St Omer

Date

4 April 1942

Target

St Omer

Force dispatched

16 aircraft

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

67 airmen in this archive died on 4 April 1942 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.

• Flying Officer Arthur William Abbott
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Allan (35)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Arthur Allen
• Leading Aircraftman Jan Bambusek (28)
• Flight Sergeant William Thomas Braun (25)
• Pilot Officer Douglas Macgillvary Brown (21)
• Sergeant Allan John Browne (25)
• Sergeant Arthur Bolwell Burgess (24)
• Pilot Officer Richard Edward Bush
• Flying Officer Garth Elliot Caswell (24)
• Pilot Officer Edward Fred Chandler (24)
• Sergeant Vernon Gregory Hanrahan Copas (33)
• Pilot Officer James Aitken Crosbie (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class James Lawton Cunningham (38)
• Sergeant Alexander Thomas Edward Daniells (25)
• Sergeant Ian Nicholson Davidson (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Samuel Douglas Dean
• Sergeant William Cecil Friscourt Dodd (26)
• Sergeant George Arthur Edmonds (25)
• Air Sergeant Engelbrecht
• Flying Officer John Ward Evatt (22)
• Flight Lieutenant William Hugh Fetherston (25)
• Sergeant Peter Alton Foster
• Pilot Officer Thomas Tristram Fox (21)

See all 67 who died on 4 April →

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