Service Casualty of WW2, Robert was a Sergeant/Navigator in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1802049
He was 20 and the son of John Thomas Bell and Alice Eva Bell, of Gidea Park, Romford, Essex. He died from injuries received in the Freckleton Air Disaster. A United States Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24H-20-CF Liberator, 42-50291, "Classy Chassis II", crashed into a school and snack bar at Freckleton, Lancashire, England at 1047 hrs. while on approach to Warton Aerodrome. Twenty adults, 38 children and the three-man crew are killed. In addition to a memorial in the village churchyard, a marker was placed at the site of the accident in 2007.
He was 20 and the son of John Thomas Bell and Alice Eva Bell, of Gidea Park, Romford, Essex. He died from injuries received in the Freckleton Air Disaster. A United States Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24H-20-CF Liberator, 42-50291, "Classy Chassis II", crashed into a school and snack bar at Freckleton, Lancashire, England at 1047 hrs. while on approach to Warton Aerodrome. Twenty adults, 38 children and the three-man crew are killed. In addition to a memorial in the village churchyard, a marker was placed at the site of the accident in 2007.
Service Casualty of WW2, Robert was a Sergeant/Navigator in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1802049
He was 20 and the son of John Thomas Bell and Alice Eva Bell, of Gidea Park, Romford, Essex. He died from injuries received in the Freckleton Air Disaster. A United States Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24H-20-CF Liberator, 42-50291, "Classy Chassis II", crashed into a school and snack bar at Freckleton, Lancashire, England at 1047 hrs. while on approach to Warton Aerodrome. Twenty adults, 38 children and the three-man crew are killed. In addition to a memorial in the village churchyard, a marker was placed at the site of the accident in 2007.
He was 20 and the son of John Thomas Bell and Alice Eva Bell, of Gidea Park, Romford, Essex. He died from injuries received in the Freckleton Air Disaster. A United States Army Air Forces Consolidated B-24H-20-CF Liberator, 42-50291, "Classy Chassis II", crashed into a school and snack bar at Freckleton, Lancashire, England at 1047 hrs. while on approach to Warton Aerodrome. Twenty adults, 38 children and the three-man crew are killed. In addition to a memorial in the village churchyard, a marker was placed at the site of the accident in 2007.
