Photo: Dorothy Hall
A token of undying
love for our only son
Nichol Curd
Sergt. Wireless Operator
R.A.F. (V.R.) crashed at Lincoln
after his 23rd operational
flight over enemy territory
November 8th 1942
aged 22 years.
He did his duty.
Sacred
to the memory of
Margaret
dear sister of
the above and
devoted wife of
?John Joseph ?Ogg ?Ogle
departed ( . . . .)
(The rest is obscured by vegetation in the photo)
Sgt. Curd was a crew member of Lancaster bomber W4265 WS-L which had flown from R.A.F. Waddington on a sortie to Genova. All the crew were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1942. W.R. Chorley; Midland Counties Publications; 1994; ISBN 0 904597 89 X
He is remembered in Penshaw on P29.02
