DAMBUSTERS Yeo, Gordon Arthur

The Imperial War Museums' Book of War Behind Enemy Lines
By Julian Thompson, The Imperial War Museum
Heroines of SOE
By Beryl E. Escott

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Yeo
  • FORENAME
Gordon Arthur
  • UNIT
617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R.
  • RANK
Sergeant
  • NUMBER
1317656
  • DATE OF DEATH
17th May 1943
  • AGE
20
  • GRAVESITE
Bergen General Cemetery,Netherlands Plot 2 Row D Grave 2
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1923 South Wales
son of Arthur and Ada Yeo,Barry Dock,Glamorgan
RAF 1941
Oxford 23.4.1941
Reserve 24.4.1941
1 ACRC 18.8.1941
12 ITW 6.9.1941
32 EFTS 29.10.1941
36 FTS
31 PD,New Brunswick,Canada
3 PRC 24.3.1942
11 STT 15.7.1942
1 AAS 26.9.1942
1661 CU 9.11.1942
RAF Swinderby 15.12.1942
57 Squadron 13..1943
617 Squadron 25.3.1943
air gunner
Lancaster ED887
Op.Chastise (Mohne Dam)
shot down by flak 0258 hours off Castricum aan Zee,Holland
 
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