Wynn, Charles Keith (Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1944-May-23

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RCAF

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166 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Tenacity

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Sergeant

Position

Rear Gunner

Service Numbers

R/190166
PoW: 69

Target
Google MapDortmund Germany

Took off from Kirmington at 22:15 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: AS-S Bomber Command) from Kermington.

Crashed at Mettman about 12 km ENE from the centre of Dusseldorf to where the dead were initially taken for burial in the Nordfriedhof.

Five deaths in the crash: Sergeant Denis Asquith RAF 1684723 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. F. 1. Sergeant Samuel Flavell RAF 1559757 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 7. F. 1. Pilot Officer Harry Reginald Moncrieff RCAF J/85942 Pilot KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. F. 1. Sergeant John Notley RAF 1867212 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery 7. F. 3. Sergeant William Frederick Shead RAF 1894302 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery

Two POWs: Flight Sergeant William Philmore Chandler RCAF R/160751 POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia Sergeant Charles Keith Wynn RCAF R/190166 POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia

Unit Desciption

166 (B) Sqn Tenacity (Huddersfield's Own)

No 166 Squadron RAF was originally formed at Bircham Newton, Norfolk on June 13, 1918, designed as a heavy bomber unit, to fly the Handley Page V/1500 aircraft. The squadron was never fully mobilized because the Armistice intervened. The squadron was re-formed in November 1936 as a heavy bomber unit, flying Handley Page Heyfords, later equipping with Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys. It was based at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire from November 1936 to January 1937, when it moved to Leconfield, Yorkshire. The squadron became part of an air observer's school on June 7, 1938, and then became a 1 Group pool squadron in May 1939. From September 1939 it was based at Abingdon, Berkshire until April 1940. In that month the squadron merged with no. 97 Squadron to form No. 10 OTU.

In January 1943 the squadron was re-formed at Kirmington, Yorkshire (53.578,-0.344, now Humberside Airport), from flights of Nos. 150 and 170 squadrons, when parts of these squadrons were posted to the Middle East. It was again bomber squadron, flying Vickers Wellingtons in No. 1 Group of Bomber Command. It remained at Kirmington until the end of WWII, later re-equipping with Avro Lancasters. In the period 27/28 January 1943 and 25 April 1945, it dropped 27,287 tons of bombs and laid 333 tons of mines. The squadron won "at least" 2 DSOs, 2 CGMs, 117 DFCs and 108 DFMs in the course of WWII. The squadron was disbanded on November 18, 1945.