Frank Robert Haylock

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Frank died on 16th of March 1945 aged 21.

Frank was born at Lowestoft on 16 September 1924, a son of Edward A. G. and Ethel M. Haylock. In 1939 his family lived at 59 Norwich Road and Frank was a water and gas office boy.

Frank enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after May 1943. By March 1945 he was a Flight Engineer serving with 49 Squadron, based at Fulbeck, Lincolnshire. 

On 16 March he was a member of the crew of a Lancaster III bomber, number ME454 EA-E, that was taking part in a raid on Wurzburg. The aircraft was shot down, over Allied held territory, by a night fighter. Four of the crew survived. 

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass