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Pilots in 53 Squadron RAF

Pilot list roughly sorted using the aircraft / unit dates we have.

Sgt Ivan Raymond Trafford (kifa)

W/C Richard Thomas Fairfax Gates (ok)

F/O Geoffrey Theodore Baynham (ok)

Sgt Marion Arthur Plomteaux (kifa)

F/O Anthony Charles Bartley (ok)

P/O John Henry Bateman Burgess (pow)

W/C Robert Duncan Yule (ok)

F/L Arthur Gavan (ok)

F/L William James Corbin (ok)

Sgt George Frederick Parker (kifa)

P/O Joseph Jodoin (kit)

Sgt Raymond Brunette (kit)

Sgt Charles Colborne Gardner (kifa)

P/O James Robert Minard (kifa)

P/O Basil Wilfred Andrews (kifa)

P/O Ronald Berry (ok)

F/L Jozef Gil (kia)

Sgt Ralph Roschman Hill (kifa)

P/O Anthony Richard Henry Barton (kia)

F/O Rene Jean Charles Alfred Dupraz (kifa)

P/O Maurice Campbell Pryce Jones (kifa)

F/L Josef Koukal (ok)

S/L Victor Howard Ekins (ok)

F/O Clarence Gordon Gavan (kifa)

F/O Bertram Shylega (kifa)

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