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Location
In Northwood Cemetery, Cowes, Isle of Wight Description Additional Memorial stone on parents' grave. |
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Headstone
Flt Lt Barry Wadham Photo courtesy of Barry Groves |
Inscriptions
ARTHUR ERNEST WADHAM BORN APRIL 19TH 1868 DIED AUGUST 8TH 1943 PEACE PERFECT PEACE IN LOVING MEMORY OF SIMPSON C. WADHAM SON OF THE ABOVE, DIED NOVEMBER 28TH 1966 AGED 72. FLORENCE THE BELOVED WIFE OF ARTHUR ERNEST WADHAM BORN SEPT 20TH 1864 DIED NOV 18TH 1937 "LORD IN THY MERCY GRANT HOLY REST AND PEACE" In Proud And Loving Memory of F/LT BARRY S H WADHAM D.F.C. ROYAL AIR FORCE KILLED IN ACTION OVER HAMBURG APRIL 5TH 1945 AGED 21 YEARS GEORGINA ELLEN WADHAM BELOVED WIFE OF SIMPSON WADHAM DIED APRIL 1ST 1976 AGED 74 YEARS Further Information
The aircraft took off at 19.55 hrs from RAF Oakington to bomb Rhenania Oil Plant. F/Lt Wadham had flown over 53 Ops, and he and three crew members are buried at Becklingen War Cemetery. F/Sgt Minns and F/O Haralambides (who was a Cypriot) are buried at Hanover War Cemetery. Information and memorial photograph from John Bloodworth Commemorated at : Cowes Town War Memorial Cowes Conservative Club Roll of Honour Newport Grammar School Book of Remembrance Barry Groves writes : Barry Simpson Herridge Wadham DFC - born in Cowes in 1923, educated at Crewkern School, Somerset. Enlisted October 1941 and trained in Canada as Lancaster bomber pilot. Commissioned in July 1944 Number 179945. Joined 7th Squadron as Flight Lieutenant. Shot down over Germany on 5th April 1945 aged 21. Buried in Becklingen War Cemetery. I was named after him when I was born in 1946 as both my mother and father worked for the Wadham family and they had all been very kind to them. My father worked for Sim Wadham and AE & SC Wadham Estate Agents and my mother worked for Mr Wadham who lived at 155 Park Road as a relief housekeeper when Miss Batt had to have time off. Barry Groves has written the definitive history of Isle of Wight Scouting - see his book A History of Scouting on the Isle of Wight 1907 - 2007 |
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page last updated : 11 February 2015 (link to Cowes Conservative Club Roll of Honour)
page last updated : 11 February 2015 (link to Cowes Conservative Club Roll of Honour)