James B. (Jim) Gilbody

Rank:Pilot OfficerNumber:54910
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:70 Sqn RAFVR
Name of Rgt or Ship:Command Unkown
Died:18/11/1944Age:23
Country of burial:Malta
Cemetery or Memorial:Malta Memorial
Town Memorial:Sale
Extra Information:
Mentioned in Despatches.

Article in the 18/09/42 edition of the local newspaper, about how he and
friends had built a dug-out in the desert out of corrugated sheet steel
that had beenn abandoned by the Germans.   He had then been stationed in
the Middle East for 2 years.

39 Sqn were detailed to Foggia No. 2 - Tortorella airfield, Italy w.e.f.
29th December 1943.   Foggia, in central eastern Italy, is rather a long
way from Malta ???
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