Roderick Joseph Digney
Flight Lieutenant · J/9497 · Canadian
- Died
- 31 March 1944, aged 29
- Fate
- Killed in action
Biography
Not known
Burial / commemoration
- Cemetery
- Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
Operations on this date. One raid in this archive was flown on the night of 31 March 1944: Operation Nuremberg raid. (Cross-reference by date — not in itself confirmation this airman flew it.)
Timeline
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30 March 1944
Flew Operation Nuremberg raid
Navigator, LV944 QB-U — Failed to return -
31 March 1944
Died
aged 29
Crew & operations
Flew as Navigator with No. 424 Squadron (Tiger).
- Operation Nuremberg raid (30 March 1944) — aircraft LV944 QB-U (Handley Page Halifax) — Failed to return
Crew: Felix Frederic Florent Paquin (Bomb aimer) · George Myles (Flight engineer) · John La Pointe Berry (Mid-upper gunner) · Harry Warren Metzler (Pilot) · Jack Beatty Allen (Rear gunner) · Norman Alexander Macaulay (Wireless operator)
Source: CWGC casualty record: DIGNEY, RODERICK JOSEPH → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission