Operational Losses


	The Runnymede Memorial


	The following 29 pilots gave their lives while serving with 127 Squadron.


	Date 3 July 1941 3 July 1941 20 March 1942 20 March 1942 26 October 1942 3 November 1942 3 November 1942 3 November 1942 23 November 1942 21 January 1943 27 August 1943 6 October 1943 30 May 1944 1 September 1944 11 September 1944 2 October 1944 15 October 1944 30 October 1944 3 November 1944 6 November 1944 28 November 1944 28 November 1944 29 December 1944 22 January 1945 3 February 1945 18 February 1945 1 April 1945 1 April 1945 6 April 1945


	Name Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Adams Warrant Officer Douglas James Pitcher 2nd Lieutenant Charles Henry Gielink Flying Officer John Lewis Ward Sergeant Robert Brian Stoddart Flying Officer Alexander Duncan Melville Flight Lieutenant Richard Chilrose Lawrence Pilot Officer Arthur Laurence Rebman Flight Sergeant John Herbert Miller Flight Sergeant Reginald Sydney John Linter Flying Officer John Paterson McDonell Warrant Officer Thomas Barker Orford Warrant Officer John Vinton Pearson Flight Sergeant Roy Morris Housden Flying Officer Colin Douglas (Dinger) Bell Flight Lieutenant Jack Whittington Flying Officer Geoff William Davies Captain Gunnar Fosse Flying Officer Richard Owen Lloyd Flight Lieutenant John Burton Shillitoe Squadron Leader Otto Smik Flying Officer Henri Leon Jean Marie Taymans Flight Sergeant Peter Ralph Attwooll Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gordon Richardson Wing Commander (132 Wing) Rolf Arne Berg Flight Sergeant Collin Royal (Bunny) Bundara Warrant Officer Seymour (Taffy) Jones Flight Sergeant Arnold Jean Baecke Flight Sergeant Ronald Palmer


	Serial No. 365140 364156 102104V 84018 402889 J/7603 J/6228 J/15713 1254889 655422 400266 1000267 1025083 1335087 403317 129509 152115 401979 69479 130678 151925 1396551 120591 Nor 5514 419636 1119871 1424959 1651825


	Nationality British British South African British Australian Canadian Canadian Canadian British British Australian British British British Australian British British Norwegian Australian British Slovakian Belgian British British Norwegian Australian British Belgian British


	Location of Grave No Known Grave - Alamein Memorial No Known Grave - Alamein Memorial Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel. Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. No Known Grave - Alamein Memorial El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. Nicosia War Cemetery, Cyprus. Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel. Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel. No Known Grave - Runnymede Memorial, Panel 214 Saffron Waldon Cemetery, England Oostende New Communal War Cemetery, Belgium Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, Holland Repatriated to Bergen, Norway Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium Ermelo (Nunspeet) New General Cemetery, Holland Repatriated to Bratislava, Slovakia. Pelouse d'Honneur, Evere, Belgium Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Holland Dordrecht General Cemetry, Holland Repatriated to Orkanger, Norway Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetry, Holland No Known Grave - Runnymede Memorial, Panel 269 Oostende New Communal, Belgium Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetry, Holland


	The following 3 ground crew were killed during an enemy air raid on the 21 August 1942. ACM 1 Walter Elvy Taylor 1382080 Corp Denver Hubert Squires 940895 Sgt Arthur James Ward 976625


	Bergan-op-Zoom War Cemetery


	The following pilots where shot down while on operations but survived and spent the remainder of the war as POW's.


	Date 6 September 1942 3 November 1942 3 November 1942 22 May 1944 14 August 1944 25 August 1944 17 January 1945 27 April 1945


	Name Pilot Officer Robert Joseph 'Bob' Crot Flying Officer Dormer George Andrews * Flight Lieutenant Roderick Richard Mazey Flying Offices Neil Osborne Thomas Flight Sergeant Marice E F Macey Flying Office William John "Spike" Malone Flight Lieutenant Clive Robert "Joe" Birbeck Flight Lieutenant Alan H Willis


	Serial No. J/5053 404557 405215 400740 1801876 51113 108990 SR80371


	Nationality USA Australian Australian Australian British British British Southern Rhodesian


	*F/O Andrews was repatriated to Australia due to the severe injuries he had sustained.