I am in the process of trying to write a book about the crew and my dad’s experiences and I am trying to contact family living members of the crew and I wonder if you can help me please?

Crew

Michael (Mickey) Foster Pilot (Father)

Gordon Page Navigator I am in touch with one of his daughters

Paddy Hughes Bomb Aimer Deceased on his third trip with a new crew after my dad’s tour

Walter (Jimmy) Willetts W/Operator I have lost touch with his son

Wallace (Wally or Nobby) Clarke F/Engineer I know the family well

John Service M/U Gunner He retired and died in Canada and none of the crew seemed to have kept in touch.

William Twort R/Gunner I know that he married and died in Kent but I can not trace any family members (he may not

have had children?).

Can you help at all please? I believe that John Service has a son called Gordon Ritchie but tracking him down in Canada is proving very difficult. Is there an offshoot of the association that John might have been part of when he was alive? He died in 2008.

If you have any leads on Walter Willetts’ family I would love to be able to write to them again; similarly if you know of William (Bill) Twort’s family line. I am hoping to get as much input from the families as possible. I spent many hours with Wally before he died in 2015.

Any tips on how I can get hold of the records of each op would be gratefully received.

Chris Foster

07970 781 105