No. 9 Squadron RAF Operations Record Books Online

[Dave Homewood]

Dr. Dan Ellin of the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln posted this on the Bomber Command Digital Archive Page on Facebook.

A volunteer has finished working on the metadata for the incredible 9 Squadron ORBs that we have in the archive. They were loaned to us for digitisation by Dicky James the 9 Squadron historian, and they are not your normal record books. They are beautifully written and contain far more gen and detail. Some of our volunteers are currently working on the mammoth task of completely transcribing them. These are such a special thing to have in the archive, and I believe we are ground-breaking in the way that we are making them public with this amount of detail.

ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/2752?

I know there were a number of New Zealanders on No. 9 Squadron RAF, so I thought it was worth sharing this here.

[Antonio]

From some very old data entries: 
+  Cameron C C  Plt Off
+  Clifford-Jones B I  Plt Off
    Coster D A  Fg Off
+  Crozier N H  Sgt
+  Denton R F H  Fg Off
+  Grady J A  Sgt
+  Gray J C  Sgt
    Hall S F  Sgt
    Harper M L T  Fg Off
    Head M R  Fg Off  PoW
    Heatherington J A  Flt Lt
+  Henry J W  Sgt
+  Hobbs A M  Sqn Ldr
+  Jamieson D J  Fg Off
    Jarman L E  Sqn Ldr
+  Jesson W G  Sgt
+  Lamb L S  Sqn Ldr
    McKee A  Wg Cdr CO
+  Newbery C H Le B  Sgt
+  Passmore R R  Sgt
+  Smith H F B  Fg Off
+  White O B  Flt Sgt

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks Antonio. It looks like the Kiwis paid a high price on the squadron.