Personnel Index - Detail
Name
CUNNINGHAM
First Names
James Charles
Rank
Wing Commander
Service
RAF
Service Number
16219
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
2/36
Posting Out
7/36
Cemetery
The ninth Commanding Officer of 49Sqn.
W/C Cunningham was killed on the 29th September 1939 whilst serving with 144Sqn.
His Hampden was one of five lost on an ill-fated raid during the Battle of the Heligoland Bight.
He is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses