Adams, James Richard Branston
Personal Information
Rank | Sgt |
Forename(s) | James Richard Branston |
Surname | Adams |
Gender | M |
Age | 24 |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 18-02-1942 |
Next of Kin | Son of Horace Edmund and Florence Adelaide Adams, of Tilford, Surrey. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Handley Page Hampden I |
Serial Number | AN915 |
Markings | PT-F |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | Netherlands |
Burial/Memorial Place | Schiermonnikoog (Vredenhof) Cemetery |
Grave Reference | Grave 68. |
Epitaph |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 1 |
Panel Number | 1 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 932367 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 5 |
Squadron | 420 (Snowy Owl) |
Trade | Air Gunner |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Outside former St. Georges Hotel, Teesside Airport, County Durham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Slate Tablet on Memorial Stone |
Memorial Text | In memory of those who served at RAF Croft, 1941-1945 including 420 Sqn RCAF |
Location | Village Green, Tholthorpe, North Yorkshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stone Memorial, inscribed Metal Plaque and Maple Tree |
Memorial Text | A memorial, in English & French, to those Canadians who served at RAF Tholthorpe during WW2, including 420 (RCAF) Sqn |
Location | Former Control Tower, Tholthorpe Airfield, North Yorkshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | A memorial to those Canadians who served at RAF Tholthorpe during WW2, including 420 Sqn |
Miscellaneous Information
The aircraft's exhausted carrier pigeon was found by army personnel some three days later carrying an SOS message giving the aircraft position |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1825/4 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1825/3 |
Fellow Servicemen
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 18-02-1942 |
End Date | 19-02-1942 |
Takeoff Station | Waddington |
Day/Night Raid | Night (14% moon) |
Operation | Mine laying off the Frisians |
Reason for Loss | Hit by flak at 8000' and crashed off Schiermonnikoog |