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Offline alamoon

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Re: 14 OTU personnel
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 07 January 10 09:23 GMT (UK) »
Hello ,

The man named Bousfield is not F/L Bousfield Jack ( gunner ) MIA after the crash of his Lancaster ED-488 from N° 50 squadron at Lommel Belgium on 02/02/1944.

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Re: 14 OTU personnel
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 07 January 10 10:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi David and happy new year.

How much easier would our tasks have been if initials had been included on the photos. If you look at the pic on the left there are no initials either. I have even been in touch with someone in Canada with lots of knowledge of the BCATP but there doesnt seem to be any surviving records of course details.

Happy hunting anyway, l feel sure these things wont dim our interest or stop us from looking.
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Re: 14 OTU personnel
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 21 June 11 20:29 BST (UK) »
I believe the airman back row, third from left is Israel Jacobovitch who served under the name of Jackson.

He was lost 9 days after joining 50 Squadron in Hampden AE 226.

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Re: 14 OTU personnel
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 21 June 11 20:57 BST (UK) »
Dee wrote

"That is a really interesting photograph.  Cant do much about the common names but the London Gazette & Flight Global are a fund of info for the unusual ones.....  I have found a PO Bousfield who was still alive in 1944 (107550) who got his substansive in December 1941 which would be about right.  I wonder if this is him? However on the CWGC site there are 7 Bousfields who are buried all over the place who could be him.....  Hey ho"

On 19th July 1941 50 Squadron moved from Lindholme to Swinderby.  The squadron departed Lindholme in formation.  Shortly after takeoff the airmen were horrified to see Hampden AD 897 roll onto it’s back and fly inverted for a few seconds before diving into the ground killing Sgt. Bousfield and crew.

I do not have the names of the other crew members.

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Re: 14 OTU personnel
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 13 May 18 13:54 BST (UK) »
Looking for info on my father C. H. Tomlinson and his crew. He was training in 14 OTU and crashed under a navigation exercise in Wellington T2887 on 21st December 1942. All injured but no-one killed luckily. The crew was: Tomlinson, Boyle, Brown, Gray, Woods. If anyone has any information about when his training course began, or what became of the other crew members, I would be very grateful.

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Re: 14 OTU personnel
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 20 May 18 11:54 BST (UK) »
Sorry, Martin.  I have no knowledge of your crew.
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