Williams, Jack Herbert (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1942-June-21

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Birth Date: 1921

Born:

Parents: Archibald Arthur & Agnes Williams

Spouse:

Home: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

7 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Diem Per Noctem By day and by night

Base

RAF Oakington

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Flight Engineer

Service Numbers

572709

Home

Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Target

Emden Germany

Final Burial

Canadian War Cemetery
Plot 29 Row B Grave 11

Took off from Oakington at 23:25 in Stirling Mk I (Sqn code MG-C Bomber Command) on an operation to Emden Germany.

Aircraft went down in the sea off Kastricum, Holland, after being shot down by a night fighter.

Killed includes Williams: Flight Sergeant Robert Nelson Parham RCAF R/78112 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 106. Pilot Officer James Robert Heslop RCAF J/7039 KIA Bergen General Cemetery, Holland, Plot 1. Row B. Grave 7. Pilot Officer Byron Adair Trapp RCAF J/7202 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 101. F/Lt Alwin Woodgate Bevan RAF pilot KIA Bergen General Cemetery, Plot 1. Row B. Grave 4. Sergeant Andrew Cadden RAF KIA Bergen General Cemetery, Plot 1. Row B. Grave 10. Pilot Officer Eric Douglas Calvert RAF Runnymede Memorial, Panel 106. Sergeant Gerald Bamford Granshaw RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 84.