Essen

Date

10 April 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

254 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

111 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Sergeant William Alexander McMeekin Allen (25)
• Sergeant Walter David Amos (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Walpole Atkin (23)
• Flying Officer John Butler Ayer
• Sergeant Mervyn James Headen Baillie (23)
• Sergeant David Balmer
• Lieutenant Barratt (21)
• Sergeant Fred Bonser (23)
• Pilot Officer Charles John Roger Boyce (25)
• Sergeant Raymond Brock (20)
• Squadron Leader Kenneth Douglas Bruce (23)
• Corporal William Cameron
• Sergeant Frank Hill Canning (21)
• Sergeant Ronald Frederick Chisholm (22)
• Sergeant Peter Douglas Clauson (21)
• Sergeant William Alfred Collins (26)
• Pilot Officer John Raymond Connolly (19)
• Sergeant Anthony Talbot Percy Considine (20)
• Pilot Officer James Patrick Considine (26)
• Pilot Officer Harold Leslie Cook (25)
• Sergeant Edward James Daly (24)
• Lieutenant Denehy (25)
• Second Lieutenant Donaldson (20)
• Sergeant Stephen Elmes (21)

See all 111 who died on 10 April →

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