RAF SPECIAL DUTIES Farley, Walter Ronald (Wally)

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Farley
  • FORENAME
Walter Ronald (Wally)
  • UNIT
138 Squadron (R.A.F.)
  • RANK
Wing Commander
  • NUMBER
29089
  • DATE OF DEATH
21st April 1942
  • AGE
38
  • GRAVESITE
Durnbach War Cemetery,Germany Coll.grave 9.H.20-24
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Leatherhead,Surrey
son of Thomas Alfred and Sarah Ann Farley
husband of Maisie Selina Peta Farley,Knightsbridge,London
born 24.6.1909
commissioned RAF December 1930
2 FTS Digby 10.1.1931
13 Squadron 29.12.1931
2 Squadron 3.4.1933
2 FTS (instructor) 11.3.1935
RAFRO 1938
recalled 1.9.1939
419 (Special Duties) Flight (C.O.) 21.8.1940
attached 151 Squadron August 1940
attached 46 Squadron September 1940
419 Flight 9.10.1940
attached 46 Squadron November 1940
award D.F.C. (London Gazette 7.3.1941) (419 Flight)
1419 Flight 1.3.1941
Hurricane V6922 (46 Squadron) shot down by Me 109 8.11.1940 (injured)
138 Squadron (C.O.) 25.8.1941
pilot
SOE Op.Whiskey,Austria
Halifax V9976
flew into Blauberg mountain,Kreuth,Bavaria,Germany
note 2 agents died in crash
Franz Loschl
Lorenz Mraz
 
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