A D M GUNN, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Great Escape

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Casualty
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) GUNN, ALASTAIR DONALD MACKINTOSH
Service Number 60340
Died 06/04/1944
Aged 24
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Twice Mentioned in Despatches
Son of James Turner Gunn, F.R.C.S., M.B., Ch.B., and Adelaide Lucy Frances Gunn, of Auchterarder, Perthshire.
INSCRIPTION: MAY HE REST IN THY PEACE AND AWAKE TO A JOYFUL RESURRECTION
Buried at POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY
Location: Poland
Number of casualties: 448
Cemetery/memorial reference: 8. D. 7.

See cemetery plan

 

Further news item about plans by the Spitfire Project to restore Sandy Gunn's Spitfire AA810, and a reminder of the appeal to find the identity of a girl called Penny who sent him a photo of herself taken in Algiers whilst he was in a POW camp.
Spitfire found in peatbog slowly being pieced back together

The search for Penny was launched in May 2020.
https://www.spitfireaa810.co.uk/post/finding-penny-a-national-campaign

 

Sorry, I maybe coming from an obtuse angle but was this Officer related to Major Ridley Gunn RA by any chance.

 

Hi

Can you confirm that the Ridley Gunn you are asking about is John Ridley Gunn RA (1914 -1996) who was serving in Italy in Jan 1944, and who was the brother of Second Lt. George Ward Gunn VC MC.

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