{"id":497,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=497"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:51:14","slug":"joseph-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/joseph-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph, Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lawrence Joseph<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pilot, 90 Squadron
Service number 126938
Died 10 May 1944
Buried Avord Communal Cemetery, France
Age 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headstone Inscription
‘IN UNFADING, LOVING MEMORY OF MY DARLING HUSBAND. MAY YOU REST IN PEACE “SHORTY”‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lawrence was born 12 August 1915 in King’s Norton, Warwickshire to Joseph and Lydia n\u00e9e Lyons. Husband of Ellen n\u00e9e Dowling of Paddington, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawrence was the pilot of Stirling EF254 which departed RAF Tuddenham on a Special Operations Executive mission. The aircraft crashed at Villabon in central France killing five of the crew and the bomb aimer and a gunner were captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the link below for Lawrence’s story. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lawrence Joseph’s ancestry and story <\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n