Photo: Dorothy Hall
755390 Sergeant
G.J. Devlin
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
1st October 1940 Age 19
Also His Brother Joseph
Who Died 26th June 1932
Age 15 Years 6 Months
R.I.P.
Son of Joseph and Jane Elizabeth Devlin, of Billingham.
Sgt. Devlin was a crew member of Hampden I X2965 KM- which took off from Waddington in a Hampden bomber on a raid on Cologne. It crashed into the sea. The bodies of Devlin and another were washed ashore; the other two crew are commemorated on Runnymede memorial.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1939-1940; W.R. Chorley; 1992; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 85 7.
George James Devlin is remembered at Billingham on B139.01 and B139.05
