Tuesday, 6 February 2018

First R.A.F. casualties

From the Evening Express September 1939 the list of casualties from the first missions against Germany
AC2 Kenneth George Day 9 Squadron k.i.a 4/9/1939 aged 20 he is buried at Becklingen War Cemetery Niedersachsen Germany  grave reference 26 . C. 12 .                                                               Sergeant George Booth  became the first British P.O.W. he was held at Kopernikus in Poland         Flight Lieutenant William Frank Barton 107 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 aged 26 he is buried at Sage War Cemetery Germany  grave reference 4 . B . 14.                                                                               AC1 George Thomas Brooking  9 Squadron  k.i.a. 4/9/1939 he is remembered at the Runnymede Memorial Panel 2                                                                                                                                     Flying Officer Henry Lovell Emden  110 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 he is buried at Sage War Cemetery Germany grave reference 4 . B . 12 .                                                                                                       AC1 Ralph Evans  110 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 aged 20 he is buried at Sage War Cemetery Germany grave reference 4 . E . 1 .                                                                                                           Sergeant Donald Edward Jarvis 9 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 aged 24 he is buried at Sage War Cemetery Germany  grave reference 4 . C . 5 .                                                                                         AC1 Ernest William Lyon  110 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939  aged 19 he is buried at Sage War Cemetery Germany grave reference 4 . C . 3 .                                                                                                         Sergeant Albert Stanley Prince 107 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 aged 27 he is buried at Becklingen War Cemetery Germany grave reference 23 . B . 13 .                                                                                      LAC  John Quilter 206 Squadron k.i.a. 5/9/1939 aged 22 he is remembered at the Runnymede Memorial Panel 2                                                                                                                                     CPL James Leslie Ricketts  107 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 he is buried at Becklingen War Cemetery Germany  grave reference 23 . B . 14 .                                                                                                      Flying Officer John Frederick Ross  48 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 aged 23 he is buried at Becklingen War Cemetery Germany grave reference   23 . B . 12 .                                                                             AC1 Geoffrey Sheffield 206 Squadron k.i.a. 5/9/1939 aged 18 he is remembered at the Runnymede Memorial Panel 3                                                                                                                                     Acting Sergeant Bertie Greville Walton 9 Squadron k.i.a. 4/9/1939 aged 20  he is remembered at the Runnymede Memorial  Panel 2                                                                                                                  AC2 L J Slattery  became a P.O.W.  he was held at Kopernikus in Poland                                              Pilot Officer L H Edwards  and LAC W Dore do not appear in any record as a casualty .                       9 Squadron  , 110 Squadron ,  and 107 Squadron took part in the first bombing raid over Germany on 4/9/1939 at Wilhelmshaven . 




















































                                                                                                                                                                   

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