102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

Hello everyone!.
Date: May 27,1940:
Who can confirm and/or has more info about the crewmembers:
Cogman William Curwin Gavine, Flying Offr(Pilot), 39274,
102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B, missing up to now.KIA/MIA?
Runnymede Panel 05.
Thanks a lot!
Fredcompa

Re: 102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

This was posted a few months ago. Cogman managed to evade but was lost when the ship he was on was sunk off Dunkirk

Re: 102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

Thanks Chris! and sorry...if we missed something...

Re: 102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

I have only justdiscovered this forum and your this message. I believe that Cogman was my mother first husband. I have posted below some information that I was sent some time ago.
I would be interested to know anything further about Gogman and your interest in him.

Thanks

F/O WGC Cogman was the skipper of RAF No 102 Squadron B.C Whitely Mark V; DY- B, Serial Number N1417, up from RAF Driffield at 2000 hrs, 19 May 1940, on a raid to Geisenkirchen which crashed at 2330 on farmland belonging to Mr Wilbers at De Klef near to the town of Milheeze, 20 kms ENE of Eindhoven Holland.

Of the crew,Cogman evaded, three were POWs and one was killed.Cogman had previously returned from Belgium internment and was reported safe on 20 May 1940 but was lost when the steamship SS Abukir, outward bound from Ostend to England, carring BEF elements withdrawing from France and Belgium, was torpedoed by a German MTB on 28 May 1940.

For some unknown reason Cogman's death is listed as 27 May 1940, the day before the sinking but it was assumed that he was on the SS Abukir

Re: 102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

Hamish: PM me if you wish but I am afraid that I cannot add more. I wrote the history of 102 Sqn and there is a (ever decreasing) 102 Sqn Association (no longer any member from Cogman's time)
Chris

Re: 102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

Hi Hamish, sent you a PM !

Cherio.
"Crash"

Re: 102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

Having done some research since firts posting I can confirm that Cogman was born in 1913 in Morningside, Edinburge and was infact married to my mother. Following his death she went on to marry my father some 8 years later. My mother died some 28 years ago and while she rarely spoke of his death she did confimred that the boat he was on was sunk after being hit by a torpedo on his return to the UK.

Re: 102 Sqdn Whitley V N-1417 DY-B
 

Hey Hamish! this is all the info my friend got on this case:
Cogman W.was interned in Belgium on 9.9.1939 and was safe on 20.5.1940. He was muissed in action , he was on the SS Aboukir.
9sept.1939:
K8985 Whitley III 102 Sqdr DY-J Nivelles(B) in dutch: Nijvel. Cogman,pilot 39274 interned at Fort II Borsbeek(Antwerp). Mack A.W. F/O.Pilot,intern.Borsbeek. Henry G.J.,Sgt:interned Borsbeek. Wood S.R.,Cpl. intern.Borsbeek. Steel Alan,A.C.1,W.Op/Air gnr 250484,interned Borsbeek. Forced to laznd on the aerodrome of Nivelles by Belgian pilots J.Offenberg and Alexis Jottrand.
N1417 Whitley V,102 Sqd, DY-B Eindhoven (Nl):Cogman W.F/O,pilot,39274 M.I.A. Runnymede panel 05. Was Safe on May 20,1940 and missed since sinking of SS Aboukir.The all crew belonged to the Can.Airforce.Miller L.,P/O.,pilot 40411DFC,POW:Camp I.3 nr.00024. Thrift Kenneth Sgt.Obs.,20 years,580889 KIA at Jonkerbos(Nl),12F9. Nicholson JR,L.A.C.,620766,POW:Camp 357,nr.13040. Bros E.H.,A.C.2, 633782,POW:Camp L4,nr.13043,RAF,SS Aboukir,missed until now.
Grts from Antwerp, fredcompa