CWGC tells us: Cemetery: EINDHOVEN (WOENSEL) GENERAL CEMETERY Grave Ref: Plot JJ. Grave 96. Additional Information: Son of Robert and Dorothy Margaret Colville, of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.

BARROW AIRMAN MISSING

TOOK PART IN RAIDS ON GERMANY

Official notification has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colville, of 16, Plymouth-street, Vickerstown, that their eldest son, Flt.-Sergt. James Colville, of the R.A.F., is missing from operations over Germany and is believed to be killed.

Flight-Sergt Colville is 24 years of age, and was educated at the Barrow Grammar School, from which he joined the R.A.F. as an apprentice at the age of 16.

He was at Singapore for three years, and was there involved in a serious crash, being fortunate to escape with his life. He is a member of the Barrow Working Men’s Club and Institute. His father is district delegate to the Boilermakers’ Society.

102 Squadron flew Handley Page Halifaxes from Topcliffe (nr Thirsk) : Jun 1942-Aug 1942 then Pocklington : Aug 1942-May 1945.

Sergeant Colville was lost in a raid on Bochum on the night 5th/6th August 1942 alongside six other crew members in Halifax R9495 DY-L . They took off from Topcliffe for a raid on Bochum. On their way back to their base their a/c was intercepted by a German night-fighter, August Geiger, and shot down. The Halifax crashed 2 miles N .of St.Oedenrode. The entire crew was killed.