AR banner
Back to Top
Allied Air Forces Losses and Incidents Database.

Allied Losses Nordic RAAF Losses RNZAF Losses USAAF Battle of Britain Paradie RCAF Archiwum Polish War Graves Runnymede Kracker Luftwaffe
Check the Databases Menu for the extensive list of our databases which represent decades of original research by our Editors
Search Tips •  Researching Your Loved OneContact us via Helpdesk for research on your loved one

Names in Database A -D • Names in Database E - K • Names in Database L - R • Names in Database S -Z
If you are unsure of the spelling of the name you are searching for, you can check all the names in this database

Data derived from many sources. Corrections/Additions welcomed via Helpdesk

NOTE ON DATES: IMPORTANT: For consistency, the Date is given as the date the mission TOOK OFF since the precise time of a loss is not always certain. Take Off date is unambigous and fixed in the official records, but obviously in those cases where the incident occurred before midnight UK time, then the Take Off Date will be the same as the Incident Date. Of course, most Bomber Command missions flew through midnight, therefore a Luftwaffe claim against a plane - or a locally generated crash report - may record the incident as occurring on the day following our Take Off Date. Bear this in mind when cross-referencing to our Luftwaffe Victories by Name/Date Database and other Luftwaffe sources. In some cases other sources may quote the date following our date, using locally generated reports as their source. To add to the potential for confusion, remember to take into account a Luftwaffe recorded date will be in local time, 1 hour ahead of UK time. When we discover a validated Incident Date we change our record if necessary.



Our hosting service imposes a 4-character search minimum for database tables. We have modified our databases to support 3-character name searches.

Add 'x' to 3-character name: e.g. to search for 'coe' put 'coex' in search box, for 'fox' put 'foxx'.

If you need help, EMAIL us with name and database to search and we will perform the search manually for you.
To search on squadron, append 'Sqn'. Examples: '72Sqn' or '416Sqn'


Thanks to Personnel of the Polish Air Force in Great Britain for supplementary data and images (marked with a chequerboard device) related to the Polish Air Force, and many images courtesy of our respected colleagues Wojtek Matusiak and Robert Gretzyngier. Other images from our own archives.
Responding to requests that respects may be paid in this database to a loved one or friend, or someone you want to recognize, an In Memoriam plaque may now be placed next to any entry. See our Donate Page for details. Search for In Memoriam in this database to see examples of plaques which have been placed.

Polish Air Force personnel have a supplementary database containing more information and many more entries. Check the following:
Personel Polskich Sił Powietrznych posiada dodatkową bazę danych zawierającą więcej informacji i wiele innych wpisów. Sprawdź następujące elementy:
Archiwum: PSP 1939 -1947 Database 17,000+ Polish Air Force Entries
ON REQUEST, MORE INFORMATION CAN OFTEN BE RETRIEVED FROM OUR RESEARCH ARCHIVE ON EVERY ENTRY, AND ON NAMES YET TO BE ENTERED.

See a sample search
If you would like our team to research a family member or friend who appears in this database, contact us via the Helpdesk. We will send you instructions.


Enter Your search conditions and click Search This
Searching for a 3-character name requires special treatment

These are the results of your search:

You searched for: “"RNZAF"

#Name*First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.BornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See NoteAircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateCommemoratedPhoto (Click to Expand)Referring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
4551 WyllieThomasFlying OfficerNZ/414718Age 24New ZealanderPilotRNZAFFighter Command1Sqn
1944-09-27SpitfireLF.IXMK867JX-?RAF Detling, Kent1620SweepSee Archive report for further detailsMissing - believed killedRunnymede Memorial. Panel 263

Courtesy AWMM


Born on the 08th April 1920 at Otahuhu. Worked as a farmer on his father's dairy farm Waitakaruru. Enlisted in the RNZAF on the 17th August 1941 at Levin. Initial training at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School on the 29th September 1941 before joining No. 2 Flying Training School on the 08th November 1941. The pilot's badge was awarded on the 17th August 1941 and promoted to sergeant.

Embarked for England on the 22nd February 1942Further training with No. 5 Pilot Advanced Flying Unit on the 19th May 1942 then joined 53 Operational Training Unit on the 09th June 1942. Joined 222 squadron on the 07th October 1942 where he completed 137 operational sorties. Commissioned on the 24th June 1943. Attached to 1689 flight in late January 1944 flying the Hurricane. Joined 1 Squadron in May 1944 where he completed a further 89 operational sorties.

Son of Alexander Ralston (who died in October 1960, age 84) and Edith Beatrice Wyllie (née Wallice - died 11th March 1956, age 66), of Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand.

4552 WyllieT YSergeantRNZAFBomber Command75Sqn RNZAF
1941-11-08WellingtonIcX9977AA-FeltwellEssenCrashed at IJevoorde HollandKilledLoolaan General
4553 WytkinMerle NoelFlying OfficerNZ/416036Age 21New ZealandW/OpRNZAFCoastal Command5 Operational Training Unit1943-04-08BeaufortIIDD886None issued RAF Long Kesh, Northern Ireland 750Training See archive report for further details KilledBelfast City Cemetery. Glenalina Extn. Sec. A.S. Grave 15.
courtesy Auckland Library Heritage Collection
Read Archive Report
4554 YanovichI TFlight LieutenantRNZAFBomber Command635Sqn
1945-01-06LancasterIII PB228F2-NDownham Market1550HanauKilledDurnbach War Cemetery
4555 YeomanKenneth HarrySergeantNZ/41389age 27New ZealandAir/BmrRNZAFBomber Command115Sqn
1942-10-24WellingtonIIIBK306KO-KRAF Mildenhall, Suffolk1900MilanoSee archive report for further brief detailsKilledBergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery . Grave 4.D.3

Courtesy AWMM

Born on the 22nd December 1914 at Wellington. Worked asa collection clerk for C.A. Odlin and Company a timber and hardware merchants of Wellington prior to service. Enlisted at Levin on the 19th January 1941 giving his birth year as 1916. Embarked for Canada for further training on the 22nd July 1941. Awarded his observers badge and promoted to sergeant on the 28th February 1942. Embarked for England on the 01st May 1942. Joined 115 squadron on the 02nd October 1942 from 11 Operational Training Unit. (his posting to 75 squadron was cancelled). Son of Harry Bertram and Hildred Agnes Yeoman (née Parker) of Wellington, New Zealand. A total of 270 flying hours logged and on his 4th operational sortie.
4556 YoungHector StevensonFlying OfficerNZ/411999PilotRNZAFFighter Command245Sqn
1945-02-21TyphoonIbMN536MR-?B80. Volkel, Netherlands1340Flying Bomb siteSee archive report for further detailsKilledReichswald Forest War Cemetery. Grave 21.C.4Read Archive Report
4557 YoungA NSergeantRNZAFBomber Command26 OTU
1942-05-30WellingtonICW5704?-SGraveley2345KolnCrashed W of EindhovenKilledWoensel Cemetery Eindhoven
4558 YoungRobert Bett MirkSergeantNZ/40197Age 22New ZealandW/Op/Air GunnerRNZAFFighter Command264Sqn
1940-10-08DefiantIN1627PS-?Patrol See archive report for further details KilledNorthwood Cemetery. Sec. H. Grave 253
Read Archive Report
4559 YoungFrancis SaxtonFlight SergeantNZ/424543Age 28New ZealandPilot 2RNZAFBomber Command619Sqn
1944-04-26LancasterILL904PG-SRAF Dunholme Lodge, Lincolnshire2127SchweinfurtPoW No: 3715 Camp: Stalag Kopernicus
Courtesy NZC

Was flying as second 'Dickie'. A PoW in Stalag Kopernicus in Thorn, Toruñ (now Poland). Born on the 16th February 1916 in Bulls (near Palmerston North), New Zealand. Enlisted in May 1942.

After liberation arrived back in UK on the 08th May 1945. Left service on the 24th March 1946 with the rank of flying officer. Passes away in Otahuhu (Auckland) on the 13th February 1991, age 75.

4560 YoungGeorge AnthonySergeantNZ/405771Age 21New ZealandW/Op/Air/GnrRNZAFBomber Command75Sqn RNZAF
1942-07-08WellingtonIIIX3557AA-XRAF Feltwell, Norfolk2340WilhelmshavenCrashed in the WaddenzeeKilledSchiermonnikoog Cemetery (Vredenhof) Grave 84

Courtesy Sonia Edwards, AWMM

Born on the 11th January 1921 at Palmerston North. A postman for T and P Department prior to service. Enlisted in the RNZAF at Ohakea on the 21st December 1940, as an aircraft hand. Embarked for Canada on the 14th May 1941. Awarded his wireless operator badge and promoted to sergeant on the 25th October 1941. Embarked for England on the 01st November 1941. Joined 75 squadron on the 18th May 1942 from 11 Operational Training Unit. Son of George Young and of Joan Young (nee Oman), of Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand. A total of 138 flying hours logged and on his 15th operational sortie.
4561 YoungE WFlying OfficerRNZAFBomber Command83Sqn
1944-08-12LancasterIIIPB240OL-JConingsby2110BraunschweigKilledHannover War Cemetery
4562 YoungPeter DawbarnFlight SergeantNZ/425313Age 22New Zealand PilotRNZAFBomber Command1651 Heavy Conversion Unit1944-10-18Stirling IIILK488QQ-E RAF Wrattling Common, Cambridgeshire 2305Training See archive report for further details KilledHarrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery. Sec. H. Row B. Grave 4
courtesy Auckland Cenotaph
Read Archive Report
4563 YoungP ASergeantBomber Command75Sqn RNZAF
1942-09-10WellingtonIIIBJ828AA-MildenhallDusseldorf?KilledRunnymede
4564 YoungWalter WilliamFlight SergeantNZ/4215237Age 24New ZealandPilotRNZAFFar East8 Sqn (NZ)
1944-12-04VenturaPV-INZ4550-Nausori, Viti Levu, Fiji16:49PatrolSee archive report for details.KilledBourail New Zealand War Cemetery. Coll. grave 1A.1.Bourail New Zealand War Cemetery

Born on the 29th September 1917 in Shefferton, England. Employed as a tractor driver by Do. Hardy of Hastings until he entered the Army at Walouru In May 1942. He was engaged on crew training until in November 1944 when he was posted to No. 8 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron. He proceeded overseas shortly afterwards to Nausor in Fiji. A total of 399 flying hours logged with 124 on the Ventura.

Son of Walter Young and of Ethel Young (nee Rogerson), of Napier, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Husband of Irene Nira Young, of 23 Chaucer Road, Napier New Zealand.

4565 YounieLewis TaylorPilot OfficerNZ/41390PilotRNZAFBomber Command19 Operational Training Unit1941-10-21WhitleyVP5103Not issuedRAF Kinloss, Morayshire, Scotland2359TrainingSee archive report for further detailsKilledKinloss Abbey Burial Ground. Grave 15. Row A

Read Archive Report
4566 ZieslerErling WilliamFlight Lieutenant70147Born on the 14th May 1923 in Timaru, Mid Canterbury (Age 30)New ZealandPilotRNZAFRNZAF Station Wigram1953-10-15De Havilland DevonST.INZ1811Not knownRNZAF Wigram1547Formation FlyingSee archive report for further details
mid-air collision with NZ1810
Killed Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Christchurch, Canterbury. Read Archive Report
4567 MarchantThomas VictorSergentNZ3031Age 23New ZealandPilotRNZAF16SQN (RNZAF)
1943-05-01KittyhawkP-40NZ3031XO-RRNZAF Woodbourne, South Island11:15Local cover patrolSee Archive report for further detailsKilledWanganui (Aramoho) Cemetery. Grave D.1.52.
Born on the 23rd January 1920at Sydenham, Englan. Educated at Wanganui Technical College, Worked as a wireman by D.A. Morrison and Company Limited at Wanganui. Enlisted on the 07th February. 1942. Awarded his wings on the 02nd September, 1942.

Son of Henry William Marchant (died 26th June 1971, age 82), and of Charlotte Jane Marcha nt (née Westwood - died 25th November 1971, age 79), of 24 Fergusson Street, Wanganui, New Zealand. The pilpt had accrued 347 flying hours with 76 on this type. (Information courtesy of Studd New Zealand)

4568 Sampson Douglas John Flight Sergeant422571 New ZealanderNavigatorRNZAF38 Group, Air Defence Great Britain/Fighter Command (ADGB)190Sqn
1944-04-11StirlingVI LJ822DRAF Tarrant Rushton, Dorset23:42SOESee Archive Report for detailsKiABrookwood Military Cemetery, Collective grave 24. D. 9-11
4569 Kronk 'Charlie' Charles ThomasFlight SergeantNZ/41514Age 23New ZealandPilotRNZAFFar Eastern Command 224 Group67Sqn RAF
1942-05-28HurricaneIIbBG876RD-? 1 e/a destroyed, 1 shared destroyed, 4 probables and 1 shared probable.RAF Aliporeb India10:20Air Test?See archive reports for further detailsKilledCalcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kohuratahi. Plot H. Grave 28..
Also remembered on family grave in Park Island Cemetery, Hawk's Bay, New Zealand.
Son of Walter James Kronk (died 10th June 1940, age 53) and of Mary Lavinia Kronk (née Pindr - died 03rd September 1957, age 67), of 36 Morris Street, Napier, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
4570 WorsleyRichard FullerFl/Lt. NZ/4163 and 132541Age 27New ZealandPilotAFC

RNZAFFare East67Sqn RAF
1943-05-18HurricaneIicHV640RD-?RAF Aliporeb India12:00TrainingSee archive report for further details - accidentSafe - died 31st December 1981' age 65Canterbury Memorial Gardens and Crematorium. Totara B2

Citation Air Force Cross (07th September 1945):
'After completing his tour of operational duty in India in January, 1944, Flight Lieutenant Worsley was posted as flight commander to No 21 Armament Practice Camp where he flew on Fighter Affiliation exercises until returning to this country (England) in June 1944. Following a short spell with the Fighter Flight at Holme, Flight Lieutenant Worsley was posted to 74 Base where, owing to a shortage of pilots, he has been called upon to work long hours day and night in the air and on the ground. Despite this, the quality of his work has been high and his enthusiasm never weakened. On 16th April, 1945, whilst flying a Hurricane on a fighter affiliation exercise by night, the engine failed. After quickly establishing contact with ground personnel by radio telephone, Flight Lieutenant Worsley effected a successful landing at Carnaby airfield (2). His skill as a pilot, together with his untiring efforts, has been responsible for improving thstandard of combat flying of all crews who have passed through this unit. Sq/Ldr. Worsley earlier served with 253 squadron RAF (Hurricane), carrying our 13 sorties from the UK and then 44 with 67 squadron (Hurricane) over India and Burma. During Feb 1944-Sep 1945 he was a fighter affiliation instructor, first in India and then the UK'.
4571 JacksonAlbert Henry LeedsFl/Sgt.NZ/403778Age 31New ZealandObserverRNZAFCoastal Command 217Sqn
1942-02-12BeafortIIAW278MW-F RAF St.. Eval, Portsmouth14:20 Operation Fuller ('Channel Dash') See archive report for further details Missing believed killedRunnymede Memorial. Panel 117. Amso remembered on baily grave at Hillsborough Cemetery, Hillsbrough, Auckland, New Zealand and on the Memorial at Auckland Boys grammar school.
Courtesy AMNZ
Son of William (died 07th September 1946, age 73) and Millicent Lawrence Jackson (née Leeds - died 20th September 1930, age 48). Brother of Millicent Emma Kate Jackson (later Rutherford - died 11th June 1991, age 84) of 2 Halifax Avenue, Epson, Auckland
4572 Blackstock xRichard James AlexanderSgt.NZ/401453Age 23New ZealandObs.RNZAFBomber Command Middle East Delivery Flight (MEDF ). 3 Group 1941-04-09WellingtonIcW5677-RAF Methwold, NorfolkDelivery Flight See archive report for further details Injured PoW No: 32411 Camp: Stalag Lamsdorf (L344) Born on the 19th December 1918 in Eltham, Taranaki - Died 29th December 1981. Son of Harry Alexander Blackstock and Wilhelmina Blackstock (née Watkins). Husband of Sheila, died on the 09th September 2011 age 84.
4573 JenkinsDouglas Charles BedlingtonSgt.NZ/391882Age 27New ZealandA/GRNZAFBomber Command Middle East Delivery Flight (MEDF ). 3 Group 1941-04-09WellingtonIcW5677-RAF Methwold, NorfolkDelivery Flight See archive report for further details Pow No: 33658 Camp: Stalag Lamsdorf (L344) Born on the 17th September 1914 in Kawhia - Died 15th February 2001 and buried in Mangonui Cemetery, Northland, New Zealand. Son of Dr. C.C Jenkins of Great South road, Manure, New Zealand.
4574 WallJack EdwardSgt.NZ/401792Age 19New ZealandPilot/ObsRNZAFBombere Command14 Operational Training Unit.

7 Group

1941-09-12HampdenIP4303GU-?RAF Cottesmore / Saltby20:00TrainingMid-Air collisionKillrfCottesmore Churchyard Extension (St. Nicholas).Son of William (died 01st September 1952 ) and Margaret Emily Wall (née McArthur - died 12th July 1965), of Harihari, South Westland, New Zealand
4575 GriffithsVincent HerbertSgtR341794Age 29New ZealandPilot/ObsRNZAFBombere Command 14 Operational Training Unit.
7 Group
1941-09-12HampdenIP4301GU-?RAF Cottesmore / Saltby20:00TrainingMid-Air collisionKillrfBlack Notley Churchyard (Ss. Peter And Paul). The only son of Thomas Herbert and Millicent Pauline Griffiths (née Kemp) of Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, Brother of Marjorie Lucy Griffiths (later Strong - died 01st January 1979 from injuries received in a motor acciden age 60 in Wellington, New Zealand)
4576 ClarkWalter NormanFlight Sergeant / CivilianNZ/41196702nd September 1920 (22)New ZealandPilotRNZAFFar EastAir Reinforcement Centre,. 22 Group
1943-03-25SpitfireIXBR667-RAF Karachi (At the time part of India)AMPractice FlightAccident - See archive report for further detailsKilledKarachi War Cemetery Grave 9.A.8.
Courtesy Ken Pinch
Karachi War Cemetery
Son of William Rodger Laurie Clark and Mary Clark (née Rainey) of 23 Canal Road, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand. He was engaged to marry to Miss June Doreen Galloway of 38 Onslow Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand.
4577 EaglesonHughPilot OfficerNZ/422377 4th September 1919 Age 24New Zealand / ScotlandPilotRNZAFFar East2 EFTS (Ashburton)1943-11-05Tiger MothIINZ878-RNZAF Ashburton, New Zealand10:00Training Duel Instruction - See archive report for further detailsKilledHamilton East Public Cemetery. Public Area F2, Row F, Grave 6.
Hamilton East Public Cemetery.jpg

Son of Thomas (died 01st February 1967) and Margaret Eagleson (née Gibson - died 09th December 1969), of Taupiri, Auckland. Husband of Norma Mary Eagleson (married 1943, née Turnbull, later in 1946 Wilson - died 04th December 1993, age 73) of Te Rapa, Whitiora, Hamilton.
4578 GrantNeil BaillieLACNew Zealand / ScotlandPilot u/tRNZAFFar East2 EFTS (Ashburton)1943-11-05Tiger MothIINZ878-RNZAF Ashburton, New Zealand10:00Training Duel Instruction - See archive report for further detailsInjued
Seeking further information
The pupil LAC. Neil Grant survived but on release fell out of the inverted wreckage and broke his neck. He subsequently recovered and was awarded his wings in March 1945. Great South Road, Taupiri, the Waikato District of New Zealand
He was unfortunately killed in a motor accident on his way home from the Auckland Glider Club on the 3st July 1964.
4579 DownSelwyn JohnPilot OfficerNZ/219222nd July 1922 Age 22New Zealand PilotRNZAFSouth Pacific Theatre 23Sqn (NZ)
1944--10-25Vought CorsairF4U-1NZ538282Palikulo Bay Airfield, Espiritu Santo, New HebridesTraining See the archive report for further information - crashed into Coral SeaMissing - believed killedBourail Memorial. Panel 5

Son of William Havilah Down (born on the 15th February 1882 in Larkhall, Scotland, died 12th June 1957, age 75) and Gladys Margaret Down (née Hamilton, born on the 05th February 1896 in Canterbury, married 1917 died on the 31st March 1977, age 85) of 10 Dyers Pass Road, Cashmere, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
4580 Shorthouse' Shorty' Eric PeterPilot Officer NZ/421260724th May 1921 Age 23New Zealand PilotMiD


DFC


South Pacific Theatre15Sqn
(RNZAF)
1945-04--12Vought Corsair4U-1NZ5317 (317Green Island Fighter Strip, (Bismarck Archipelago)10:05PatrolSee the archive report for further information - engine failureMissing - believed killedBourail Memorial. Panel 5

Bourail Memorial

Peter Shorthouse was the second of three sons of Son of John Stephen Shorthouse (RNZNVR NZD948, killed on the 12th February 1961 in a road traffic accident) and of Marguerite Shorthouse (nèe Gargrave), of Walkouku Road, Waimauku, North Auckland. (Read Newspaper Report) His older brother, John Sidney Shorthouse (36251, born 11th April 192 - died 25th February 2007) served with the Royal Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War 2. His younger brother, Robert Clive Shorthouse (NZ/412749, born 09th August 1922) served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Middle East.
4581 SharpBasil Rawdon HastingsLeading AircraftmanNZ/40178504 June 1918 Age 22New ZealandPilotRNZAFTrying CommandNo. 1 Service Flying Training School (RNZAF)
1940-12-11Fairey GordonIINZ63214RNZAF Wigram, New Zealand10:00TrainingSee the archive report for further informationKilledGisborne Cemetery (Taruheru). 2. 13. WW 2 Soldiers' Area.
Son of Francis Granville Sharp (died 12th November 1944, age 65) and Louise Margaret Sharp (née U'Ren - died 20th February 1964, age 84) of 87 Lytton Road, Gisborne, New Zealand.
4582 WrightLeslieLeading AircraftmanNZ/401799 29th March 191 Age 22New ZealandPilotRNZAFTrying Command No. 1 Service Flying Training School (RNZAF)
1940-12-11Fairey GordonIINZ63214RNZAF Wigram, New Zealand10:00Training See the archive report for further information KilledHamilton East Public Cemetery. Public Area B6, Row K, Grave 11.
Son of Leonard W. Wright and Elizabeth Esther Wright, of 44 Weka Street, Frankton Junction Claudelands, Hamilton, , New Zealand

Results 4551 to 4582 of 4582.

« Previous | First | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | Current