Last No 2 Group Raids

Date

31 May 1943

Target

Last No 2 Group Raids

Force dispatched

54 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

97 airmen in this archive died on 31 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 Charles Stanley Anderton
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Archibald (28)
• Lieutenant Edward Alexander Baxter (25)
• Lieutenant Samuel Sinclair Beattie (28)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Roy Bickerton (19)
• Pilot Officer George Hunter Boyes (30)
• Flying Officer Robert Chester Brabham (22)
• Sergeant Joseph Willrod Marcel Brochu (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Robert Brookes (32)
• Pilot Officer George Rawson Brown (19)
• Pilot Officer Sydney Smith Buckley
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard Burnley (32)
• Flight Lieutenant William John Calver (32)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Francis Carty
• Pupil Air Observer Clarence (20)
• Warrant Officer Victor Alfred Clouder (24)
• Corporal Allan Cyrenius James Coates (29)
• Flight Sergeant Austin James Collins (30)
• Warrant Officer Class I Hamish Gordon Collins (33)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Henry Cornell (26)
• Flying Officer Edwin Creed (28)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Reginald Stanley Davies (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Harry Llewellyn Davis (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Lawrence Edward Daw (25)

See all 97 who died on 31 May →

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