Ostend

Date

29 August 1942

Target

Ostend

Force dispatched

27 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

117 airmen in this archive died on 29 August 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Dennis Adams (28)
• Flight Sergeant William Stansfield Allen (21)
• Flying Officer Walter John Evelyn Ardley (28)
• Sergeant Charles Atkinson (25)
• Flight Sergeant Horace David Baittle
• Pilot Officer Alan Fay Birley (27)
• Sergeant Maurice William Booth (22)
• Sergeant William Bottomley
• Sergeant John Breivis
• Sergeant Malcolm Stanley Brighouse (20)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Brown (22)
• Flight Sergeant Edward George Burton (22)
• Sergeant Eric Davies Butler (29)
• Lieutenant Ronald Cameron (29)
• Sergeant Colin Millis Campbell (29)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie James Capton (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Joseph Carey (22)
• Flight Sergeant Christopher Norman Chalken
• Wing Commander Cecil Charlton-jones (28)
• Flight Sergeant Leo Martin Cowan
• Sergeant David George Craill (24)
• Sergeant Philip Thomas Cunningham (20)
• Flying Officer Brendon John Davis (21)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Bernard Thomas Davis (20)

See all 117 who died on 29 August →

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