Paul Abbott BAILLON. 609 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force. 1940
Pilot Officer, Pilot 86331 Paul Abbott Baillon 609 Squadron RAFVR tragically killed in a dogfight with the Luftwaffe over the English Channel on the 28th November 1940 aged 26. Son of Louis Charles and Mildred Isabel Baillon, of Church Brampton, Northamptonshire; husband of Margaret Angela Baillon (nee Woodhouse). At rest in Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados, France. http://www.rauxaf.net/ms/15.html
Spitfire shot down over Salisbury Plain by the Luftwaffe 70 years ago is dug up by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
Pilot Officer Paul Baillon was flying the Spitfire Mark 1 on October 27, 1940, when a German plane shot a hole in his oil tank
Unsure he could land safely, he bailed and the aircraft crashed in Wiltshire. Pilot Baillon survived but was killed a month later during a dogfight with the Luftwaffe over the Channel. He is buried at Bayeux in France. Excavators have now unearthed his stricken plane on the Salisbury Plain. His daughter Rosemary Baillon, who never met her father, watched the dig https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/spitfire-unearthed-05092013
He is commemorated on a memorial plaque on the Royal Auxiliary Air Force Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.
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