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DODGYOLDFART
I believe around 520 or 530 aircrew were killed during the BoB but does anyone know how many groundcrew and support staff were also snuffed out?
I was fortunate to have served both on a BoB Squadron and a BoB airfield in the 1950's. Later at reunions it was interesting to hear from the surviving BoB ground crew of that time of the appalling conditions they were forced to work under. Some were reduced to sleeping under hedges and hot meals were a rarity but God Bless the Sally Anne and the NAFFI wagon with their hot tea and a wad. Funny there is no memorial to those Heroes!
I don't know the answer to your question but there is the very poignant Airforces Memorial at Englefield Green that lists the names of "more than 20,000 airmen and women who were lost in the Second World War during operations from bases in the United Kingdom and North and Western Europe who have no known grave." Many of those were ground crew who were in the wrong place when a bomb landed.