In Memory Of

LOVE, WILFRED ROYCE

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 710122
Rank:
 Flight Sergeant
Unit:
 266 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1944-08-17
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Typhoon Mk.Ib MN680, airborne on 17 Aug 1944 from ALG Sommervieu (B.8) on ground support mission to close Falaise Gap near Livarot. Aircraft shot down by enemy aircraft (Fw190 of JG 2) and crashed at Ste-Marguerite-des-Loges, 9 km N of Vimoutiers.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Sec. G. Row 4. Grave 287.
Cemetery:
 STE. MARGUERITE-DES-LOGES CHURCHYARD
Localitly:
 Calvados
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of John and Hilda Violet Love, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. King's Scout. Royce Love's cousin, Owen Love, is buried in an adjoining grave. Owen was one of the Rhodesian Air Force Pilots assigned to the ferrying of new Spitfires from England to Rhodesia in 1951. By a cruel stroke of fate his aircraft developed some failure while flying over France and crashed. Owen is buried alongside Royce.