College
Shoreditch College
Service number
127105
WW2 rank
Flying Officer
214 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
26 May, 1943
Location of death
North Sea
Buried/memorial
North Sea
Biography
Flying Officer Ronald Paisley graduated from Shoreditch College in 1942 and soon joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Just after midnight 26 May 1943 Fg/Off Paisley and his crew of six set out from Chedburgh to target Dusseldorf. Somewhere over the North Sea at 02:48 the Stirling Mark III BK659 was shot down. Everyone on board died and only one body was recovered. Fg/Off Paisley is remembered at Runnymede Memorial. He was 21.
Sources
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.aircrewremembered.com