Lot Essay
INDENTFlight Sergeant Ronald Vernon Snook, Pilot, No. 57 Squadron (Wellingtons) took part in 14 operational flights as 2nd. Pilot and latterly as Captain of Wellington aircraft; his targets included Mulheim, Emden, Hamburg, Brest and the Renault Works,; he was briefed to bomb Essen, 26/27 March 1942 but failed to return and was reported as missing, presumed killed in action; Snook with his crew of five were all buried in Reichwald War Cemetery
Flight Lieutenant Charles Gordon Gladstone Prior, Pilot, No. 31 Squadron, operating from Piva airstrip on Bougainville, failed to return from a mission against Vunapope supply area near Rabaul, 5 June 1944; the wreckage of his Avenger Torpedo Bomber was located in New Ireland
Captain Clifford 'Shorty' Jenkinson joined the service July 1940; arrived in the Middle East, April 1944 and served as a leading Air Observer, No. 16 Squadron (Beaufighters); he was killed at sea when his aircraft 'ditched' after a raid near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 8 February 1945
Flight Lieutenant Charles Gordon Gladstone Prior, Pilot, No. 31 Squadron, operating from Piva airstrip on Bougainville, failed to return from a mission against Vunapope supply area near Rabaul, 5 June 1944; the wreckage of his Avenger Torpedo Bomber was located in New Ireland
Captain Clifford 'Shorty' Jenkinson joined the service July 1940; arrived in the Middle East, April 1944 and served as a leading Air Observer, No. 16 Squadron (Beaufighters); he was killed at sea when his aircraft 'ditched' after a raid near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 8 February 1945