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Pilot Officer

Ralph Edward Clark

Service number 102988
Military unit 61 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Southampton, Hampshire, England.
Date of birth 21 Dec 1918
Date of death 03 Jun 1942 (23 years old)
Place of birth Southampton, Hampshire, England.
Employment, education or hobbies

Apprentice Automobile Engineer.

Family history

Son of Walter Thomas Clark and Edith Emily Clark, of Twyford, Hampshire.

Military history

RAFVR 1/9/1939
2/3 June 1942 Lancaster R5613 61 Sqn take off 00.01 RAF Syerston mission Essen shot down by Bf110 night fighter piloted by Ofw Fritz Schellwat 5/NJG1 crashing at La Hulpe, killing all but one crew member.

Also killed
Sgt Stanley Lincoln
Sgt Edward Patchett
F/Sgt Alastair McKelvie DFM
Sgt Oliver Beswick

F/Sgt Norman Hartley - Son of Norman and Francis Hartley, of Harrogate, Yorkshire. MIA.

Sgt William Griffiths bailed out landing near Plancenoit, injured bullet wound to the arm. Evaded via Spain on the " Comet Line " The best-known of the Belgian resistance networks, The Comet Line, organized by Andrée (Dédée) de Jongh, involved some 2,000 resistance members and was able to escort 700 Allied servicemen to Spain.

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