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RAF airmen Picture?

Re: RAF airmen Picture?

Hello,

the man on the photo is well a "RAF", so was not the author of the letter dating from 1918 ...
Would be interesting to know what is written on the back of the picture .

Alain.

Re: RAF airmen Picture?

From AIR78, only one man named Jack Ringwood served between 1918 - 1975.

843261 Jack Ringwood DFM, rear gunner on a 625 Sqn Lancaster (ND461) lost on ops to Berlin, 27-28 January, 1944

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Middlesex/Shepperton.html

Quote:

Sergeant (Air Gunner) 843261, 625 Squadron, Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force). Died 28th January 1944. Aged 37. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Ringwood; husband of Muriel Mary Ringwood, of Shepperton-on-Thames, Middlesex. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal (D.F.M.). Buried in MARISSEL FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY, Oise, France. Grave 210.