1944 March Quarter death registration-
Name: -'Gower' (sic), Ellis R---Age: 27
District: Newtown (Volume & Page: 11b & 147)
---1667 HCU’s Handley Page Halifax (#DG358) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of nine, took off from RAF Faldingworth for a cross-country navigation training flight. DG358 flew into a hail storm, encountering icing, lightning as well as engine trouble; structural failure occurred causing the aircraft to crash near a farm at Bryn-y-Groes in Wales and taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RAFVR Sergeant Ellis Robert GAWLER,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Kenneth Ernest BENNETT,
RAFVR Sergeant Norman FISHER,
RAFVR Sergeant William Henry WAREHAM,
RAFVR Sergeant William George WYATT,
RAFVR Sergeant Albert Arthur CLARK,
RAFVR Sergeant John William GIBB,
RAFVR Sergeant David RAMSAY and
RAFVR Flight Sergeant John Stanley SPRIGGS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Flight Engineer
Service No: 1193341
Age: 27
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: RAF 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU); RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire
Son of Harry and Caroline Alberta Gawler of Wimborne, England.
**On the church wall in the Aberhafesp Parish Church in Aberhafesp, Montgomeryshire, Powys, there is a handwritten Roll of Honour with dedicatory inscription. [above the list of names is a drawing of a Halifax Bomber; at the bottom there is an illustration of the tractor and trailer that carried them to their rest at Bwlch-y-ffridd on the evening of the accident].
The inscription reads-
“IN MEMORY OF THE R.A.F. (V.R.) AIRMEN WHO DIED
WHEN THEIR HALIFAX AIRCRAFT CRASHED AT
GLASCOED, BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD IN THIS PARISH
ON 23RD JANUARY1944
( 9 NAMES LISTED)
THEIR BODIES RESTED AT
BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD INSTITUTE
ON THE EVENING OF THE 23RD.”
Name: -'Gower' (sic), Ellis R---Age: 27
District: Newtown (Volume & Page: 11b & 147)
---1667 HCU’s Handley Page Halifax (#DG358) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of nine, took off from RAF Faldingworth for a cross-country navigation training flight. DG358 flew into a hail storm, encountering icing, lightning as well as engine trouble; structural failure occurred causing the aircraft to crash near a farm at Bryn-y-Groes in Wales and taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RAFVR Sergeant Ellis Robert GAWLER,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Kenneth Ernest BENNETT,
RAFVR Sergeant Norman FISHER,
RAFVR Sergeant William Henry WAREHAM,
RAFVR Sergeant William George WYATT,
RAFVR Sergeant Albert Arthur CLARK,
RAFVR Sergeant John William GIBB,
RAFVR Sergeant David RAMSAY and
RAFVR Flight Sergeant John Stanley SPRIGGS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Flight Engineer
Service No: 1193341
Age: 27
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: RAF 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU); RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire
Son of Harry and Caroline Alberta Gawler of Wimborne, England.
**On the church wall in the Aberhafesp Parish Church in Aberhafesp, Montgomeryshire, Powys, there is a handwritten Roll of Honour with dedicatory inscription. [above the list of names is a drawing of a Halifax Bomber; at the bottom there is an illustration of the tractor and trailer that carried them to their rest at Bwlch-y-ffridd on the evening of the accident].
The inscription reads-
“IN MEMORY OF THE R.A.F. (V.R.) AIRMEN WHO DIED
WHEN THEIR HALIFAX AIRCRAFT CRASHED AT
GLASCOED, BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD IN THIS PARISH
ON 23RD JANUARY1944
( 9 NAMES LISTED)
THEIR BODIES RESTED AT
BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD INSTITUTE
ON THE EVENING OF THE 23RD.”
1944 March Quarter death registration-
Name: -'Gower' (sic), Ellis R---Age: 27
District: Newtown (Volume & Page: 11b & 147)
---1667 HCU’s Handley Page Halifax (#DG358) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of nine, took off from RAF Faldingworth for a cross-country navigation training flight. DG358 flew into a hail storm, encountering icing, lightning as well as engine trouble; structural failure occurred causing the aircraft to crash near a farm at Bryn-y-Groes in Wales and taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RAFVR Sergeant Ellis Robert GAWLER,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Kenneth Ernest BENNETT,
RAFVR Sergeant Norman FISHER,
RAFVR Sergeant William Henry WAREHAM,
RAFVR Sergeant William George WYATT,
RAFVR Sergeant Albert Arthur CLARK,
RAFVR Sergeant John William GIBB,
RAFVR Sergeant David RAMSAY and
RAFVR Flight Sergeant John Stanley SPRIGGS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Flight Engineer
Service No: 1193341
Age: 27
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: RAF 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU); RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire
Son of Harry and Caroline Alberta Gawler of Wimborne, England.
**On the church wall in the Aberhafesp Parish Church in Aberhafesp, Montgomeryshire, Powys, there is a handwritten Roll of Honour with dedicatory inscription. [above the list of names is a drawing of a Halifax Bomber; at the bottom there is an illustration of the tractor and trailer that carried them to their rest at Bwlch-y-ffridd on the evening of the accident].
The inscription reads-
“IN MEMORY OF THE R.A.F. (V.R.) AIRMEN WHO DIED
WHEN THEIR HALIFAX AIRCRAFT CRASHED AT
GLASCOED, BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD IN THIS PARISH
ON 23RD JANUARY1944
( 9 NAMES LISTED)
THEIR BODIES RESTED AT
BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD INSTITUTE
ON THE EVENING OF THE 23RD.”
Name: -'Gower' (sic), Ellis R---Age: 27
District: Newtown (Volume & Page: 11b & 147)
---1667 HCU’s Handley Page Halifax (#DG358) bomber aircraft, with an aircrew of nine, took off from RAF Faldingworth for a cross-country navigation training flight. DG358 flew into a hail storm, encountering icing, lightning as well as engine trouble; structural failure occurred causing the aircraft to crash near a farm at Bryn-y-Groes in Wales and taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RAFVR Sergeant Ellis Robert GAWLER,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Paul Kenneth Ernest BENNETT,
RAFVR Sergeant Norman FISHER,
RAFVR Sergeant William Henry WAREHAM,
RAFVR Sergeant William George WYATT,
RAFVR Sergeant Albert Arthur CLARK,
RAFVR Sergeant John William GIBB,
RAFVR Sergeant David RAMSAY and
RAFVR Flight Sergeant John Stanley SPRIGGS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Flight Engineer
Service No: 1193341
Age: 27
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: RAF 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU); RAF Faldingworth, Lincolnshire
Son of Harry and Caroline Alberta Gawler of Wimborne, England.
**On the church wall in the Aberhafesp Parish Church in Aberhafesp, Montgomeryshire, Powys, there is a handwritten Roll of Honour with dedicatory inscription. [above the list of names is a drawing of a Halifax Bomber; at the bottom there is an illustration of the tractor and trailer that carried them to their rest at Bwlch-y-ffridd on the evening of the accident].
The inscription reads-
“IN MEMORY OF THE R.A.F. (V.R.) AIRMEN WHO DIED
WHEN THEIR HALIFAX AIRCRAFT CRASHED AT
GLASCOED, BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD IN THIS PARISH
ON 23RD JANUARY1944
( 9 NAMES LISTED)
THEIR BODIES RESTED AT
BWLCH-Y-FFRIDD INSTITUTE
ON THE EVENING OF THE 23RD.”
Inscription
HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER THEE
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