Personnel Index - Detail
Name
CLYDE
First Names
Eric Alston
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
924233
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Posting In
8/41
Posting Out
8/42
Cemetery
Flew at least 28 operations with 49Sqn.
Sgt Clyde was killed on the 18th April 1943 whilst flying with 1659 HCU and is buried in Dishforth, Yorks.
The site will be revisited once the new headstone is mounted.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses