1907
1918-c1918
Not Known
Whitefield House, Great Missenden, Bucks.
"Our Record" No. 76 7th place out of 42 in IVB.
"Our Record" No. 77 12th out of 42 in IVA.
Flight Lieutenant
77928
Air Gunner
R.A.F.V.R.
Died on Friday 31 July 1942 Age 35.
Rheinberg War Cemetery
Kamp Lintiort
Nordheim-Westfal
Germany
Joint grave 2.B.5-6. Buried with Pilot Flight Lieutenant Walker.
Dusseldorf- 31st July 1942
630 aircraft - 308 Wellingtons, 113 Lancasters, 70 Halifaxes, 61 Stirlings, 54 Hampdens, 24 Whitleys. This was another raid in which Bomber Command’s training units provided aircraft, though it was not an attempt to reach the 1,000 aircraft figure. It was the first occasion when 100 Lancasters took part in a raid. 484 aircraft claimed successful bombing although their photographs showed that part of the force bombed open country. More than 900 tons of bombs were dropped.
453 buildings in Dusseldorf and Neuss, the suburb town over the Rhine, were destroyed and more than 15,000 damaged (12,192 only lightly). 954 fires were started, of which 67 were classed as large. 279 people were killed —245 in Dusseldorf and 34 in Neuss: 1,018 people were injured and 12,053 were bombed out. (The British Official History, pg 487, gives 379 deaths but this is believed to be an error.)
The casualties of the bomber force were again heavy. 29 aircraft- 16 Wellingtons, 5 Hampdens, 4 Halifaxes,2 Lancasters, 2 Whitleys- were lost: this was 4.6 per cent of those dispatched. 92 (OUT) Group lost 11 of it’s 105 aircraft on the raid, a casualty rate of 10.5 per cent.