The Squadron’s Operations Record Book shows that EJ Chidgey was the Captain of a 35 Squadron aircraft on the following sorties:
- 19/02/1944 Gardening
- 20/02/1944 Stuttgart
- 22/02/1944 Gardening (Aborted)
- 24/02/1944 Schweinfurt
- 01/03/1944 Stuttgart
- 18/03/1944 Frankfurt
- 22/03/1944 Frankfurt
- 24/03/1944 Berlin (Incident)
- 30/03/1944 Nuremberg
- 18/04/1944 Rouen
- 20/04/1944 Cologne
- 24/04/1944 Karlsruhe
- 26/04/1944 Essen
- 27/04/1944 Friedrichshafen
- 30/04/1944 Acheres
- 03/05/1944 Montdidier
- 07/05/1944 Nantes
- 08/05/1944 Haine-St.Pierre
- 31/05/1944 Trappes
- 02/06/1944 Trappes
- 06/06/1944 Chateaudun
- 08/06/1944 Mayenne
- 11/06/1944 Paris
- 14/06/1944 Evrecy
- 22/06/1944 Laon
- 04/07/1944 Villeneuve St.Georges
- 18/07/1944 H2-Manneville (Daylight)
- 18/07/1944 Wesseling
- 23/07/1944 Kiel
- 24/07/1944 Stuttgart
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) | Edward John Chidgey | 30 |
(2nd Dickie) | Louis Basil Lawson | 1 |
Walter Hargrave Harris | 1 | |
(Navigator) | Brian Arnold Stoker | 30 |
(Air Bomber) | Geoffrey Alfred Goom | 1 |
Kaare Stenwig | 29 | |
(Set Operator) | Albert Clement Michael Taylor | 1 |
Bernard Chapman Brooker | 1 | |
(Wireless Operator) | Thomas Henry Warren | 28 |
(WOP / AG) | Leonard Stewart Thorpe | 1 |
(Air Gunner) | FW Hall | 30 |
James Mursell Colledge | 30 | |
(Flight Engineer) | Alan John White | 1 |
Frederick Ronald Harmsworth-Smith | 27 | |
Walter Stanley Mountford | 2 |

Chidgey Crew and Ground Crew [Extracted from Glimlamp]