The Airmen's Stories - F/O N R Dobree

Nicholas Robert Dobree was born on 7th February 1906 in Southsea and commissioned in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch of the RAF in October 1939.

He was on the staff of BAFF in Paris as an Acting Intelligence Officer in early 1940.

He remustered as an air gunner on 29th July 1940 and was posted to No. 1 AAS Manby for training.

With his course completed, he arrived at 5 OTU Aston Down on 25th August for further training and conversion to Defiants. He was posted to 264 Squadron at Kirton-in-Lindsey on 4th September 1940 and flew his first operational sortie on the 21st.

His subsequent service is currently undocumented until he was released from the RAF in 1945 as a Group Captain.

Dobree died on 2nd August 1990 in Osgoode, Ontario, Canada aged 84.