Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- R A D Trevor-Roper -

Name

Richard Algernon Dacre Trevor-Roper, Son of Charles Cadwaladr Trevor-Roper and Gertrude Alice Trevor-Roper; husband of Patricia Audry Trevor-Roper, of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.
 
Service details

Flight Lieutenant 47354 R A D Trevor-Roper, DFM, DFC (Air Gunner), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

CWGC record ...

His name is recorded on the Shanklin War Memorial

Date of Death :	Died 31st March 1944 aged 28
Where buried or commemorated :	Durnbach War Cemetery
Aircraft :	Avro Lancaster Mk.III ND390 OF-S of 97 Sqn
Crew
Pilot :	Flt/Lt D H Rowlands, DFC	CWGC record ...
Flight Engineer :	Sgt R M Lane	CWGC record ...
Navigator :	Flt/Lt A R Cadman, DFM	CWGC record ...
Bomb Aimer :	Flt/Lt A S McFadden	CWGC record ...
Wireless Operator :	F/O E J Currie	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	F/O F Colville	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	Flt/Lt R D Trevor-Roper	CWGC record ...

The aircraft left RAF Bourn at 22.15 on Ops to Nuremburg. It was attacked by a Me110 nightfighter of 111/NJG1 flown by Major Martin Drews, and crashed at Ahorn near Coburg. All the crew were killed and are buried at Durnbach War Cemetery.

Trevor-Roper had served with 50 Sqn and 617 sqn. He was the Rear Gunner in the aircraft flown by Wing Commander Guy Gibson on the Dambusters raid in May 1943, for which he was awarded the DFM. he received the DFC in December 1943.

Flt/Lt Trevor-Roper had lived in Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

Information provided by : John Bloodworth