A Collection of Medals to Second World War Royal Air Force Casualties 712
Three: Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) D. E. C. Adams, 150 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action when his Wellington was shot down by a night fighter during a bombing raid on Bremen, 27-28 June 1942
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. L. Adams, 33 Albert Palace Mansions, Battersea Park, London SW11’, nearly extremely fine (3)
£300-£400
Desire Ernest Charles Adams served during the Second World War as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner with 150 Squadron, flying Wellingtons. He took part in his first operational sortie on 15 November 1941, where his pilot was the New Zealander Sergeant Gordon Cochrane, who ultimately ended the War with the D.S.O. and D.F.C. with Two Bars. From 15 November 1941 to 20 June 1942 Adams took part in 26 sorties with Cochrane as pilot including a raid on Hamburg on 30 November 1941, when their aircraft was ‘attacked over target area by a HE 113, attack came at the rear of the aircraft but the attacker was hit with 300 round burst from Wellington front gunner as he exited from his attack. Fuel tank holed and several geodetics were severed. The aircraft was then held in a searchlight cone for ten minutes over the target and “pounded” by flak. The pilot dived the aircraft right and down to 4,000 feet to shake off the attack’. They also participated in attacks on the German battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in Brest and during the famous Channel dash. Other sorties included Bremen, Munster, St Nazaire, Dortmund, Paris, Cologne, and four attacks on the Krupps Works at Essen. On 1-2 June 1942 they took part in the second Thousand Bomber Raid on Essen. Cochrane completed his tour and moved to training in late June. Flight Officer Osbourne took over as the new crew pilot. They continued with a raid on Emden then the third Thousand Bomber Raid on Bremen on 25-26 June 1942.
Adams was killed in action on his 29th sortie when Wellington X3309, piloted by Flying Officer D. O. Osborne, was shot down over the Ijsselmeer, east of Enkhuizen, by the German night-fighter pilot Uffz. Heinz Vinke whilst on a raid to Bremen on 27-28 June 1942. All the crew were killed.
Adams is commemorated with the rest of his crew on the Runnymede Memorial. His medals were sent to his father, Louis Adams. Sold with copied research.
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Four: Sergeant (Flight Engineer) D. M. Jones, 10 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who was killed in action when his Halifax crashed returning from a raid on Bremen, 2-3 July 1942
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. D. M. Jones, Gladimere, Cwmcoy, Newcastle Emlyn, Carms.’, nearly extremely fine (4)
£300-£400
David Morris Jones served during the Second World War as a Flight Engineer with 10 Squadron, flying Halifaxes, and was killed in action when Halifax II W1056, piloted by Flying Officer E. J. Lawler, crashed into the sea returning from a raid on the port of Bremen on 2-3 July 1942. Whether they were damaged by flak or attacked by a night fighter is unknown. The entire crew of seven were killed. Over 300 R.A.F. aircraft were involved in this raid, and 13 aircraft were lost.
Jones is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, and also on the Llandygwydd church memorial in his home village. His medals were sent to his widow Edna Jones.
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Three: Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) P. F. Inman, 214 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who was killed in action when his Stirling was shot down during a raid on Bremen, 2-3 July 1942
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named medal ticket, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘J. F. Inman, Esq., Garrett House, Cartmel, Grange over Sands, Lancs.’, extremely fine (3)
£300-£400
Peter Frederick Inman served during the Second World War as a Wireless Operator / Air Gunner with 214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron, based at R.A.R. Stradishall, flying Stirlings, and having taken part in the 1,000 bomber raids was killed in action when Stirling BF313, piloted by Sergeant T. E. L. Palmer, was shot down by Karl Heinz Scherfling at around 01:50 and crashed into mud flats at Westernieland, Groningen, Holland, whilst taking part in a raid on the port of Bremen on 2-3 July 1942. An eyewitness stated that the Stirling was attacked over his home town, Ten Boer, north-east of Groningen. He said: ‘It was a very busy night where planes are concerned. All of a sudden we heard bursts of machine gun fire, shortly after each other. Just after that bombs fell just east of St Annen.’
A police report states that 29 bombs were dropped of which only three ignited. Another eyewitness stated: ‘Up in the sky a fire became visible that moved in a northerly direction. A few days later we heard a plane had crashed near the dyke at Westernieland.’
Several people in North Groningen town heard the loud roar of engines overhead. Those who went outside to look saw a bomber flying north with what appeared to be a light inside. Once over the mud flats the plane caught fire, exploded and crashed. Another eyewitness remembers: ‘The pieces of the plane were strewn out over a large area, several kilometres across. This was about 1 to 2 km out into the mud flats from Westernieland. Three days later about 8 Dutchmen under the command of a German N.C.O. went out to recover the bodies. All they found was pieces of wreckage, no large parts of the plane were found. Most of the crew were found between and under the pieces. They were bought to the dyke where they were put into coffins after which they spent two days in a stable in Pieterburen. They were then buried in Westernieland.’
Inman is buried in Westernieland General Cemetery, in a prominent position with a pelouse d’honneur created by the local people in the centre of the cemetery. His medals were sent to his father Joseph Frederick Inman, who during the Great War had been awarded the Military Medal whilst serving with the Border Regiment (London Gazette 13 June 1919).
Sold with three original leave pass railway tickets, and various copied research.
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