P/O R. Mottram was with No 92 Squadron when he was wounded and crashed his Spitfire Mk I (N3193) after combat with a Bf 109 over Hollingbourne, Kent, on the 18th of September 1940 at 09:55hrs.
Roy Mottram was killed in action in a Spitfire Mk V (W3712) on the 31st of August 1941 flying with No 54 Squadron on a fighter sweep over France. He was buried on 8th September at Merville, France.
It took several days of hard work to the Germans to dig up and recover the body of this unfortunate pilot, hence the reason why he was only laid to rest on 8 september 1941.