News From the Forum…

I looked at the forum but I have not got any reply yet.

On the other hand there was this message posted from someone else.

293 Squadron Thanks for the pics – more info


Hiya,

Visited my dad today and showed him the pics and this page. He remembered Rawlings, but not Harry Brown.

Names he came up with were:

Warwick pilots:
Capt Riley (SAAF)
Flt Lt. Tony Spink
W/O Birch
Flt Lt. Rawlings
S.Ldr Zetterden

Walrus Pilots:
F/O Humphrey
W/O “Wacker” Smith (Liverpool)
W/O Harry West (?) (Bristol)
W/O Jimmy Warnick (RCAF)
W/O Tex? (nickname)
F/O Bedford

Observers:
Flt Lt Moe Foster (RCAF)

W/OP Air Gunners:
F/Sgt Joe Cattromole
F/Sgt Sammy Samuels
F/Sgt Norman Board
P/O Simpson
F/Sgt Freddy Arsenault (RCAF)

Cook:
Taffy Powell

Ground Crew:
LAC George Ayres
Sgt Joe Drew

Aerodromes:
Pomigliano – Naples
Foggia (Main)
Grosseto(?)
Pisa
Rosignano
Bastia – Corsica

That’s a string of names he came up with that obviously featured in his wartime life. I’m sure if you wanted any more info, he’d be glad to elaborate. There may also be some spelling mistakes in there as I’m copying his hand written notes and I badly need reading glasses. Incidentally, his name was W/O Bagwell. It would be very interesting to hear about the diaries as my dad lost all of kit after being demobbed when the train he was on split with the guards van going off with the tail half while he was on the front.

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