The Airmen's Stories - Sgt. P R Prosser

Percy Rollo Prosser of Quinton, Birmingham was born in 1919 and joined the RAFVR about August 1939 as an Airman u/t Aircrew. Called up on 1st September 1939, he completed his training and was posted to 235 Squadron as an Air Gunner in early 1940.

On 15th December 1940 Prosser was a member of the crew of Blenheim IV Z5754 LA*B on a minesweeper escort operation. He, P/O J Coggins, pilot, and P/O NA Sadler, observer, were all lost when the aircraft crashed into the sea off Brancaster, cause unknown.

Prosser is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, panel 18.

Above image courtesy of Dean Sumner