Lannion

Date

10 June 1942

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Lannion

Force dispatched

24 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

86 airmen in this archive died on 10 June 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class George Adams (19)
• Sergeant Harry George Baden (26)
• Captain Gordon Goodenough Bayly
• Sergeant Lionel Maurice Bensted (28)
• Flight Sergeant Anthony Pearce Bishop (24)
• Pilot Officer Donald Hill Bootsma (29)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Douglas Bowman (26)
• Sergeant Harold Ernest Boyce (22)
• Pilot Officer John Bramley (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Wesley Brown (24)
• Sergeant Albert William Bunn (27)
• Sergeant John Edward Burley (25)
• Sergeant Alexander Henry Cameron (21)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Camps (23)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Harry Clarke
• Sergeant Jack Cockshott (26)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Thomas Coldham (20)
• Sergeant Vincent Comer (25)
• Pilot Officer Guy Eric Cryer (28)
• Sergeant Sydney Henry Ambrose Cullen (47)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Allen Herbert Davidge (37)
• Air Sergeant Kenneth Forbes Diesel (19)
• Sergeant Maurice Adeney Ellis Ennion (21)
• Corporal Ernest Faulkner (21)

See all 86 who died on 10 June →

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