Personnel Index - Detail
Name
BALL
First Names
Peter Allen
Rank
Flying Officer
Service
RAF
Service Number
754044 (NCO) 113387 (Officer)
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
DFM 6/41
Cemetery
Flew 7 Hampden operations as 2nd pilot and further 28 as Captain.
Peter Ball (RHS) photographed with his brother Sgt Leslie Ball.
Posted in 1942 but killed on 5/8/42 serving with 44Sqn from RAF Waddington.
He was flying Lancaster R5603 on a raid against Essen.
F/O Ball and his crew have no known grave and are remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses