More Possible 21 BDS Names

This is a list of men who may have also been with 21 BDS on that fateful day in 1944.

This web site invites any relations or friends of these men to contact the editors with their stories so we can add their names and stories to the existing but incomplete list of the men who made up 21 BDS.

  • Patkin, Ben (Bernard?) Flight Lieutenant
  • Hague, Flying Officer
  • Rowe – Major or Corporal?
  • Cook, Les (Leslie)
  • Melson, Nick (Nicholas?) (Melsom?).
  • Newsom, Stan (Stanley)
  • Johnson, (Jock)
  • Pears, Hughie (Hugh?)
  • Dicks, Doug (Douglas?)
  • Martin, (Clem)
  • Mervin, (unknown)
  • Telfor, Bill (William?)
  • Pearce, Sid (Sidney, Sydney)
  • McManus, (Mac)
  • Howe, (Tiny)
  • Gargraves, Don (Donald?)
  • Extall, Alec
  • Pont, Ron (Ronald?)
  • George, Norman
  • Knowles, Bill (William?)
  • Richards, John
  • Kay, Tommy (Thomas?)
  • Child, Percy
  • Scadding, George
  • Effie (but this may have been Effinberger)
  • Echerat, Flt/Sgt
  • Edain, Sgt
  • Scalding, LAC
  • Kaye, LAC (may be Tommy Kay)

One Response

  1. I’m almost certain that my father, Corporal Harry Hill, was also a member of this group and was wounded almost straight away on landing on Omaha beach. He was a signal man whose job was to erect the aerials for shore to ship communications.

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