Robert Adrian De Sanoual-Servier

Pre war Fleet Air Arm Royal Navy.

Nearly 60 FAA RN aircrew seconded to the RAF in June 1940
R A De Sanoual-Servier attchd 103 Sqdn.

Battle L5010 103 Sqn. Take off from RAF Newton to bomb the port at Calais, reported lost without trace. It is believed the aircraft was shot down by German flak and crashed near Audinghen on the French Channel coast not far from Calais. The wreckage was investigated by the Germans (https://vgy.me/u/wsy9vA) and the remains of the crew buried nearby. The burial site was recorded and is known. (https://vgy.me/u/yIXXBF)

However it appears that the crew could not be identified and for some reason it is thought they were Canadian. After WW2 the graves were exhumed and it is possible that these were buried in the Calais Canadian Cemetery as Unknown.

Also lost;

P/O Walter Cooper - Son of Herbert and Hannah Beatrice Cooper, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

Sergeant Fred Drinkwater - Son of Frederick and Georgina Drinkwater, of Macclesfield, Cheshire. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

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