A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Northwood Cemetery (Cowes) : Peter John Edward Maddox -

Location

In Northwood Cemetery, Cowes, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Standard CWGC headstone. WW II pattern.
Grave Location : 9504
Headstone


 
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Inscription


1334594 FLIGHT SERGEANT
P J E MADDOX
WIRELESS OPERATOR / AIR GUNNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
19TH APRIL 1944 AGE 22
+
FOREVER YOUNG


 
Further Information

Peter John Edward Maddox
 
Son of : Herbert W Maddox and Mary Maddox (née Morgan), of Cowes, Isle of Wight.
 
Born : 1921, Forden, Montgomeryshire.
 
CWGC record ...
 
Squadron :115 Sqn
Aircraft :Avro Lancaster Mk.I : LL867 : A4-J
Crew :
Pilot :Flt/Lt C Eddy MBE, RNZAFCWGC record ...
Flight Engineer :Flg/Off A SmithCWGC record ...
Flight Engineer :Sgt W L MurphyCWGC record ...
Air Bomber :Flt/Sgt H E PughCWGC record ...
Air Gunner :Sgt A F LangbridgeCWGC record ...
Air Gunner :WO2 H Bennis, RCAFCWGC record ...

 
The aircraft took off at 22:43 hrs from RAF Witchford to bomb Rouen, and were shot down on their return over their own aerodrome by an Me410 night fighter at 03.48 hrs. All the crew members died and most were buried in their home towns. C Eddy (who was Australian) and Canadian H Bennis were buried in Cambridge City Cemetery.

Information from John Bloodworth
 
Commemorated at :

Cowes Town War Memorial
Newport Grammar School Book of Remembrance


 
 

 
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