23rd May 1940

[B.F.M. Droog]

Hello Alex,

No need to apologize - I could laugh at your furious reaction (and you were rightly annoyed at my ignorance) and was thinking about posting something like: 'maybe the pilot was a very tiny man that had to jump out of his plane after landing and had to use his parachute, which would explain why his a/c was not registered as a loss, as it had safely landed', but decided not to do so. Anyhow:

CWGC: Pilot Officer (Pilot) Garfield A. Madore, RAF 42143, 242 Sqdn., age unknown, 23/05/1940, Anzac Cemetery, Sailly-sur-la-Lys, F

'While FCL vol 1 revised has P/O [G.A.] Malone'

Peter Cornwell has 'P/O G.A. Madore'

What makes you think he's RNZAF - the cemetery? Two months ago I was at Holten Canadian War Cemetery. The majority of the men buried there were Canadians, but I saw also Englishmen and a Belgian.

The Cenotaph Database doesn't list G.A. Madore or G.A. Malone, so whatever his true name, I guess he was not a New Zealander - but Errol Martyn is the man who can give a final answer to this aspect .

My gut feeling is that the CWGC version is the correct one.

Cheers,

Bart