Wimbledon South, London, England (parents)1 Personnel Dispatch Centre, RAF Pershore, 437 Sqn Dakota III aircraft KG 653 was one of 15 transports enroute to India in very poor weather with dark low clouds, heavy rain, thunder and lightning when it was attacked by fighters over Germany. The fighters tried to force it down but it went into a dive, suffered structural failure pulling out and crashed four miles south-west of Neuleiningen, Germany (mhuxt www.rafcommands.com)
Service Police Cpl FW Sargeant (RCAF) was killed. Please see Beach, LI for complete casualty list and detail
Cpl Sargeant was originally buried at Neuleiningen Cemetery, near the crash site, exhumed in 1948 and reburied at the Rheinberg War Cemetery
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
