Walcheren

Date

29 October 1944

Target

Walcheren

Force dispatched

358 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

51 airmen in this archive died on 29 October 1944 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Sergeant Frederick William Anstey (21)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Frederick Austerberry (31)
• Flight Sergeant William Ronald Barber (20)
• Sergeant Walter James Bird (32)
• Flying Officer Richard Francis Boyce (21)
• Warrant Officer John Joseph Boyle (22)
• Corporal Orran Willard Carey (23)
• Leading Aircraftman George Henry Carroll (25)
• Pilot Officer Bruce Charles Chinnery (23)
• Flying Officer David Campbell Church (20)
• Flight Sergeant James Edward Cook (24)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Furby Croft (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Arthur Cropley (23)
• Warrant Officer Stuart Hugh Davidson (23)
• Flying Officer La Verne John Dick (28)
• Warrant Officer Harold Murray Earle (34)
• Leading Aircraftman James Forrest (28)
• Sergeant Ronald Ellis Fox (20)
• Major Sigmund Fuchs
• Major Carl Frederick Geere (27)
• Flying Officer James David Nicol Gillingham (28)
• Flying Officer William Glendinning (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Theodore Goldsmith (21)
• Flying Officer Alan Lindsay Harrison (29)

See all 51 who died on 29 October →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →