{"id":1959,"date":"2020-02-19T07:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=1959"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:39:45","slug":"shibko-maurice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/shibko-maurice\/","title":{"rendered":"Shibko, Maurice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Air Gunner, 16 OTU
Service number 1338228
Died 4 April 1943
Buried Middleton Stoney (All Saints) Churchyard, Oxford
Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘THERE ARE TWO LINKS DEATH CANNOT SEVER; LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE LAST FOREVER’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maurice was born in July 1921 in Sculcoates, Yorkshire to Jonah Shibko and Adelaide n\u00e9e de Meza. Maurice’s grandparents Abraham and Sarah originated from Poland. Maurice’s father pre-deceased him in 1933. Maurice was Jewish but a cross was requested by the family for his headstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maurice was an air gunner on Wellington X3741 which departed RAF Upper Heyford on a training flight when it crashed at the Otmoor bombing range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
W\/Op, Christopher Francis (Doogie) Ball, 1268240<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nav, Frank Geoffrey Bower, 1575473<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A\/B, Gordon Hardy, 943042<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pilot, Douglas Grant Nicoll, RCAF R\/124574<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n