Flt.Sgt. David Martyn Jones
Royal Air Force 100 Squadron
from:London
(d.19th Jul 1944)
David Jones was born in 1921, he and his older brother, my father Trevor Jones both served as RAF Volunteer Reserve with Bomber Command. I have war time correspondence from David to my mother. He trained in Canada, somewhat disappointed not to become a pilot. He flew on several missions from England in Lancaster bombers until the final fatal flight for the crew on 19th July 1944 over the Ruhr Valley in Germany. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Reichswald Forest near Kleve.
From the beginning of WW2 my father served in 104 Squadron and flew over Germany on missions including 1000 bomber raids before being posted to the Middle East. During a mission over Italy, the plane ditched into the Bay of Naples and the crew was captured. My father spent the last two years of the war in Stalag 18 in Graz, Austria. Their father Benjamin Thomas Jones served as an RAF pilot in WW1 and trained RAF personnel during WW2.
