David Usher Barnwell

David Usher Barnwell was a British Royal Air Force pilot officer, service number 61052, whose wartime career is traced through casualty and official award records. His decorations recorded here include the DFM, gazetted on 23 September 1941. The Gazette citation points to operational service that the Air Ministry judged notable for qualities such as skill, courage, leadership or sustained determination. He died on 14 October 1941, aged 19. He is commemorated or buried at Malta Memorial in Malta. For many RAF casualties the surviving official trail is brief, but the combination of service number, CWGC commemoration and Gazette notices preserves the essentials of his story. Those records show not only the bare fact of his death, but also that his service had been formally recognised during the war itself. His name is therefore carried here with the service details needed to distinguish him from namesakes. This profile therefore keeps to the verifiable outline: who he was, the rank and number under which he served, how his service was honoured, and where he is remembered.