755963 Sergeant Alexander Vaughan McRae.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
210 Squadron.
210 Squadron RAF operated out of
RAF Oban, Argyll, Scotland,
and
RAF Killadeas,
which was a shared base on Lough Erne with
RAF Castle Archdale,
Fermanagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
They carried out surveillance and convoy protection patrols over the North-Western Approaches of the North Atlantic between Northern Ireland and Iceland during World War 2. The squadron usually flew the Short Sunderland Flying Boat patrol bomber, supplemented by the Consolidated Catalina patrol bomber.
He was a member of the crew of a Catalina Flying Boat, AH 532, which took off from RAF Killadeas on Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh, on 21st April 1941, and failed to return. Its mission was Convoy Protection in the North Atlantic and Anti-Submarine reconnaissance. The mission was normally of 11 hours duration, but was frequently extended to 14 hours if it was intended to land at the other base. The normal crew comprised 10-11 but in this instance only 9 were onboard.
The crew comprised,
Flight Lieutenant Henry Dempster Breese
Pilot.
Flight Sergeant Leslie Stewart Dilnutt
Flight Sergeant Alfred Tizzard
Air Gunner
Sergeant Horace Arthur Tann
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Sergeant Walter Henry Balch
Sergeant Alexander Vaughan McRae
Warrant Officer Clifford Bond
Aircraftman Class 2 Herbert Vernon Norton
Radar Technician
Aircraftman Class 1 James Frank Woodward
Radar Technician
The body of Alfred Tizzard was found some weeks later on Inis Mór, the larger of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, and was buried there in one of the island's cemeteries.
The body of Horace Tann was found at Cruit Island, Co. Donegal.
None of the bodies of the other crew members were ever recovered, and their names are recorded on
The Runnymede Memorial
which records the names of over 20,000 RAF personnel who died in World War 2, and who have no known grave.
755963 Sergeant Alexander Vaughan McRae.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
210 Squadron.
210 Squadron RAF operated out of
RAF Oban, Argyll, Scotland,
and
RAF Killadeas,
which was a shared base on Lough Erne with
RAF Castle Archdale,
Fermanagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
They carried out surveillance and convoy protection patrols over the North-Western Approaches of the North Atlantic between Northern Ireland and Iceland during World War 2. The squadron usually flew the Short Sunderland Flying Boat patrol bomber, supplemented by the Consolidated Catalina patrol bomber.
He was a member of the crew of a Catalina Flying Boat, AH 532, which took off from RAF Killadeas on Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh, on 21st April 1941, and failed to return. Its mission was Convoy Protection in the North Atlantic and Anti-Submarine reconnaissance. The mission was normally of 11 hours duration, but was frequently extended to 14 hours if it was intended to land at the other base. The normal crew comprised 10-11 but in this instance only 9 were onboard.
The crew comprised,
Flight Lieutenant Henry Dempster Breese
Pilot.
Flight Sergeant Leslie Stewart Dilnutt
Flight Sergeant Alfred Tizzard
Air Gunner
Sergeant Horace Arthur Tann
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Sergeant Walter Henry Balch
Sergeant Alexander Vaughan McRae
Warrant Officer Clifford Bond
Aircraftman Class 2 Herbert Vernon Norton
Radar Technician
Aircraftman Class 1 James Frank Woodward
Radar Technician
The body of Alfred Tizzard was found some weeks later on Inis Mór, the larger of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, and was buried there in one of the island's cemeteries.
The body of Horace Tann was found at Cruit Island, Co. Donegal.
None of the bodies of the other crew members were ever recovered, and their names are recorded on
The Runnymede Memorial
which records the names of over 20,000 RAF personnel who died in World War 2, and who have no known grave.
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