{"id":5720,"date":"2020-09-10T09:18:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5720"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:37:46","slug":"tallerman-bernard-edward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/tallerman-bernard-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallerman, Bernard Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Flying Officer, 27 Squadron
Service number 153535
Died 3 Mar 1945
Buried Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar
Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘IN EVERLOVING MEMORY OF MY VERY DEAR HUSBAND. YOUR WIFE BETTY’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernard was born in July 1923 in Sculcoates, Yorkshire to Polish born parents Harry and Cissie nee Levene and he had two sisters, Rita and Freda. Bernard was a member of the Young Zionist Society in Hull and was a keen swimmer with the Hull Judeans Club. The family ran a wholesale vegetable and fruit store in Kingston upon Hull in 1939. Bernard’s parents divorced in early 1940 and they both remarried. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernard enlisted into the RAF at the end of 1941 and trained as a navigator. He married Betty Hawkins in Knaresborough in 1944 when she was eighteen and he was twenty. They were married for a year before he was killed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernard was the navigator on Beaufighter NV256 alongside Pilot Robert Duff Mackenzie, 137396 which departed from Chiringa. The 27 Squadron O.R.B. states: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The remaining two aircraft on the day’s Form ‘B’ were detailed to cover road targets TOUNGOO to KEMAPYU to LOIKAW. F\/Sgt H. N. Moss and F\/Sgt A. R. Sorbie in A\/C NV367 were leading a new crew. F\/O R. MacKenzie and F\/O B. Tallerman in NV256. The leader lost sight of his No.2 NE of SO-LYA-AKU, LW.6857 at 13.41 hrs. He made a circuit but was unable to locate the A\/C and having completed his patrol set course for base. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
On being de-briefed, F\/Sgt H.N. Moss stated that he last saw ‘U’ flying about 300 yards astern at 4000ft turning east to avoid a high peak and it was thought that the aircraft may have been unable to gain sufficient height and crashed in the hill side. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n