Hello from France. 

I am looking for the family of the aviator Arthur Sylwood Lush, son of Albert and Florence of Owslebury.

Arthur was killed on May 6, 1942.

On April 26, 2025, a memorial will be inaugurated in the village of Boussieres sur Sambre for the 116 airmen killed in our region, including 71 British.

Our goal is to find the families of these men.

I started this research 12 years ago and found 25 families out of the 116 airmen killed in our Avesnois region.

Please go to the website aviateursavesnois.free.fr if you can help. Below are the names of the airmen. 

Feutry Bernard 

Maubeuge

15-05-1940 nord Maubeuge

Mark Medley Carter – Bradfield – Berkshire

18-05-1940 Landrecies

rancis Desmond Dawson Jones – Blackheath - London

William Baxter – Cardiff

Cyril Grace Watts – Tetbury – Gloucestershire

18-05-1940 Preux au Bois

Hector Yeaes Lawrence – St Peter - Gloucestershire

Reginald Georges Hopkins – Wantage – Berkshire

18-05-1940 Landrecies

Paul Geoffrey Chapman – Leafield - Oxfordshire

Cecil Ernest Colbourn – Winchmore Hill - Middlesex

Ernest John Fagg – Canterbury

18-05-1940 – Poix du Nord

Derek Huristone Allen- Leicester

06-05-1942 Wallers en Fagne

John Arthur Edwards – Dartford - Kent

Anthony John Higgins – Gosberton - Lincolnshire

Arthur Sylwood Lush – Owslebury - Hampshire

Geoffrey Sherwood Markland – ?

Robert Leonard Wootley – St John's Hill – Battersea

17-06-1942 St Remy du Nord

Leonard Clinton Fenton – Winchester

Thomas Watkins Rayment – ?

Donald White – Nuttall – Nottinghamshire

20-09-1942 Locquignol

William Herbert Day – ?

Unich Edward Thomas Burford – ?

Michael Joseph Glynn – Lochore - Scotland

Charles McGough – Carliste -Cumbria

25-10-1942 Jenlain Arthur Quinn – Seaham – Co – Durham

21-12-1942 Solre le Chateau

Frank George Fisher – ?

Gordon Thomas Hawkins – Wembley - Middlesex

Peter Laird Donald – Coventry

William Edward Ryan – Leeds - Yorshire

Edward Ryan Smith – ?

Frederick Trimmer – Finchley – Middlesex

10-03-1943 Wattignies la Victoire

Derrick Maxwell Barker – Bristol

Frank George Gibling Edwards – Edgware - Middlesex

Reginald William Walker – North Eartham - Norfolk

Joshua Morgan – ?

Herbert Brock – Rayne - Essex

Thomas Frame Millar – Paisley - Renfrewshire

Dred Salvage - ?

03-04-1943 Houdain les Bavay

William Olivier Peacock – Edinburgh

Raymond Charles Sauders – Southport – Lancashire

15-04-1943 Trelon

Joseph Leadbetter Cartmell – Fleetwood - Lancashire

Henry Eifion Clement – Velindre - Swansea

Robert Gordon Hamilton – Manchester

George William Henry Northover – Stratton - Dorsetshire

Aaron Ottulangui – Bethnal Green

Peter Donovan Steed – Humberstone - Leicester

Franck Wood – ?

17-04- 1943 Eppe Sauvage Graham George Williams – Saint Thomas – Swansea

04-07-1943 Sains du Nord / Liessies Frank Bertram Jackson – Belper – Berbyshire

14-07-1943 – Wattignies la Victoire - Walter Brown - Gilesgate - Durham

Henry Reginald Coventry - ?

William Hardy - Huckmall - Nottinghamshire

George Franck Hogg – Criccieth - Caernovonshire

Frederick Edward King - Willesden - Middlesex

Geoffrey Tristram Pine Coffin – Chelsea London

Crosby Frank Read - Lower Claford - Hampshire

26-03-1944 Boussignies sur Roc

Douglas Bartholomew Laidlow – Bowden- Roxburghshire

Douglas Sydney Lockett – Small Heath - Birmingham

Charles Banks – Stamford - Lincolnshire

Harold Walter Parsons – Nuneaton - Warwickshire

11-04- 1944 Vieux Mesnil

Basil Guy Wiseman – Hendon - Middlesex

Dennis Robbins – Chapel End - Nuneaton

25-04-1944 Wallers Trelon

David Reid Tait – Broughty Ferry - Dundee

Harry Harbron – Bredfort - Yorkshire

Leonard Kirkham – Gordon - Manchester

John Templeton – Lockerbie - Dumfriesshire

Benjamin Cohen – Liverpool

28-04-1944 Dourlers

Alexis Louis Silverman – Harrow - Middlesex

Ronald Frank Collier – ?

Robert Johnstone Blake – Paisley - Renfrewshire

Leonard Francis Webb – Guilden Morden - Cambridgeshire

Robert Baillie Russell – Burntisland - Fife

David Band Robertson – Leven- Fife