Rank & Name: P/O L.D. Sandes DFC | |||
Date of Death: 26/03/1941 | |||
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Lancelot Dalrymple Sandes (1913 - 1941) Along with his brothers, he attended Bedford Modern School in Bedford. He was a pilot officer in the 59 Squadron Royal Air Force and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action. On one encounter on 14 July 1940 he was flying a Bristol Blenheim Bomber Mk IV and was attacked by four Messerschmitt ME109s The navigator was wounded and the aircraft badly damaged. They got back to RAF Thorney Island and crash-landed. They all survived. On 26 March 1941 flying a Bristol Blenheim Bomber Mk IV serial number V6065 returning from a sortie to Brest it crashed in fog at Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset. The aircraft was engulfed and destroyed by fire and all crew were killed. He is buried at The Commonwealth War graves at Warmwell, Dorset. (sandesancestry.net) | |||
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