|
|
|
No. 418 (City of Edmonton) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force
6th June 1944 Invasion
If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
|
Logbooks
Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession?
If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you.
View Logbook entries
|
Those known to have served with No. 418 (City of Edmonton) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Caine DFC John. F/O
- Clark Peter. Flying Officer (d.18 July 1944)
- Hope Hugh Munro. Flt.Lt. (d.22nd February 1945)
- Jamieson Mary Joan.
- Keyes Thomas Eric Edmund. P/O. (d.24th June 1942)
- Longworth Harold Francis. F/Lt. (d.17th October 1942)
- Longworth Harold Francis Lawrence. P/O (d.17th Oct 1942)
- Love . Flt.Lt.
- McGrath Harold T.. Sgt. (d.19th Jan 1942)
- Sims Mervyn. Sgt.
- Thorpe Leslie Amos. F/O. (d.22nd February 1945)
- Tilby Harry Edward Demmar. Flt.Sgt. (d.3rd April 1942)
- Tribbeck Herbert Reginald. F/O. (d.9th September 1944)
- Walker Ronald. Sgt. (d.17th Oct 1942)
- Zeller Warren Robert. F/O. (d.9th September 1944)
The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed,
please Add a Name to this List
Records of No. 418 (City of Edmonton) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force from other sources.
|
|
|
The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
Announcements
- 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
- The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 25 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web.
- 16th Jan 2025 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than
265273 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible.
- Looking for help with Family History Research?
Please read our Family History FAQs
- The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web.
If you enjoy this site
please consider making a donation.
Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our
Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. |
|
Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them.
The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
World War 1 One ww1 wwII second 1939 1945 battalion
Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
|
|
Want to know more about No. 418 (City of Edmonton) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force? There are:2001 items tagged No. 418 (City of Edmonton) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
|
F/O John Caine DFC No. 418 Squadron (City of Edmonton) John Caine served with No. 418 Squadron (City of Edmonton)
|
P/O. Thomas Eric Edmund Keyes 418 Squadron (d.24th June 1942) Eric Keyes was missing after flying a sortie on 23rd of June 1942. He was presumed dead after reports from the International Red Cross. He was the only one identified among his crew in the remains of their bomber.
|
Mary Joan Jamieson RAF Ford These are photos of my late aunt Joan Jamieson who was born in London in 1918. She married William Gray 1940 but I suspect she continued to use her maiden name. She served as a wireless operator at RAF Ford. In one photo she with another WAAF who is demonstrating a sewing machine in Harrods department store. I don't know where the party photos were taken unfortunately, but they were among her possessions after she died in 2007.
|
F/O. Leslie Amos Thorpe 418 Squadron (d.22nd February 1945) Flying as a navigator, Leslie Thorpe was 22 years old when he was killed. He was the son of Amos and Rose Ethel Thorpe of Altrincham, Cheshire.
He is buried in the Nieuwe-Schans General Cemetery, Groningen, Netherlands.
|
Flt.Lt. Hugh Munro Hope 418 Squadron (d.22nd February 1945) Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Hugh Hope was the husband of Mary Violet Hope of Edmonton. He had studied at the University of Alberta and graduated a Batchelor of Arts. He was aged 26 when he died and is buried in the Nieuwe-Schans General Cemetery, Groningen, Netherlands.
|
F/O. Warren Robert Zeller 418 Squadron (d.9th September 1944) Flying Officer (Pilot) Warren Zeller was the son of Walter P. and Nettie E. Zeller, of Westmount, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, husband of Janet Foster Zeller, of Westmount.
He was 25 when he died and is buried in the Limmen Protestant Churchyard, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
|
F/O. Herbert Reginald Tribbeck 418 Squadron (d.9th September 1944) Flying Officer (Navigator) Herbert Tribbeck was the Son of James Henry and Gertrude Tribbeck, husband of Doris Maud Tribbeck, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
He was 28 when he died and is buried in the Limmen Protestant Churchyard, Noord-Holland, Netherlands,
|
Flt.Sgt. Harry Edward Demmar Tilby 418 Squadron (d.3rd April 1942)   Harry Tilby was my uncle and was originally posted, as an Observer, to 23 Squadron RAF based at Ford Aerodrome, West Sussex, England.
In December 1941 he, his pilot Flt. Lt. 'Jack' Love and his air gunner F/Sgt Malcolm Bunting, along with a couple of other crews from 23 Squadron, were transferred to 418 Squadron RCAF at Debden, Essex to train this new Squadron in the art of 'Intruder' missions which 23 had become expert in.
Over the next few weeks the severe winter weather prevented much air activity (there were some fatal accidents during that period), which slowed the introduction of these new aircrews into combat.
However, early in 1942, several successful missions were carried out over strategic targets in Holland, Belgium and France, together with intruder sorties over Luftwaffe air bases in the same region.
On the night of 2/3rd April 1942 Harry's crew were tasked with intruding around the Poix and Beauvais areas looking for Luftwaffe aircraft returning to, or leaving, their bases. Unfortunately, they failed to return and are now buried side by side at Montdidier, France.
|
Sgt. Ronald Walker 418 Sqdn. (d.17th Oct 1942) Can anyone tell me what is/was written on the 'slate plaque' on what is left of wreckage (as of 1984) of Boston III a/c Z2186, 418 Squadron which crashed into Carnedd Dafydd, Wales?
Sgt(P)Mervyn Sims, RCAF, was injured.
F/O(O)Harold F Longworth, RCAF, is buried in Llanbeblig Public Cemetery, Caernarvon Wales.
Sgt(N)Ronald Walker RAFVR, is buried in Letchworth Cemetery.
|
P/O Harold Francis Lawrence Longworth 418 Sqdn. (d.17th Oct 1942) Can anyone tell me what is/was written on the 'slate plaque' on what is left of wreckage (as of 1984) of Boston III a/c Z2186, 418 Squadron which crashed into Carnedd Dafydd, Wales?
Sgt(P)Mervyn Sims, RCAF, was injured.
F/O(O)Harold F Longworth, RCAF, is buried in Llanbeblig Public Cemetery, Caernarvon Wales.
Sgt(N)Ronald Walker RAFVR, is buried in Letchworth Cemetery.
|
Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
|
|
|
Site Home
Add Stories
