Joe Welsh. Photo: Loy White
Photo: Vin Mullen
J. Welsh
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
27th November 1943 Age 22
A loving son
An Airman brave
For those he loved
His young life he gave. R.I.P.
Vin Mullen has provided the following:
Joseph Welsh Sergeant (Air Gunner). 626 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Death recorded BMD Deaths Dec 1943. Joseph Welsh age 22 Downham 4b 415
Sgt. Welsh was serving with 626 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I DV295 UM-M2 which took off from Wickenby on a mission to Berlin. The aircraft crashed on return, killing all the crew.
This was a night of 26/27 November 1943 which saw 56 aircraft crashing, mostly Lancasters, with a crew of 7 in each. Some were injured, some were taken prisoner but most, approx. 350, died.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3>
Joseph Welsh is remembered at Jarrow on J2.07
