Price of Peace

Liberator JT982 Passengers and Crew

Passenges

Sir (Herbert) William Malkin G.C.M.G., C.B., K.C., - Born 1883 Legal Adviser To Foreign Office
Colonel Denis Cuthbert Capel-Dunn, OBE Ministry of Defence. (MI5) - Brookwod Memorial
Mr Roland Tennyson Peel India Office. Aged 52
Miss Mabel Jane Clarkson Scupham Foreign Office - Aged 40
Miss Joan Margaret Cole-Hamilton, M.B.E. Foreign Office
Miss Doreen A. Smith - Aged 20
Miss Agnes Mary Collard, Foreign Office - Born 1915
Miss Beryl Hibberd. India Office. - Aged approx 23
Miss Phyllis Mabel Spurway, Cabinet Office- aged 36

The crew were:
Capt. G. P. Evans (pilot) United States:
2nd Capt. J. W. Ross (copilot). United States:
Cyril Paul Joseph Meagher (radio operator) Canadian - Ottawa Memorial
F./O. Roy Holden Marshall Patterson navigator, R.C.A.F. J/39901 - Ottawa Memorial
G. B. Swaney. flight engineer, US
Acting Sgt. William Thomas Keates, flight clerk #1228818 - Runnymede Memorial

An interesting observation regarding the loss of this version of Loberator - or even Liberator - is the concern as to the basic build quality and air worthiness of the version. Somewhere it is recorded that these aircraft were to be returned to the manufacturer for comprehensive checks.

Perhaps it goes someway to explain why VVIPs were making more use of the York or C54.

Colin Cummings

http://www.rcmpgraves.com/memorials/new.html

Also, G.B. Swaney, (Reg.#11169) a former original Air Services engineer lost his life in Trans-Atlantic Ferry work while flying for the RCAF on leave of absence from the Force, in accordance with Privy Council Order 3539 of July 31, 1940.

Gayle Burton Swaney was born at Germantown, Ohio, in 1907. He joined the RCMP in 1931, and enlisted with Ferry Command ten years later. He was married at Kingston, Ontario, in June 1945 and went missing the next month.

Swaney was part of a special crew assembled to fly a Liberator load of VIPs from Dorval to Northolt(?). His passengers were mostly diplomats returning from the San Francisco Conference which founded the United Nations. They set out on the evening of July 3, 1945, but radio contact was lost early the next morning. It was Swaney's 190th transatlantic flight!

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Photograph of Captain George Evans OBE (local press states honourary award. Meagher also in photo

Photos of Evans, Swaney , Meagher and Ross here

http://www.donnamcvicarkazo.com/aviationgallery.html