Three: Sergeant J. L. Roll, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action over Italy while serving in No. 104 Squadron in November 1943

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr. & Mrs. S. J. Roll, 7 Priory Court, Lansdowne Way, Wandsworth Road, London S.W. 8’, together with related Air Council condolence slip in the name of ‘Sergeant J. L. Roll’, and named and numbered issuance slip, extremely fine (3) £140-180

Jack Leslie Roll appears to have first entered operational service in September 1943, when he joined No. 104 Squadron, a Wellington unit charged with attacking Italian targets from Tunisia. Squadron records list him as having participated in around a dozen operational sorties from the middle of that month up until his death in action in a raid on the marshalling yards at Viareggio on 1 November, including a run-in with a night fighter and flak damage on 30 October. The son of Sidney and Annie Roll of London, and the husband of T. L. Roll, he was 31 years of age and is commemorated on the Malta Memorial.