Essen

Date

22 October 1942

Target

Essen, Germany

Force dispatched

13 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

81 airmen in this archive died on 22 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.

• Wing Commander Horace Roy Allen (33)
• Sergeant Alfred Anderson (27)
• Flying Officer George Douglas Rutherford Avery (24)
• Pilot Officer William Bain (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank James Beairsto (24)
• Flying Officer Douglas Crawford Bell (34)
• Corporal Reginald Benson (21)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Layton Bowker (31)
• Sergeant Arthur Brown
• Aircraftman 1st Class Philip Stanley Chilton (21)
• Flight Sergeant Lloyd Denzil Clark (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Francis Victor Copsey (23)
• Pilot Officer Rodney George Dandy (32)
• Flight Sergeant Albert George Declerck (26)
• Sergeant Edward Reid Dodson (26)
• Flying Officer Raymond Dopere
• Flying Officer Frank Eagling (24)
• Sergeant Leslie Walter Giles (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Norman Gillitt (23)
• Corporal Gerald Alexander Grant (25)
• Sergeant Petr Haas (22)
• Sergeant Frederick Cecil Hall (24)
• Flight Sergeant Mark Hanna (34)
• Sergeant Harry Hardy (30)

See all 81 who died on 22 October →

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