Barre, Robert Frederick (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1944-January-15

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Service

RCAF

Unit

207 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Semper Paratus Always prepared

Base

RAF Spilsby

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/161102
PoW: 270004

Took off from Spilsby at 16:31 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: EM-Q Bomber Command) on a bombing raid to Peenemunde.

Shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Bad Meudon (a south-western suburb of Paris).

Killed: Flying Officer Geoffrey Watkin James RAF KIA Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 2. Sergeant Edward William Hargreaves Johnston RAF POW Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 1. Flight Sergeant John Skelton RAF POW Brussels Town Cemetery grave X 26. 39.

POWs includes Barre: Sergeant Brian Connors RAF POW Stalag Luft L4 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Alfred Jeffries RAF POW Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe.) F/Lt Sidney George Pocknall RAF POW camp not listed. Sergeant Stanley Thomas Willis RAF POW Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe).

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