Cohen, Herbert Cyril (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-December-20

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Birth Date: 1921

Born:

Joseph Cyril & Ethel Elizabeth Cohen

Home: Walthamstow, Essex, England (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAFVR

Unit

76 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Resolute

Base

RAF Holme-on Spalding-Moor

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Wireless Operator/Air Gunner

Service Numbers

1321547

Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 145

Took off from Holme-on-Spalding Moor at 16:39 in Halifax Mk V (Sqn code MP-C Bomber Command) on an operation to Frankfurt Germany.

Hit by Marine Flak on return and crashed in the sea.

Killed includes Cohen: Flight Sergeant David Stuart McClelland RCAF R/166291 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 183. Flight Sergeant John Alexander Lamp RNZAF KIA Castricum Protestant Churchyard Holland Plot J. Coll. grave 3. Flight Sergeant Lorin James Sheean RAAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 193. Flight Sergeant Leslie Frederick Gillingham RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 136. Flight Sergeant Charles William Matthews RAF pilot KIA Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery Holland grave 28. B. 3. Sergeant Ronald Frederick Taylor RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 166.

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