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Harry Hugh Whitehouse - T/56429
Cyril George Whiteley - 1451555
Halifax
Cyril George Whiteley was bon in the first quarter of 1923 in Rotherham to Charles A Whiteley and Mary A (nee Hanstock).
Cyril enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, service number 1451555, becoming a Sergeant. After training as a navigator he was posted to 102 Squadron based at Pocklington near York. The squadron was part of Bomber Command and operated the four engined Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber. On the night of 29/30 July 1943 he was scheduled with his crew to fly their first operational sortie. They were part of a force of 777 aircraft - 340 Lancasters, 244 Halifaxes, 119 Stirlings, 70 Wellingtons, 4 Mosquitos being dispatched to Hamburg. The intention was to approach Hamburg from almost due north and bomb those northern and north-eastern districts which had so far not been bombed. Sgt Whiteley and his fellow crew members were allocated a veteran aircraft serial number W7883. This Halifax had 205.05 hours on the airframe and had undergone two lengthy periods of repair after sustaining battle damage in November 1942 and March 1943. At 22.39 they
were airborne from Pockington in W7883 which had a 102 squadron coding of DY-R. The aircraft was shot down at 00:57 by a night- fighter (Lt Gotthard Sachsenberg, 11./NJG3 flying a Dornier 217) from 18,000 feet, crashing at Todesfelde, 6 miles of Bad Segeberg killing all the seven man crew. The crew were initially buried at Neumunster, but after the war they were moved to the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. Cyril George Whiteley was 20 years old when he was killed.
Note
The other crew members were:
F/S Thomas Albert MacQuarie - 1331712 (pilot), aged 22
Sgt G.P.Woodroffe - 931971 (flight engineer), aged 21
F/O Alexander Frederick Williams RAAF – 408557 (bomb aimer), aged 21
Sgt Ernest Edward Wright - 1292308 (air gunner), aged 23
Sgt John Frederick Alfred Trehearn - 1267812 (wireless operator / air gunner), aged 21
Sgt Raymond Hardie Morgan – 1154112 (air gunner), aged 29
The pilot of the German night fighter aircraft Lt Gottard G F W Sachsenberg , he had two known victories and was killed in action on 8 April 1944.
Cyril enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, service number 1451555, becoming a Sergeant. After training as a navigator he was posted to 102 Squadron based at Pocklington near York. The squadron was part of Bomber Command and operated the four engined Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber. On the night of 29/30 July 1943 he was scheduled with his crew to fly their first operational sortie. They were part of a force of 777 aircraft - 340 Lancasters, 244 Halifaxes, 119 Stirlings, 70 Wellingtons, 4 Mosquitos being dispatched to Hamburg. The intention was to approach Hamburg from almost due north and bomb those northern and north-eastern districts which had so far not been bombed. Sgt Whiteley and his fellow crew members were allocated a veteran aircraft serial number W7883. This Halifax had 205.05 hours on the airframe and had undergone two lengthy periods of repair after sustaining battle damage in November 1942 and March 1943. At 22.39 they
were airborne from Pockington in W7883 which had a 102 squadron coding of DY-R. The aircraft was shot down at 00:57 by a night- fighter (Lt Gotthard Sachsenberg, 11./NJG3 flying a Dornier 217) from 18,000 feet, crashing at Todesfelde, 6 miles of Bad Segeberg killing all the seven man crew. The crew were initially buried at Neumunster, but after the war they were moved to the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. Cyril George Whiteley was 20 years old when he was killed.
Note
The other crew members were:
F/S Thomas Albert MacQuarie - 1331712 (pilot), aged 22
Sgt G.P.Woodroffe - 931971 (flight engineer), aged 21
F/O Alexander Frederick Williams RAAF – 408557 (bomb aimer), aged 21
Sgt Ernest Edward Wright - 1292308 (air gunner), aged 23
Sgt John Frederick Alfred Trehearn - 1267812 (wireless operator / air gunner), aged 21
Sgt Raymond Hardie Morgan – 1154112 (air gunner), aged 29
The pilot of the German night fighter aircraft Lt Gottard G F W Sachsenberg , he had two known victories and was killed in action on 8 April 1944.