Photo: Dorothy Hall
J.G. Tallentire
Observer
Royal Air Force
27th February 1942 age 31
Sgt. Tallentire was serving with 16 OTU. He was a crew member of Hampden I P5319 which took off from Upper Heyford on a night navigation training exercise. The power from one engine was lost and the aircraft crashed. Three of the four crew members were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses, Volume 7: Operational Training Units, 1940-1947 W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6.
John Gilbert Tallentire is remembered at High Etherley on H127.01 and H127.02 and in Monkwearmouth on M46.02 page 113
