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

 

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.
 

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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.