Personnel Index - Detail
Name
DELATORRE
First Names
Melville George
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAAF
Service Number
A402590
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Posting Out
Posted 8/42 to 207Sqn
Cemetery
Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial via Rebecca Delatorre
Flew three Manchester operations as a mid-upper gunner with 49Sqn.
Sgt Delatorre was killed on 4th March 1943 whilst serving with 207Sqn and is buried in Hamburg.
​Photographed by Geoff Swallow.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
Sgt Evison, WO2 Wallace, F/Sgt Delatorre and WO2 Cain had all been posted to 49Sqn.