The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
106 Squadron.
Aged 21.
son of Hugh Stanley Abel and Lily Tuggett Abel, of Stretford, Lancashire.
Sydney was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber which crashed whilst on a mission to attack the Krupps steelworks at Essen.
The story of the flight is noted at the following site, The Aircrew Remembrance Society, noted under the name of the pilot Sydney Abel
The crew of the Avro Lancaster Mark 1, ED 451, Code ZN-O, all of whom are buried in Reichswald Cemetery, were
Pilot: Sydney Abel
Flight Engineer: John Gordon Alderson
Pilot/Navigator: Vincent Anthony Nono
Pilot/Air Bomber: Stanley Plaskett
W'less Op/Air Gnr: Charles Malcolm Harrower
Air Gunner: Alfred Lionel Barber
Air Gunner: Douglas Brown
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
106 Squadron.
Aged 21.
son of Hugh Stanley Abel and Lily Tuggett Abel, of Stretford, Lancashire.
Sydney was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber which crashed whilst on a mission to attack the Krupps steelworks at Essen.
The story of the flight is noted at the following site, The Aircrew Remembrance Society, noted under the name of the pilot Sydney Abel
The crew of the Avro Lancaster Mark 1, ED 451, Code ZN-O, all of whom are buried in Reichswald Cemetery, were
Pilot: Sydney Abel
Flight Engineer: John Gordon Alderson
Pilot/Navigator: Vincent Anthony Nono
Pilot/Air Bomber: Stanley Plaskett
W'less Op/Air Gnr: Charles Malcolm Harrower
Air Gunner: Alfred Lionel Barber
Air Gunner: Douglas Brown
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