Flight Sergeant George Thomas Coubrough 98 Squadron November 1942

R.94968 Flight Sergeant

G T Coubrough

Pilot

Royal Canadian Air Force

30th November 1942. Age 20

 

At Rest with Jesus

 

COUBROUGH, GEORGE THOMAS

Rank:………………………………………………………..Flight Sergeant

Trade:………………………………………………………Pilot

Service No:………………………………………………R/94968

Date of Death:…………………………………………30/11/1942

Age:…………………………………………………………20

Service:……………………………………………………Royal Canadian Air Force, 98 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Grave Reference………………………………………Grave 10.

Cemetery

SWANTON MORLEY (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

Additional Information:

Son of Harvey H. Coubrough and May V. Coubrough, of Coronach, Saskatchewan, Canada.

CWGC: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2764461/COUBROUGH,%20...

 

George Thomas Coubrough was known to his family and friends as "Bud." The second of their three children, Bud was his parents' only son. Bud's father, Harve, himself one of four sons of Matt and Liz Coubrough of Ogema, Saskatchewan, to have served overseas in the First World War, was one of only two who came home. Bud had celebrated his 20th birthday a little over a month before his plane crashed into a power line during a training flight, leaving behind his parents, two sisters, Edith and Evelyn, and his best girl, Jac. Coubrough Lake in northern Saskatchewan (near Lac LaRonge) is named for Bud. (There is a picture of George taken in the Spring of 1942 at these sites)

www.breckland-rollofhonour.org.uk/s_morley.html

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid...

 

12578 to RAF as Mitchell II FL708. Hit overhead cables and crashed near East Dereham, England Nov 30, 1942

cgibin.rcn.com/jeremy.k/cgi-bin/gzUsafSearch.pl?target=&a....

 

Born 22nd September 1922.

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The rest of that month (September) consisted of forming the new squadron and acquiring Mitchells.

 

October, during which the Squadron moved to Foulsham in Norfolk, was described in 98 Squadron Operations Records Books (ORB), as "excessive rain, camp in disgraceful

condition." The Squadron population included seventeen officers, eighty-seven NCOs and two hundred and six ground crew.

 

November saw more training flights and included two fatal crashes, one on 16 Nov 42 where Mitchell FL179 stalled and crashed on approach to Attlebridge, with the entire crew receiving fatal injuries:

 

F/S Williams, K. Pilot (RAFVR)

F/S Seravanos, N. NavB (RAFVR)

F/S Crowe, W.S. W/OpAG (RAFVR)

 

And on 30 November Mitchell FL708 was lost in a training accident along with the lives of all

crew when it hit an overhead cable and crashed near Dereham, Norfolk:

Sgt Coubrough, G. T. Pilot (RCAF)

Sgt Duffield, R.A. NavB (RAF)

Sgt Smith, H.R. W/OpAG (RAFVR)

LAC Imber, G. Passenger (RAFVR)

Source: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2SzSab6qqSQ...

 

Sergeant Ronald Alan Duffield, Observer, aged 23 is buried in Putney Vale and Crematorium.

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2429681/DUFFIELD,%20R...

Leading Aircraftman George Imber, aged 20, is buried in Feltham Cemetery.

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2430696/IMBER,%20GEORGE

George’s headstone can be seen here

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=41878235

 

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