Abbs, Kenneth Arthur (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1944-August-26

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Service

RAF

Unit

405 (PFF) Sqn- Squadron
Ducimus We Lead

Base

RAF Gransden Lodge

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Engineer

Service Numbers

959080
PoW: 736

Took off from Gransden Lodge on an operation to Russelsheim Germany.

Aircraft was severely damaged by a night fighter on the homeward journey. The aircraft went out of control and three crew baled out before the pilot recovered and flew it home.

Killed: Pilot Officer Ross Bell Nairn RCAF J/89037 parachute failed to deploy and body not found Runnymede Memorial Panel 252.

POWs: Flight Sergeant Kenneth Arthur Abbs RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. F/Lt Henry Donald Brown RCAF J/12102 Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang.

The Long Road, Trials and Tribulations of Airmen Prisoners from Stalag Luft VII (Bankau) toBerlin, June 1944-May 1945 by Oliver Clutton-Brock page 286
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