Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 655431
Trade: Rear Gunner
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 617 Squadron
Died: 17th May 1943
Age: 29 years old.
Son of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson; husband of Doris Ibbotson, of Bretton West, Yorkshire. (CWGC)
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Wilfred Ibbotson was born in Netherton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire on 18 September 1913, the second son of the four children of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson. His father had been a miner, but Wilfred worked on a farm after leaving school. He married Doris Bray in 1938, and they had two daughters. When war came he was called up and served as an Army motorcycle despatch rider. In 1941 he volunteered for the RAF, and trained as a gunner.
After qualifying, he was posted to 10 Operational Training Unit at RAF Abingdon, and joined a crew piloted by Sgt Ivan Morgan. His future colleagues Charles Roberts, Lawrence Nichols and John Beesley were also in this unit at the same time, but in a different crew, that of pilot Graham Bower. In September 1942, while still training, Ibbotson flew on two operations. He was then part of a detachment sent to augment Coastal Command resources at RAF St Eval and flew on six daylight anti-submarine sweeps.
In December, he moved on to 1660 Conversion Unit at Swinderby, and it would seem that it was here that he joined Young's future crew, at that stage still skippered by Graham Bower. After Bower's departure on sick leave, Ibbotson flew on two operations to Berlin. The first was on 16 January 1943 with Pilot Officer Vincent Duxbury as the pilot, and the second the following day with Pilot officer Henry Southgate. (This information comes from Ibbotson's logbook. 1660 CU's Operations Record Book records another man as Southgate's rear gunner.)
The Dams Raid was thus Ibbotson's fifth operation. His body was the last of the crew of AJ-A to be washed ashore, on 30 May. Ibbotson was buried the following day alongside his comrades in Bergen General Cemetery.
https://dambustersblog.com/2013/05/07/dambuster-of-the-day-no-28-wilfred-ibbotson/
(above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member 'S.M.' ID:51378526)
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Wilfred Ibbtoson is commemorated on the West Bretton War Memorial. His name was added to a memorial in the Netherlands in 2018 close to where his plane crashed, as well as on the Dam Buster Memorial at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire.
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Service Number: 655431
Trade: Rear Gunner
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 617 Squadron
Died: 17th May 1943
Age: 29 years old.
Son of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson; husband of Doris Ibbotson, of Bretton West, Yorkshire. (CWGC)
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Wilfred Ibbotson was born in Netherton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire on 18 September 1913, the second son of the four children of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson. His father had been a miner, but Wilfred worked on a farm after leaving school. He married Doris Bray in 1938, and they had two daughters. When war came he was called up and served as an Army motorcycle despatch rider. In 1941 he volunteered for the RAF, and trained as a gunner.
After qualifying, he was posted to 10 Operational Training Unit at RAF Abingdon, and joined a crew piloted by Sgt Ivan Morgan. His future colleagues Charles Roberts, Lawrence Nichols and John Beesley were also in this unit at the same time, but in a different crew, that of pilot Graham Bower. In September 1942, while still training, Ibbotson flew on two operations. He was then part of a detachment sent to augment Coastal Command resources at RAF St Eval and flew on six daylight anti-submarine sweeps.
In December, he moved on to 1660 Conversion Unit at Swinderby, and it would seem that it was here that he joined Young's future crew, at that stage still skippered by Graham Bower. After Bower's departure on sick leave, Ibbotson flew on two operations to Berlin. The first was on 16 January 1943 with Pilot Officer Vincent Duxbury as the pilot, and the second the following day with Pilot officer Henry Southgate. (This information comes from Ibbotson's logbook. 1660 CU's Operations Record Book records another man as Southgate's rear gunner.)
The Dams Raid was thus Ibbotson's fifth operation. His body was the last of the crew of AJ-A to be washed ashore, on 30 May. Ibbotson was buried the following day alongside his comrades in Bergen General Cemetery.
https://dambustersblog.com/2013/05/07/dambuster-of-the-day-no-28-wilfred-ibbotson/
(above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member 'S.M.' ID:51378526)
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Wilfred Ibbtoson is commemorated on the West Bretton War Memorial. His name was added to a memorial in the Netherlands in 2018 close to where his plane crashed, as well as on the Dam Buster Memorial at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire.
(Woose)
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 655431
Trade: Rear Gunner
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 617 Squadron
Died: 17th May 1943
Age: 29 years old.
Son of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson; husband of Doris Ibbotson, of Bretton West, Yorkshire. (CWGC)
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Wilfred Ibbotson was born in Netherton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire on 18 September 1913, the second son of the four children of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson. His father had been a miner, but Wilfred worked on a farm after leaving school. He married Doris Bray in 1938, and they had two daughters. When war came he was called up and served as an Army motorcycle despatch rider. In 1941 he volunteered for the RAF, and trained as a gunner.
After qualifying, he was posted to 10 Operational Training Unit at RAF Abingdon, and joined a crew piloted by Sgt Ivan Morgan. His future colleagues Charles Roberts, Lawrence Nichols and John Beesley were also in this unit at the same time, but in a different crew, that of pilot Graham Bower. In September 1942, while still training, Ibbotson flew on two operations. He was then part of a detachment sent to augment Coastal Command resources at RAF St Eval and flew on six daylight anti-submarine sweeps.
In December, he moved on to 1660 Conversion Unit at Swinderby, and it would seem that it was here that he joined Young's future crew, at that stage still skippered by Graham Bower. After Bower's departure on sick leave, Ibbotson flew on two operations to Berlin. The first was on 16 January 1943 with Pilot Officer Vincent Duxbury as the pilot, and the second the following day with Pilot officer Henry Southgate. (This information comes from Ibbotson's logbook. 1660 CU's Operations Record Book records another man as Southgate's rear gunner.)
The Dams Raid was thus Ibbotson's fifth operation. His body was the last of the crew of AJ-A to be washed ashore, on 30 May. Ibbotson was buried the following day alongside his comrades in Bergen General Cemetery.
https://dambustersblog.com/2013/05/07/dambuster-of-the-day-no-28-wilfred-ibbotson/
(above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member 'S.M.' ID:51378526)
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Wilfred Ibbtoson is commemorated on the West Bretton War Memorial. His name was added to a memorial in the Netherlands in 2018 close to where his plane crashed, as well as on the Dam Buster Memorial at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire.
(Woose)
Service Number: 655431
Trade: Rear Gunner
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 617 Squadron
Died: 17th May 1943
Age: 29 years old.
Son of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson; husband of Doris Ibbotson, of Bretton West, Yorkshire. (CWGC)
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Wilfred Ibbotson was born in Netherton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire on 18 September 1913, the second son of the four children of Herbert and Anne Ibbotson. His father had been a miner, but Wilfred worked on a farm after leaving school. He married Doris Bray in 1938, and they had two daughters. When war came he was called up and served as an Army motorcycle despatch rider. In 1941 he volunteered for the RAF, and trained as a gunner.
After qualifying, he was posted to 10 Operational Training Unit at RAF Abingdon, and joined a crew piloted by Sgt Ivan Morgan. His future colleagues Charles Roberts, Lawrence Nichols and John Beesley were also in this unit at the same time, but in a different crew, that of pilot Graham Bower. In September 1942, while still training, Ibbotson flew on two operations. He was then part of a detachment sent to augment Coastal Command resources at RAF St Eval and flew on six daylight anti-submarine sweeps.
In December, he moved on to 1660 Conversion Unit at Swinderby, and it would seem that it was here that he joined Young's future crew, at that stage still skippered by Graham Bower. After Bower's departure on sick leave, Ibbotson flew on two operations to Berlin. The first was on 16 January 1943 with Pilot Officer Vincent Duxbury as the pilot, and the second the following day with Pilot officer Henry Southgate. (This information comes from Ibbotson's logbook. 1660 CU's Operations Record Book records another man as Southgate's rear gunner.)
The Dams Raid was thus Ibbotson's fifth operation. His body was the last of the crew of AJ-A to be washed ashore, on 30 May. Ibbotson was buried the following day alongside his comrades in Bergen General Cemetery.
https://dambustersblog.com/2013/05/07/dambuster-of-the-day-no-28-wilfred-ibbotson/
(above information was submitted by Find a Grave Member 'S.M.' ID:51378526)
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Wilfred Ibbtoson is commemorated on the West Bretton War Memorial. His name was added to a memorial in the Netherlands in 2018 close to where his plane crashed, as well as on the Dam Buster Memorial at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire.
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