The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that PJ Bryant was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties (*):
- 23/06/1944 Coubronne
- 24/06/1944 Middel Straete
- 27/06/1944 Oisemont/Neuville Au Bois
- 02/07/1944 Oisemont/Neuville Au Bois
- 06/07/1944 Coquereaux
- 07/07/1944 Caen
- 10/07/1944 Nucourt
- 12/07/1944 Thiverby
- 14/07/1944 St.Philibert-Ferme
- 15/07/1944 Nucourt
- 16/07/1944 St.Philibert-Ferme
- 18/07/1944 M-Cagny
- 22/07/1944 L’Hey
- 23/07/1944 Foret-De-Croc
- 03/08/1944 Bois de Cassan
- 04/08/1944 Trossy-St-Maxim
- 07/08/1944 Normandy
- 09/08/1944 Foret De Nieppe
- 11/08/1944 Douai
- 12/08/1944 Russelsheim
- 14/08/1944 Falaise
- 16/08/1944 Stettin
- 18/08/1944 Connantre
- 25/08/1944 Brest
- 11/09/1944 Gelsenkirchen
- 13/09/1944 Osnabruck
- 26/09/1944 Calais
- 30/09/1944 Bottrop
- 12/10/1944 Wanne-Eickel
- 14/10/1944 Duisburg [2]
- 23/10/1944 Essen
- 25/10/1944 Essen
- 28/10/1944 Cologne
- 02/11/1944 Dusseldorf
- 18/11/1944 Wanne-Eickel
- 21/11/1944 Worms
- 27/11/1944 Neuss
- 29/11/1944 Dortmund
- 05/12/1944 Soest
- 06/12/1944 Merseburg (Leuna)
- 12/12/1944 Essen
- 02/01/1945 Ludwigshafen
- 05/01/1945 Hanover
- 06/01/1945 Hanau
- 07/01/1945 Munich
- 14/01/1945 Merseburg/Leuna
- 16/01/1945 Zeitz
- 22/01/1945 Gelsenkirchen
- 28/01/1945 Stuttgart
- 01/02/1945 Mainz
- 13/02/1945 Dresden
- 14/02/1945 Chemnitz
- 21/02/1945 Duisburg
- 23/02/1945 Essen
(*) PJ Bryant also flew on one 2nd Dickie Flight on 16/06/1944 Sterkrade
The following shows the composition of his crew on these sorties, along with the number of sorties undertaken by each airman as part of his crew (as recorded in the squadron’s Operations Record Book). Details of all flights (including training flights) will be recorded in their Flying Log Books:
(Pilot) | Philip John Bryant | 54 |
(2nd Dickie) | Jack Alfred Murrell | 1 |
(Navigator) | Horace Arthur Satterthwaite | 1 |
William John Bentley | 53 | |
(Air Bomber) | Kenneth Allerston | 14 |
Maldwyn George Williams | 40 | |
(Set Operator) | James Bartholomew Edwards | 1 |
Joseph Omer Dumas | 2 | |
(Wireless Operator) | M Cohen | 1 |
Ronald Bull | 1 | |
William John Phillips | 52 | |
(Air Gunner) | Ernest Kenwright | 6 |
Athol William Scott Shillaker | 1 | |
D Therault | 1 | |
Douglas Edward John Stevens | 1 | |
DR Bolton | 1 | |
F Bales | 2 | |
Francis Emanuel O’Connell | 4 | |
Gordon James Etheridge | 2 | |
Henry Edward Douglas Figgis | 43 | |
Ivor Lewis John Howard | 7 | |
John Lawson MacDonald | 1 | |
John Richard Hacker | 1 | |
Lawrence White | 2 | |
Leonard Arthur Edlin | 1 | |
Leslie Arthur Booth | 5 | |
Maxwell James Martin | 1 | |
Roy William Earl | 1 | |
Squire Nuttall | 6 | |
Thomas Arthur Rippon | 21 | |
Victor Arthur Roe | 1 | |
(Flight Engineer) | Donald Harrington Craig | 1 |
George Brodie Sharpe | 50 | |
Michael William Hanham | 1 | |
Walter Stanley Mountford | 1 | |
(Possibly) Charles Melville Fenwick | 1 |

Phillips, Allerston, Bentley, Bryant, Sharpe, Kenwright, Booth
[Courtesy of Lisa Phillips]