Sorry to steal your thunder, Geriaviator, but I just had to post the photo that you linked to. How sad that so many seen below were to die so soon afterwards, and how fitting that RAF Bicester is the proposed site of a planned Bomber Command Heritage Centre to honour their memory.
Commanding officer Wing Cdr Falconer with aircrew of 142 Sqn, pictured at Bicester a few days before the squadron left for Berry-au-Bac, France on September 2, 1939. Most would not survive a year.
Back row, from left: Curtiss, Bury, Hworel, Howard, Abrahams, Lang, Baker, Heslop, Agar, Churchill, English, Stokes, Jenkins, Raper, Durham, Brown, Morgan, Little.
Front row: Ferguson, Arthur, Chalmers, Farrell, Flt Lt Wight, Sqn Ldr Hobbs, Wg Cdr Falconer, Flt Lt Rogers, Hewson, Gosman, Taylor, Franklyn, Ennis.
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