Off Topic LEST WE FORGET

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Howden Tigress said:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn; We will remember them. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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After surviving the Battle of Britain my dad, a pilot in the RAF, went missing when his plane was shot down over the Mediterranean in 1942 a couple of months before I was born. His remains were never recovered and mum never re-married.

My husband's uncle died in France in WW1 aged 18. Fought in the infantry with the East Yorkshire Regiment. Awarded the Military Medal which is currently in Sydney with his cousin.
 
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CANADATIGER said:
RIP Flight Lieutenant Ronald Foster Cass (Age 33)

Shot down over Duisburg - November 3rd 1944

I Miss You Dad..Every Day...We'll be Together Soon!!

You are my Hero... All my Love....Roger...xxxxooo
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My dad was also 33 CT. Started in the RAF as a Pilot Officer in 1935 and promoted to Flight Lieutenant before being demoted to PO due to disciplinary reasons. In Fighter Command for Battle of Britain and after a short break training pilots joined Bomber Command. Flew Sunderland flying boats and then Swordfish Torpedo bombers. Became acting FL and then acting Squadron Leader before being downed in the Med in 1942.

Two Australian members of his crew were found washed up on the Med coast. When mum died in South Africa I buried all his service medals with her.
 
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Mrs. BLUE_MOUNTAINS_BEAR said:
My dad was also 33 CT. Started in the RAF as a Pilot Officer in 1935 and promoted to Flight Lieutenant before being demoted to PO due to disciplinary reasons. In Fighter Command for Battle of Britain and after a short break training pilots joined Bomber Command. Flew Sunderland flying boats and then Swordfish Torpedo bombers. Became acting FL and then acting Squadron Leader before being downed in the Med in 1942.

Two Australian members of his crew were found washed up on the Med coast. When mum died in South Africa I buried all his service medals with her.
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Some interesting similarities there Mrs BMB. Both our Dads were 33 when they were killed. That's unusual because in those days your chances of still flying Bombers at 33 were very slim, due to very high mortality rates, or transfer to ground/desk jobs, after reaching the required number of flying operations were very high.

In my Dads Lancaster Bomber crew of 7 the average age was 22. I'm sure your Dad was the "Old Man" in his Bomber crew. Fortunately three of them survived their bail-out to eventually return to England in mid-1945. My Dad had turned down the offer of a non-flying job after reaching the flying op limit because his only brother, and best friend, Lieutenant Howard Cass, had been killed in the Libyan Desert at Mersah Matruh while fighting Rommels Africa Corps in August 1942.

So sad that we have both gone through our lives without the love and presence of our brave Dads to guide and comfort us. I often wonder how different our lives might have been if they had lived.

God bless them both, and you Mrs BMB.
 
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