Pilot Officer, RAF
Born: August 7th 1923
Died: December 16th 1943
Age at Death: 20
Killed in action, December 16th 1943
Tennis 6 1939-1940
Father: Captain R.C. Bayldon
Address: 3 Cissbury Road, Hove
Born on 7 August 1923 to Captain Richard Bayldon and his wife Claudine (née Dampney) of Barnstaple, Devon, Richard junior was in the Tennis VI at school.
During the war he flew bombers for 9 Squadron, which was stationed at RAF Bardney in Lincolnshire. In December 1943 he was flying his Avro Lancaster bomber on a mission over Berlin when his plane came down, presumably hit by either an enemy fighter or anti-aircraft fire. He is buried in the Berlin 1939–45 War Cemetery in Charlottenburg, the site of Frederick the Great’s Palace.