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Palmer, A.C., F/Off., 1943
In Reichswald Forest War Cemetery is the name of 128509 Flying Officer (Navigator) Alan Cairns Palmer, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 03/04/1943.

He was a crew member of Lancaster III ED542 which took off from Syerston on a bombing mission to Essen. The aircraft is thought to have crashed killing all the crew. He was killed in the same incident as F/Off. J.W. Simpson

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1943; W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3.

Acknowledgments: Simon Glancey

Alan Cairns Palmer is remembered in South Shields on S86.027 and S86.091


The CWGC entry for Flying Officer Palmer

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

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