IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden
The visit to Commonwealth graves in Communal Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France
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LES BREVIAIRES Communal Cemetery (Yvelines France)
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| Photo Courtesy Isabelle & Guillaume van der Wende |
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| Sgt Philip Sidney Kidd aged 30 Son of Alfred Kidd and of Hannah Kidd (nee Crabtree); husband of Constance Revill Kidd, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire. From the Widnes Weekly News Friday June 16th 1944: WIDNES CONSTABLE - Missing from Air Ops. News has recently been received that Flight Engineer Philip Sidney Kidd has been reported missing from operations over enemy occupied territory. Although a native of Southport, he was, for seven years a police constable at Widnes before joining the Royal Air Force in July, 1943. His home is at 8 Ditchfield Road, Ditton, where his wife, formerly Miss Constance Hibbertson, resides with their five years old boy. Flt. Engineer Kidd is 30 years of age and is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kidd of St. Annes, Lancs. for Phil Jennett |
Crew of the
Avro Lancaster ND761 A4-C Photo taken by Philipp Kidd |
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| Courtesy of John Elwin |
| They are left to right: |
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| Sgt Thomas Moreland aged 21 & Sgt Kenneth Moore |
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| F/O Robert Elwin aged 30 & F/Lt Peter Norbury |
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| F/O Martin Dodds aged 27 & Sgt William Astley |
| for Robert Elwin's son John Elwin |
7 casualties
ASTLEY WILLIAM EDWARD
United Kingdom Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115 Sqdn.
Date of Death: 08/06/1944 Service No: 2211645
DODDS MARTIN
United Kingdom Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
115 Sqdn. Age: 27 Date of Death: 08/06/1944 Service No: 146377
ELWIN ROBERT NORMAN
Canadian Flying Officer (Nav.) Royal Canadian Air Force 115 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. Age:
30 Date of Death: 08/06/1944 Service No: J/35237
KIDD PHILIP SIDNEY
United Kingdom Sergeant (Flt. Engr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115 Sqdn.
Age: 30 Date of Death: 08/06/1944 Service No: 2206292
MOORE KENNETH WILLIAM CHARLES
United Kingdom Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115 Sqdn.
Date of Death: 08/06/1944 Service No: 1894318
MORELAND THOMAS
United Kingdom Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115
Sqdn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 08/06/1944 Service No: 1389740
NORBURY PETER WINGATE
United Kingdom Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 115
Sqdn. Date of Death: 08/06/1944 Service No: 87027
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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations
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