Flight Lieutenant, RAF
Born: August 13th 1919
Died: November 13th 1944
Age at Death: 25
Lost presumed killed, November 13th 1944
Charles O’Connor was born on 13 August 1919 in Marylebone, London, to Charles O’Connor and his wife Constance (née Price). During the war he served with RAF Coastal Command. By November 1944 O’Connor was listed as a crew member on a Wellington LORAN Training Unit, training personnel in the long-range radio navigation system developed by the United States. On 13 November his plane took off at just after midnight from RAF Mullaghmore, near Ballymoney, County Antrim, on a training exercise. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft. O’Connor left a widow, Mary, and is commemorated at the Runnymede Air Forces Memorial.