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Carey, B., F/Off., 1943
On the Runnymede Memorial is the name of 125672 Flying Officer Basil Carey, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 23/04/1943.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

P/O Brown was killed when Avro Lancaster III ED799 WS-G of 9 Squadron was lost without trace on a minelaying mission to the Bay of Biscay, with the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 122

Also killed in the same incident were Sgt. H. Jenkins and P/Off. R. Brown

Basil Carey is remembered in Elswick on E35.10


The CWGC for Flying Officer Carey

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk