This thread is for casualties of AOP or Air Observation Post Squadrons. Please feel free to post casualty details and photos of headstones or memorials.
Using Geoff's search engine, there appear to be 76 + names, a large proportion who lay at rest in Italy. This includes those who flew the Aircraft and the ground support.
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Additional information: Son of William and Catherine Goldsack Ballyn; husband of Mildred Irene Ballyn, of Chelsea, London.
Additional information: Son of William Thomas Curtis-Willson and Irene Madge Curtis-Willson; husband of Joan Maureen Curtis Willson, of Rottingdean, Sussex, England.
This thread is for Royal Artillery, who were attached to AOP or Air Observation Post Squadrons. Please feel free to post casualty details and photos of headstones or memorials.
Good idea to seperate these from the bomber observers, Rob.
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A completely different subject matter. I agreed with Idler's comment on your original thread.
Additional information: Son of Herbert and Amy Hollis; husband of Hilda May Hollis, of Horsford, Norfolk, England.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. D. 3.
Additional information: Son of William Horace and Gwendolen Lewis Stuart, of Porthcawl, Glamorgan.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot RR. Grave 15.
Photo courtesy of PieterF if I am correct.
Additional information: Son of John and Mary Wilson, of Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Son of James Frederick William Burness and of Winifred Elizabeth Burness, of East Lavant, Sussex. His brother, Michael Frederick, also died on service.
Additional information: Son of Gilbert Rae Bell and Alison Lyall Hamilton Bell, of East Fortune, East Lothian, Scotland.
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. G. 13.
Son of Francis Moreton Cheshire and Fanny Margaret Cheshire, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Son of Sydney and Janet Canton; husband of Olive Canton, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Additional information: Son of William and Hilda Marian Graham, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Winifred Graham, of Hyde Park, Leeds.
Service No: 14407720 Additional information: Son of Thomas and Annie Malone, of Dublin, Irish Republic.
Additional information: Son of Maj. Francis Cokayne Russel and Adelina Ethel Russel, of South Kensington, London.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. OO. Grave 17.
Son of James Bowden Roberts and Louisa Roberts; husband of Olga Mary Roberts, of Ashford, Middlesex.
There is an appendix at the back of Parhams "Unarmed into battle" which lists all the AOP pilots KIA. There are 67 Lts, Capts, and Majs listed, along with a lone Polish Plt Offr.
Edit: editions earlier than the one I have (1986) apparently include a (somewhat inaccurate) analysis of these cas.