Colk, Frederick Charles Goodwin (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1944-January-02

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Service

RCAF

Unit

156 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
We Light The Way

Base

RAF Warboys

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/162661
PoW: 269833

Target
Google MapBerlin Germany

Took off from Warboys at 00:19 in Lancaster Mark III (Sqn code: GT-C Bomber Command) on an operation to Berlin Germany.

Out-bound attacked by a night fighter in the vicinity of Bremen,. Aircraft crashed between Holtrup and Schweringen, Niedersachsen Germany.

Killed: Flight Sergeant Alan Douglas Barnes RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 215. Sergeant Arthur John Hackett RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 230. Sergeant Ronald Victor Hillman RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 231.

POWs including Colk: Flight Sergeant Frederick Charles Goodwin Colk RCAF R/162661 POW Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe). Sergeant Ronald Davis RAF POW Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe). Sergeant Warwick Hall RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Flying Officer Ronald Stanley Smith RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.