Personnel Index - Detail
Flew 27 operations with 49Sqn.
The crew of ED721 taken at Fiskerton sometime between May & August 1943.
Rear row 4th from left is Jock Stopani, 5th is Bob Seddon, 6th John Costello.
Font row 2nd from left George Boag, 3rd Steve Sherman, 4th Eric Winstanley, 5th Tommy Taylor.
P/O T D Taylor (Pilot)
Sgt E Winstanley (Flight Engineer)
Sgt J A Costello (Navigator)
Sgt R Seddon (Bomb Aimer)
Sgt J Stopani (Wireless Operator)
Sgt G Boag (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sgt S Sherman (Rear Gunner)
A signed bank note following a stop-over in Algeria following the 20/06/1943 raid on Friedrichshaven.
The note is signed by the Taylor crew and other 49Sqn members (including 'Chan' Chandler).
P/O T D Taylor (Pilot), Sgt E Winstanley (Flight Engineer), Sgt J A Costello (Navigator), Sgt R Seddon (Bomb Aimer), Sgt J Stopani (Wireless Operator), Sgt G Boag (Mid Upper Gunner) and Sgt S Sherman (Rear Gunner).
F/Sgt Seddon was killed on 13th August 1944 whilst flying with 156Sqn and is buried in the Reichswald War Cemetery.
Photographed by Dom Howard.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses