Collector is trying to trace family of wartime airman (From The Northern Echo)
Spotted this story when I was reading the paper on the train the other day. Basically a dealer has come across the service jacket of FO Colville via a sale and is trying to find his surviving family (if any).
Chester le Street area features.
Anyone RAF on here with an interest maybe able to help him - emails for the dealer/collector are in the link.
Even this short blurb in the paper makes for incredibly sad reading really. Fred was an experienced air gunner on his second tour possibly with 97 Sqn - shot down and killed presumably I thinking on the infamous and horrible Nurnberg mission.
Website doesn't show the jacket but in the paper it was his service blue with AG badge, made by Moss Brothers Tailors.
Would be good if his family could get it back I suppose - Lord knows the story about how the jacket even has survived. Its all a long time ago.
RIP brave man, not forgotten.