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11/10/2020
11/10/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 28h July 1945: Marriages
11/10/2020 WILLIAMS - GRISWOLD – 18th June 1945, at 1st Magherafelt Presbyterian Church, by Rev W Gaston, B.A., Castledawson; Leading aircraftman (L.A.C.) Kenneth Williams, Royal Air Force, son of Mr and Mrs Williams, Penarth, South Wales, to Joan Olive Griswold, daughter of the late Edward Griswold, Nova Scotia, Canada and Mrs Griswold, Garden Street, Magherafelt.
23/12/2019 On the morning of 8th January 1941, the Wellington Mark I bomber (Serial no T2956) took off from Stradishall (west of Ipswich) on a test flight.
23/12/2019 William Edward Griswold was the only son of Edward and Mary Griswold.
23/12/2019 Edward Griswold, or Teddie as he became known as, was born about 1919.
23/12/2019 He was educated at Magherafelt Technical School.
23/12/2019 He was a grandson of Mr S B Caldwell, J.P., Avongarth, Magherafelt.
23/12/2019 Teddie Griswold enlisted in the Royal Air Force about November 1939.
23/12/2019 By 1940, his mother was living at Garden Street in Magherafelt.
23/12/2019 The aircraft is believed to have iced up while flying in cloud and crashed 12:40 at Great Wratting, two miles NNE of Haverhill, Suffolk. All the crew perished in the crash including Wireless Operator William Edward Griswold. The crew were:
23/12/2019 William Edward Griswold remains’ were brought home and he is buried in Magherafelt First Presbyterian Churchyard.
23/12/2019 After ten months he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Air Gunner Wireless Operator.
23/12/2019 The CWGC record Wireless Operator William Edward Griswold as the son of Edward and Mary Griswold of Magherafelt.
23/12/2019 Sergeant Ronald CAIN (638553) Wireless Op
23/12/2019 Wireless Operator William Edward Griswold was serving with 214 Squadron of the Royal Air Force when he died as the result on an accident on 8th January 1941. He was 22 years old.
23/12/2019 Pilot Officer Charles Norman WALKER (78863) Pilot
23/12/2019 Pilot Officer Tom Eric TIMMINS (79164) Pilot
23/12/2019 Sergeant Archibald Sinclair ROBERTS (746816) Air Gunner
23/12/2019 Sergeant Peter Robert PEART (740666) Pilot
23/12/2019 Sergeant William Edward GRISWOLD (654640) Wireless Op
20/12/2019
20/12/2019 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 27th July 1940: Magherafelt
20/12/2019 William Edward Griswold (better known as ‘Teddie’), only son of Mrs Griswold, Garden Street, Magherafelt, after only ten months’ service in the Royal Air force, has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant Air Gunner Wireless Operator. He is a past pupil of the Magherafelt Technical School, and a grandson of Mr S B Caldwell, J.P., Avongarth, Magherafelt.
15/01/2016 In Memory of W E Griswold, Wireless Operator, Royal Air Force, Killed in Action 1941
15/01/2016
15/01/2016 A plaque in 1st Presbyterian Church, Magherafelt commemorates Sergeant William Edward Griswold:
30/12/2015
30/12/2015
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