RAF Pilot in Special Operations

Ranulf Trevor Roper joined the RAF before 1939. He served in Iraq, Cairo, and Kenya. He moved into Special Operations as part of 299 Squadron. He flew as a Glider tug at Arnhem and in the Rhine assault (Operation Varsity). There's a log entry on the Rhine Assault. In between glider tugging, the 299 Squadron did Special Ops to Norway and Poland dropping supplies and/or agents to the resistance. He was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed into a marsh near Vergarshei, Norway on 31 March 1945. He was flying a Short Sterling bomber. I have photographs of the grave marker and a letter to the family notifying them of the grave marker in a churchyard in Norway.

Another member of the family has been across to Norway and there were parts of the aircraft still there. He brought a piece back for my father.
I have some photos of him in his uniform.