Service Details
Name:
 CARTER
Given Name:
 DEREK GUY
Initials:
 D G
Service No:
 88404
Rank:
 Flying Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 50 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-02-12
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Hampden AT177, failed to return from an attack on German warships Prinz Eugen, Scharnhorst and Gneisnau (Operation Fuller) in the English Channel. One of eight 50 Squadron aircraft attacking the Scharnhorst Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen as they made their "Channel Dash" from Brest to Kiel
Additional
Information:
Son of Major Cyril Rodney Carter, D.S.O., and of Celia Ellen Alexia Carter, of Penhalonga, Southern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Surrey
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Cemetery:
 RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 66.

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