Service record - Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ellis Prior DFM

Service record - Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ellis Prior DFM

List promotions, squadrons and units, orders and decorations. Crew of special duties squadron lost in Halifax from 161 and 138 Squadrons on night of March 14 1943. Commonwealth war graves commission infomation on graves. Information held by RAF concerning last flight. Notes on special duties squadrons in the second world war. Information on 161 (special duties) Squadron at RAF Tempsford. The last two flights of Flight Lieutenant A E Prior DFM on 12/13 amd 14/15 March 1943. Trip to the middle east just before Christmas 1942. Actions which brought about award of DFM to Sergeant Prior. Operations X.W.Y.180 The attack on Leuna 13/14 November . The very next operation on 17 November 1940 was distinctly "hairy". Photocopy of Air Ministry casualty communication issued May 1943 with Prior's crew underlined.

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