Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Cyril Oscar Channing -

Name

Cyril Oscar Channing, son of Oscar and Ellen Channing, of Ventnor
 
Biography

Sgt 1337189 Cyril Oscar Channing, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

CWGC record ...

Further information

Name appears on the following memorials :

Ventnor War Memorial
Ventnor Holy Trinity Boy Scouts' Memorial

Date of Death :	Died 12th June 1944 Aged 22
Where buried or commemorated :	Air Forces Memorial Runnymede Panel 226
Aircraft :	Short Sunderland Mk III of 228 Sqn.
Crew
:	Flt/Lt M E Slaughter, Royal Canadian Air Force	CWGC record ...
:	Flt/Lt D H Griffiths	CWGC record ...
:	Flt/Lt R L Griffin	CWGC record ...
:	F/O L C Dadds, Royal Australian Air Force	CWGC record ...
:	W/O J A Foubister	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt W H Carr	CWGC record ...
:	Flt/Sgt H J Chester	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt J F Bleach	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt C O Channing	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt W Patterson	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt L Segaloff	CWGC record ...

228 Sqn was based at Pembroke Dock between 1943 and 1945 flying anti-submarine patrols. On 12th June 1944 a German U-boat U993 (Oblt. Kurt Hilbig) reported being attacked and returning fire on a Sunderland which crashed into the sea and blew up.

Information provided by John Bloodworth

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