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Flying Officer

Brian Andrew James

Service number 136730
Military unit
Address "Gippeswyke" Churchill, Mansfield Woodhouse.
Date of birth 30 Apr 1921
Date of death 29 Jan 1944 (22 years old)
Place of birth Mellor, Derbyshire
Employment, education or hobbies

On the 1939 England and Wales Register Brian is listed as a full time air raid warden.

Family history

Son of William Andrew and Katherine Marguerite James of Mansfield Woodhouse.
in 1921 the family were living at the Devonshire Arms Hotel, Mellor where William was the licenced victuller. In 1939 the family had moved to Churchill Mansfield Woodhouse and William was now the headmaster at the elementary school.

Military history

IBCC: Avro Lancaster JA967 markins OL-S
Air Bomber
Flew from Wyton , Huntingtonshire. Collied with Lancashire bomber HK-537 JO-S of 463 sqdn. They crashed at Broballe on the Isle of Als, Denmark.
They were taking part in a 677 aircraft raid over Berlin.

Extra information

Buried at Aabenbaa Allied Military Cemetery, Denmark, plot 4.21.

Photographs

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