Date of birth:

June 24th, 1909 (Leatherhead/Surrey, Great Britain)

Date of death:

April 21st, 1942

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Durnbach
Plot: 9. Row: H. Grave: 20-24.

Service number:

29089

Nationality:

British

Wing Commander Farler was killed on a secret op called "Whiskey". The purpose was most likely to drop a NKVD-team in Austria.
On 21 April, 1942 Halifax V9976 of 138 Sqdn took off from Tempsford, Bedfordshire but crashed against the slope of a hill near Kreuth, south of the Tegernsee (Lake Tegernsee). The weather was very bad and killed in the crash were (initially buried at Kreutz but reinterred at Durnbach War Cemetery:

F/O (Pilot) Ryszard ZYGMUNTOWICZ - P.0291 - PAF
W/Cdr (2nd Pilot) Walter R. FARLEY - DFC - 29089 - RAF
F/Lt(Flt Eng) Antoni VOELLNAGEL - P.76802 - PAF
Sgt (Nav) Czeslaw MADRACKI - P.780118 - PAF
Sgt (Bombaimer) Leon WILMANSKI - P.781191 - PAF
Sgt (Wop/Ag) Mieczyslaw WOJCHIECHOWSKI - P.780095 - PAF
F/O (Miduppergunner) James A. FULTON - 78688 - RAF
Sgt (Reargunner) Bronislaw KARBOWSKI - P.793737 - PAF

Career:
December 1930: RAF;
January 10th, 1931: No. 2 Flying Training School;
December 29th, 1931: No. 13 (Army Co-operation) Squadron;
April 2nd, 1933: No. 2 (Army Co-operation) Squadron;
March 11th, 1935: Staff No. 2 (Army Co-operation) Squadron;
1938: Reserves;
August 21st, 1940: Commanding Officer No. 419 (Special Duties) Flight;
August 25th, 1941 - April 21st, 1942: Commanding Officer No. 138 Squadron.

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