Personnel Index - Detail
Section B Grave 19240
Flew 24 operations with 49Sqn.
Front row L to R: Sgt Ron Green (Navigator), F/Lt Gordon Burns RCAF (Pilot), Sgt Jack Kermode (Bomb Aimer).
Back row l to r; Unknown (Air Gunner), Unknown (Air Gunner), Sgt Jack Colvin (Flight Engineer), Sgt Bertram Griggs (Wireless Operator).
The unknown crewmembers are likely to be (in no particular order)........T Simms and K Robinson.
Sgt Griggs was killed on 8th April 1945 whilst flying with BCIS (Bomber Command Instructors' School based at RAF Finningley).
He is buried in the Plymouth Weston Mill Cemetery.
In front of the headstone is a 49Sqn cross and petals collected from the poppy drop in London at the opening of the memorial in Green Park.
(Following a visit by Chris Beare & Dennis Holwill)
Extract from Chorley's Bomber Command Losses (Volume 8 HCU & Misc Units)