Memorial Details
Memorial
Picture Jaye 1943 Grammar School
Reference
W128.10
Place
WOLSINGHAM
Map ref
NZ 071376
Original Location
Wolsingham Grammar School. In School hall, Lower School site.
Present Location
The school is now a Community College.
Which war
1939-45
Dedication, Creation or Publication date
Dedicated 11th November 1998
Memorial Description
Printed copy of painting of “Operation Chastise”, by John Lander, and autographed by him, behind glass in a narrow plain wood frame. The dedication is below the picture, with the RAF badge on each side.
Materials used
Commercially produced print in wood frame.
Inscription
In memory of a former pupil of Wolsingham Grammar School, Tom Jaye. Tom flew with
the Dambusters and was killed on the raid, and was remembered at the
re-dedication of the Memorial Oaks on Wednesday 11th November 1998.
Names
See above.
Sculptor, Artist or Designer
John Larder.
Ownership and maintenance
Wolsingham Community College/Durham County Education Committee.
Notes
1. This may well have been moved as the picture is not fixed to, or hung on, the wall – it is just leaning against one of the window frames on the north wall of the hall.
2. Sgt. Jaye was serving with 617 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster III ED887 AJ-S which took off from Scampton on Operation Chastise (Dam Busters Raid). The aircraft strayed off course and was hit by flak over Holland. All the crew died.
3. Sgt. Jaye is remembered at Crook on C121.04, C121.06 and C121.16
2. Sgt. Jaye was serving with 617 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster III ED887 AJ-S which took off from Scampton on Operation Chastise (Dam Busters Raid). The aircraft strayed off course and was hit by flak over Holland. All the crew died.
3. Sgt. Jaye is remembered at Crook on C121.04, C121.06 and C121.16
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photo: John and Mavis Dixon
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943; W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943; W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
External web link
Research acknowledgements
Alan Jacomb; Ian Barker; John and Mavis Dixon
Research In Progress
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Picture Jaye 1943 Grammar School (W128.10)
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