Flight Sergeant Joseph Israel Shaer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (“RAFVR”)
Joseph (also known as “Joey”) was a son of Samuel and Clara Shaer, and attended Raines Foundation Grammar School.  He enlisted in 1940.  In 1942 he trained to be a navigator and was attached to 540 Squadron operating Mosquito aircraft from  RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.   On 13 April 1944,  when returning to base, his plane crashed near Abingdon, Oxford.  Joseph was 24 years old and he is buried in the Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxfordshire.