Kimblesworth Churchyard
1595094 Sergeant
V. B. Myers
Royal Air Force
13th July 1944 Age 21
In memory of
my beloved husband
and sweetheart
Our happiness was so short
Sergeant Myers was serving with 1662 H.C.U. He was a crew member of Halifax II W7778 which took off from Blyton on a Bullseye Training sortie. It crashed near Sotby in Lincolnshire killing all the crew.
N0 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit Codes: PE and KF
Formed 29.1.41 at Blyton with a UE of 16+0 B MkI. II and Halifaxes and 16+0 Lancasters. Satellite airfield Elsham Wolds. Also received some B Mk III Halifaxes. On 12.2.44 Lancaster flight moved to Hemswell (Lancaster Finishing School). Disbanded 6.4.45.
Handley Page Ltd
Contract No B73328/40, requisition 24/E11/39. Deliveries commenced 24.3.42 (W7650). B MkII W7650-7679, W7695-7720, W7745-7784, W7801-7826, W7844-7887, W7906-7939.
The Handley Page Halifax K. A. Merrick, Aston Publications. 1990 ISBN 629133343
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Vol.8: Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947; W.R. Chorley; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 156 3
Victor Bramwell Myers is remembered at Kimblesworth on K24.02
