Name
Roy Livingstone Pitkin
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
21/02/1942
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flight Sergeant
776091
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
500 Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Panel 75.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 776091 and he served with 500 Squadron which, at the time of his death, was flying Hudson Vs based at Limvady near Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Hudsons were much used to protect the convoys and to scour the ocean for U-Boats.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 75 of the Runnymede Memorial to the Missing at Egham in Surrey.
He was the son of Alfred William and Ethel Maud Pitkin of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C.G. Jefford
