The number of posts since the last Newsletter was building up so I have collected them together into issue 15. This is now available on the Newsletter page. I do edit the posts a bit, even put a couple together…

Martin Warburton is a collector of tokens and he sent me the following photographs of two in his possession that have Warburton references.

Fig. 1. Sergeant (later Flight Lieutenant) Leonard Arthur Warburton

On August 31st 1941 Sergeant Warburton was 2nd wireless operator/gunner on Wellington R 1703-J which participated in a 108 plane attack on Cologne. The plane was from the 101st Squadron based at Oakington, Cambridgeshire and commanded by Pilot Officer John Frederick Ashton, aged 22. The four other crew members were Sergeant Ernest Lane, Observer, Sergeant John Redden, wireless operator, Sergeant Robert Wood, second pilot, and Sergeant John Hutton, rear gunner.

Two hours after take-off the plane was shot down whilst returning from the raid by a German night fighter and crashed in flames onto a heath at Boxbergheide, near Genk in Belgium.

I have just added some additions to the Ashley and Morley clan. These define the ancestry of Flight Lieutenant Leonard Arthur Warburton, with thanks to his niece and nephew, Pat Jones and Martin Warburton. Pat attended the recent Warburton Day…

I have been seriously distracted from my planned course this past couple of weeks. Chief of these distractions was a week spent in the local hospital with a gall bladder problem. I am fine now, and the offending organ will…