Index to airmen’s roll of honour published online
Family history website Ancestry ( ancestry.co.uk) has added Allied Airmen Roll of Honour from the Second World War, an index listing 129,017 air-service members who lost their lives.
The index covers personnel from the UK, the USA, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), South Africa and Yugoslavia.
The detailed records could potentially include an individual’s service number; rank; branch of service; unit; base; role; place of residence; date of death; age at death; cause of death; place of burial or memorial; honour received; and aircraft type and serial number. The data is taken from Airmen Died in the Second World War
1939–45, a 10-volume work by Chris Hobson available on DVD. The records include Marmaduke Thomas St John ‘Pat’ Pattle, thought to be the highest-scoring Commonwealth fighter pilot of the war. He died in a dogfight over Eleusis Bay, Greece, in 1941, aged 26.