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Reference:

RNVR unit histories

Source:

http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RNVR_officersT.html

Title:

War service record of Richard RWR Trafford

Place name:

Michaelchurch Escley

Date:

1939 - 1943

Description:

Extract from an internet database concerning the war service of Richard Randolph William Rawson Trafford in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II and an account of his death in action in 1943.

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Trafford,
Richard Randolph William Rawson

Son of Henry Randolph Trafford, J.P. and Bettina Maud Trafford, of Michaelchurch.
29.03.1907
Hereford, Herefordshire
-
18.01.1943 (KIA) [age 35]
[Michaelchurch Escley (St Michael) Churchyard, north of church]

 

T/S.Lt. (A)

1939

T/Lt. (A)

16.02.1940

 

12.1939

-

?

HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton)

(04.1940)

 

 

Fleet Air Arm

1940/41

 

 

injured when he had to jump out of the third story of a burning building (probably from a hotel in Ayr, where he was stationed at the time), after which he was confined to training pilots

15.09.1940

-

(02.)1941

pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]

17.11.1941

-

(12.1941)

pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]

13.04.1942

-

(08.1942)

HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous services)

?

-

18.01.1943

killed when his plane caught fire and crashed near Oakhampton in Devon
[returning from RNAS St Merryn (HMS Vulture) to RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron),the Naval Air Fighter School, he was flying a Fairey Fulmar II, serial number X8812 (coded 6F from its time on board HMS Victorious); in low visibility, the plane crashed into high ground on Dartmoor and burnt out a quarter of a mile west of Okehampton at Yelland Farm, Tanner Hill, Holdsworth Road]

 

 

Observations:

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