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234357 Sgt. Alfred Malcolm Hodges Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 100 Squadron from:Trowbridge (d.21st Apr 1943) Sergeant Alfred Malcolm Hodges was known to family and friends as 'Malcolm'. He was born and grew up in Trowbridge, Wiltshire and was one of seven children, having one brother Peter and five sisters Kate, Betty, Ilene, Daphne, Avril and Thelma. Malcolm served with RAF 100 Squadron and flew on a night mission, taking off from Grimsby on 20th April 1943, along with fellow crew members Pilot Flight Lieutenant William A Jones, Sergeant Donald R Ling, Flight Officer Guy B Herring RAAF, Sergeant Bernard M Cooper, Sergeant Samuel J Houston and Sergeant Clifford Walker. Their aircraft was Lancaster III ED557 which belonged to RAF 100 Squadron Bomber Command and was coded HW-Y. Take off time from Grimsby was 21:57 hrs and the Operation was Stettin. On the return flight the aircraft was tragically hit by German flak at 01:31 hrs on 21st April 1943 from II Zug I.lei 985 and from Sperrbrecker 22 and was believed to have crashed into the Store Baelt. Only the body of Sergeant Clifford Walker was recovered from the Samso Baelt and was laid to rest in Bispebjerg Cemetery in Copenhagen on 1st May 1943, on the orders of the occupying Germans. Sadly, none of the remaining crew members have known graves, though all are commemorated at the RAF Memorial in Runnymede, Royal Berkshire. Sarah Hilleard Add to this record.  Related Content: No. 100 Squadron Royal Air Force Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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