FELTHAM at WAR
 

         
 

The following information came from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's web site

www.cwgc.org

and from a very good friend of mine who had helped me in this and other searches, JP Jegers, who lives in Belgium. Permission to use this information was obtained from the CWGC.

 
         
 
Name: FELTHAM, HARRY KITCHENER
Initials: H K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Flt. Engr.)
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 467 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn.
Date of Death: 25/06/1944
Service No: 1540769
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 2. Row D. Grave 3.
Cemetery: MAREUIL-CAUBERT (MAREUIL) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
 
     
 
 
         
  Name: FELTHAM, PETER BERNARD
Initials: P B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 106 Sqdn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 19/09/1944
Service No: 1853244
Additional information: Son of Norman James Feltham and Gladys May Feltham, of Fishponds, Bristol.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 7. G. 5.
Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

Peter Bernard Feltham would have to be related to me.
My father had cousins who lived in Fishponds.

  
         
 
 
         
 

The entrance to Reichswald Cemetery last August.

Photo by JP Jegers.

 
         
 

The area of Reichswald Cemetery where the RAF men are buried.

Photo by JP Jegers.

 
         
 

The entrance to Reichswald Cemetery.

Photo by JP Jegers.

 
         
  Name: FELTHAM, MONTAGUE ROY
Initials: M R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Aircraftman 1st Class
Regiment: Royal Air Force
Unit Text: 211 Sqdn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 02/07/1945
Service No: 1211363
Additional information: Son of William Charles and Florence Maude Feltham, of Winton, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 454.
Cemetery: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

I had always thought that I was the first Feltham in Borneo. Certainly the only Feltham serving in the RAF. In my case in 1963 and 1964 during "Confrontasi". But not so, while tracing Montague Roy Feltham who is mentioned on the CWGS web site, I found the following.

Montague died as a POW of the Japanese in North Borneo. See this web site for the bare details.

http://members.aardvark.net.au/clardo/the_far_east.html [It appears now appears not to be working 1 May 2008]

I think that it may have been moved to....

http://users.cyberone.com.au/clardo/the_far_east.html

and

http://users.cyberone.com.au/clardo/honour_roll.html

also at

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/abeckett/pow/powf.html

Not only that, 211 Squadron went on in the war to be based at Bhatpara, in West Bengal, India. (Just north of Calcutta).

I lived there from 1947 to 1954 with my parents, in a town nearby called Jagatdal. Our telephone exchange was "Bhatpara".

I was not aware that there was or had been an airfield at Bhatpara during the war and can't find anything out about it.