252925 Flt.Sgt. Victor Alfred Weaver Royal Air Force 90 Squadron from:Wolverhampton (d.24th Aug 1943) My mother Enid Fogg's first husband was Victor Weaver from Wolverhampton (known as Vic) and he was a Flight Sergeant in 90 Squadron at Wratting Common which had been adopted in lieu of West Wickham in August 1943.
Vic and his crew died in a Stirling on a return trip from a bombing raid on the city of Germany on the night of 23rd/24th of 1943. The plane was shot down by enemy fire and crashed in the Ijsselmeer, some 15km East of Marken. Four crew members are named on the panels at Runnymede Memorial, one of whom is Victor Alfred Weaver and two lie at Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery, while Sgt A.E.Lloyd rests in Vollenhove (Stad - Vollenhove) General Cemetery. The crew members were
- F/S K W Longmore RAAF
- Sgt R L Jones
- Sgt C J Purcell
- Sgt L M Stormer RCAF
- F/S V A Weaver
- Sgt A E Lloyd
- Sgt G C Jeffreys
Vic left his childhood sweetheart and five month old baby son called Brian. My mother married my father after the war, who had been a Japanese prisoner of war for four years in Stanley Camp Kowloon. As a child I remember vividly visiting Runnymede Memorial with my parents and being too young to understand why my mother was so upset there. She had obviously found Vic's name on a panel. Despite re marrying, my mother told me a year before her death in 2005 that she had always had a place in her heart for Vic and was proud that he had taken part in fighting for Britain and her son's freedom from Nazi tyranny. On the 11th of November 2018, we will remember them.
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