Flying OfficerFLYTE, PETER RAYMOND Service Number 128974 Died 20/10/1943 Aged 23 148 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Son of Percival William Vincent and Grace Eleanor Fright. Casualty
Details of the above loss..... 19 October 1943 (sic) 148 Squadron Halifax II HR674 The crew were detailed for operation Sapling 7. a supply drop over the Biza Plain in the Chemenika Mountains of Albania. The aircraft did not return and a subsequent report from the reception party stated that the aircraft appeared to catch fire in the air and then to strike a hillside at position 40 degrees 16 north / 19 degrees 34 east which is near Dukati about 16 miles south east of Vlore. Crew. F/L. William Ross Forester 22 Pilot + F/O. Francis Jack Hunter 25 RNZAF Bomb Aimer + F/S. Harold Williams 18 Air Gunner F/S. James Clement Cole 28 + F/O. Peter Raymond Flyte 23 + F/O. Edmond Frank Myers 30 + Sgt. Peter Twiddy + Captain Alfred Careless 31 Royal Armoured Corps Attached SOE + Believed to be. Signalman David William Rockingham 21 + Source - Though Without Anger - C. Cummings. http://www.mission.eclipse.co.uk/Articles/SAPLING7.pdf
Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Name: Flying Officer Peter Raymond Flyte Death Date: 20 Oct 1943 Cemetery: Alamein Memorial Burial or Cremation Place: El Alamein, Matruh, Egypt Has Bio?: N URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-... TD
