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242 "Canadian" Squadron

"Toujors Pret"
(Always Ready)

Squadron Code Letters "LE"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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242 Squadron

Duxford, September 1940

DND 65-110 (Canada) & CH 1413 (UK)

S/L Bader with pilots of 242 Squadron in front of his Hurricane

Of these ten pilots in the "Canadian" Squadron, five
(Tamblyn, Turner, Campbell, McKnight & Brown) actually were.
Of these five, only Turner survived the war.

from the left:

P/O Denis "Crow" Crowley-Milling
F/O Hugh Norman Tamblyn - KIA 3 April 1941
F/L Percival Stanley "Bull" Turner
Sgt Joseph Ernest Savill
P/O Norman Neil "Neil" Campbell - KIA 17 October 1940
P/O William Lidstone "Willie" McKnight - KIA 12 January 1941
S/L Douglas Robert Stewart "Dougie" Bader
F/L George Eric "Eric" Ball - KiFA 1 February 1946
P/O Michael Giles Homer - KIA 27 September 1940
F/O Marvin Kitchener "Ben" Brown - KIA 21 February 1941

 

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