Dallamore, John Walter (Squadron Leader)

Killed in Action 1940-October-02

Squadron Leader John Walter Dallamore RAF

Birth Date: 1913

Born:

Parents: John Hugh & P. R. Dallamore

Spouse: Margaret Morrison Dallamore, of Hoeys Bridge, Kenya. B.Sc. Mining Engineering, University of Alberta.

Home: Edmonton, Alberta

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

45 (MB) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base

RAF Wadi Gazouza, Sudan

Rank

Squadron Leader

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

36074

Home

Edmonton, Alberta

Final Burial

Asmara War Cemetery
Plot 3 Row B Grave 10

Blenheim Mk I L-8452 lost, shot down in flames by an Italian aircraft.

Sqn Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader John Walter Dallamore RAF 36074 (Can.) held control of the aircraft until his crew could bale out but was unable to get out himself and was killed when the aircraft crashed and exploded near Mai Egada, Eritrea.

Sergeant Myles MacKenzie (RAF) baled but was killed, buried with Dallamore in Asmara Cemetery Pilot Officer Alfred George Sheppard (RAF) baled safely and was taken Prisoner of War. No further information as to POW camp, etc.

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Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Blenheim L8452

Squadron Leader John Walter Dallamore RAF

Squadron Leader Dallamore, John Walter (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1940-October-02
Asmara War Cemetery, Eritrea

Blenheim serial: L8452

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3602838)
Bristol 142M Blenheim Mk.V, RAF (Serial No. DJ702).

The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War. The aircraft was developed as Type 142, a civil airliner, in response to a challenge from Lord Rothermere to produce the fastest commercial aircraft in Europe. The Type 142 first flew in April 1935, and the Air Ministry, impressed by its performance, ordered a modified design as the Type 142M for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber. Deliveries of the newly named Blenheim to RAF squadrons commenced on 10 March 1937. Wikipedia

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