Listed below is the information available for this servicemen who served in 550 Squadron.
Serviceman Details: The column headers should be fairly self-explanatory. The final column (Web links) contains, where given, links to other items on this web-site or indeed to external sources where further information or photographs, etc can be found.
Aircraft: When a link to a particular aircraft is given, this only indicates aircraft it is known the crewman was associated with (such as when flight logs are available or the aircraft has failed to return from an operation). It does not exclude the fact that the crewman may well have flown on other aircraft too, that is either just not documented in the currently available records or simply not known to the author. The aircraft links will take you to the operations listed for that aircraft.
Note that the vast bulk of the information available about squadron servicemen presented below concerns air-crew; almost no information is available about the men, and women, of the technical and other ground crews who played their part in making the squadron an effective fighting unit. This is a shame, given the key role they played in keeping the aircraft in the air and the men flying them able to do their job. So if you have ground-crew information do please send it in so that it too can be included in the squadron record.
Definitions of the abbreviations used are available: here.
| Serviceman Details | Aircraft | Rank | Initials (First Name) |
Last Name | Decorations | Service | Service No. | Role | Flight | Other Information | Links | FTR? | Date | Service Number |
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| Sgt | R W (Roy Walter ("Ginger")) |
Harris | RAF | 576841 | Nav | - | Posted to 550 Sqdn from No. 1 L.F.S. Hemswell on 2.6.44 Posted from 550 Sqdn to 13 Base N.E. w.e.f. 20.9.44 (possibly due to suspected TB). Sgt RW Harris re-appears after this date on ops with the F/Lt DA Shaw crew on 28th Oct 44 onwards (perhaps returned from 13 Base N.E., although no transfer-in record has so far been found in the ORB. Moved to the USA post-war. R N and R W Harris appears in the ORB, so is "N" just a typo? Moved to the USA post-war. Died March 2019, Arizona |
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The details were last updated: 05 December 2024