PILOT OFFICER JOHN ALNOD PETER STUDD Service Number: 41491 Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Air Force 66 Sqdn. Date of Death Died 19 August 1940 Age 22 years old Buried or commemorated at TOUCHEN END (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD South of Church. Row 8. Grave 15. United Kingdom Country of ServiceUnited Kingdom Additional InfoSon of Vivian M. Studd and M. L. Olivette Studd, of Paignton, Devon. Personal InscriptionAT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
RAF Commands says he was commissioned on 10th October 1939; shot down into the sea in Spitfire Mk I serial number N3182. This thread says he was shot down by return fire from a Heinkel III; though rescued, he could not be saved.
from this website St-pilots and here Battle of Britain London Monument - P/O J A P Studd On 19th August Studd was shot down by return fire from a He111 and baled out into the sea. He was picked up by the Aldeburgh lifeboat but failed to regain consciousness. His Spitfire, N3182, crashed into the sea three miles south of Orfordness. Perhaps another member can confirm
From my donation to the RNLI of digitised Records of Service 1939-45 AUGUST 19TH. - ALDEBURGH,. SUFFOLK. During the evening a British pilot was seen to bale out from his aeroplane some three miles south of Orfordness. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The No. 2 motor life-boat Lucy Lavers was launched at 7.10 P.M. She picked up the pilot, unconscious. Life-boatmen and a coastguard, who was aboard as an armed guard, used artificial respiration, but were unable to revive him. The life-boat returned at 9 P.M. Dr. Nora Acheson, the only doctor in the town, also put off in a motor boat to the pilot’s help. - Rewards, £21 11s. 6d. Ross
