Name
Albert Edward Usher
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
16/01/1943
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Pilot Officer
49889
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TROQUEER CEMETERY
Sec. H. Extn. 2. Grave 32.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
RISING INTO THE DARKNESS FELT THEY IN BRAIN AND BONE THEY WERE GOING ON A JOURNEY OUT INTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 49889 and he was a Navigator. He was almost certainly in 652 Squadron, which was flying Auster I aircraft. Tue Squadron specialised in assisting the Army as an Air Observation Post passing back information to both artillery and infantry. His death probably occurred during a training session.
He was buried in Section H, Extension 2, Grave 32 of the Troqueer Cemetery in Dumfries in Scotland alongside the River Nith. A private inscription on the headstone reads "Rising into the darkness, felt they in brain and bone, they were going on a journey, out into the great unknown".
He was the son of Archibald and Jessie Usher and the husband of Elizabeth Usher of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C.G. Jefford
