Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
225530
Flt.Sgt. Derek Jones Bates
Royal Air Force 114 Sdqn.
from:Hale, Cheshire
(d.21st Feb 1945)
Derek Bates was a volunteer RAF navigator. He was in a Boston Mark IV taking part in an armed reconnaissance flight on 21st of February 1945. His plane was shot down in the sea off the coast of Falconara, Italy. Wreckage was found, but no trace of the crew. Crew names are on the Malta Memorial, Floriana, Valletta.