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Archive Report: Allied Forces

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249 Squadron Crest
02.09.1940 No. 249 Squadron Hurricane I V7532 P/O. Wynn

Operation: Patrol

Date: 02nd September 1940 (Monday)

Unit: No. 249 Squadron (Pugnis et calcibus - "With fists and heels")

Type: Hurricane I

Serial: V7352

Code: GN-?

Base: RAF North Weald

Location: near Chartham

Pilot: P/O. Richard Edward Ney Elias Wynn 81375 RAFVR Age 24. Injured

REASON FOR LOSS:

Radar stations informed Fighter Command at 07:30 hrs that two separate formations were approaching (Observer Corps reported 70 plus Do17's with 50 plus Bf110 as close escort and Bf109s as high cover)

P/O. Wynn was one of three from the Squadron hit during the sortie. P/O. Hugh Beazey flying Hurricane P2988 baled out unhurt over Gillingham, P/O. Percival Burton flying Hurricane P3384 managed to crash land at Meopham - unhurt and aircraft repaired.

P/O. Richard Wynn managed also to crash land his Hurricane near Chartham, wounded he spent some three months in hospital before he could return to his Squadron. Sadly he was to lose his life on the 07th April the following year. Flying Hurricane IIa Z2663 GN-O when returning from a convoy patrol his aircraft spun into the ground at Ongar.

Burial details:

P/O. Richard Edward Ney Elias Wynn. North Weald Bassett Churchyard (St. Andrew). Grave Row 2. Grave 6. Son of Group Captain W. E. Wynn and Evelyn Wynn, of Cambridge, England. Grave inscription reads: "The Things Which Are Seen Are Temporal; But The Things Which Are Not Seen Are Eternal".

With thanks to Andy Baker for grave photograph. For further details our thanks to the following sources shown below.

KTY 18.11.2018

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Acknowledgements
Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and MWO François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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