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RAF - No. 229 Squadron
10/05/1940 - 30/06/1940

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229 SQUADRON - Fighter, Hawker Hurricane Mk I

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No. 229 Squadron reformed at Digby on 6 October 1939 as a fighter squadron equipped with Blenheim IFs. Coastal patrols were begun in December but at the same time the squadron began night flying training and became involved in AI radar trials. However, this role was to be short-lived as in March 1940, the squadron re-equipped with Hurricanes, one flight of which was sent to France in May as reinforcements. Just over a week later, what was left of the squadron returned to Wittering continuing its operations along the East Coast until September when it moved to Northolt.

In December 1940 the squadron moved north to Speke for defence of Merseyside. This lasted until May 1941, when one flight was embarked aboard HMS Furious departing for Malta on 20 May. However, it was not planned that they be delivered to Malta by ship but that they fly off the carrier, which they did and after refuelling they proceeded to Egypt. When this flight arrived in Egypt, it was attached to No 274 Squadron and assisted in covering the evacuation from Crete.

Stations
Wittering 26 June 1940
Northolt 9 September 1940


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Operations and losses 10/05/1940 - 30/06/1940
Not all operations listed; those with fatal losses are.

17/05/1940: ?, B. 1 Plane lost, 1 KIA
18/05/1940: Patrol. 1 Plane lost
ca. 20/05/1940: Patrol, F
28/05/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk? 1 Plane lost, 1 KIA
29/05/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk. 5 Planes lost, 2 KIA, 1 MIA
31/05/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk. 2 Planes lost. 1 MIA

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Fatalities 01/01/1940 - 09/05/1940 (incomplete)

Leading Aircraftman (Air Gnr.) George A. Carter, RAFVR 747780, 229 Sqdn., age 27, 24/02/1940, Nottingham Southern Cemetery, UK
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Peter F.N. Lomax, RAF 41853, 229 Sqdn., age unknown, 24/02/1940, Hampstead (St. John) Additional Burial Ground, UK

Sergeant (Pilot) George L. Dent, RAF 566320, 229 Sqdn., age 23, 09/04/1940, Lavenham Cemetery, UK

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17/05/1940: ?, B

Type:
Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: ?, RE-?
Operation: ?
Lost:
Pilot Officer (Pilot) Anthony M. Dillon, RAF 41991, 229 Sqdn., age 18, 17/05/1940, Mons (Bergen) Communal Cemetery, B

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18/05/1940: Patrol

Type:
Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: P2676, RE-?
Operation: Patrol
Lost: 18/05/1940
P/O D. deC.C. Gowe
Bailed out after combat with Me 109s. Pilot safe.

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ca. 20/05/1940: Patrol, F

Flight Lieutenant Falcon N. Clouston was leading his Hurricane squadron [229] over the battle area when they encountered a swarm of Messerschmitts and a series of dogfights developed. Clouston saw a cloud of smoke and steam pour from the side of the first machine he attacked. The second dived into the edge of a small wood.


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28/05/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk?

Type:
Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: ?, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk?
Lost: 28/05/1940
Sergeant (Pilot) Stanley A. Hillman, RAF 565993, 229 Sqdn., 28/05/1940, Sage War Cemetery, D
Crashed probably in sea; body must have washed ashore in Germany.

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29/05/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk

Type:
Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: ?, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 29/05/1940
Flight Lieutenant Patrick E.S.F.M. Browne, RAF 33222, 229 Sqdn., age 23, 29/05/1940, missing. Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial

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Type: Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: ?, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 29/05/1940
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Falcon N. Clouston, RAF 40990 (NZ), 229 Sqdn., age 27, 29/05/1940, Sage War Cemetery, D
Crashed in sea; body washed ashore in Germany. See his page on the Cenotaph Database for a photo.

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Type: Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: ?, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 29/05/1940
Sergeant (Pilot) James C. Harrison, RAF 519293, 229 Sqdn., age unknown, 29/05/1940, Sage War Cemetery, D
Crashed in sea; body washed ashore in Germany.

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Type: Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: ?, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 29/05/1940
F/O W.G. New
Bailed out after combat with Me109s. Pilot safe.

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Type: Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: ?, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 29/05/1940
P/O A.S. Linney
Bailed out after combat with Me109s. Pilot safe.

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31/05/1940: Patrol, Dunkirk

Type:
Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: P3553, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 31/05/1940
P/O V.B.S. Verity
Bailed out after combat with Me109s. Picked up by paddle steamer.

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Type: Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Serial number: L1982, RE-?
Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk
Lost: 31/05/1940
Pilot Officer John E.M. Collins, RAF 41830, 22 Sqdn. [=229 Sqdn.], age unknown, 31/05/1940, missing - In the case of P/O Collins a mistake was made by the CWGC; he belonged to 229 Squadron.

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Sources

Air of Authority - 229 Squadron
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database
Australian War Memorial
Bail-outs for 1940
Battle of Britain.co.uk - 229 Squadron
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force
Prisoners of War captured in Europe 1940
Royal Air Force - 229 Squadron
RAF Battle of Britain - 229 Squadron
RAF - Campaign Diary - The Battle of France (May-June 1940)
RAF Museum: British Military Aviation in 1940
RAF Order of Battle, France, 10th May 1940
Royal Air Force History Section
The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945
The Second World War - a day by day account

The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940, by Major L.F. Ellis, 1954

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Books

Peter D. Cornwell, The Battle of France, Then and Now, 2008
Norman L.R. Franks, RAF Fighter Command losses: Volume 1, Midland Publishing Limited, ISBN 1-85780-055-9, 1997

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Links

Air Aces
Airwar over Denmark
Allied World War II Casualties in the Netherlands
Armée de l'Air - Order of Battle, 10th May 1940
Australian Wargraves
Axis History Factbook
Battle-of-Britain.com
De Belgen in Engeland 1940-1945 (in Dutch)
Belgian Aviation History Association Archaeological Team
British Aircraft Directory
British Aviation Archaeological Council - Books and research links
Canada's Air Force History
HMS Cavalier
Ciel de Gloire (in French) RAF Squadrons
CWGC Cemeteries Germany
CWGC Cemeteries Netherlands
Czechoslovak airmen in the RAF 1940-1945
Danish WW2 Pilots

Dutch Pilots in RAF Squadrons
Eagles Squadrons (American pilots in the RAF)
Håkans aviation page (from Sweden, in English)
'High flight', poem by John Gillespie Magee
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, poem by W.B. Yeats
Jagdgeschwader 27 (in German)
Luchtoorlog ('Arial War', in Dutch, with many photos)
Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945
Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum
The National Ex-Prisoners of War Association
Naval History.net
Nordic Aviation during WW2
Pilotfriend.com: aircraft of WW2
Polish Air Force 1940-1947 Operations Record Books
RAF Battle of Britain
RAF Upwood
De Slag om de Grebbeberg
(Dutch)
Warbird Alley
War over Holland
World War II Aircraft wrecksites in Norway
www.bomber-command.de

Bills-Bunker.de
The Lancastershire Aircraft Investigation Team
Luftfahrt-Archäologie in Schleswig Holstein (in German)
North East Diary 1939-1945
Wartime Leicester and Leicestershire

The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War 1
WW1 Cemeteries

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This page is dedicated to the men of 229 Squadron.

© Bart FM Droog / Rottend Staal Online 2008. Permission granted for use of the data gathered here for non commercial purposes, if this source is mentioned with a link to http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/index.html