97/Deverill Crew: Crew photograph

Object/Artifact

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RAF Pathfinders Archive

Name/Title

97/Deverill Crew: Crew photograph

Entry/Object ID

2021.500.97

Description

Deverill and crew, 97 Squadron. (2 images)

Context

Deverill with his crew around October 1942 and the end of their first tour with Bomber Command. At least four of these men were with him at the time of the fatal crash on 17 December. CREW on 16/17 December 1943 Pilot: S/L Ernest Alfred Deverill Buried in Docking (St Mary) Churchyard, Norfolk Flight Engineer: F/S Alexander Russell Buried in Epsom Cemetery Navigator: P/O John Thomas Brown Buried in Belfast (Dundonald) Cemetery Bomb Aimer: F/S Francis Roy Farr Buried in Windsor Cemetery W/Op: F/S Ralph Crossgrove, RNZAF Buried in Cambridge City Cemetery Mid-Upper Gunner: W/O James Benbow Severely injured, treated Ely Hospital and East Grinstead Rear Gunner: W/O Donald Jamieson Penfold Buried in Worthing (Durrington) Cemetery First Photograph, L-R: Ralph Crossgrove, James Benbow, unknown, unknown, Ernest Deverill, unknow, unknown.

Collection

97 Squadron, The Bombing War: 16/17 December 1943, YDEV: ERNEST DEVERILL COLLECTION

Category

QAI: Personal photographs