245988 Sgt. Alan Harvey Clayton Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 150 Squadron (d.15th November 1942) John Duncan was my uncle and came from Aberdeenshire. Like many of their generation the tragedy was seldom referred to by his brother and sisters. He had left after home leave and on returning to his base must have gone straight out on his final mission almost immediately if not that day. The period was so short the family initially thought he had been killed on his way back to his base. Apparently during a visit to the cemetery in 1947, they were advised that the plane had been blown up in the air while on route to bomb submarine pens. The following is a list of the bomber crew from 150 Squadron who were shot down on 15th of November 1942 and are interred at Dinard Cemetery: - Alan Harvey Clayton, Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 1376606
- John George Duncan Sergeant (Obs.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 21 1346350
- Francis Ferguson Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. 1370437.
- Hugh Laurence John Mackender, Flight Sergeant (Nav.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 25. 924909
- John James Perry Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 150 Sqdn. Age 27. 1261701
- Vivien James Wotton Pilot Officer (Bomb Aimer) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age 20, 126963.
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