Flight Sergeant Cyril Stanley Webb (1629973), 61 Squadron RAF Volunteer Reserve

Cyril Webb died on 19th October 1944, he was 20 years old. He served with 61 Squadron. Cyril is buried at the Hanover War Cemetery in Northern Germany.

Cyril's death is recorded in "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Oliver Clutton-Brock:

Flight Engineer Sergeant Cyril Stanley Webb baled out of the only Lancaster to be lost on the last major raid on Brunswick (14/15 October 1944). Taken prisoner by roadmender Hermann Behrens he was handed over to the local police and taken to the police station at Gross Schwülper.

Word was sent to Major Dinge, Luftwaffe commander of the Fliegerhorst detachment at Völkenrode airfield. Ordering Stabsfeldwebel Geor Gawliczek and Josef Bussem to collect the prisoner, he hinted strongly that the airman should not be brought back alive. The two men set off on their motor-cycle combination to fulfil their orders. Having taken custody of Webb they stopped on the banks of the Mitteland Canal and pretended to urinate. As Webb wandered about, his escort shot him dead and threw his body into the canal.

The military court did not believe that the prisoner was trying to escape. Dinge, Gawliczek and Bussem were hanged at Hamelin Prison on 14 November 1947

He was born in 1924, his mother Elsie May and father Henry Charles (Chas) also had a daughter Gladys Ruth (1922), Cyril's relatives still live in Great Coxwell today.
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Cyril is commemorated in the Lincoln Cathedral Memorial Book, on the Great Coxwell memorial and in St. Giles Church.