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Recovered 08.08.2023 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2103345/richard-dacre-trevor-roper/
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT RICHARD DACRE TREVOR-ROPER
Service Number: 47354
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 97 Sqdn.
Date of Death 31 March 1944 Age 28 years old
http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/people_2_t/trevor-roper_rad.htm
Son of : of Charles Cadwaladr Trevor-Roper (died 1917) and Gertrude Alice Trevor-Roper (née Clabby); husband of Patricia Audrey Trevor-Roper, of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
Born : 19 May 1915, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Married : Patricia Audrey Edwards (registered Nottingham, Sep 1942 qtr.). One son, Charles Anthony.
Buried DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY 6. H. 13. Germany
Son of Charles Cadwaladr Trevor-Roper and Gertrude Alice Trevor-Roper; husband of Patricia Audry Trevor-Roper, of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. His father fell in the 1914-1918 War.
Service Details :
Flight Lieutenant 47354 (Air Gunner) Richard Algernon Dacre Trevor-Roper, DFM, DFC, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Avro Lancaster Mk.III ND390 OF-S of 97 Sqn
The aircraft left RAF Bourn at 22.15 on Ops to Nuremburg. It was attacked by a Me110 nightfighter of 111/NJG1 flown by Major Martin Drews, and crashed at Ahorn near Coburg. All the crew were killed and are buried at Durnbach War Cemetery.
Trevor-Roper had served with 50 Sqn and 617 sqn. Prior to being commissioned, he was awarded the DFM (gazetted 23 December 1941; as a Sergeant with 50 Sqn). He was the Rear Gunner in the aircraft flown by Wing Commander Guy Gibson on the Dambusters raid in May 1943. He received the DFC in May 1943 (gazetted 25 May 1943 as Acting Flight Lieutenant, 617 Sqn.).
Richard Trevor-Roper's father, Charles Cadwaladr Trevor-Roper, died while serving with the 14th Bn Hampshire Regiment on 3rd August 1917, aged 33. His uncle, Geoffrey Trevor-Roper, was also killed in WW I.