Alan Austin

Alan Austin was a Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve flight lieutenant whose public record is still thin but whose identity is fixed by service number 123302, rank, date of death and award records. The Gazette and RAFCommands entries record his Distinguished Flying Cross, placing him among the operational aircrew whose service was formally recognised before his death. Without a fuller loss card or squadron narrative yet located, the safest account is deliberately conservative.

Austin died on 8 May 1944 and is commemorated by the CWGC. The absence of a readily accessible narrative is not unusual for RAF casualties whose records are dispersed between casualty files, squadron ORBs, Gazette notices and local memorial material. His bio therefore preserves the verified essentials while flagging the next research route: the Gazette award entry, RAFCommands index and CWGC commemoration provide the identity anchor, while a future AIR 81 or squadron operations record may fill in the aircraft and circumstances.