AIRCREW INDEX
This is the full alphabetical index for the 97 Squadron aircrew flying on 16/17 December 1943. A total of 151 men flew that night, 21 crews of 7 men and four 2nd Pilots. Of these men, less than 50 survived the war.


All information about individuals is kept under the crews as a group. If you do not know which crew your particular chap was with, look up his name on the alphabetical index and this will give the captain of the aircraft, then go to Crew List. Where known I have filled in christian names, but otherwise given the initials as entered in the ORB for that night - these are frequently incorrect. Corrections to the list are ongoing, so please let me know if you see anything is incorrect.
Aircrew on Berlin op - December 16/17 1943
Arter, S R (B?), PILOT: Roberts

Arthurson, John, "Joe", PILOT: Smith

Baldwin, John Moody, PILOT: Coates

Bamlett, William, "Bill", PILOT: de Wesselow

Battle, Ernest John, PILOT: Brill

Benbow, James, PILOT: Deverill

Billing, James Pymar, "Jimmy", PILOT: Billing

Blower, HJ, PILOT: Roberts

Booth, LW, PILOT: Riches

Borthwick, George Wilson Syme, PILOT: Wilson

Boston, RG, PILOT: Flack

Bradshaw, Cliff, PILOT: Smith

Brill, David James, PILOT: Brill

Brown, John Thomas, PILOT: Deverill

Burnell, Aubrey William Alexander, PILOT: Pelletier

Butler, Robert, PILOT: Brill

Cameron, Norman Davidson, PILOT: Mooney

Campbell, James Monroe,"Jock", PILOT: Billing

Cawdery, EF, PILOT: Cawdery

Chapman, William, PILOT: Coates

Chappell, Harry, PILOT: Brill

Clarke, Ernest Sumner, PILOT: Cawdery

Cleeve, Ronald George, possibly known as "Reg", PILOT: Kirkwood

Coates, William Darby, PILOT: Coates

Collishaw, Charles William, PILOT: Scott

Colson, William Alfred, PILOT: Mackenzie

Conley, Ronald John, PILOT: Pelletier

Cooper, Gordon, PILOT: de Wesselow

Crossgrove, Ralph, PILOT: Deverill

Cruwys, Gerald Herbert, "Gerry", PILOT: Mansbridge

Curtis, Robert Douglas, "Doug", PILOT: Billing

de Wesselow, Peter, PILOT: de Wesselow

Deverill, Ernest Alfred, PILOT: Deverill

Dudley, Ronald, PILOT: Roberts

Dunnett, Harry Norman, PILOT: Flack

Dunning, Guy Ernest, PILOT: Pelletier

Durn, Maurice, PILOT: Smith

Easson, R, "Ron", PILOT: Nicholls

Emerson, Rodrick Stanley, PILOT: Flack

Farr, Francis Roy, PILOT: Deverill

Ferguson, Robert, PILOT: Flack

Findlay, James Bruce, "Bud", PILOT: Billing

Flack, Victor Samuel, PILOT: Flack

Forrest, K, "Ken" or "Woody", PILOT: Owen

Foxcroft, Kenneth Edgar, PILOT: Scott

Gardner, Jack, PILOT: Nicholls

Grant, Leslie Kenneth Alexander, "Sandy", PILOT: Thackway

Green, CJ, PILOT: Snell

Grey, Felix Bernard, PILOT: Mooney

Grieve, J, PILOT: Snell

Grundy, George, PILOT: Thackway

Hambling, Ernest, PILOT: Mansbridge

Handley, Rowland Ernest, "Tommy", PILOT: Brill

Hanson, EH, PILOT: Cawdery

Hanson, John Richard, PILOT: Mansbridge

Hare, John Alfred, PILOT: Flack

Harman, L, PILOT: Snell

Harper, Geffrey Kelvin, PILOT: Wilson

Henson, Leslie, PILOT: Pelletier

Hope, Thomas William, "Tommy", PILOT: Billing

Hope, Clifford Lionel, PILOT: Scott

Hubbard, Edward George, "Ted", PILOT: Kirkwood

Hunter, Anthony Ivor Gwynne, "Tony", PILOT: Mackenzie

Ingalls, RB, PILOT: de Wesselow

Irvine, Douglas Raymond, PILOT: Scott

Johnson, George Albert, PILOT: Mooney

Jolley, Kenroy Alfred, "Bombdoors", PILOT: Nicholls

Jones, Lawrence George, PILOT: Wilson

Killen, John, PILOT: Kirkwood

Kirby, Keith, PILOT: Mackenzie

Kirkwood, James, PILOT: Kirkwood

Knowles, D, Duggie, PILOT: Owen

Lacey, D E, "Dizzy", PILOT: Owen

Lang, William Robert, "Ron", PILOT: Mackenzie

Laver, Leslie Norman John, "Les", PILOT: Thackway

Lawrence, Robert Anthony, "Tony", PILOT: Thackway

Leak, Thomas, "Nigel", PILOT: Owen

Lintott, L, PILOT: Snell

Little, Gordon James, PILOT: Brill

Lowe, Robert William, PILOT: Riches

Lowick, PM, PILOT: Pelletier


Mack, Peter Hughes, "Joe", PILOT: Thackway

Mackenzie, Donald Forbes, PILOT: Mackenzie

Madeley, Leonard, "Len", PILOT: Kirkwood

Mansbridge, Donald William, PILOT: Mansbridge

Marsh, Peter Andrew, PILOT: Roberts

Marshall, Robert, "Bob", PILOT: Mackenzie

McGregor, James Harvey, PILOT: Cawdery

McIntyre, Norman Gregor, "Norm", PILOT: Brill

Mooney, Robert Leo, PILOT: Mooney

Moriarty, James Edward, "Mort", PILOT: Billing

Muckart, Grant, PILOT: de Wesselow

Nicholas, Bertram Horace, PILOT: Coates

Nicholls, J H. "Johnny", PILOT: Nicholls

Nuttall, Stanley, PILOT: Coates

Ogilvie, W D. "Oggy", PILOT: Nicholls

Osler, Erwin (or Earl E?), PILOT: Billing

Owen, Charles Blundell, PILOT: Owen

Pack, EH, PILOT: Riches

Palmer, Albert Stanley, PILOT: Mansbridge

Parrott, Sidney George, PILOT: Scott

Parsley, William Alfred, "Bill", PILOT: Roberts

Pearsons, J A, PILOT: Cawdery

Peden, C, PILOT: Cawdery

Peek, Samuel Joseph, PILOT: Scott

Pelletier, J W, "Geoff", PILOT: Pelletier

Penfold, Donald Jamieson, PILOT: Deverill

Pleydell, Horace John, PILOT: Wilson

Polson, G, PILOT: Pelletier

Powell, Jack, PILOT: Thackway

Pratt, John Towler, PILOT: Mackenzie

Rand, Kenneth Peter, PILOT: Flack

Riches, Wilfrid Cyril, PILOT: Riches

Roberts, Frank James, PILOT: Roberts

Russell, Alexander, PILOT: Deverill

Saynor, James, PILOT: de Wesselow

Scott, Ian Macdonald, PILOT: Scott

Shires, William, "Bill", PILOT: Owen

Smith, S A, "Sid", PILOT: Nicholls

Smith, Terence Walter, PILOT: Wilson

Smith, NJ, PILOT: Snell

Smith, "Smithy", PILOT: Smith

Smith, George Edward, PILOT: Mooney

Snell, CR, PILOT: Snell

Stewart, Harold, "Harry", PILOT: Smith

Stewart, Robert Charles, "Bob", PILOT: Kirkwood

Stone, John, PILOT: Brill

Swale, Ken, PILOT: Cawdery

Thackway, Edward, "Ted", PILOT: Thackway

Thomas, F B, "Tom", PILOT: Owen

Thompson, Frank, PILOT: Coates

Tindall, AJ, PILOT: Cawdery

Townend, Gordon, PILOT: Smith

Walder, Percival Ashford, PILOT: Mansbridge

Watling, George Alfred, PILOT: Wilson

Watson, Frank Raymond, PILOT: Pelletier

Watts, Henry Wager Dixon, PILOT: Riches

White, Fred, PILOT: de Wesselow

White, William Courtney, PILOT: Mansbridge

Whitehead, Alfred, "Alf", PILOT: Nicholls

Wigley, George Alexander, PILOT: Kirkwood

Wilson, Charles Thomas, PILOT: Wilson

Wilson, JA, PILOT: Smith

Winter, G, PILOT: Riches

Wood, Geoffrey Walter, "Geoff", PILOT: Flack

Wood, OD, PILOT: Snell

Woolf, Godfrey, PILOT: Mooney

Worsdale, Jack, PILOT: Mooney

Wrigley, J, PILOT: Riches

York, William Lambert, PILOT: Coates

Young, George, PILOT: Roberts