Slowley, Roy Victor Edward Died

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Personal Information

Rank F/S
Forename(s) Roy Victor Edward
Surname Slowley
Gender M
Age 25
Decorations GM
Date of Death 12-09-1944
Next of Kin Son of William John and Violet Slowley (née Cooper), of Brockley, London.
SLOWLEY RVE

Aircraft Information

Aircraft Avro Lancaster III
Serial Number PB193
Markings WP-N

Memorial Information

Burial/Memorial Country France
Burial/Memorial Place Vitry les Nogent Churchyard
Grave Reference Grave 2.
Epitaph ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS AND FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS. MIZPAH (Hebrew: Watchtower - or May God watch over You)

IBCC Memorial Information

Map
Directions to panel 242
SLOWLEY RVE

Location

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Panel 242
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Directions From the Chadwick Centre, take the central path towards The Spire.

Phase 2
Panel Number 242

Enlistment Information

Service Number 1382990
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 3
Squadron 90
Squadron Motto We seek alone
Trade Navigator
Country of Origin United Kingdom

Other Memorials

Location Roadside location, Tilbury Juxta Clare, Essex
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Inscribed Marble Memorial
Memorial Text In memory of the Airmen of XC Sqn, No 3 Bomb Group flying operations from here with the Mk 1 Stirling Bomber December 1943 until May 1943
Location St. Mary & All the Saints Church, Little Walsingham, Norfolk
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Inscribed Stone Tablet
Memorial Text In loving memory of Henry Philip Lee Warner AFC DFC. Only Son of Philip Henry & Mary King Lee Warner. Actg S/L RAFVR killed in action over Germany Aug 26th 1944 in his 32nd year
Location Village Green, Tuddenham, Suffolk
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Inscribed Memorial atopped with Inscribed Silver Sun-Dial
Memorial Text For all those who served their country as part of XC Sqn RAF
Location St. Mary's Church, Tuddenham, Suffolk
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Framed Sqn Roll of Honour
Memorial Text They grow not old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn. At the going down of the Sun and in the morning, we will remember them

Miscellaneous Information

Born 27 September 1918, Brockley, London. His father was a Mechanical Engineer.
In 1939 during the early stages of WW2, Roy lived in Islington and was serving as a Police Constable with the Metropolitan Police. On 1 November 1940 his actions would see him and others awarded the George Medal for bravery. The award was promulgated in the London Gazette on 21 March 1941: Place and Date of Incident: 1 November 1940. Messrs Reeves and Sons Ltd Paint Factory, Ashwin Street, Dalston, London. The factory premises of a paint manufacturer received a direct hit from a High Explosive bomb. One end was wrecked and it was not long before the whole building was ablaze. PCs Dean, Mead, Tricker and Slowley arrived on the scene and were joined by Cain, a young boy aged fifteen. Cain knew that several persons were trapped inside the private basement shelter directly underneath the fire and the party separated in an endeavour to find an entrance. After being repelled several times by smoke and heat, they all eventually found their way into the basement, having to pass through burning wreckage, paint, water, and live electric wires dropping around them from the ceiling. Paint was inches deep on the floor and within a very short time the whole party was saturated. They found that part of the basement had collapsed and several men were trapped underneath the debris and everything around was running with oil and paint, which was pouring from the floors above, and flames were rapidly approaching. The officers and the boy Cain speedily freed the men from the wreckage and carried them on doors and planks to where ambulances waited to take them to hospital. A few minutes after the last of the victims had been removed from the basement the whole interior of the building collapsed. The rescues from the shelter under this factory were effected at great personal risk – a risk which must have been recognised by all concerned. There would have been no possible chance of escape for the rescued persons had the Police Constables and the boy not accepted the risk and faced it with gallantry and courage.

The National Archives

Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/732/18
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/732/18

Fellow Servicemen

Please note that this list gives all the losses aboard the quoted aircraft and occasionally these may have occurred on an earlier date when the aircraft was not itself lost. Please check the dates of death carefully.

Name Outcome
Gent A C D (Sgt) Died
Law D C (F/O) Died
Milne W A G (Sgt) Died
Stainbank R E (F/O) Died
Stapleton C (Sgt) Died
Wood F G J (Sgt) Died

Last Operation Information

Start Date 12-09-1944
End Date 13-09-1944
Takeoff Station Tuddenham
Day/Night Raid Night (18% moon)
Operation Frankfurt. 387 aircraft. The last major raid of the war on this target. 17 Lancasters lost (4.5%). Serious destruction of the western parts of the city where many industrial buildings were located. Some of the fires burned for three days, due in part to many of the city's firemen being away in Darmstadt due to the raid the previous night.
Reason for Aircraft Loss Crashed at Vitry-les-Nogent, SE of Chaumont, France
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IBCC is delighted to introduce a unique facility to link the Losses Database to the relevant RAF Casualty Pack on the National Archives website. This project is the result of on-going collaboration between IBCC, the MOD Records Office and National Archives, Kew. This document describes what Casualty Packs are, when they were created, the process of making them available to the public and then goes on to describe the process by which you can view the contents of the packs. Casualty Packs (CPs) were created by the RAF whenever there was serious injury or loss of life associated with operational activity within the RAF. This includes operational flying losses, enemy action due to air raids, road accidents either on station or even off-station if they involved RAF vehicles. Deaths due to natural causes in service or accidents that did not involve RAF vehicles did not generally give rise to a CP.

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