No 11 Squad

B Flight

RAF Uxbridge 1938


The back of this photograph is reproduced below showing signatures of the men in the picture. We thought it would be an interesting project to try to identify all the men and what happened to them. As you can see they are mostly initials and surnames so the first step was to try to identify their full names. Which we managed to do. We don't expect to be able to put names to the faces - but if we get lucky we might be able to do that for the odd one or two. 

Here are the names in the order they appear on the postcard, with their Service Numbers. Dad hasn't signed the card and his service number was 621812. As you might have expected all of the service numbers are fairly close to each other.

Frank Hawkins 621811

William Trevor Williams 622201

William Sydney Johnston 622185

Douglas Hilton Smith 621820

Albert Edward Wright 621808

George Allen Clark 622184

Eric Gardiner Voce 622180

William Leslie Shaw 622195

Joseph Alexander Boyd 622196

Richard Henderson 622202

James Ogg 622207

Reginald John Farrier 621809

John Eric Clay 621813

James Campbell Smith 622182

Sidney Lewthwaite Simpson 622183

Simon Brown 622191

Ernest Harry Pownall 621889

Horace Ernest Morecock 622179

William Percival 621831

Edward Arthur Green 621821

Eric Meiklereid 621810

Corporal Murray

Two of these men died during the war, both when their bombers were shot down over Germany. The remainder survived the war.