdn. Date of Death: 06/06/1944 Service No: 1369916

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