Bevan, Alwin Woodgate (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Action 1942-June-21

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Birth Date: 1915

Born:

Parents: Rev. Alfred Edward and Winifred Bevan

Spouse: Helen Margaret Bevan

Home: Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAFVR

Unit

7 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Diem Per Noctem By day and by night

Base

RAF Oakington

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

81341

Home

Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset

Target

Emden Germany

Final Burial

Canadian War Cemetery
Plot 1 Row B Grave 4

Took off from Oakington at 23:25 in Stirling Mk I (Sqn code MG-C Bomber Command) on an operation to Emden Germany.

Aircraft went down in the sea off Kastricum, Holland, after being shot down by a night fighter.

Killed includes Bevan: Pilot Officer James Robert Heslop RCAF J/7039 KIA Bergen General Cemetery, Plot 1. Row B. Grave 7. Flight Sergeant Robert Nelson Parham RCAF R/78112 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 106. Pilot Officer Byron Adair Trapp RCAF J/7202 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 101. Sergeant Andrew Cadden RAF KIA Bergen General Cemetery, Holland, Plot 1. Row B. Grave 10. Pilot Officer Eric Douglas Calvert RAF 46910 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 66. Sergeant Gerald Bamford Granshaw RAF 1314324 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 84. Sergeant Jack Herbert Williams RAF 572709 KIA Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Plot 29. Row B. Grave 11.