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Pilot Officer

Cyril Peter Backlog

Service number 141331
Military unit 207 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Unknown
Date of birth 28 Aug 1908
Date of death 23 Aug 1943 (34 years old)
Place of birth Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies

He was a publican in 1939.

Family history

He was the husband of Clara Backlog. They kept a public house at 10c, Stroud Green Road, Haringey, London.

Military history

Netherlands EMMEN (NIEUW DORDRECHT) GENERAL CEMETERY Plot 9. Row B. Grave 3.

Berlin

Lancaster I ED550 took off 2033 23 Aug 1943 from Langar. Crashed 2359 at Nieuw Dordrecht (Drenthe) 8 km SE of Emmen Holland. Six fatalities: GW Osmer (P), CP Backlog (N), WME Reid (W/Op), JW Standish (AB), TEC McKeith (AG),D Fells (AG). Julian George Walker (FE) survived wounded as a pow.

727 aircraft attacked Berlin 23/8/43, 12 from Langar departing between 20.15 and 20.43. For unknown reasons, ED550 turned back and crashed at Nieuw-Dodrecht in northern Holland with only one survivor.

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