The Airmen's Stories - Sgt. G Laurence

George Laurence joined the RAF as an Aircrafthand in 1934. He was later accepted for pilot training and by June 1940 was flying Defiants with 141 Squadron at Turnhouse near Edinburgh. Flying from Biggin Hill and with Sgt. WT Chard as his gunner, he destroyed a Ju88 at night on 17th September 1940, the aircraft falling at St Andrews Close, Maidstone. In May 1941 Laurence destroyed another enemy aircraft by night and was awarded the DFM on 30th May. In December he was commissioned and continued to serve with 141 till December 1942. On 9th November 1944, by then a Flight Lieutenant, he was killed serving with 219 Squadron and is buried in Massicault War Cemetery, Tunisia.

Photographs courtesy of Charles W Heusser