Roy Andrew Trundle

A Gunner II with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Roy died on 24th of September 1947 aged 22. 

Roy was born at Lowestoft in 1924, a son of Osgood Robert and Bella Trundle. His family lived at 50 Stanford Street and subsequently moved to 49 London Road South.

Roy joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after October 1942. By September 1947 he was an Air Gunner serving with 97 Squadron.

On 24 September he was a member of the crew of a Lincoln B Mark 2 aircraft, number RE373, that flew from Hemswell, Lincolnshire. Roy’s was killed when his aircraft broke up and crashed at Mautby near Coltishall. It is thought that control of the aircraft was lost while flying in heavy cu-nim cloud. All nine crew were killed and are commemorated on a memorial at Saint Peter and Paul Church, Mautby. 

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass