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Winter 1943/44 'Battle of Berlin',  RAF Bomber Command, Arnold Scheme pilot training 1942,  55,573 aircrew were killed during the second world war, Research, 625 Squadron RAF Kelstern, 626 Squadron RAF Wickenby, 100 squadron RAF Waltham, research into RAF Bomber Command operations.  Berlin op 30th/31st January 1944.  WWII Pilot A/W/O James Kenneth Ives RAFVR.

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Lilian Noble Friend

Lilian Noble joined London's Civil Defence organisation at the outbreak of the Second World War at the age of 19.


Lilian apparently secured her first job for the British Postal Telephone service as a telephonist in August 1936.

Harold William Powter

As with so many of the airmen who were Jim Ives' contemporaries Harold Powter's luck eventually ran out.


 Having completed a tour of operations with the 625 Squadron crew of Canadian pilot P/O Reginald Price DFC,


Cecil Henry Gardener Friend

Information has come to light concerning Jim's friend and work colleague Cecil Henry Gardener.


Cecil was a few weeks older than Jim, born in late August 1922 in Muswell Hill and was educated at Coldfall Elementary School, and Tollington Boys Grammar School, both in Muswell Hill.



Cecil left school in the summer of 1939 having passed the General Schools' Certificate with exemption from matriculation. Initially working in his mother's café for a short time Cecil secured a clerical job with Gaumont British Films

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It may be reasonable to assume that those listed with

Coldwell-Horsfall and Bull are therefore also 42G graduates:-




1576252 George David Coldwell-Horsfall (127257)

655545 Anthony Francis Gobbie (127235)

1041330 Keith Marples Gosling (127242)

1260816 Walter John Howes (127241)

1449573 Geoffrey Francis Snow (127254)


AAFAFS(TE)  - Turner Field  2-6-42 to 5-8-42


Lt J B Magee- USAAF instructor.


Lt Cole- USAAF instructor.


Lt E E Winklow- USAAF instructor.


LAC G L Jenkins  –pilot u/t


LAC G D Coldwell-Horsfall   –pilot u/t


LAC Thould – pilot u/t


LAC Henry Bull –pilot u/t


LAC E C Hughes –pilot u/t


LAC J A Harrison –pilot u/t


LAC J Ford –pilot u/t


LAC H Henderson –pilot u/t


LAC R T Hughes –pilot u/t


LAC R Cant –pilot u/t


LAC J Foster –pilot u/t



S/L G M Rothwell Operational liaison Officer –P/O Pink - 120582


P/O Leslie Albert Pink RAF instructor.


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1576252 George David Coldwell-Horsfall (127257) is known to have been a 42G graduate on multi-engine aircraft and was retained as an instructor at the end of his Arnold training.


The name preceding his in the Gazette entry is that of Henry Bull, another name from Jimmie’s log book.


By association it may be reasonable to assume that those listed with Coldwell-Horsfall and Bull are therefore also 42G graduates:-



1386658 Edward Bennett (127220)


1338817 Eldin Allan Clerk (127219)


657603 John Cunningham (127214)


1501836 Malcolm Edwin Ellacott (127215)


1338330 Leslie Hector George Kent (127233)


1389165 Kenneth Lock (127230)  


1335242 Julian Vincent MacDonald (127206)


1432987 Harold Edward Matthews (127231)


1383768 Graham Stuart Pearson (127224)


1321680 Keith Bertram Robinson (127209)


1475269 Rowland Basil Sexton (127218)


1337288 Edgar Lancelot Spridgeon (127227)


1333870 Dick Meldrum Alfred Banton (127256)


1346591 Henry Bull (127253)


1576252 George David Coldwell-Horsfall (127257)


655545 Anthony Francis Gobbie (127235)


1041330 Keith Marples Gosling (127242)


1260816 Walter John Howes (127241)


1449573 Geoffrey Francis Snow (127254)


1232311 Peter John Abbott (127346)


1314937 Basil Godfrey Bensted (127342)


1389168 Michael Tom Dickinson (127355)  


1344414 James Girvan McCall (127340)


1391153 Eric Alexander Rennie (127347)


1387593 Edward Nelson Slade (127351)


1339543 Donald Edward Colebrook (127200)


1432816 Neil Watson Crabtree (127190)


1316782 Gilbert William Sledge (127199)


1337106 Robert Smyth (127197)


1385549 Joseph Raven (127193)


1320776 William Francis Raybould (127196)


1533973 David Rushfirth (127198)


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