Personnel Index - Detail
Awarded the DFM.
Flew 13 operations with 49Sqn.
P/O Unsworth was killed on the 14/10/41 flying with 207Sqn during a raid on Köln and is buried in the Heverlee War Cemetery.
Photographed for the 49Sqn Association by Guy Lapaille.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
This link takes you to the 207Sqn website and the graves of P/O Unsworth and crew.
Joseph Unsworth (centre) with two as yet unknown pilots.
Picture courtesy of Joseph's daughter, Pat Wilson.
Kinloss 1940.
Pat says her father is "in the centre, three rows up from the Wing Commander".
A larger image with details of the Kinloss operation is available in the Documents section.
Buckingham Palace March 1941.
P/O Unsworth with wife, mother and baby Pat (who kindly provided this photograph which appeared the 'Queen' magazine).
Joe's wife and daughter with her Teddy Bear (made from her father's flying jacket). The bear survived until it was attacked by hoards of ticks in Khartoum in 1962!