Douglas Leonard Bisgood

Douglas Leonard Bisgood was a British Royal Air Force squadron leader, service number 41896, whose wartime career is traced through casualty and official award records. His decorations recorded here include the DFM, gazetted on 30 December 1941. The Gazette record confirms that his wartime service had been formally recognised before his death. He died on 18 April 1947, aged 27. He is commemorated or buried at Runnymede Memorial in the United Kingdom. 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.