BoB RAF pilots as of 13 August 1940

[otisabuser2]

Will try posting units in this format. Tried to get pilot into the correct unit as of Eagle Day, or his date of joining, if later. Please feel free to suggest any additions/amendments or add futher units........

1 ( RCAF ) Sqn

FO EW Beardmore
FO CE Briese
PO deP Brown ( + 2/9/40 )( USA )
PO BE Christmas
FO J-PJ Desloges
FO RL Edwards
FO GG Hyde
FO JW Kerwin
FO TB Little
FO PW Lochnan ( + 2/9/40 )
FL GR McGregor
SL EA McNab
FO WBMacD Millar ( + 30/8/40 )
FO HdeM Molson
FO AD Nesbitt
FO RW Norris ( + 2/9/40 )
FO JD Pattinson ( + 30/8/40 )
PO OJ Peterson ( USA )
FO PB Pitcher
FL EM Reyno
FO BD Russel
FO R Smither
FO WP Sprenger
FO CW Trevena ( + 1/9/40 )
FO AMacL Yuile

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3 Sqn

FO JJFH Bandinel
FO NJM Barry ( SA )
PO DL Bisgood ( wia )
Sgt ET Cosby
Sgt JD Fletcher
Sgt AC Fotheringham
FO CN Foxley-Norris ( +27/9/40 )
PO AHB Friendship
Sgt RH Furneaux
Sgt WN Gardiner
SL SF Godden
Sgt HC Grove
Sgt J Hammerton
PO PA Harris ( + 30/9/40 )
FO DAE Jones
PO Kennett ( + sept 40 )
PO J Lonsdale
PO R McDougall
Sgt RJ McNair
FL R Miller
Sgt HR Mitchell ( + 28/9/40 )( NZ )
Sgt GCR Pannell ( +29/9/40 )( NZ )
PO AMW Scott
PO HA Sprague ( + 5/10/40 )( Can )
Sgt GS Taylor ( + 29/9/40 )( NZ )
PO CB Temlett ( + 27/9/40 )
PO RE Tongue ( +2/9/40 )
PO CAB Wallace ( +5/10/40)
Sgt RT Ware
PO MT Whinney ( + 21/8/40 )
FO RC Wilkinson
Sgt WC Willis
PO FS Watson ( +5/10/40 )(Can)

[otisabuser2]

1 Sqn RAF

Sgt John Arbuthnot
F/Sgt Frederick George Berry
FO Colin Norman Birch
PO Peter Victor Boot
WC Harry Broadhurst ( guest )
FL Mark Henry Brown ( Ca )
PO Dennis Owen Matthew Browne
Sgt Neil Cameron ( +26/9/40 )
PO Charles Arthur Copeland Chetham
PO Jospeh Armand Jacques Chevrier ( Ca )( +3/10/40 )
PO Evzen Cizek ( Cz)(+14/10/40 )
PO Arthur Victor Clowes
PO John Arthur Joseph Davey
2nd Lt Jean Demozay (Fr)(+16/10/40)
PO Roland Harold Dibnah (Ca)
PO John Francis Durham Elkington
PO Frantisek Fajtl (Cz) (+12/9/40)
FL John Frederick Fortescue Finnis ( +sep)
PO George Earnest Goodman )Pal)
PO Bruce Alexander Hanbury (Ca) (+3/10/40)
PO Norman Patrick Watkins Hancock
FO Harry Bryan Lillie Hillcoat
Sgt Claude Gordon Hodson (Rh)(+sep)
FL John Browning Holderness (Rh)
PO Michael Giles Homer
PO Anthony Kershaw (+21/9/40 )
PO Frantisek Kordula (Cz)(+11/9/40)
Sgt Bedrich Kratkoruky (Cz)(+4/10/40)
Sgt Karel Miroslav Kuttelwascher (Cz)(+3/10/40)
FO Raymond Grant Lewis (Ca)(+21/10/40)
PO Harold John Mann
FO Peter Gerald Hugh Matthews
Sgt Henry James Merchant
PO Jocelyn George Power Millard (+21/9/40)
Sgt Wilfred Thomas Page (+1/10/40)
Sgt Otto Pavlu (Cz)(+4/10/40)
SL David Alwyne Pemberton
Sgt Henry William Pettit (+sep)
Sgt Josef Prihoda (Cz)(+8/10/40)
FO James Clifton Edmeston Robinson (+28/9/40)
FO Harold Nigel Egerton Salmon
Sgt Martin Michael Shanahan
PO Robert Henry Shaw
PO Charles Michael Stavert
Sgt Jan Stefan (Cz)(+oct)
PO Michael Percy Wareham (+5/10/40)
Sgt Stanley Warren (+21/9/40)
Sgt Jack Weber (+21/9/40)
Sgt Antonin Zavoral (Cz)(+14/10/40)

[Hard Sarge]

Any Chance of finding there first names ?
 
I know the RAF was a pain about listing them

[otisabuser2]

17 Sqn

Sgt L H BARTLETT
FL A W A BAYNE
PO G R BENNETTE
FO H A C BIRD-WILSON
FL H P BLATCHFORD (ca)(+30/9)
FO C P N BRETT
Sgt R F BUMSTEAD
Sgt C A CHEW
SL W E COOPE (+25/8 as guest)
FO M B CZERNIN
Sgt W J ETHERINGTON
Sgt D FOPP (au)
Sgt G GRIFFITHS
WC R K HAMBLIN (guest)
FO D H W HANSON
FO W J HARPER
PO T L KUMIEGA
PO D C LEARY
FO A P LINES
Sgt J P MORRISON (+31/8)
PO P NIEMIEC (P)(+1/9)
Sgt D J NORTH-BOMFORD
Sgt G C C PALLISER
FO G E PITTMAN
PO J K ROSS
Sgt D A SEWELL
PO N D SOLOMON
PO L W STEVENS
Sgt G A STEWARD
SL C W WILLIAMS
PO D H WISSLER

[Hard Sarge]

Frantisekk Fajtl +29/4/40 ?

he was in the unit from the beginning ?

or is that a typo ?

game had him in 310

[Hard Sarge]

1 RAF Squadron

[Hard Sarge]

the rest won't show up as they are on delay

[otisabuser2]

Frantisekk Fajtl +29/4/40 ?

he was in the unit from the beginning ?

or is that a typo ?

game had him in 310

The game is right. He was posted to 310 on 6th August.

However after 10 days he was sent to OTU on a Hurricane conversion course. I think in the early stage the 3xx Sqns were little more than holding units for foreign pilots. Should read as 12/9/40 is the date that he joined 1 Sqn from the course.

[Hard Sarge]

so, him and the other one, should join 1 in sept then ?

will change in the morning

[otisabuser2]

Sept, yes, but what other one ?

Incidently, I don't like the "Fred-George". Why not "Frederick G" ?

[Hard Sarge]

May of misread Pavlu when I was posting, no hassle

been doing too many Germen names, lots of Freidrich's I been having to cut down

I can make it Fredrick

Spoil sport

[DBS]

Blenheim NF sqns:
Asterisk marks out some of the particularly distinguished pilots then or later in the war who might deserve better ratings. All those named served in the sqns concerned during the Battle of Britain, but some may have been in other units at our start date for BoB, and of course some joined after the start date. Where I am confident that they were in the sqn at 13 August, I have marked with a CS.


FIU
F/Lt R Ker-Ramsey
F/O Glyn Ashfield CS
P/O Colin Clark SAAF

23 Sqn
F/Lt Raymond Duke-Wooley *
P/O Eric Orgias RNZAF
F/O Herbert Woodward (start 64?)
F/Sgt C G Burton

25 Sqn
S/Ldr W Loxton
F/Lt John Hughes
F/O A Lyall
F/O W Emmett CS
P/O Douglas Hogg
P/O Bernard Rofe
P/O Michael Herrick
P/O E Cassidy
Sgt A Gooderham CS
Sgt K Hollowell
Sgt J Jones

29 Sqn
F/Lt J Adams
P/O Lionel Kells
P/O Jack Humphreys
P/O Richard Rhodes CS
P/O Jack Buchanan
P/O Bob Braham * CS
P/O P J Anderson
Sgt Robert Stevens
Sgt Thomas French
Sgt Sydney Stokoe


219 Sqn
P/O William Lambie
P/O J Carriere RCAF
P/O John Topham * CS
Sgt O Dupee CS
Sgt E Grubb
Sgt Charles Goodwin
Sgt Thomas Birkett

600 Sqn
F/Lt C Pritchard
F/O S le Rougetel CS
P/O Harold Hough
P/O A D M Boyd
P/O Colin Hobson
P/O Peter Hurst
P/O R Atkinson CS (but transferred within a day or so to 213, where he scored on 18 Aug)
Sgt Albert Saunders

604 Sqn
S/Ldr Max Aitken *
F/Lt John Cunningham *
F/O Hugh Speke
F/O Nigel Wheatcroft
F/O P Heal
P/O A Maclaren
P/O D Bayliss
Sgt Cyril Haigh CS
P/O Rod Chisholm *

[otisabuser2]

Got this list for FIU. DBS three were spot on.

F/O Glyn ASHFIELD
WC George Philip CHAMBERLAIN
P/O Colin Anthony George CLARK (Sa)
F/Lt Robert Gerald KER-RAMSAY
Sgt Ian Nicholson MacRAE
SL Anthony Garforth MILLER
PO Derrick Lang RYALLS

[Hard Sarge]

Well, got most of the NF pilots in

got 98 Czech pilots in or corrected (we got every Czech that flew during BoB in)

[kkoovvoo]

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

Frantisekk Fajtl +29/4/40 ?

he was in the unit from the beginning ?

or is that a typo ?

game had him in 310

by the way Frantisek Fajtl died yestreday, at the age of 94.

[Hard Sarge]

Yes, I had seen that, don't know if the others here knew or not

also believe it was said that he had been the last of the BoB Czech pilots to passaway

a shame