Morlaix

Date

19 May 1943

Target

Morlaix

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

93 airmen in this archive died on 19 May 1943 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 Robert Allan (22)
• Sergeant John Edward Allison (22)
• Sergeant James (jimmy) Arkle (21)
• Sergeant Neville Gerrard Armstrong (19)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Ernest Baker (21)
• Pilot Officer Reginald George Barham (32)
• Sergeant Sydney Roy Barnes (21)
• Squadron Leader Edgar Valetta Bashford (56)
• Warrant Officer Ray John Baxter (22)
• Flying Officer Gerald James Butler (24)
• Flight Sergeant Archibald Campbell (29)
• Corporal Alan Vivien Samuel Chapman (22)
• Sergeant Thomas Arnold Chapman (22)
• Flying Officer William Robert Cleland (34)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Cobern (26)
• Warrant Officer Arthur Ronald Cunnold-cook (24)
• Flying Officer Reginald Edward George Devlin (40)
• Sergeant Edgar Dewhurst (28)
• Sergeant Cyril Ingram Dodson (35)
• Leading Aircraftman Gordon Leslie Dore (22)
• Sergeant Ronald William Bruce Dowell (24)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald William Easton (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Norman Emery
• Aircraftman 1st Class John Oswald Francis Ferrett (21)

See all 93 who died on 19 May →

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