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921 Gave Their Lives That We May Be Free
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Galavan - Guscott
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"Ye That Live Mid England's Pastures Green

Think of Us and What Might Have Been"

Commemorated in perpetuity by

the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Canada FlagRCAF Badge  Galavan, Plt. Off. Cyril Vincent

Rear Gunner Lancaster Mk III  AS-Y  ED904

RCAF Service Number: J18832

Died: 29th September 1943

Cemetery: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave Section 3 Plot G Grave 1 - 2


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gale, Flg. Off. Stanley

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-V  NG200

RAF Service Number: 164202

Died: 28th November 1944

Cemetery: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany

Grave Reference: Section 1  Plot D  Grave 26


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gammage, Sgt. Leslie

Wireless Op.  Lancaster  Mk I  AS-Q  ED731

RAF Service Number: 1549193

Died: 25th March 1944

Cemetery: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Section 25  Plot E  Grave 2


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gammage, Sgt. Walter George

Wireless Op.  Lancaster Mk I  AS-C  ED366

RAF Service Number: 1393558

Died: 22nd October 1943

Cemetery: Hanover War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave  Section 11 Plot C Grave 8 - 12


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gardiner, Sgt. Stanley Robert George

Wireless Op.  Lancaster Mk I  AS-Z  ME627

RAF Service Number: 1446552

Died: 20th February 1944

Cemetery: Berlin War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Section 4 Plot Z Grave 16


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gardner, Flg. Off. John Vincent

Mid Upper Gunner  Lancaster Mk I  AS-M  PA234

RAF Service Number: 172025

Died: 16th March 1945

Cemetery: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany

Grave Reference: Section 11  Plot F  Grave 20


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gaskin, Sgt. Stanley

Rear Gunner  Wellington Mk X  AS-W  HF589

RAF Service Number: 1507792

Died: 26th June 1943

Cemetery: Utrecht, (Soestbergen) General Cemetery, Holland

Grave Reference: Section 12D  Row 1  Joint Grave 7


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gee, Sgt. Laurence Geoffrey Earl

Wireless Op.  Lancaster Mk III  AS-Y  ED904

RAF Service Number: 1212477

Died: 29th September 1943

Cemetery: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Joint Grave  Section 3  Row G  Grave 1 - 2


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gibbon, Sgt. Homfray Reece

Rear Gunner  Lancaster Mk III  AS-W  DV180

RAF Service Number: 1817726

Died: 29th January 1944

Cemetery: Hanover War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave Section 4  Plot E  Grave 23 - 26


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gibson, Sgt. Thomas

Rear Gunner  Lancaster Mk III  AS-A  ME521

RAF Service Number: 1891436

Died: 25th March 1945

Cemetery: Hanover War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave Section 6  Plot G  Grave 17 - 18


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gibson, Sgt. William

Lancaster Mk I  AS-V  SW278

RAF Service Number: 3007622

Died: 3rd July 1945 (Training Exercise)

Commemorated: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England

Panel: 275


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gilbert, Flt. Sgt. Joseph Henry

Navigator  Lancaster Mk III  AS-G  PB635

RAF Service Number: 1602863

Died: 2nd January 1945

Cemetery: Choloy War Cemetery, France

Grave Reference: Joint Grave  Section 2  Plot C  Grave 3


Canada FlagRCAF Badge  Giles, Flt. Sgt. David Edward

Navigator  Wellington Mk X  AS-M  HZ278

RCAF Service Number: R123266

Died: 29th April 1943

Cemetery: Esbjerg (Fourfelt)Cemetery, Denmark

Grave Reference: Section A  Plot 11  Grave 1


Australia FlagRAAF Badge  Glasson, P/O. Rex Arthur

2nd Dickie  Lancaster Mk III  AS-F  ND705

RAAF Service Number: 417300

Died: 19th March 1944

Cemetery: Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium

Grave Reference: Plot IV Row N Grave 10


UK FlagRAF Badge  Glenn, Sgt. Cecil

Flight Engineer  Lancaster Mk I  AS-E  ME636

RAF Service Number: 1821597

Died: 15th February 1944

Cemetery: Berlin War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave  Section 8  Row Z  Grave 4 - 7


UK FlagRAF Badge  Goldstein, Sgt. Jacob

Mid Upper Gunner  Lancaster Mk I  AS-B  RF154

RAF Service Number: 2235812

Died: 16th March 1945

Cemetery: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany

Grave Reference:  Section 11  Row K  Grave 22


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gowland, Sgt. Alfred William

Mid Upper Gunner  Lancaster Mk I  AS-J2  LL749

RAF Service Number: 1818907

Died: 27th March 1944

Cemetery: Choloy War Cemetery, France

Grave Reference: Collective Grave  Section 1  Row J  Grave 3


UK FlagRAF Badge  Graham, Sgt. Francis James

Mid Upper Gunner  Lancaster Mk I  AS-N  ME839

RAF Service Number: 1585636

Died: 3rd August 1944

Cemetery: Creil Communial Cemetery, France

Grave Reference: Plot 1 Grave 390


UK FlagRAF Badge  Grant, Flg. Off. William George    BEM

Pilot Lancaster Mk I  AS-K2  ME777

RAF Service Number: 152306

Died: 13th June 1944

Cemetery: Zelhem General Cemetery, Holland

Grave Reference: Plot E  Row 2  Grave 5


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gratwick, Sgt. Ronald Ernest

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-C  ED993

RAF Service Number: 1324750

Died: 9th October 1943

Cemetery: Croydon Mitcham Road Cemetery, Surrey, England

Grave Reference: Plot G Grave 14690


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gray, Plt. Off. Robert Malcolm

Air Bomber  Wellington Mk III  AS-P  BK515

RAF Service Number: 142040

Died: 29th January 1943

Cemetery: Guidel Communial Cemetery, France

Grave Reference: Row 3  Grave 4


UK FlagRAF Badge  Green, Sgt. Robert Alfred

Flight Engineer  Lancaster Mk I  AS-E  ME643

RAF Service Number: 1587182

Died: 4th May 1944

Cemetery: Courtisols (St. Memmie) Churchyard, France

Grave Reference: Military Plot Row 1 Grave 1


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gregg, Flt. Sgt. Henry

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-F  ME637

RAF Service Number: 1436515

Died: 20th February 1944

Commemorated: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England

Panel: 218


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gregory, Sgt. Henry Thomas

Flight Engineer  Lancaster Mk III  AS-G  ND651

RAF Service Number: 1055035

Died: 3rd June 1944

Cemetery: Marquise Communial Cemetery, France

Grave Reference:  Section 1  Row A  Grave 5


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gregory, Sgt. Leslie

Wireless Op. Wellington Mk III  AS-M  BJ961

RAF Service Number: 658271

Died: 27th February 1943

Commemorated: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England

Panel: 151


UK FlagRAF Badge  Griffin, Sgt. Norman Nowell

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk III  AS-S  JB639

RAF Service Number: 1396113

Died: 17th December 1943

Cemetery: Hove New Cemetery, Hove, Sussex, England

Grave Reference: Block 1 Grave 95


UK FlagRAF Badge  Griffiths, Sgt. John Howard

Navigator  Wellington Mk X  AS-L  HE486

RAF Service Number: 1337841

Died: 24th May 1943

Cemetery: Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery, Holland

Grave Reference: Collective Grave Section 69  Row C  Grave 15


UK FlagRAF Badge  Griffiths, Sgt. Thomas Rhys Llewellyn

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk III  AS-U  PD226

RAF Service Number: 1339216

Died: 30th August 1944

Commemorated: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England

Panel: 230


UK FlagRAF Badge  Guest, Sgt. Percy

Navigator  Wellington Mk X  AS-W  HE752

RAF Service Number: 1167534

Died: 28th May 1943

Cemetery: Hengelo (Overijssel) General Cemetery, Holland

Grave Reference: Section D  Row 1  Grave 63


UK FlagRAF Badge  Gurdon, Sgt. John Robert

Wireless Op.  Wellington Mk III  AS-F  BK459

RAF Service Number: 919478

Died: 11th April 1943

Cemetery: Couvon - Et - Aumencourt Communial Cemetery, France

Grave Reference: Row A Grave 8


UK FlagRAF Badge  Guscott, Flt. Sgt. Ronald Thomas Claud

Flight Engineer  Lancaster Mk III  AS-O  PB153

RAF Service Number: 1587777

Died: 17th March 1945

Cemetery: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bavaria, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave Section 11 Row B  Grave 2 - 4


* Information on 166 Squadron losses and graves used with the kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission *
* Information Researched and Compiled by Robert John Wilton *
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