Flying Officer John 'Jack' Colyer

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

3rd October 1943

Son of William James Colyer and Mabel Ethel Colyer, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Runnymede Memorial, Panel 123

John Edward Colyer was known as Jack and attended Hemel Hempstead Grammar School between 1932 and 1935.   The school had a unit of the Air Training Corps in which he served and is remembered by contemporaries as a good, silent solid person and good at football.  He did all of his RAF training in Canada. As was common for many aircrew during the war, he did all of his RAF training in Canada.  He became a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was killed on 3rd October 1943 aged 22. He is remembered on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede.

 

                                        

                                        

Top row, left to right: Air Forces Memorial exterior, interior and Panel 123.

Middle and bottom row: Extracts from Panel 123.

(Photos: Richard Grayson, 19th September 2011)

With thanks for Nancy Newberry for information on Jack Colyer's school years and training.  Read reminiscences from Tony Horton here.