LEST WE FORGET
Squadron Leader Duncan Charles Frederick GOOD DFC
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 39459 (RAF)
Born: Location, Date unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 50 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Lindholme
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 50 Squadron Hampden aircraft AD728), off the French Coast, 28 April 1941, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Duncan Good and of Magdalen Good (nee Innes); husband of Elsie Good, of Worcester Park, Surrey
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 28, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
DFC Citation: Acting Squadron Leader Duncan Charles Frederick Good (39459). Squadron Leader Good and Pilot Officer Gardiner were respectively pilot and navigator of an aircraft engaged on special night reconnaissance early in May. When flying low over the objective, the aircraft was subjected to heavy anti-aircraft fire, one shell bursting in the pilot’s cockpit, wounding Squadron Leader Good and damaging the controls and instruments. Although severely wounded, the pilot completed his reconnaissance, manoeuvring his aircraft to avoid searchlights and anti-aircraft fire, but then collapsed from loss of blood. In the darkness and with the aircraft at a low altitude and still in the danger zone, Pilot Officer Gardiner succeeded in extricating the wounded pilot from the cockpit. He brought the damaged aircraft back across 450 miles of sea, making a perfect landfall and landing under difficult and harassing conditions. (Citation dated 17 May 1940)
On the night of 27 April 1941, Hampden AD728 took off from Lindholme to lay mines off La Rochelle, France, and was presumed lost in the target area.
The crew members of AD728 were:
Sergeant Albert Charles Evans (648973) (RAF) (Wireless Operator)
Squadron Leader Duncan Charles Frederick Good DFC (39459) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Horace Cuthbert Page (908004) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator)
Pilot Officer John George Embleton Willis (88228) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 2 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1941, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1993
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record AWM65, 2344