	THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN LONDON MONUMENT
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The Airmen's Stories - F/O C H Bacon

Charles Harvey Bacon, a Demi of Magdalen College, Oxford, was born on January 15th 1919. He joined the Oxford University Air Squadron and transferred to the RAFVR in June 1939 as an Airman u/t Pilot. He was called up on September 1st 1939. Commissioned in October 1939, Bacon was posted to 610 Squadron at Acklington on September 16th 1940.

On the 30th he was killed when his Spitfire crashed on Alnmouth beach. This was an accident and not combat-related.

Bacon is buried in the churchyard of St.Mary's, Windermere.

There is also a Roll of Honour inside St. Mary's

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