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Kilmurvey Inishmore Ireland

Kilmurvey Inishmore Ireland

Posted: 7 Jul 2010 11:09AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tizzard
I recently visited the Aran Islands and there was a small cemetery near the B&B where I stayed in Kilmurvey on Inishmore. I photographed many of the headstones there. If you have an A. Tizzard who was a flight sergeant who died in 1941, age 26 from there, I have a photo of the headstone.

Re: Kilmurvey Inishmore Ireland

Posted: 29 May 2012 7:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
an addendum to your message:

Flight Sergeant Alfred Tizzard, 540427, 210 Squadron RAF

Buried Inishmore, Aran Islands, 21st April 1941.

Son of Cecil and Emily Tizzard, of Littlehampton, Sussex.

F/Sgt Tizzard was serving with No 210 Squadron based at RAF Oban. The crew where on patrol in a Catalina AH532 when the aircraft went missing on 21st April 1941. F/Sgt Tizzard'a body was washed ashore on 9th September 1941 at Kilmurvey, Inishmore Island, (largest Aran Island) Galway, and he was buried the same day at Kilmurvey. The body of Sgt Tann was also washed ashore. Sadly the remainder of the crew are all listed as missing presumed killed they are;

33379 Flight Lieutenant Henry Francis Dempster Breese -Pilot

590299 W/O Clifford Bond

755963 Sergeant Alexander Vaughan McRae-Observer

571761 Sergeant Walter Henry Balch

901158 Sergeant Horace Arthur Tann- Wireless Operator/Air Gunner

523495 Flight Sergeant Leslie Stewart Dillnut Distingushed Flying Medal

652680 Aircraftsman 1st Class James Frank Woodward

1063639 Aircraftsman 2nd Class Herbert Vernon Norton
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