The memorial is located at the Allied Special Forces Grove
X9-Y (Worry!) 299 Squadron Special Operations Service.
To the crew of Short Stirling Mk 1V- call sign ‘X9-Y’ (Worry!).
This crew were together from 1943 until the end of hostilities in Europe.
During that time the flew 3 re-supply missions to Arnhem for Operation Market Garden and towed gliders for Operation Varsity, the Rhine crossing. They were also on Special Operations duties with solo flights to Auxerre, Bergerac, The Haig, Brussels, Rotterdam, Utrecht, the Sogne Fjord, Copenhagen and Eindhoven. The crew were among the first British to land in Oslo, Norway at the end of hostilities and were involved in the repatriation of POW’s as the Allies advanced on Germany.
P/O Bert Horam 410235 AUS
W/O Jack Fry 1586430
W/O Basil Jaggard 1626473. Born 1925 registration District of Cambridge mother, nee Collings
W/O Reg Lowman 1396416 Born 1920 Weymouth to Okley Fred and Edith Eliza Lowman nee Payne
Memorial has Lowmanhaker
W/O Maurice Davis 1713697
W/O Gus Tyers 16421145
Allied Special Forces 2006 National Memorial Arboretum.
This memorial is in the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove, at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
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