Herbert Leslie George DODSON Eric Ralph BUSBY
- Extended Description
- DODSON and BUSEY (Tree tag number 72-136)
Planted for Flying Officer H L G DODSON. DFM. 83 Squadron, killed in action 22nd-23rd January 1944
CWGC data.
Herbert Leslie George DODSON. D.F.M. Flying Officer, Air Gunner 130916, 83 Squadron Royal Air Force (VR) killed in action over Berlin on the 20th January 1944 aged 25. Son of Herbert and Edith Annie Dodson; husband of Joan A. Dodson, of North Newington, Oxfordshire.
At rest in Berlin 1939-1945 Cemetery Berlin, Germany. (Formerly West Berlin)
2nd Officer E R BUSEY lost at sea July 1944
This memorial plaque is at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.
CWGC data.
Second Officer Eric Ralph BUSBY, Merchant Navy on S.S. Nairung (London) died at sea on the 18th August 1944 aged 24. Son of Harold James Busby and Emily Agnes Busby, of North Newington, Oxfordshire.
Commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
On the 18th August 1944 when on route to Bombay from Durban with government stores and general cargo she was sunk by German submarine U-862 offthe Madagascar coast.
