Dorrington Ronald Berkley

Name:

Ronald Berkley Dorrington

Rank:

First Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-745647

Unit:

312th Ferrying Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group

Date of Death:

1944-07-06

State:

Massachusetts

Cemetery:

Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham, Massachusetts

Plot:

Section I, Lot 648.5, Myrtle Path

Row:

Grave:

1-B

Decoration:

Comments:

Ronald Berkley Dorrington was born on February 24, 1918, in Waltham, Massachusetts. He was the son of Rayford Ernest Dorrington and Maude Beatrice Walton Dorrington. Ronald served in the 312th Ferrying Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group as a First Lieutenant and Pilot on the B-24 #42-50762 "Flassie" aircraft during World War II. On July 6, 1944, their plane was being ferried to the mainland from Langford Lodge, Northern Ireland, and was flying south-east when it struck North Barrule while in the cloud. The aircraft crashed on an undulating slope and burned out. 1LT Dorrington was killed in the crash. He was buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and his remains were exhumed and transferred. He is buried now in the Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

B-24 #42-50762 "Flassie" crew:
Ronald B Dorrington - Pilot
Howard B Lynch - Pilot
Rex J Measom (unknown role)
Wilbur L Murray (unknown role)
James F Syron, Jr. - Radio Operator

Source of information:
From the book: Aircraft Wrecks: The Walker’s Guide: Historic Crash sites on the Moors and Mountains of the British Isles
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