Personnel Index - Detail

Name
SIMPSON
First Names
Ernest Robert
Rank
Flight Lieutenant
Service
RAF
Service Number
745906 (NCO) 106561 (Officer)
Crew Position
Air Gunner
Posting In
7/40
Posting Out
3/41
Cemetery

 

Awarded the DFM.
Flew at least 30 operations with 49Sqn.
F/L Simpson was killed on 26th February 1943 flying on a raid to Köln whilst flying with 83Sqn and is buried in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.

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Photographed by Dom Howard.
 

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Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses