Personnel Index - Detail
Flew 8 operations with 49Sqn including one Exodus trip.
Information and image provided by Ashley Hales:
Robert Soutar joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in February 1941, and after training was posted in 1942 to the Middle East, joining No.108 Squadron then flying Wellingtons. He first flew operationally in June of that year, in the Western Desert campaign, and the last operation of his first tour was in Nov 1942 with the battle of El Alamein. After a period with No.26 OTU Wing, Robert undertook a second tour - this time flying Lancasters with No.49 Squadron, up to the end of the war. He had completed a total of 47 operations by that time. After the war he flew Dakotas and Liberators with RAF Transport Command.
Bob Soutar and four other 49 Sqn crews faced a Courts Martial after 'bombing' Brighton with toilet rolls from 100 feet!
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"Posted out" 2004.