Hengelo

Date

16 October 1942

Target

Hengelo

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

98 airmen in this archive died on 16 October 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.

• Corporal Clifford John Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant James Sangster Anderson (22)
• Flying Officer John Ellsworth Avise (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Ernest Barnett (32)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Baythorp (25)
• Sergeant Reuben John Benn (24)
• Flying Officer John Stanbridge Bird (23)
• Sergeant Stephen William George Bishop (25)
• Sergeant Eric Herbert Boreham (30)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Hugh Steyning Brown (27)
• Sergeant David Buchanan
• Pilot Officer John Leslie Gordon Campbell (32)
• Warrant Officer Class II Peter Carter
• Sergeant Kenneth Stuart Chalmers (19)
• Flight Sergeant David Buchanan Clark (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert John Levi Cole
• Sergeant William John Cornish (23)
• Squadron Leader William Duncan Corr
• Sergeant Harold Stanley Cutler (19)
• Pilot Officer Edward Terence Daintith (27)
• Sergeant Rythwyn Ivor Davies (24)
• Sergeant Richard James Delve (21)
• Sergeant Joseph Ernest Desjardins (24)
• Sergeant Edward Lawrence Eaves (22)

See all 98 who died on 16 October →

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