James Alfred Bramble

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, James died on 30th of May 1943 aged 21. 

James was born at Poplar, London, in 1922, a son of James Alfred and Kate Kathleen Bramble.

James married Edna Lilian Maud Bramble, in the Wells district, in early 1943. They had a home at Home Farm, Upper Coxley, Wells, Somerset. Edna later lived at Lowestoft where she remarried and lived at 44 Elmhurst Avenue.

James joined the air force in 1938. 

James was an Air-Gunner serving with 218 Squadron based at Downham Market, Norfolk. On 30 May 1943 James was a member of the crew of a Stirling III aircraft, number BK688 HA-A, in a bombing raid on Wuppertal. James' aircraft was shot down by a night fighter at Schaffen Airfield north-east of Diest. All of the crew were killed. 

See also: "Belgians Remember Them": The Airmen fallen during WW2 in Belgium-Province of Vlaams Brabant- (belgians-remember-them.eu)

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass