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921 Gave Their Lives That We May Be Free
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Oates - Overend
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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

UK FlagRAF Badge  Oates, Sgt. Neville Walter

Mid Upper Gunner Lancaster Mk I  AS-P  PD394

RAF Service Number: 1868430

Died: 15th February 1945

Cemetery: Berlin War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave  Section 13  Row Z  Grave 4


UK FlagRAF Badge  O'Brien, Flg. Off. Desmond Henry Patrick

Pilot Lancaster Mk I  AS-W DV387

RAF Service Number: 55024

Died: 26th November 1943

Cemetery: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference:  Section  3  Row G  Grave 14


UK FlagRAF Badge  O'Callaghan, Flg. Off. Michael Arthur

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-P  PD394

RAF Service Number: 164488

Died: 15th February 1945

Cemetery: Berlin War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference:  Section 13  Row Z  Grave 7


UK FlagRAF Badge  Offord, Sgt. Charles Stanley

Rear Gunner  Lancaster Mk I  AS-V  PD277

RAF Service Number: 1877334

Died: 12th October 1944

Cemetery: Great Oakley Cemetery, Essex, England

Grave Reference: Grave 152


UK FlagRAF Badge  Offord, Flt. Sgt. Peter Anthony Joseph

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-K2  NG297

RAF Service Number: 1808316

Died: 24th December 1944

Cemetery: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Section 2  Row J  Grave 21


Australia FlagRAAF Badge  O'Halloran, Flt. Sgt. Desmond Michael Leonid

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-V  PD397

RAAF Service Number: 422978

Died: 24th December 1944

Cemetery: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference:  Section 2  Row K  Grave 3


UK FlagRAF Badge  Oldham, Sgt. Edward Ashley

Flight Engineer  Lancaster Mk I  AS-H2  W4780

RAF Service Number: 1582625

Died: 3rd January 1944

Commemorated: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England

Panel  235


UK FlagRAF Badge  O'Malley, Sgt. Wilfred

Rear Gunner Lancaster Mk III  AS-F DV247

RAF Service Number: 1430879

Died: 27th November 1943

Cemetery: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Section 16  Row B  Grave 2


Canada FlagRCAF Badge  Omoe, Flt. Sgt. Francis Melvin

Mid Upper Gunner  Lancaster Mk III  AS-U  ND621

RCAF Service Number: J20887

Died: 15th July 1944

Cemetery: Lusigmy - Sur - Barse Communal Cemetery, France

Grave Reference: Collective Grave  Grave 21


UK FlagRAF Badge  Opie, Sgt. John James

Rear Gunner  Lancaster Mk I  AS-B  LL903

RAF Service Number: 1312291

Died: 28th April 1944

Cemetery: Heiteren Communal Cemetery, France

Grave Reference:  Grave  4


UK FlagRAF Badge  Ord, Sgt. Alan

Rear Gunner  Wellington Mk X  AS-G  HE578

RAF Service Number: 1548857

Died: 3rd August 1943

Commemorated: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England

Panel  160


UK FlagRAF Badge  O'Reilly, Sgt. James

Navigator  Lancaster Mk I  AS-C  ED993

RAF Service Number: 1549441

Died: 9th October 1943

Cemetery: Ashton - Under - Lyne & Dukinfield Joint Cemetery, England

Grave Reference: Section C 1 Dukinfield  Grave 1164


UK FlagRAF Badge  Orme, Sgt. David Cooke

Flight Engineer  Lancaster Mk III  AS-B  PB648

RAF Service Number: 1836099

Died: 16th November 1944

Cemetery: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany

Grave Reference: Collective Grave Section 11  Row A  Grave 22 - 24


UK FlagRAF Badge  Orr, Sgt. John

Wireless Op.  Wellington Mk X  AS-W  HF589

RAF Service Number: 1132242

Died: 26th June 1943

Cemetery: Utrecht (Soestbergen) General Cemetery, Holland

Grave Reference: Section 12 D Row 1 Grave 8


UK FlagRAF Badge  Osborne, Flt. Sgt. Roderick    DFM

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-T  DV367

RAF Service Number: 1577092

Died: 8th June 1944

Cemetery: Clichy Northern Cemetery, France

Grave Reference:  Collective Grave  Section  16  Row 14  Grave 8


UK FlagRAF Badge  Oughton, Sgt. Leonard Percival

Wireless Op  Lancaster Mk III  AS-J2  ND825

RAF Service Number: 1397336

Died: 28th April 1944

Cemetery: Granges - Sur - Vologne Communal Cemetery, France

Grave Reference:  Grave 3


Canada FlagRCAF Badge  Overend, W/O. Gerald Joseph

Air Bomber  Lancaster Mk I  AS-X  LL916

RCAF Service Number: R165026

Died: 28th May 1944

Commemorated: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England

Panel  254


* 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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