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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 30 October 18 23:47 GMT (UK) »
Why not contact the Air Crew Remembrance Society website to see if they can help. I can't post a link from the iPad.
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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 31 October 18 09:20 GMT (UK) »
The church is of a very common style but also it very typical of “Wool churches” ,in other words
Churches built in Suffolk  and other East Anglian counties in places like Thaxted, Lavenham and Long
Melford,Saffron Walden etc.

Also of course there were many R.A.F.bases in East Anglia.
A long shot but hopefully it may help you somewhat.
If you could find the person on the gravestone and the date which looks a bit like 1942, you could look on fbmd,a free site which has extensive records and at least get the area if not the exact place.
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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 31 October 18 09:48 GMT (UK) »
What chance it is St Marys and All Saints Great Budworth,Cheshire?I had a decent graveyard picture then lost it on a touch sensitive ipad!There was an RAF funeral there(Sgt Kenneth Wright),but it was 1941.

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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 31 October 18 10:09 GMT (UK) »
I thought the first picture here bore a reasonable resemblance

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2508997/saint-mary-and-all-saints

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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 31 October 18 13:07 GMT (UK) »
Try Honningtin All Saints Church,there is quite a good sized RAF cemetery there.
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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 31 October 18 13:24 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to all for the incredible response.  Viktoria's idea about Norfolk & Suffolk is promising as the Squadron had a presence in Docking, Norfolk.  The windows in the tower of St Mary's Church don't match up but 97% of the Polish airmen were Roman Catholics so there funerals were more likely to be at RC churches - unless there were military plots for all religions in the parish churchyard.

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Re: Unidentified funeral RAF 1942
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 31 October 18 16:54 GMT (UK) »
https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch?DetsView=Summary&src=ext&fileid=7573240

Need money to look at the entry though

Joseph John Evans  ?

This entry is from the Northern Cemetery (Bulwell), Nottingham, so won't be the right one, since we're looking for a churchyard.

I wondered if the surname on the right hand stone might be EYRE, with middle name John or Joan. First name Julian, as already suggested, or Julius?

FreeBMD has one or two names which might fit, but the years don't seem to match what I think I can see on the stone - 1936 or 1934.
Researching among others:
Bartle, Bilton, Bingley, Campbell, Craven, Emmott, Harcourt, Hirst, Kellet(t), Kennedy,
Meaburn, Mennile/Meynell, Metcalf(e), Palliser, Robinson, Rutter, Shipley, Stow, Wilkinson

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