Michael Giles Homer

Flying Officer · 33409 · United Kingdom

Died

27 September 1940, aged 21

Fate

Killed in action

Biography

Burial / commemoration

Cemetery

Swanage (godlingston) Cemetery, United Kingdom

Timeline

• 26 April 1940 Gazetted: DFC
  Distinguished Flying Cross
• 27 September 1940 Died
  aged 21

Awards

• Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) — gazetted 26 April 1940

  In April, 1940, this officer was pilot of an aircraft carrying out a high-level bombing attack on two enemy cruisers anchored in Christiansand Bay. In the face of intense anti-aircraft fire and attacks by enemy fighters, he successfully pressed home his bombing attack and his air gunner shot down an enemy fighter which burst into flames and.

Source: CWGC casualty record: HOMER, MICHAEL GILES → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission