Richard was a Flight Sergeant in 100 Squadron, which, in 1944, were based at Grimsby.
On the 20th July 1944, Lancaster Mk III serial number ND413 (coded HW-R) was airborne at 11:55pm destination Courtrai. It’s mission was to bomb the railway marshalling yards there. Richard was the Navigator on this sortie. On the homeward leg of the mission, disaster struck. Emerging from low cloud at around 3:30 in the morning of the 21st July, the aircraft crashed near Aylesby, 6 miles west of Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire. Four of the crew were killed in the crash.
Buried in Cambridge City Cemetery rests Flight Sergeant Richard Gore Amory RAFVR, Navigator, aged 22 and the son of Arthur Alexander and Ellen Louisa Amory, of Georgetown, British Guiana.
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