Personnel Index - Detail

Name
HARTLEY
First Names
Clement Alfred Victor
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAAF
Service Number
404585
Crew Position
Wireless operator/Air Gunner
Age
29
Date of Death
07/04/1942
Cemetery

 

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
From the panel at Runnymede
 

The Runnymede image was created by artist Paul Reid using photographs taken by Jo Cockburn and Malcolm Brooke

 

Photograph kindly provided by Murray Glegg

Some thoughts from Murray Glegg (opens in a new window)

6/7 April, 1942; ESSEN:

This was a night of severe electrical storms and icing, as over 150 main force bombers attempted to continue the bombing campaign against Essen. Cloud over the target prevented most of the force finding the primary, with Essen reporting only light damage. 49 Squadron had provided 5 aircraft, of which the Ratcliffe crew (AD190) bombed the primary on an estimated ETA, 3 abandoned their attacks due to icing, and the fifth was reported missing.

F/Sgt Leslie Davis (AT126) and crew are believed to have come down in the North Sea; the crew is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.

Hampden AT126 (EA-Z)
F/S L. Davis Pilot (Missing)
Sgt M. Griffiths W/Ag (Missing)
Sgt C.A.V. Hartley RAAF W/Ag (Missing)
Sgt D.P. Warmsley A/OB (Missing)