Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Bumfrey was killed when Martin Baltimore IV FA672 of 454 (R.A.A.F.) Squadron was lost on a patrol. The crew reported a sighting, and a few minutes later sent out an S.O.S., this being fixed at a point some 20 miles south of Crete. The aircraft and the four crew were lost without trace.
Alamein to the Alps: 454 Squadron RAAF; Mark Lax; 2006; ISBN 0-9775340-06, page 87
Also killed in the same incident was Sgt. H.R. Peel
Desmond Bumfrey is remembered in Seaton Sluice on S9.01 where his name is given as “Bumphrey.”
