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Operation: Market Garden
Date: 18th September 1944 (Monday)
Unit: No. 570 Squadron
Type: Stirling IV
Serial: LK121
Code: V8-H
Base: RAF Harwell, Berkshire
Location: Opheusden, Holland
Pilot: P/O. Charles William Culling 186749 RAFVR Age 29. Killed
Fl/Eng: Sgt. Vincent Williams 2211528 RAFVR Age 19. Killed
Nav: P/O. John Douglas Baker J/87670 RCAF Age 21. Killed
Air/Bmr: Fl/Sgt. Henky Ernest Browne 1518512 RAFVR Age ? Killed
W/Op/Air/Gnr: P/O. George Samuel Crawford Bell AUS/412361 RAAF Age 23. Killed
Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Edward Philip Pope 1579644 RAFVR Age 21. Killed
Radar/Op: Cpl. John Redmond Coleman R/94226 RCAF Age 26. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Taking off from RAF Harwell, Berkshire as part of the "Operation Market Garden" at12.08 hrs. Towing a Horsa glider HG453 Chalk number 5000 with members of the 6080 Light Warning Unit (Radar) on board.
Right: P/O. Charles William Culling
Sgt. Vincent Williams. Heteren General Cemetery. Plot 2. Row A. Coll. Grave 20-21. Son of Vincent Thomas Williams and Emily Williams, of Breightmet, Bolton, Lancashire, England.
P/O. John Douglas Baker. Heteren General Cemetery. Plot 2. Row A. Coll. Grave 20-21. Son of Douglas and Sarah J. Baker, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Fl/Sgt. Henky Ernest Browne. Heteren General Cemetery. Plot 2. Row A. Coll. Grave 20-21. No further details available as yet.
P/O. George Samuel Crawford Bell. Heteren General Cemetery. Plot 2. Row A. Coll. Grave 20-21. Son of Walter Arthur and Catherine May Bell, of Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia.
Fl/Sgt. Edward Philip Pope. Heteren General Cemetery. Plot 2. Row A. Coll. Grave 20-21. Son of Alice Louie Findlay, of Highley, Shropshire, England.
Cpl. John Redmond Coleman. Heteren General Cemetery. Plot 2. Row A. Coll. Grave 20-21. Son of William Francis and Annie Margaret Coleman, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Staff/Sgt. Bernard Arthur Cummins 14287144 Glider Pilot Regiment A.A.C. 1st Wing. Arnheim Oosterbeek War Cemetery. Grave 3.D.7. Son of Arthur and Ivy Cummins, husband of Joyce Barbara Cummins, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England.
Researched for relatives of the crew. With thanks to the many people that have contributed information to this page of remembrance including, Robert Culling - son of the Stirling pilot, Bob Wilton, McGill Remembers project, McGill University Archives, Andy Baker, Australian War Memorial Archives, Les Allison and Harry Hayward - "They Shall Grow Not Old", Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Also thanks to Suzanne Halton - relative of Cpl. John Redmond Coleman who contacted us in November 2917.
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them. - Laurence
Binyon
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