Ostend

Date

7 May 1942

Target

Ostend

Force dispatched

12 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

125 airmen in this archive died on 7 May 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 Wilfred Bertie Adams (29)
• Sergeant Kenneth George Armstrong
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth John Arnott (23)
• Warrant Officer Louis Clifford Ashford (26)
• Sergeant John Percy William Bandy (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Norman Robert Banvill (20)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Willan Batty (22)
• Sergeant Wilfred Benson (26)
• Flight Sergeant Frank William Bodfish (27)
• Pilot Officer Frank Alan Bolton (27)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Herbert Bolus
• Leading Aircraftman Erwin Bruce Brown (25)
• Pilot Officer George Henry Anthony Butler (19)
• Sergeant Matthew Callaghan
• Sergeant Victor George Carter (29)
• Sergeant Lionel Leslie Cartwright (21)
• Sergeant Joseph Milton Lorraine Charbonneau (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Denis Clark (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Douglas Joseph Clarke (23)
• Flight Sergeant Coetzee (26)
• Sergeant Ernest Almon (jnr.) Coleman (22)
• Sergeant John Collie
• Corporal Stanley Harold Cook (30)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Graham Ronaldson Corser (26)

See all 125 who died on 7 May →

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