Arthur Walter Dudley Frost was born in 1918, the son of Charles James White and Georgina Warren White. He was married to Mary Cordelia White, of Marylebone, London.

Sgt White had been awarded the Air Force Medal on 17 March 1941 for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty performed whilst flying, though not in active operations against the enemy."

Sgt. White was an air gunner with 15 Squadron, which was flying with Stirling bombers at this time. His crew consisted of:

F/O Sydney Douglas MARSHALL, of New South Wales, Australia

Sgt Pilot Alfred James HIGGISON, of Auckland, New Zealand

Sgt Gordon Hogarth MAYOR, of Allerton, Lancashire

Sgt Kenneth Godfrey Howard DAVIES, of England

Sgt Arthur Walter Dudley FROST, of Richmond, Surrey

F/S Charles George WHITE, AFM, of Marylebone, London

P/O John Davis Walker McCALLUM, of England

15 Sqn RAF
 

On 18 July 1941, they took of in their aircraft, a Stirling I , coded N6030 LS-P,  from Wyton, Cambridgeshire on a daylight raid on Wesel, using cloud cover.

They were recalled due to clearing skies, but their aircraft was hit by a night fighter and crashed in the North Sea well off the province of South Holland.  The whole crew perished.

F/S White was washed ashore on the beach of Noordwijk on 7 August 1941. His body was found by a civilian and a policeman Hermanus van Venetiën. He was buried that day, after being identified, on the Noordwijk General Cemetery.

Sgt Frost was buried 12 August 1941 in Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery.

P/O McCallum was washed ashore 13 August 1941 near kmp (or stake) 23, 3 km north of De Koog on the island of Texel. He was buried that same day on Den Burg Cemetery.

Sgt Davies was found at sea by German vessel and originally buried in the Huisduinen Military Cemetery (near Den Helder) on 14 August 1941. After the war he was reinterred in Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery in the south of the Netherlands.

Sergeant Pilot Alfred James (Jim) Higgison, Flying Officer Sydney Douglas Marshall and Sergeant Gordon Hogarth Mayor  were never found and are remembered on the Runnymede memorial.

F/S Charles White is buried, in a communal grave,  at the Noordwijk General Cemetery, Plot 1. Joint grave 15.

Noordwijk, The Netherlands

See also:
F/O Sydney Douglas Marshall
Sgt Alfred James Higgison
Sgt Gordon Hogarth Mayor
Sgt Kenneth Godfrey Howard Davies
Sgt Arthur Frost
P/O John Davis Walker McCallum

Acknowledgements:
Mr. Will McCallum
Mr. Ian Wilson (website about James Higgison)
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Directions to Noordwijk General Cemetery

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This website is dedicated to the men and women who died and/or are buried in The Netherlands during World War II.

 

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