bransles

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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit to Commonwealth graves in Communal Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

BRANSLES Communal Cemetery (Seine et Marne France)

Front: J. A. G. Dixon - D. Hetherington - A. Robinson
Back: G. A. Collison - N. W. Easby - E. P. Richomme - L. K. Webb

Photo Courtesy Alain Octavie (Fr)
http://liberty-jeep.info/

The crew of the Lancaster JB664

Photo Courtesy Tim Robinson

Front row: ?? - Fl/Sgt A. Robinson - Sgt L. K. Webb
Back row: ?? - Sgt G. A. Collison - ?? - ??

Please, thank you if you can help us to identify the others members of the crew.


Fl/Sgt Anthony Robinson for his nephew Tim Robinson and family


Sgt George Alec Collison aged 22 for his great nephew Tim Baldock

Sgt Leonard Keith Webb aged 19
Leonard was young Raunds man who answered the call of his King and Country and paid the ultimate price.
He was born in December 1924, the only son of Herbert and Alice Webb of Park Road and when he died he left a fiancée of less than a month, Miss King of Rushden.
Educated at Kimbolton School, he was well known locally as a member of “The Spiders” dance band who provided the music for many a shindig in and about Raunds during the early 1940’s.
Fellow band member Frederick Bailey also perished during the global conflict.
Keith joined the Royal Air Force and had attained the rank of Sergeant (Air Gunner) when he was killed in action in June 1944, aged 19.
He served with 106 Squadron based at RAF Metheringham, Lincolnshire, a member of the crew of Avro Lancaster, serial number JB664.
His aircraft was shot down over Bransles on the 28th June while on a bombing raid on the Vitry le Francois railway yards, all seven crew members died.
However, surviving letters show that his last resting place had still been the subject of doubt to his mother as late as 1948, when it was finally confirmed.
Keith Webb is also remembered on the Kimbolton School WW2 Roll of Honour in the castle chapel.
In his memory, his relatives also contributed to the purchase of trees and shrubs for the new Memorial Gardens in Raunds in 1950.
for Steve Bence and the Raunds War Memorials Research Group www.raundswarmemorials.org

7 casualties

COLLISON GEORGE ALEC
United Kingdom Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 28/06/1944 Service No: 1233362

DIXON JOHN ARTHUR GLANVILLE
United Kingdom Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 28/06/1944 Service No: 1602182

EASBY NORMAN WILSON
United Kingdom Pilot Officer (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. Age: 25 Date of Death: 28/06/1944 Service No: 174553

HETHERINGTON DAVID
United Kingdom Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. Age: 20 Date of Death: 28/06/1944 Service No: 1880052

RICHOMME ERIC PHILIP
United Kingdom Sergeant (Flt. Engr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. Age: 20 Date of Death: 28/06/1944 Service No: 1573141

ROBINSON ANTHONY
United Kingdom Flight Sergeant (Nav.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. Date of Death: 28/06/1944 Service No: 1545327

WEBB LEONARD KEITH
United Kingdom Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Sqdn. Age: 19 Date of Death: 28/06/1944 Service No: 1866222

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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations