Squadron Leader John Edwin Ashley Williams

Service number	40652
Birth Date	1916-05-06
Death Date	1944-03-29
Death Place	Poland
Final Rank	Squadron Leader
Service	Royal Air Force
Unit	No. 450 Squadron
Place	Poland
Conflict/Operation	Second World War, 1939-1945
Gazettes	Published in London Gazette in 1943-03-16

Rolls

Date of birth	06 May 1916
Date promoted	26 March 1938	Acting pilot officer.
Other units	26 March 1938	Short service commission, General Duties Branch.
Other units	23 October 1938	Central Flying School.
Other units	23 December 1938	No 9 Flying Training School.
Date promoted	17 January 1939	Pilot officer.
Other units	01 April 1939	No 13 Flying Training School.
Other units	09 April 1939	No 10 Flying Training School.
Date promoted	14 August 1939	Acting flight lieutenant.
Date promoted	20 November 1939	Acting flying officer.
Date promoted	17 August 1940	Flying officer.
Other units	10 September 1940	No 21 Service Flying Training School.
Other units	04 October 1940	Attached to Erection Party, Durban.
Date promoted	17 August 1941	Flight lieutenant (war substantive).
Other units	19 January 1942	No 71 Operatinal Training Unit.
Other units	11 April 1942	No 112 Squadron.
Other units	22 April 1942	No 94 Squadron.
Other units	12 May 1942	No 260 Squadron.
Other units	14 June 1942	No 450 Squadron.
Date promoted	28 October 1942	Acting squadron leader.
Other units	28 October 1942	Commanding Officer No 450 Squadron.
Other	31 October 1942	Reported missing.
Date captured	01 November 1942
Date of death	29 March 1944