Bomber Command Remembrance Wall

John Robert Arthur Richards

I’m so very proud of my dad who I think about and miss every day since he died nine years ago. He was a Bomber Command pilot and Pathfinder, who trained in Canada and served with two Squadrons, completing 102 missions. Still only 21 at the end of the War he flew for the Berlin Airlift. He continued flying (a job he loved, and racing cars he built himself) until he retired at the age of 58 and died with Alzheimer’s 31 years later.