Birth Date: unkown date (age unknown)
Marshal | |
Air Chief Marshal | A/C/M |
Air Marshal | A/M |
Air Vice Marshal | A/V/M |
Air Commodore | A/C |
Group Captain | G/C |
Wing Commander | W/C |
Squadron Leader | S/L |
Flight Lieutenant | F/L |
Flying Officer | F/O |
Pilot Officer | P/O |
Warrant Officer 1st Class | WO1 |
Warrant Officer 2nd Class | WO2 |
Flight Sergeant | FS |
Sergeant | SGT |
Corporal | CPL |
Senior Aircraftman | SAC |
Leading Aircraftman | LAC |
Aircraftman 1st Class | AC1 |
Aircraftman 2nd Class | AC2 |
Coastal Command Squadron based at Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland.
Aircraft was patrolling in The Skagerak between Denmark and Norway when they followed a radar surface contact that turned out to be a German warship that shot them down when they dropped below the 800 foot cloud ceiling
Killed: Sergeant Reginald Godfrey Allen RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 215. Flying Officer Hugh Thomas Conlin RCAF J/86304 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 245. W/O Charles McLaughlin RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 214. Flying Officer Joseph Armand Roger Lucien La Palme RCAF J/18647 Norway Mandal Churchyard Grave I. 2. 12.
POWs; W/Cdr Charles Aubrey Maton RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria POW# 8711. Flying Officer Ian Edwin Osbourne RAF POW Stalag 3D Berlin-Steglitz POW# 12816. F/Lt Sidney Arthur Winchester RCAF J/10019 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria POW# 8717. Flying Officer Patrick Joseph McManus DFC RCAF J/14558 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan & Belaria POW# 8712. Flying Officer Alexander Lawrence Lyttle DFC RCAF J/25873 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan & Belaria POW# 8565.