402148 Flying Officer Rodney Bainbridge Archer DFC of No. 42 Squadron RAF with his fiancee, ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Fife, Leuchars
Accession Number SUK10445
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made United Kingdom: Scotland, Fife, Leuchars
Date made c April 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

402148 Flying Officer Rodney Bainbridge Archer DFC of No. 42 Squadron RAF with his fiancee, Section Officer April Eve Wilson, a Cypher Officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Archer's Beaufort aircraft, AW383, was seen to blow up in an attack on the German Battleship Prinz Eugen on 17 May 1942. His body was not recovered.