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Banyer, J., F/Sgt., 1943
In Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 1039743 Flight Sergeant James Banyer, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died 05/05/1943.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

F/Sgt Banyer was killed when Shot Stirling I EF345 LS-M of 15 Squadron was lost on a mission to Dortmund. The Stirling crashed near Anholt, with the loss of six of the eight crew members. The two survivors became P.o.W.s.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943; W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 133

Also killed in the same incident was Sgt. William Jennings

James Banyer is remembered in Blaydon on B111.08


The CWGC entry for Flight Sergeant Banyer

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

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