Johnson: In addition to general sources identified elsewhere the author is particularly grateful for the assistance of the individuals who contributed to the information about this Kirkby serviceman. He would be very happy to record their names here in any future edition.
Hudson: May Barnes; Margaret Leece; Andy Moss; George Woods (newspaper cutting); Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Peter Dunstan’s British Far East Prisoners of War, Graves Archives; Imperial War Museum; Royal Artillery Historical Trust.
Simpson: Ethel Atkinson (deceased); Dick Cooper; Winnie Edmondson (Eleanor’s granddaughter); Andrew Farish; Margaret Leece; Howard Martin; Bill Smith; Life of a Regiment: the Gordon Highlanders’ Regimental History; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Chambers: Ethel Atkinson (no relation); Dick Cooper; Edith Farish; Dorothy Hudson; Val Tennet (daughter); Phyllis Tyson.
Spry: In addition to general sources identified elsewhere the author is particularly grateful for the assistance of the individuals who contributed to the information about this Kirkby serviceman. He would be very happy to record their names here in any future edition.
Farish: J. Austin, Chairman, Cumbria Aviation Research Group; A. Butterworth of Liverpool, author of A History of 97 Squadron RAF Air Historical Branch; Kathleen Clampitt, Frazer’s widow; Mr and Mrs Andrew Farish; Freddy Wayles M.B.E. (Kirkby Caller article); G. Musgrove, Pathfinder Force (Crecy Books, 1992); The Ulverstonian Ulverston Grammar School School Magazine; 97 Squadron (http://www.97squadronassociation.co.uk).
Cartmell: In addition to general sources identified elsewhere the author is particularly grateful for the assistance of the individuals who contributed to the information about this Kirkby serviceman. He would be very happy to record their names here in any future edition.