Roland Crawley

Hampden AE437 408 Sqn. Take off from 16.40 RAF Syerston to bomb Dusseldorf.
22.29 requested bearings on return from Heston D/F station but crew misinterpreted
directions and were last plotted 270 miles off Brest and 300 off Lands End, 180 degrees off course.

All crew missing:
F/O James Caldwell
Sgt Hudson Marshall
Sgt Edwin Harry
Sgt Roland Cawley

Date of death, 28 November 1941. Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial (Panel 41).

408 (B) Squadron For Freedom (‘Goose’). Extract: 'The squadron was the second Canadian bomber squadron to be formed in WWII. It was formed at Lindholme, Yorkshire, UK in June of 1941 as part of Bomber Command No 5 Group, flying Handley Page Hampden Mk I bombers from Syerston, Nottinghamshire, Balderton, Newark and North Luffenham, Rutland. Its squadron code letters were EQ.’ (caspir.warplane.com/personnel/unit-search)

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