Bell-Irving, Roderick Keith Faulkner (Wing Commander)

98 Squadron (Never Failing). Aircraft was engaged in a daylight low-level attack on a V1 launching site, at Bois Coquerel, It took a direct hit from anti-aircraft fire and crashed near Abbeville, France. W/C R K F Bell-Irving MiD (RAF)(Can), Flying Officer C L M Forsyth DFC, DFM (RNZAF), Flying Officer V C Phipps (RAF), and FS K J White (RAF) were killed. W/C Bell-Irving was the Commanding Officer of 98 Squadron and had been Mentioned in Dispatches. W/C Bell-Irving's family served Canada with distinction, he had four uncles who were all decorated pilots and survived WWI. His brother was a General in WWII and was the Lt Governor of British Columbia for four years.