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WATERHOUSES

Truby, J., Sgt., 1944

Photo: Dorothy Hall

On the Runnymede Memorial is the name of 1595391 Sergeant James Truby, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 06/10/1944.

In Waterhouses Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:-

In loving memory
of
William Truby
Theresa Truby
James Truby R.A.F.
Doris Hewitosn
R.I.P.

Sgt. Truby was serving with 115 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I LL880 KO-D which took off from Witchford on a mission to Dortmund and crashed in Germany.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944. W.R. Chorley. Midland Counties Publications 1997 ISBN 0-904597 91 1

James Truby is remembered at Bowburn on B149.04, at Esh Winning on E67.10 and E67.15 and at Waterhouses on W132.04


The CWGC entry for Sergeant Truby

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk