continued leadership and growing tally of kills, he was told he was to receive a Bar to his DFC. On the evening of 27 June 1941, flying Spitfire Vb X4668, Mungo-Park was part of an escort for a bombing raid over northern France coded 'Circus 25'. They were attacked by two formations of Bf 109s, led by Rolf Pingel of I./JG 26 (who had been spared by Bob Doe during the Battle of Britain) and Wilhelm Balthasar of JG 2. He was shot down and killed when his plane crashed just north of Dunkirk, a couple of miles over the Belgian border. He is buried in Adinkerke Military Cemetery, about 60 miles north of his father. In a twist of fate, Wilhelm Balthasar died in an air crash less than a week later and was buried in a Flanders cemetery alongside his father who had been killed in the First World War. A Bar to Mungo-Park's DFC was announced posthumously on 11 July 1941 with the citation: Mungo-Park had claimed 11 aircraft destroyed (and 2 shared), 5 probables, and 4 damaged. Memorials Thanks to the efforts of Belgian Johny Recour, who had witnessed Mungo-Park's crash as a boy, a memorial service was held on 22 May 2006. Mungo Park Way in Orpington, Mungo Park Road in South Hornchurch and Mungo Park Close in Bushey are named after John Mungo-Park. In all three places, other roads in the surrounding estates are also named after pilots in the Battle of Britain. References External links Service of Remembrance: Squadron Leader John Colin Mungo Park DFC*, 74 Squadron Association AIRMEN'S STORIES – Fl/Lt J. C. Mungo-Park Battle of Britain Historical Society The Airmen's Stories – F/Lt. J C Mungo-Park, Battle of Britain London Monument site British Pathe news reel "Fighter Station's 600th Victim 1940" featuring John Mungo-Park and Harbourne Stephen 1918 births 1941 deaths People educated at Liverpool College Royal Air Force pilots of World War II Royal Air Force squadron leaders Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) British World War II flying aces Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II The Few Military personnel from Merseyside Burials at Adinkerke Military Cemetery People from Wallasey