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Title: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 11 July 23 15:31 BST (UK)
Can anyone help with this grave marker please. I would like to be able to find information in order to trace living relatives. Would the man be RAF? The quality isn't great, but I scanned them at a high resolution. I can see Sharp and Logan and possibly 1942.
Thanks for looking.
Carol
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Tickettyboo on Tuesday 11 July 23 16:22 BST (UK)
Possibly these two men on the CWGC ?

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2777957/john-kay-sharp/
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2777700/alan-frederick-logan/

Boo
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 11 July 23 16:31 BST (UK)
Thank you so Much Boo for taking the time to look. I will have to find out what happened on that day!
So many young lives taken too soon.
I will let you know If I can make contact with living relatives.
Carol
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Tickettyboo on Tuesday 11 July 23 16:38 BST (UK)
I'm not 100% certain but they appeared to be the most likely when I searched, just using the surname and then showing 100 results at a time did  a CTRL F and used the last few digits of the service no. to see if anything possible came up.

The fact they were in the same Sqdn and died the same day in 1942 does seem to lend a bit of weight to it being the correct ones

Boo
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 11 July 23 16:48 BST (UK)
Yes I think so, the service numbers tally too, and the guy in the photo was most likely to be from the same squadron.
Thanks again.  :-*

Added: John Kay Sharp was from Hull where I bought the photos from.
Carol
 
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Tickettyboo on Tuesday 11 July 23 16:49 BST (UK)
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=90489

6 young men lost their lives that day.

added, entry in NA (not digitised so only viewable on site)

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17083863

Boo
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 11 July 23 16:59 BST (UK)
Thanks once again, you have been a great help! I am passionate about the RAF as my Son is a Flight Sergeant, (Air Crew) as an Interpreter and shows a great interest in the RAF photos that I buy.
Carol
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Tickettyboo on Tuesday 11 July 23 17:01 BST (UK)
https://www.belgians-remember-them.eu/crew-lim-opoe.php

the crosses (as you know) were temporary markers, that site has the CWGC stones pics
Boo
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Tickettyboo on Tuesday 11 July 23 17:21 BST (UK)
I had a firkle :-)

Hull Daily Mail 08 Apr 1942, page 3 col 2

Boo
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Tickettyboo on Tuesday 11 July 23 17:36 BST (UK)
Carol
If you have access to newspapers, there are 5 In Memoriam Notices from family in the Hull Daily Mail 01 Apr 1943 page 2, col 9

If you don't have access let me know and I'll transcribe them.

There's also 1 on 02 Apr 1943 page 2 col 9 from "Pals at Alex. Dock" - ? possibly where he'd worked before the war?

Boo
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 11 July 23 18:10 BST (UK)
"Pals at Alexander Dock" refers to a Hull Dock, there were many groups of "Pals" who were part of the same workforce who joined up together. I will let you know if I need your help with News clippings. I appreciate your time.
Thanks Again.
Carol
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 11 July 23 18:11 BST (UK)
Aw bless you, I have just seen the newspaper clip, thanks so much.
Carol
Title: Re: Grave Marker Help Please.
Post by: daretodiscover on Thursday 13 July 23 01:28 BST (UK)
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=90489