Her brother Albert Howard served in the Forces and survived the War in 1946 he was living at n0. She was almost 33 years old when she died. Marjorie studied to be a nurse at The Sheffield Royal Hospital from 1936 to 1939 and was Registered as a nurse in London on the 26th January 1940.Īt some point Marjorie joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service and was on board a troop ship in the Indian Ocean when it was sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1944. The family moved to the Penistone area before relocating to Stocksbridge in about 1934 where they lived at Braemoor, on McIntyre Road. Her parents were Albert Smith and Annie Gertrude Brown and she had two brothers (Gilbert Owen and Albert Howard) and one sister (Jeanne). Marjory was born in March 1911 at 19 Fountain Terrace, Marske by the Sea, Middlesbrough. With thanks to John Brunton, Louise Hall, Mark Hodkinson, Sally Jowitt and Jane Lachs. 20th March 1947 is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial, panel number 286. The Avro Shackleton was introduced to Ballykelly in 1947, at the joint Anti-Aircraft Submarine Training School RAF.įlight Sergeant John Derek Shaw, 1675594, R.A.F. The Lancaster was one of six on naval cooperation exercises operating from Ballykelly, 13 miles north-east of Londonderry.” RAF Ballykelly was a maritime “Coastal Command” airfield. Two of the plane's passenger were from the Royal Navy. The Hampshire Telegraph 28 March 1947, page 8, reported that seven of the occupants of the Lancaster which crashed on Thursday, were on Saturday listed as “killed” or “missing, believed killed.” The remaining two occupants were seriously injured. The crash was reported by the aircraft carrier H.M.S. The search was eventually called off when it was decided that there was no hope of finding any more survivors. Three of the Lancaster’s missing crew of nine were picked up, but two of them later died. The Times, Saturday 22nd March 1947, page 4, reported that eight naval ships, including two destroyers and a submarine, had been searching throughout the day for any survivors. There were nine aboard and seven were killed. It crashed into the Atlantic Ocean just before midnight, and was destroyed when a wingtip hit the water surface, some sixty miles NNE of Malin Head on the Inishowen Peninsular. Avro Lancaster ASR Mk III which set off on a training exercise from R.A.F. On the 20th March 1947, Shaw was aboard an R.A.F. Wendy was from Manchester, but was living in Cornwall at the time of Jack's death. They had only been married six months before he was killed. He married Wendy Madeline Greenup at West Didsbury, Manchester, in 1946. John (known as Jack) was the son of Rowland Shaw and May Baker. Sergeant Navigator John (Jack) Derek Shaw was born locally in 1924 and died in 1947 when the Lancaster plane he was on crashed into the sea. įLIGHT SERGEANT NAVIGATOR JOHN DEREK SHAW He was originally buried in Tribohm but later reburied in the Berlin War Cemetery in 1949. They had taken off from North Killingholme in the early evening, one of 891 aircraft despatched by Bomber Command that day. Along with six other crew members, he was killed on the 15th February 1944 when the Lancaster he was in crashed during a raid on Berlin, having been shot down after crossing the Baltic coast. Sergeant VICTOR HUGO MATE (1925-1944) did not work at Fox’s and so his name does not appear on the memorial there, but he is commemorated on the Clock Tower and at St. He is also commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. The plane was lost without trace in the English Channel. Thomas’s role would have been to send and receive wireless signals, assist with navigation and use the defensive machine gun to fight off enemy aircraft. Thomas was a wireless operator / air gunner on board a Hampden 1 which had set off at 13.37 hours on 12th February 1942 to take part in “ Operation Fuller,” also known as the “ Channel Dash”. Sergeant THOMAS HENRY MATE (1921-1942) lost his life in WWII and is commemorated on the Clock Tower Fox’s memorial (where he was an apprentice) and at St. He was a Fox’s employee and lived at Haywoods Lane, Deepcar. The boys’ father, Tom Mate, unveiled the Fox Memorial in 1950.
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