Smith, Keith Gordon, brother of Graham Rex Smith (qv); b. 7 Nov. 1932; adm. May 1946 (B); left July 1950; a children’s portrait painter; d. 25 Feb. 1972.

Southworth, Vincent Reginald Woodburn, son of Reginald Edward Southworth, advertisement man. Odhams Press Ltd, and Dorothy Alice Mary, d. of Walter Dillam of Saskatchewan; b. 28 Feb. 1925; adm. Jan. 1939 (B); left July 1942; Sergt RAFVR; killed in a flying accident 17 May 1945.

Vincent Reginald Woodburn “Reggie” Southworth was born on the 28th of February 1925 the son of Reginald Edward Southworth, an advertising executive for Odhams Press Ltd, and Dorothy Alice Mary (nee Dillam) Southworth of Gable End, Bushey Heath in Hertfordshire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from January 1939 to July 1942. While he was at the school he produced one of the house plays. On leaving school he worked at the Gainsborough Film Studios until he was old enough to join the armed forces. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he trained as an air gunner and rose to the rank of Sergeant. He took part in operations on Berchtesgaden and on the Skoda Works at Pilsen.
Vincent Southworth and his crew took off from RAF East Kirkby on the 17th of May 1945 in Lancaster Mk I RF124 LE-S for a training exercise. The crew had recently joined 630 Squadron. The aircraft was flying over Wednesfield near Wolverhampton when it experienced engine trouble. It was seen descending rapidly with smoke coming from its engines and it is thought that the pilot was attempting a forced landing in a large field to avoid some houses. As the aircraft approached the field it struck overhead high voltage cables and crashed onto Lichfield Road, Wednesfield at 5.15pm where it exploded violently, causing a five foot crater and scattering the wreckage over a large area. All on board were killed.
The crew was: -
Flying Officer Bernard Hall (Pilot)
Flying Officer Victor Francis Dobell Meade (Air Bomber)
Flying Officer Ronald James O’Donnell (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Gordon Leonard Rabbetts (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Vincent Reginald Woodburn Southworth (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant John Alfred Sills (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Reginald Harry Smith (Navigator)
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Bushey.
He is buried at Watford North Cemetery Section A, Cons. Grave 1213.

Tyler, Eric Douglas, son of Henry Herbert Tyler, shoe factor, of Leicester, and Agnes Cleopatra, d. of Frederic Sharpe of Sileby, Leics.; b. 30 Mar. 1917; adm. Jan. 1931 (B); left Dec. 1934; dyeing industry; Flt Sgt RAF Bomber Command, killed in action over Germany 8 July 1941.

Eric Douglas Tyler was born at Leicester, Leicestershire on the 30th of March 1917 the son of Henry Herbert Tyler, a shoe factory manager and company director, and Agnes Cleopatra (nee Sharpe) Tyler of “High Barn”, The Broadway, Stoughton Drive, South Oadby in Leicestershire. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from January 1931 to December 1934. On leaving school he worked in the dyeing industry. He was serving a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on the outbreak of war and was later promoted to Flight Sergeant.
On the night of the 12th/13th of May 1941, Bomber Command dispatched 42 Wellingtons, 41 Hampdens, 17 Whitley and 4 Manchesters for an operation on Mannheim and Ludwigshaven. It is thought that only 10 aircraft from the attacking force had bombed the two targets with damage being light. 5 people were killed on the ground during the raid with a further 3 injured. 26 aircraft reported that they had bombed alternative targets with Cologne reporting industrial buildings and an army barracks being hit with the death of 92 soldiers at the barracks.
Eric Tyler and his crew took off from RAF Waddington at 10pm on the 12th of May 1941 in Hampden Mk I X2982 KM - for the operation. Having completed their mission they were returning to base the aircraft was diverted to another airfield to the north. During this leg of their journey the aircraft ran out of fuel and the crew were forced to bail out. The aircraft crashed at 6.52am close to Catterick Bridge.
The crew was: -
Sergeant Eric Douglas Tyler (Pilot) (Killed in action 8th July 1941)
Sergeant Charles Forrest Greig (2nd Pilot) (Killed on active service 19th June 1941)
Sergeant Kenneth George Betts (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) (Killed in action 8th July 1941)
Sergeant Campbell (Wireless Operator)
On the night of the 8th/9th of July 1941, Bomber Command dispatched 45 Hampdens and 28 Whitleys for an operation on the railway marshalling yards at Hamm. In the event only 31 aircraft reported to have bombed the target.
Eric Tyler and his crew took off from RAF Waddington at 10pm on the 8th of July 1941 in Hampden Mk I AE153 KM- for the operation. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after takeoff and it is thought to have crashed into the sea with the loss of the entire crew.
The crew was: -
Sergeant Foster Wilson Black (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Sergeant Eric Douglas Tyler (Pilot)
Sergeant Mortimer Livis RCAF (Observer)
Sergeant Kenneth George Betts (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner)
Theirs was one of seven aircraft which were lost during the operation.
Foster Black’s body found in the sea by the German Patrol Boat 1207 on the 18th of August 1941 and was recovered. After identification, it was recommitted to the sea with full military honours.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial Panel 37.

Tetley-Jones, Tetley Ironside, son of William Tetley-Jones of Cooling Castle, Kent, and Mary Grizeal Garden, d. of Surgn Maj. William Ironside RM; b. 10 Sept. 1912; adm. Apr. 1926 (B); left Apr. 1931; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1934, MA 1960; Sgt Pilot RAFVR 1936; 2nd Lieut. RE (TA) Aug. 1938, transf. RA Aug. 1940 (Maj.); Army Air Force 1940-5, Sqdn Cdr/Maj. 1941; TD; man. dir. and chairman Tetley Tea Co. 1945, pres. Tetley Tea Co. Inc. USA 1946; introduced tea bags to the UK housewife; m. 1st 3 July 1937 Kathleen Beryl Le Strange, d. of Lieut.-Col. Henry William Herring MC RE, of Colchester; 2nd 12 May 1958 Mary Elizabeth Seebirt, d. of Eli Fowler Seebirt of South Bend, Indiana, USA; 3rd 21 May 1973 Ann, d. of Capt. Willie Hyde Dickens OBE JP, planter, of Kenya; d. 8 Sept. 1990.

Tilson, Barnard, son of Howard Tilson, mech. engineer, of Boston, MA, USA, and Margaret Barnard; b. 2 Jan. 1929; adm. Sept. 1946 (B); left July 1947; Cornell Univ., USA, BA; for 33 years with Connecticut Gen. Life Insurance Co., latterly as dir. strategic marketing; resident at Avon, CT, USA; m. 12 May 1950 Ann Thacher, d. of Thacher Jenney, of Lincoln, MA, USA; d. 28 Oct. 2004.

Turnbull, Colin Macmillan, son of John Rutherford Turnbull MC, chartered accountant, of Warnham, Sussex, and Dorothy Helena Wellesley, d. of Rev. Arthur Wellesley Chapman BD, of Toronto, Canada; b. 23 Nov. 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (B); left July 1942; Magdalen Coll. Oxf., matric. 1942, BA 1947, MA 1949; Sub-Lieut. RNVR Nov. 1944; Dip. Ed. (Lond. ) 1948; res. student Benares Hindu Univ., India 1950; Dip. Social Anthropology (Oxon. ) 1956, BLitt 1957, DPhil 1964; asst. curator Dept. of Anthropology American Museum of Nat. History, New York, USA 1959-69; Prof. Anthropology, George Washington Univ., Washington DC, USA 1976-85; author of The Forest People 1961, The People of Africa 1962; exchanged marriage vows with Joseph Allen Towles, ethnographer, in 1960; d. 1 Nov. 1994.

Wilson, Jeremy Michael, son of Clifford Wilson DM FRCP, Prof. of Medicine, Univ. of London, and Kathleen, d. of Harry Hebden, manufacturing chemist, of Halifax, Yorks; b. 4 May 1944; adm. Sept. 1957 (B); left Dec. 1962; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1963, BA 1966, MA 1971; LSE, MSc 1967; a writer and ed. Ogilvy British Telecom; Eurotunnel 2001-7, co-authored Eurotunnel: The Illustrated Journey 1994; a contemporary historian, biographer and fine-press publisher; authorised biographer of Lawrence of Arabia 1989, and numerous other publications relating to T. E. Lawrence; m. 1 Mar. 1975 Nicole Yvette Helari, ed., d. of Roger Raymond Helari, shipping agent, of Dunkerque, France; d. 2 Apr. 2017.

Barker, Rodney Mylne, son of Geoffrey Mylne Barker MC, solicitor, of Gerrards Cross, Bucks, and Sybil Joyce, d. of Frank Hickman of Oxted, Surrey; grandson of Charles Mylne Barker (qv); b. 15 Sept. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1952; Trin. Hall. Camb., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1959; fenced against Oxford 1953-5; adm. solicitor 1959, practised in London 1959-63; MA Teaching, Oberlin Coll., OH, USA 1964-5; secondary sch. teacher, USA 1965-77; chmn. History Dept., Thayer Acad., Braintree, MA, USA 1969-77; adm. attorney-at-law, MA, USA 1977, practised in MA, USA; Alderman, City of Newton, MA, 1977-89; dir. paralegal program, Mount Ida Coll. Newton, MA 1979-1982; Prof. of US Immigration Law, Suffolk Univ., MA 2001-8; jt. author, Solicitors’ Clerks’ Handbook 1957 and 1964; editor-in-chief, Immigration Options for Religious Workers, American Immigration Lawyers Assn. 2005, 2010; m. 10 May 1958 Elizabeth Hatfield Hines, teacher, d. of Frank Bristow Hines of Cleveland, OH, USA; d. 2017

Anderson, William, brother of Ronald George Anderson (qv); b. 30 Mar. 1936; adm. May 1950 (B); left Apr. 1954; Univ. of Aberdeen; a farmer; m. 1 July 1960 Margaret Watt Taylor of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; d. 30 Mar. 1973.

Evers, Gilbert Davey, son of Harold Evers of Bromley; b. 11 Jan. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (B), (A) Sept. 1926; left Apr. 1929; RAFVR 1939-45 (Flt Serg., flying instructor); PO Jan. 1945; killed in air operations over Germany 28 Jan. 1945.

Gilbert Davey “Pop” Evers was born at Bromley, Kent on the 11th of January 1912 the younger son of Harold Evers, a chartered secretary, and Rhoda Skene (nee Heathcote) Evers of 6, Haven Green, Ealing in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1925 and up Ashburnham from September 1926 to April 1929.
He was granted a short service commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Acting Pilot Officer on the 21st of October 1935 and was confirmed in his rank on the 21st of October 1936. He resigned his commission on the 11th of March 1937.
On the outbreak of war he was working as an instrument flying instructor and was lodging at 83, Grand Avenue, Hassocks in Sussex.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940 where he rose to the rank of Warrant Officer before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 16th of January 1945.
On the 28th of January 1945, Bomber Command dispatched 153 Lancasters for an operation on the Gremberg railway marshalling yards at Cologne. The weather was clear and the target was hit but with some bombs overshooting.
Gilbert Evers and his crew took off from RAF Chedburgh at 10.46am on the 27th of January 1945 in Lancaster Mk I PD296 HA-B, as the Squadron’s lead aircraft for the operation. This was to be his 30th operation, the final one of his tour of operations. While the aircraft was in the target area it was hit by anti aircraft fire and crashed at 2pm at Bergisch-Gladbach, 14 kilometres to the east north east of the centre of Cologne, with the loss of all but one of the crew.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer Gilbert Davey Evers (Pilot)
Sgt Ernest Noel James Francis (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer Frederick J. Norton (2nd Navigator) (Wounded) (POW)
Flight Sergeant Anthony Morris (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant David Charles Allen (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Eric Holland (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Edward Bertram Barradell (Air Gunner)
Warrant Officer John Towns DFC (Air Gunner)
Theirs was one of four aircraft which were lost during the operation, one of which crash landed in liberated France.
The navigator, Frederick Norton, was the only member of the crew to survive. He had been wounded by shrapnel in the arm but landed safely by parachute and was captured. Had Gilbert Evers survived the operation he would have been stood down from further operations.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at the Church of Christ the Saviour, Ealing.
He is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 31, Row C, Grave 1.