The Royal Australian Air Force lost 11 men:
Flight Sergeant James Burgess (21),
Flight Sergeant Lloyd Fallon (24), Pilot Officer Charles Hill (20),
Flight Sergeant Raymond James (20),
Flight Sergeant Thomas Loather (21),
Flight Sergeant Ronald Mallory (31), Warrant Officer Brian Marstin (22),
Flight Sergeant Douglas McCauley (22), Flying Officer Alan Patton (27),
Flight Sergeant Robert Throw (21), and Private Arthur Cosgrove (21).
Officer Commanding 163 Squadron, Flt Lt Samantha Collins said, "this is the first cadet from 163 Squadron to have been selected for this training so I am very proud of
Flight Sergeant David.
Ray Williams has been desperately trying to discover what happened to
Flight Sergeant Haydn Davies, who flew from RAF Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, with the rest of his 207 Squadron on a bombing raid on October 18, 1943.
Air Cadet
Flight Sergeant Jamie Gutteridge, from 1869 (Middlesbrough) Squadron, was awarded a bursary from the Greensward Charitable Trust.
Flight Sergeant Andrew Hack, 44, took the images with a camcorder while laying on the grass at the race meeting last month.
Flight Sergeant Robert Burke, part of the Navigational Aids Flight at 90 Signals Unit, was given the Wing Commander Bye Sword which is presented annually to a junior officer or senior non-commissioned officer at RAF Leeming.
On July 9,
Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey, a casualty of the Second World War, was laid to rest with full military honours at Rheinberg War Cemetery in Germany.
This passion continued into his teens, when the Oxford-born journalist learned to fly with the RAF ("I was
Flight Sergeant Sergeant at one stage") and later, when he reported for the BBC from conflicts in Northern Ireland, Vietnam and Israel.
They were pilot Sergeant David Raikes; navigator
Flight Sergeant David Perkins; wireless operator and air gunner
Flight Sergeant Alexander Bostock, all 20 and from the RAF Volunteer Reserve, as well as Australian air gunner Warrant Officer John Hunt, 21, from the Royal Australian Air Force.
Flight Sergeant Neil Cooper, of RAF Valley, said Llanberis mountain rescue team helped place him on a stretcher and 22 Squadron were called out at 5.30pm to airlift him to Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
Flight Sergeant Richard "Taff" Lane, 45, and 18-year-old Steven will soon be off to Afghanistan.