Roll of Honour

Summary

The Roll of Honour contains the names of the aircrew of No. 550 Squadron (Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force) who gave their lives while the Squadron was on operations against the enemy between 26 November 1943 and May 1945.

In addition to those on this list who died ca. 85 members of No. 550 Squadron took to their parachutes over the continent. The great majority of these became Prisoners of War but a small number evaded capture and were helped back to England.

The extended version of the Roll of Honour includes further information about each servicemen such as service number and grave number/location information and links to other sources where available including to a link to the full record held on the database for the servicemen. The list has been put together from a number of sources, but special thanks to Brian Goodwin who provided the detailed cemetery and grave number information and Andrew Beattie who researched CWGC links.

To revert to viewing the basic Roll of Honour click here.

Definitions of the abbreviations used are available: here.

Rank Initials
(First Name)
Last Name Decorations Crew Position Service Service Number Aircraft Cemetery
(Plot/Panel)
CWGC link
Cemetery / Runnymede
link (if avail.)
IBCC link (if avail.)
Sgt J C
(John Carman)
Atherton - MU/AG RAAF 426486 ED730 Cambridge City Cemetery
Grave 13734
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2650893/ATHERTON

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/100660/
Sgt D G
(David Gwyn)
Davies - F/Eng RAF 1135384 ED730 Neath (Llantwit) Cemetery
Sect. P Grave 49
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2717681/DAVIES

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/105746/
Sgt M E
(Montague Ewart)
Giles - Nav RAF 1322691 ED730 Gloucester Old Cemetery
Plot B Grave 9978
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2451261/GILES

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108634/
F/Sgt J R E
(Joseph Reginald Evariste)
Legere - A/B RCAF R.99179 ED730 Cambridge City Cemetery
Grave 13934
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2651286/LEGERE

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/113770/
Sgt J
(John)
McConnell - R/AG RAF 1822623 ED730 Dalziel (Airbles) Cemetery
Sect. G Grave 514
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2715625/McCONNELL

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/115381/
Sgt H F J
(Hubert Frederick John)
Woods - P RAF 1339079 ED730 Bristol (Arnos Vale) Cemetery
Cemetery Plot TTT Grave 101
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2450502/WOODS

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/125925/
Sgt L F
(Leonard Frederick)
Wright - W/Op RAF 1199164 ED730 Hereford Cemetery
Grave 6051
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2447781/WRIGHT

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/126063/

The details were last updated: 13 April 2024


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