Any ex RAF or military historians

[steveindenmark]

Are there any ex RAF or military historians in the house?

I would like to write a coffee table book about the 154 fallen from the second world war buried in our local cemetery in Denmark.

Most of them are RAF and I would like to find out if there is a way I can get hold of flight records of these airmen or any personal information or photographs.

 

[Globalti]

You might get more info by joining the forum here: https://www.forcesreunited.co.uk/

 

[steveindenmark]

I am already a member but am casting my net far and wide.

 

[MartinQ]

The 1939 registry (ancestry, findmypast) might give you some family info. The ancestry one is free this weekend for the 1939 registry.

 

[Glenn]

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission https://www.cwgc.org/ may be able to help

 

[Venod]

My dads brother was a Navigator in a Halifax in WW2 he was shot down and lost without trace on a raid on Krefeld, I knew little about his mission or death so I contacted a Mike Varley I can't remember his position or who he worked for but he did furnish me with loads of details about the plane and the rest of the crew and its mission.

I gave him the info I had from the Runnymede Memorial Name, Service Number, Rank, Date of death.

I have 2 email address for him but they are from 2011

varley.mike@yahoo.co.uk

varley.mike@ntlworld.com

RAF personnel records are held at RAF Cranwell, they will only divulge information to next of kin, or to somebody with permission from the next of kin.

RAF Disclosures section
Room 221b, Trenchard Hall
RAF Cranwell
Sleaford
Lincs
NG34 8HB

Be aware all the info I have given you is from 2011.

 

[classic33]

My dads brother was a Navigator in a Halifax in WW2 he was shot down and lost without trace on a raid on Krefeld, I knew little about his mission or death so I contacted a Mike Varley I can't remember his position or who he worked for but he did furnish me with loads of details about the plane and the rest of the crew and its mission.

I gave him the info I had from the Runnymede Memorial Name, Service Number, Rank, Date of death.

I have 2 email address for him but they are from 2011

varley.mike@yahoo.co.uk

varley.mike@ntlworld.com

RAF personnel records are held at RAF Cranwell, they will only divulge information to next of kin, or to somebody with permission from the next of kin.

RAF Disclosures section
Room 221b, Trenchard Hall
RAF Cranwell
Sleaford
Lincs
NG34 8HB

Be aware all the info I have given you is from 2011.

I know the name, as do others, but you'll not get a reply from him.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features...he_men_of_Elvington_s_77_Squadron_remembered/

 

[steveindenmark]

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission https://www.cwgc.org/ may be able to help

They only have very basic information.

 

[classic33]

Yorkshire Air Museum?

 

[Venod]

I know the name, as do others, but you'll not get a reply from him.

Sorry to hear that he was very helpful as I think the people carrying on his work will be, some good info there.

 

[classic33]

They only have very basic information.

They can only give the basics. If you see a number from the same squadron(s), consider squadron sites.

There are sites like this one, worth a look at.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/BomberCommandDatabaseSearch/bomber-commandww2-alpha-list.html

 

[Bromptonaut]

There's an RAF historical branch:

https://www.raf.mod.uk/our-organisation/units/air-historical-branch/

 

[Venod]

Yorkshire Air Museum?

Thanks for jogging my memory and Mike Varleys connection with the museum, my uncles plane last flight took of from Elvington (home of the museum) in June 1943, although I live about 25 miles from the museum and have often cycled through the village I have never visited, I must do so.