Who are we?

The Aircrew remembrance Society will, with the continued help from the public, form the missing and fallen personal photographic register. Dedicated to airman who tragically lost their lives through war! The pictorial companion to the Public Records Office, whose massive archive details many pilots/aircrew losses.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission proudly record's their names ....... carved in stone.
The Aircrew Remembrance Society's contribution will be; who they were, their faces, their loved one's , their lives!

Our duty is to preserve their photographic memory, to lose these faces the first time was a tragedy, losing them a second time is a monumental loss for our nation's wartime aviation heritage.
We would very much like to hear from anyone who can contribute to our growing archive.
Slowly a list is being compiled regarding the people who are working with us as shown. Many more have yet to be added.

You can also send us a message by using this contact form.
As our site is rapidly expanding we understand the frustration of perhaps not being able to find the information you seek. In order to assist you as much as possible we have incorporated a google search engine in the site that can be found "here", we have also a site map for various sections- one for the general pages here, then we have a similar one for each year and nationality. We do have many other losses that are currently being researched or being prepared for the website. However, if you have information that you wish to send use this page or the contact form.

Shown left to right: Chairman of the Aircrew Remembrance Society: Mr David King. (Research Specialist; R.A.F, Commonwealth, allied losses.) Mr Melvin Brownless. (Research specialist; Luftwaffe, axis losses.) Webmaster: Mr Kelvin Youngs. (Enquiries, correspondence, memorial plaque design. Research.)

The Aircrew Remembrance Society remain very grateful for the assistance provided from the following sources:

R.A.F. Bomber Command Losses volumes 1 - 9 - W.R. Chorley
P.R.O. Office Kew, London
I.W.M. Imperial War Museum
R.A.F. Bomber Losses (Middle East & Mediterranean) volume 1 - David Gunby / Pelham Temple
R.A.F. Fighter Command Losses volume 1 - 3 - Norman L.R. Franks
R.A.F. Coastal Command Losses - Vol. 1 Ross McNeill
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Nachtjagd War Diaries Volumes 1 and 2 - Theo E.W. Bolten
Polish Air Force 1939 - 1947 - Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Jósef Zieliński
Ku Czci Poległyçh Lotnikow 1939 -1945 - Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik, Jósef Zieliński
Bomber Command War Diaries - Martin Middlebrook, Chris Everitt
Fighter Command War Diaries - John Foreman
The Price of Peace - Colin Cummings
Valiant Wings - Norman Franks
Diver, Diver, Diver - Brian Cull, Bruce Lander
Messerschmitt Me262 Combat Diary - John Foreman, S.E. Harvey
Failed to Return - Ron Conyers Nesbit
The Polish Air Force at War (The official history) volumes 1 - 2 - Jerzy B. Cynk

We are very happy to provide fellow researchers with the information where these fine publications can be purchased. Please email us - we could use advertisements in order to assist in paying for our site, as others do, but feel that the majority of our readers would rather contact us directly. If, of course the publishers would prefer us to advertise where these items could be purchased direct - we will of course consider it.

Friends - Supporters - Contributors
We have a strict policy that we will not release contact information directly.
This page is updated it on a regular basis.

Some of our researchers prefer to remain anonymous and of course we respect those wishes,

Jos van Alphen Contributor Holland Active Researcher

Colin Bamford - Researcher

Colin Bamford – recently retired Quality Assurance Manager for a heavy truck manufacturer. Living in St.Thomas Ontario with his partner and love of his life, Eleanor, who constantly provides home baked cookies and much valuable support. Proud father of five sons and three grandchildren. Colin enjoys all things mechanical especially driving and working on his Pontiac Fiero, in the summer of course, as well as a love of nature. One of Colin and Eleanor’s favourite hikes being that around the former BCATP No. 4 B & G School, now a nature preserve, from which so many courageous aircrews graduated. While researching the loss of his cousin Norman Bamford, he became interested in volunteering for the ARS. Fortunately, for Colin and his relatives, Norman is mentioned several times in the book ‘Night Fighter’ by Rawnsley and Wright giving valuable insite into his exploits during his time in the service of his country. Alas, so many others are not so fortunate, being a mere name carved in stone their brave deeds and ultimate fate never to be known.
Colin is very active in assisting the Aircrew Remembrance Society and regularly contributes articles for us. We are delighted with the accuracy of the information and the speed that he works. Great to have him "on board".

Colin Bain Contributor South Africa Active Researcher
Bill Bethell Contributor U.K Researcher
Bob Body Contributor Crete Active Researcher

John Cripps Contributor U.K Active Researcher
Christopher Chave Contributor U.K
Michael Croft Active Researcher/film maker

Jean Michel Dominique Contributor Belgium Active Researcher

Clive Ellis Contributor U.K. Active Researcher
Richard Ellis Contributor U.K. Active Researcher

Dianne Flannagan Contributor U.K (N.I.)

Michael Harrison (Researcher)

Michael Harrison - married with 2 children and living in Nottingham, England and works as a Technical advisor for Boots Chemists. Apart from his research he enjoys cycling, music and real ale.
He researched the loss of his Uncle Norris Mervyn Harrison and submitted the article to our website - he is still finding new information about this loss even today!
Michael is constantly scouring various forum and other sources to help expand information on our losses pages.
How he manages to find out so much is beyond me but his research is a great asset to our site and we look forward to working with him further in the future.

Steven Hall Contributor U.K Active Researcher
Laurent d' Hondt Contributor France Active Researcher

Jan Jolie (Researcher)

Jan Jolie - one of our researchers from Oosterhout where he works as an official for the city council. Jan is married with Els and they have 2 children and 3 grandchildren.
My interest: research air war  Airbase Gilze-Rijen /  West-Brabant. And enjoying (trying) to play the guitar. And a nice bottle of beer.
My greatest wish is to find relatives of LAC J.S. Bromley R.A.F. 521438, KIA 13 May 1940 Runnymede Memorial Panel 22. His Defiant L 6958 is excavated 1994. See "HERE"

Horst Jeckel Contributor Germany

Jeremy Nicholson (Researcher)

Jeremy Nicholson recently joined the Aircrew Remembrance Society as one of our "volunteer" researchers. He has submitted several articles on various Allied losses. Jeffrey is 42 and lives in Aldershot, Hampshire with his partner of 17 years. Before that he lived in London from 1988 - 2005, though originally from Bristol.
Jeremy works as a vision mixer in the television industry, working freelance on a range of live and recorded programmes.
His hobbies include family history research generally, not just concerning the RAF, motorcycling, and he dabble's in languages.
He became involved with our Society after requesting information on his Uncle, Fl/Sgt. Jefferis which can be viewed "HERE"

Tom Kracker (Luftwaffe researcher)

Tom Kracker - the researcher who has compiled the great Kracker Archives now hosted on our site. Married and living with his wife in the U.S.A. Retired from a normal career in 1994 and since then benn researching even further into the Luftwaffe history.
Tom has spent over 14 years compiling this data base We are also greatful to the great assistance provided to us from Techie Services who designed the unique way to be able to convert the files to how they can be viewed today. Tom continues to work with us and we are sharing new information submitted by viewers almost on a daily basis.

    
Rüediger Kaufmann (Researcher)

Rüdiger Kaufmann is the Aircrew Remembrance Society member for Germany and assists us with both recoveries and research for all losses. Born in 1962 and lives with his son in northern Germany. A mechanical engineer and well known as a Ferrari author, Rüdiger obtains the facts for us - first hand from eye witnesses, visits the actual crash sites and obtains information from local sources as well as the main information areas. A great asset to the Aircrew Remembrance Society and we are proud that he is working with us.

Graeme Lister Contributor U.K

     
David Mole, on right (Researcher)

David Mole has contributed greatly in organising and attending various memorials for Aircrew in Europe. His association with this stems from his research into the loss of his father who served with 10 Squadron. See "HERE" David is in contact with many veterens and has supplied the Society with a great deal of information and also has assisted many relatives in their own research.
David Mole Contributor U.K Active Researcher

George McKillop Contributor U.K Active Researcher
Shaun McGuire Contributor U.K. Active Researcher

Claudio Meunier (Researcher)

Claudio Meunier born in Argentina 24 march 1970. Working closely now with the Aircrew Remembrance Society and providing the team with additional information. Aviation historian, producer of documentary movies of aviation (includes The History Channel) and Honour Secretary of Branch 915 Buenos Aires Argentina (Veterans Argentines in the RAF)
Claudio Meunier has publishrd three books about the argentines in the R.A.F. called Wings of Thunder Vol I, II and Born with Honour. Shortly to be made available via this website.
Produce the documentary movie "Volunteers" ( 2007) launched at England and Canada.

Roger Mills Contributor U.K. Active Researcher

Klaus Neitzke Contributor Germany

Agnieszka Olszyna (Polish translator)

Polish translator: Agnieszka Olszyna (Agnes - shown above)
Married to Martin with a daughter of 11, living in Warsaw, Poland. Employed with the National Road and Motorways in the department of Economics and Finance. Enjoys traveling and sightseeing but her main relaxation is cooking
Became involved with the Aircrew Remembrance Society in January 2009 when she offered her valuable assistance in translation of Polish documents and also some web pages into Polish.

Otakar Rakosnik Contributor Czech Republic Active Researcher
Chartier Ruaudin Contributor France Active Researcher

René Siegert Contributor Netherlands
Peter Sikora Contributor U.K. Active Researcher (Polish)

David Tait Contributor (Pending) U.K

Laurent Viton Contributor France Active Researcher
Pierre Vandervelden Contributor Active Researcher

Lewis Wood Contributor U.K Research
Roger Ward Contributor U.K Active Researcher
Wendy Von Well Contributor Active Researcher