Hi Thudders,
I've just picked up your message. We have very little to go on I'm afraid. The photo came to light when my Mother died 5 years ago. Her younger sister remembered the young man, although she was only about 8 when he died.
She remembered him as Anthony Peter, although extensive searches of those christian names in that order have brought up no one who fits.The nearest match we have come up with is a Peter Antony Lovegrove who was KIA on Nov.12th 1942, and is buried in Pozan Old Garrison Cemetery, but despite a posting of the picture in the Leicester Mercury we have not managed to get a definate ID.
The only definate things I know are that he was always known as Ginger. He was a Pilot Officer and flew from a Lincolnshire Airfield. My Mother was a Waaf, stationed at Waddington, and the fact that they both used to visit my Grandmother's house at Worksop quite frequently suggests that he too was stationed at, or near to Waddington. His death was definately before November 1943 .He was an only child, from what my Aunt describes as a very genteel family.
As you see, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. If we had only asked my Mother before she died, we would have had all the answers, but it was something that had happened so long ago it had been almost forgotten - but not by her, as the saved photo proved.
Cheers, Pat.
