The Pilots of 41 Squadron RAF, 1939-1946

Surnames Commencing with V

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Name VALIQUET, Charles Napoleon
Number R.10251
Rank Sergeant Pilot, Warrant Officer
Nationality Canadian
Born Lachine, Que, Canada, 17 September 1920
Arrived 12 July 1941
Departed 29 April 1942
Notes Missing, presumed dead, operating from USS 'Wasp' enroute to Malta, 9 May 1942, aged 21; son of late Charles N. & Jane S. Valiquet, of Montreal, Que, Canada; remembered on Panel 101 of the Runnymede Memorial

VAN ARKEL, Jan, see ARKEL, Jan van

VAN DER STOK, Bram, see STOK, Bram van der

VAN EENDENBURG, Leendert Carel Marie, see EENDENBURG, Leendert Carel Marie van

VAN GOENS, Rijklof, see GOENS, Rijklof van

VAN ROOD, Albert, see ROOD, Albert van


Name VANN, William Henry
Number 1123162
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality British
Born Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs, 29 November 1921
Arrived 21 July 1943
Departed ca 24 December 1943 (last mentioned on this date)
Notes Born William Henry Hill but adopted (mother died 6 weeks after birth) and assumed surname of adopted family; died Blairgowrie, Perthshire, 1996

Name VINE, Edward Ernest
Number 1114209
Rank Sergeant Pilot
Nationality British
Born Liverpool, Lancashire, 7 June 1921
Arrived ca July 1942 (Evidence suggests July 1942, but not physically mentioned in ORB until 6 August 1942)
Departed ca 4 November 1942 (last mentioned in ORB on this date)
Notes Shot down & WIA south of Comiso, Italy, with 1435 Sqn & captured, 3 Mar 1943; died Ulverston, Cumbria, July 2006

Name VYKOUKAL, Karel Jan 'Sudl'
Number 81902
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Nationality Czechoslovakian
Born Chotěboř, Czechoslovakia, 20 December 1916
Arrived 14 April 1942
Departed 21 May 1942
Decorations Czech War Cross (1942)
Notes Hit by flak and KIA, Seine Estuary, France, 21 May 1942, aged 25; remembered on Panel 66 of the Runnymede Memorial

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