Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 - The Men

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TI Darby RN
Squadron: 1772
Ship/Air Station: HMS Indefatigable
Captured: 10.8.1945
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	O'Neill, BF Sub Lt RNZN and Darby, TI Sub Lt 1772 sqdn firefly. FTR on 10.8.1945 to HMS Indefatigable after a strike against Japan. Crew seen to bale out. Both POW by the Japanese.	POW Japan	1945

ARJ Davies RN
Squadron: 812
Ship/Air Station: RAF North Coates
Captured: 15.11.1940
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	Bentley, TG Lt and Davies, ARJ Sub Lt of Swordfish sqdn 812. FTR and both taken POW on 15.11.40 after being hit by flak on a bombing raid on Barley airfield. The Swordfish crashed at Dunkirk. Taken POW by the Germans.	German POW	1945

JMP Davies
Squadron: 812
Ship/Air Station: RAF North Coates
Captured: 30.6.1940
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	Davies, JMP Sub Lt and Conn, CA Sub Lt, 812 sqdn. On 30.6.1940, Swordfish shot down whilst on a minelaying operation in Northern France. Both taken POW.	German POW	1945

RLG Davies
Squadron: 812
Ship/Air Station: RAF North Coates
Captured: 22.8.1940
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Hearle, NM Lt and Davies, RLG Sub Lt, 812 sqdn swordfish. FTR on 22.8.40 when minelaying off Holland. Taken POW.

Stalag Luft III

Rupert Davies was a leading actor in Luft III with John Casson

Notable post-war TV actor as the BBC Inspector Maigret detective in the early 1960s
(music)(video clip 1 and 2, and in the film The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)

GP Dawson
Squadron: 810
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Captured: 24.9.1940
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Released: 10.1942
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	Wheeler, GMMC Sub Lt, Cross, LA Sub Lt and Dawson, GP L/A, 810 sqdn. FTR when shot down by shore batteries on Cap Manuel on approach to attack warships in Dakar harbour. Crew baled out. Sub Lt GMMC Wheeler killed, Sub Lt LA Cross, severely wounded and on bailing out parachute failed to open - killed. Dawson baled out and subsequently interned by the French at Dakar		At Dakar freed 10.42

HP Dawson RN
Squadron: 830
Ship/Air Station: Hal Far, Malta
Captured: 14.4.1941
Escaped: Attempted escape
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	Dawson, HP Sub Lt and Todd, A. TAG 830 sqdn. FTR 14.4.1941 after a torpedo attack on an enemy convoy. Captured and interned by French authorities in Tunisia.	Attempted escape

F Dawson-Paul RN
Squadron: 64 sqdn RAF
Ship/Air Station: HMS Illustrious
Captured: 25.7.1940
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Died/Killed: 30.7.1940 died of wounds

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	Dawson-Paul, F Sub Lt 25.7.1940, loaned to 64 sqdn RAF. He shot down a Bf109E, but was in turn shot down into the English Channel. Picked up by German E-boat and taken POW.	Died from severe wounds 5 days after being captured by the Germans.

H Deterding
Squadron: 825
Ship/Air Station: RAF Coastal Command
Captured: 22.9.1940
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	Deterding, H Sub Lt, Poynter, DA Sub Lt and Brown, HW TAG 825 swordfish sqdn. On 22.9.1940, FTR from an attack on Trondheim, Norway.	German POW. Poynter took part in the Stalag luft III Great Escape in 1944

F/O Donaghue RAAF
Squadron: 9 sqdn RAAF
Ship/Air Station: HMAS Manoora
Captured: 27.2.1942
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	Donaghue, F/O RAAF, McWilliams, NR Lt RANR, and Wallace KS AG of Walrus L2319, 9 sqdn RAAF of HMAS Manoora, sunk with ship on 27.2.1942 in Bantam Bay, NW of Java, in Battle of Java Sea. Donaghue, F/O RAAF and Wallace KS AG both POW. McWilliams, NR Lt RANR missing/killed.	Japanese POW	1945 unconfirmed

RG Drake
Squadron: 700
Ship/Air Station: HMS Malaya
Captured: 8.3.1942
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	Brown, GR Lt, Drake, RG Sub Lt and TAG RH George, 700 sqdn HMS Malaya, 8.3.42. Ran out of fuel whilst shadowing German battleship Scharnhorst. Was rescued and interned by the Spanish.	The POWs later released after internment in Spain. The Swordfish was addes to the Spanish air force as HR6-1 on 6.12.43, retd 3.45 at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria	The crew was later released 1942.

VJ Dyke
Squadron: 826
Ship/Air Station: Bircham Newton, RAF Coastal Command
Captured: 21.6.1940
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Died/Killed: 22.6.1940

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	Butterworth, WS Sub Lt, Dyke, VJ Sub Lt and Jackson, RJ TAG 826 sqdn 21.6.40 FTR Albacore attack on De Kooy airbase and Den Helder naval base, Holland. the Albacore was shot down by Bf109s over Texel Wadden sea island, and crashed near Dechavij, Insel. Butterworth, WS Sub Lt POW, Dyke, VJ Sub Lt Died of wounds and Jackson, RJ TAG POW of the Germans.	German POW	Died of wounds as POW 22.6.1940

RE Dubber
Squadron: 1841
Ship/Air Station: HMS Formidable
Captured: 17.4.1944
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	Dubber, RE Lt 1841 sqdn, Corsair, of HMS Formidable. FTR on 17.4.1944 to Formidable, after a strike on the Norwegian coast. The Corsair was hit by flak ditched, pilot swam ashore near Oeksfjord, Norway.	German POW	1945

LD Durno RN
Squadron: 1834
Ship/Air Station: HMS Victorious
Captured: 29.1.1945 [POW?/killed]
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Died/Killed:1945

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	Durno, LD Sub Lt Corsair, 1834 sqdn. FTR on 29.1.1945 to HMS Victorious during Operation Meridian II, when hit by flak over Palembang. The Corsair ditched.	German POW?/killed

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