2207037 Sergeant Desmond Fretwell
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
28 Operational Training Unit
RAF Wymeswold.
Aged 19.
Son of Dott Fretwell and Ethel Ward Fretwell, of Silsden, West Yorkshire.
His birth was registered in the quarter ended September 1924 in Selby District, Yorkshire.
He was the Wireless Operator/Air Gunner of a Wellington Mark X bomber, MF 200, which crashed while on a training exercise for night flying.
A memorial plaque has been erected in the village of Normanton-on-Soar, near where the plane crashed.
Normanton Plaque
The crew of the Wellington Mark X Bomber MF200 were
Donald Hugh King, 24, Pilot Officer
Douglas Robert Doyle, 24, Pilot/Navigator
Sergt. Desmond Fretwell, 19, Wireless Op/Air Gunner
Sergt. Lawrence Emmerson Garrod, 22, Air Gunner
His name is recorded on the
Bradfield War Memorial
2207037 Sergeant Desmond Fretwell
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
28 Operational Training Unit
RAF Wymeswold.
Aged 19.
Son of Dott Fretwell and Ethel Ward Fretwell, of Silsden, West Yorkshire.
His birth was registered in the quarter ended September 1924 in Selby District, Yorkshire.
He was the Wireless Operator/Air Gunner of a Wellington Mark X bomber, MF 200, which crashed while on a training exercise for night flying.
A memorial plaque has been erected in the village of Normanton-on-Soar, near where the plane crashed.
Normanton Plaque
The crew of the Wellington Mark X Bomber MF200 were
Donald Hugh King, 24, Pilot Officer
Douglas Robert Doyle, 24, Pilot/Navigator
Sergt. Desmond Fretwell, 19, Wireless Op/Air Gunner
Sergt. Lawrence Emmerson Garrod, 22, Air Gunner
His name is recorded on the
Bradfield War Memorial
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