Back BREARLEY Edgar
d. 16 Apr 1943 CWGC
Service Number J/15157
RCAF
Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
12-Feb-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 11:00 13:40 No Incident.
13-Feb-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Dusk Patrol 17:30 18:05 Nothing seen - These flights are regularly made from Fairwood Common to intercept bandits which tend to appear off Linney Head at dusk.
19-Feb-42 P.7060 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 14:55 16:20 No incident
07-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 16:10 17:35 Nothing Seen.
08-Mar-42 P.7061 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 09:10 10:40 Nothing Seen.
08-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 11:30 13:00 Nothing Seen.
09-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 15:30 17:00 Nothing Seen.
14-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 11:45 12:50 Nothing Seen.
15-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 15:55 17:10 Nothing Seen.
19-Mar-42 P.7116 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 15:35 17:15 Nothing Seen.
21-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 13:25 14:55 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Sweep of Irish Sea 13:10 14:10 Nothing Seen.
22-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Sweep of Irish Sea 16:10 17:30 Nothing Seen.
23-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 15:05 16:15 Nothing Seen.
23-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy Patrol 17:40 19:00 Nothing Seen.
24-Mar-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 15:15 16:55 Nothing Seen.
28-Mar-42 P.7116 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 09:20 11:00 Nothing Seen.
05-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 09:05 10:55 Patrol of Skipper
10-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 14:30 15:50 Patrol of Irish Sea to Saltees
10-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 19:10 20:50 Patrol of Irish Sea to Saltees
20-Apr-42 P.7110 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 15:40 16:55  
21-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 11:10 12:00 Bogey was identified as Liberator.
22-Apr-42 P.7110 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 10:35 11:35  
22-Apr-42 P.7000 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 18:50 20:05  
23-Apr-42 P.7060 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 11:50 13:10  
25-Apr-42 P.7056 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 10:25 11:15  
26-Apr-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 14:05 15:15  
03-May-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 12:50 13:15  
06-May-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol Portreath & Falmouth (Royal visit) 08:00 20:20 Patrolled Cornwall for Royal visit
20-Jun-42 P.7056 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 13:40 14:20 Plots were off Salters but faded before contact could be made.
28-Jun-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 19:05 19:55 Black Blue and Green Sections were vectored hard after plots 20-60 miles S.W. of Base. They were also vectored on to each other and intercepted successfully but fortunately did not engage
28-Jun-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 21:20 22:05 Enemy patrol to Salter area.
01-Jul-42 P.7087 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 08:55 09:55 Scramble diverted to convoy staysail.
14-Jul-42 P.6995 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 20:35 21:35 Patrol South of Eire. The whole area between Angle and Eire and Lundy was swept, but unsuccessfully.
18-Jul-42 P.7056 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 20:15 21:20 Smalls Patrol.
26-Jul-42 P.7120 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 20:10 20:20  
26-Jul-42 P.6995 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 19:45 20:00 Plots in Smalls area intermittent and doubtful. Nothing Seen
26-Jul-42 P.7120 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 20:10 20:25  
27-Jul-42 P.7117 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 21:00 21:55 Patrol of Small area.
28-Jul-42 P.7007 P/O E. Brearley Patrol 18:10 18:40 Smalls patrol
11-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 17:10 18:15 Convoy “POKER”
12-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 13:15 14:20 Convoy “STEWARD”
12-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 15:15 16:30 Infrequent plots in Carnsore area faded when our aircraft approached.
13-Aug-42 P.7059 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 08:40 08:50 Doubtful plots identified as friendly. Aircraft Backing-up at Exeter.
28-Aug-42 P.6991 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 09:25 10:05 Plots were good from Cherbourg at 20,000-30,000ft. The Whirlwinds which were scrambled struggled to 24,000 but saw nothing.
03-Sep-42 P.7090 P/O E. Brearley Scramble 09:15 10:00 Up from Colerne they were vectored South at 15,000 feet, and finding low cloud at base landed at Middle Wallop. No incident in either patrol
08-Sep-42 P.6979 P/O E. Brearley Roadstead Operation 07:45 09:20 Roadstead to attack tanker near Channel Islands. Not found.
09-Sep-42 P.6979 P/O E. Brearley Roadstead Operation 14:35 15:20 Roadstead to attck a large ship reported by a shipping recco near Cap de la Hague.
16-Sep-42 P.7000 P/O E. Brearley A/S/R Search 10:15 11:10 Search was carried out in area 15-25 miles North of Cherbourg, often within sight of French coast. Nothing seen.
01-Oct-42 P.7089 P/O E. Brearley Roadstead Operation 17:00 18:15 Roadstead to bomb minesweepers in Trieux estuary. Not found.
13-Oct-42 P.7009 P/O E. Brearley Armed Recco 07:05 07:42 Intended armed low recco of Barfleux-Cherbourg area but found too little cloud cover
21-Oct-42 P.6995 P/O E. Brearley Convoy 10:40 11:55 Convoy escort between Needles and Portland.
31-Oct-42 P.7043 P/O E. Brearley Rhubarb Operation 10:40 12:20 Sections were led by F/O Harvey to attack the railway triangle N.W. of the La Haye du Puits.
08-Nov-42 P.7089 F/O E. Brearley Convoy 11:20 13:00 Convoy of important Floating Dock from Needles area towards Portland
18-Nov-42 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley Convoy 16:55 17:55 Convoy off Portland (going West)
19-Nov-42 P.6995 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Roadstead 40 11:20 12:15 F/Lt Warnes led the 4 Whirlibombers on this first all-263 Roadstead Operation. No incident
16-Nov-42 P.7094 F/O E. Brearley Rhubarb 16:05 17:30 Rhubarb operation against the Valognes – Carentan railway.
01-Dec-42 P.7013 F/O E. Brearley Armed Recco 16:30 17:35 These Whirlibombers patrolled Cap Levy, Casquettes, Jersey area. Returning they met 3 Me.109Fs.
07-Jan-43 P.7099 F/O E. Brearley Roadstead Operation from Predannack 16:00 17:40 The channel was swept for minesweepers reported off Ile Vierge.
10-Jan-43 P.7013 F/O E. Brearley Roadstead Operation from Predannack 09:22 11:05 The channel was swept for minesweepers reported off Ile Vierge.
15-Jan-43 P.7054 F/O E. Brearley Air Sea Rescue 16:10 17:40 The second sweep was entirely unsuccessful.
15-Jan-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley Night Rhubarb 22:15 23:37 F/O E. Brearley penetrated the Cotentin as far as Baupte. Near there he descried a train upon which he released his starboard bomb, reserving his port bomb for the track a mile ahead.
07-Feb-43 P.7095 F/O E. Brearley Army Co-Op 15:40 16:35 Equipment containers dropped on Netheravon aerodrome at 1600 hours. F/O E. Brearley's containers hung up.
28-Feb-43 P.7095 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Circus 17 14:40 15:40 Attack on Maupertus. This was their first dive-bombing attack. It was observed to have been successful.
05-Mar-43 P.7099 F/O E. Brearley Convoy 15:25 17:05 Patrol off St. Davids
07-Mar-43 P.7089 F/O E. Brearley Convoy 15:05 16:20 Patrol off St. Davids. Large Convoy.
19-Mar-43 P.7089 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Roadstead 52 18:10 19:10 The large convoy which had been reported South of Guernsey could not be located in thick black haze in the Channel Island area.
21-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 23 (Morlaix Viaduct) 00:15 01:45 Bombed 4000-1000 ft. After passing through heavy flak.
22-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 24 00:15 01:55 Bombed from 3000 ft. after dummy run. Two direct hits.
23-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Night Rhubarb No. 25 (Ponthou Viaduct) 01:15 02:50 Target not found. Bombed main line cutting.
26-Mar-43 P.7059 F/O E. Brearley Rhubarb Operation 15:05 15:50 Intending to attack targets in the Carentan area they found no cloud cover whatever 20 miles North of Carentan and returned to base.
04-Apr-43 P.7113 F/O E. Brearley Roadstead Operation 07:40 08:45 Swept the Alderney – Cap de la Hague area at zero feet, in quest for E Boats reported there, but none was found
06-Apr-43 P.7113 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Circus 20 18:27 20:12 These Whirlibombers were intended to form a second bombing wave to the Typhoon bombers which had bombed Caen/Caupiquet aerodrome an hour before. However they found 9/10 cloud at Ouistreham at 8000 feet and the operation was abandoned.
15-Apr-43 P.7110 F/O E. Brearley 10 Group Roadstead 58 12:10 13:20 Searched Guernsey – Jersey area at zero feet in good visibility. The ships which had been reported there seemed evarescent
16-Apr-43 P.6995 F/O E. Brearley Bomb Mondeville Industries (Night) 22:35 missing Nothing was seen or heard of him after he left Warmwell.
 See also the Summary Jun-Jul 42 tab