Operation: Rover
Date: 16th October 1941 (Thursday)
Unit: No. 42 Squadron (Coastal Command)
Type: Bristol Beaufort I
Serial: L9939
Code: AW-W
Base: RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland
Location: Not known.
Pilot: P/O. Godfrey Sydney Turner 107513 RAFVR Age 27. Missing
Obs: F/O. Arthur Evans Snell J/941 RCAF Age 30. Missing
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Roy Longden Robinson 650686 RAF Age ? Missing
Air/Gnr: Sgt. George Gibson King 977633 RAFVR Age 22. Missing
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took off on a "Rover" (1) patrol from RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland at 14.00hrs.
Nothing was heard from them - all the crew are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. This was the only Coastal Command aircraft lost on this operation. We would be interested to hear from other relatives of this crew with any further information.
(1) Offensive shipping patrol of the southern North Sea. See Abbreviations for further details.
P/O. Godfrey Sydney Turner. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 35.
Son of Arthur Sydney and Ethel Marie Turner; husband of Elizabeth Whitehead Turner, of Dunfermline, Fife.
F/O. Arthur Evans Snell. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 59.
Son of Colonel A. F. Snell and Henrietta F. Snell, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; husband of R. G. Snell, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Fl/Sgt. Roy Longden Robinson. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 37.
Believed to be born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1917.
Sgt. George Gibson King. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 46.
Son of Harry and Annie Eliza King, of Broom, Yorkshire.
Researched for Roger Edwards - nephew of Fl/Sgt. Roy L. Robinson and for all relatives/friends of the crew. Acknowledgments: With thanks to the following: Ross Mcneil - 'Coastal Command Losses' Vol 1, the work of the CWGC
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them. - Laurence
Binyon
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