Personnel Index - Detail

Name
PINCHBECK
First Names
Deryck Edgar
Rank
Flying Officer
Service
RAF
Service Number
70902
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
Posted in 3/39 and out 9/40

 

​Awarded the DFC.

On 26th September 1940 he was posted out to 14 OTU Cottesmore after completing 34 operations with 49Sqn.

P/O Pinchbeck was made a PoW on 3rd May 1941 whilst flying with 207Sqn during a raid on Hamburg.

He was held at Stalags Luft1 and Luft 3.



Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses