No. 60818, Pilot Officer (Pilot), John Aubrey Trevor GARROULD
Aged 19
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John Aubrey Trevor Garrould was born in 1921 in Little Hadham, Herts (Bishops Stortford Q4-1921 3A:1234), the youngest child of Arthur
Henry and Jessie Emma Martine GARROULD (née DAVIES ). On the index of wills his address is given as Bovills Hall, Gazeley. That was the address of his widowed mother Jessie [9-1-1878] in the 1939 register. |
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From http://www.oorlogsslachtoffers.nl/deurne/prive/g/john-aubrey-trevor-garrould/ He was on Whitley Mk V, Z6439 (c/s EY-V) which took off from Middleton St.George at 22:43 to bomb Cologne and crashed near Helenaveen (just to the west of Venlo in the Netherlands. Shot down by Unteroffizier Pross from 3 Nachtjagdgeschwader. The crew were P/O (pilot) John Aubrey Trevor GARROULD; Sgt (Pilot) Robert Sydney Langston KEYMER; F/Sgt ( Observer) Reginald James GARLISH; F/Sgt (Wop/Air Gunr) Alexander Plant SMITH and Sgt (Wop/Air Gnr)Edward OAKES. They were initially buried in Venlo, Dokter Blumenkamopstraat, graves row 7: 104 to 108. Armstrong Siddley Whitley Mk V His earlier grave marker photo: Commonwealth War Graves Commission and commemorated on the Little Hadham War memorial click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
