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Flight Lieutenant Frederick Abbey Keck

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Flight Lieutenant Frederick Abbey Keck Veteran

Birth
Launceston, Launceston City, Tasmania, Australia
Death
11 Apr 1942 (aged 27)
Stürzelberg, Rhein Kreis Neuss, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Burial
Rheinberg, Kreis Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Add to Map
Plot
6. C. 11.
Memorial ID
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Flight Lieutenant Royal Australian Air Force 400623
Posting on Death: 455 Squadron (RAF) Wigsley Nottinghamshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Hampden 1 AT 221; Place - near Dusseldorf, Germany; Date - 10 April 1942.
Crashed at Sturzelberg on the West Bank of the Rhine 7 Miles Southeast of Neuss during a raid on Essen.
The crew members were;
CANNING Frank Hill - (Sergeant) RAAF - 408045 W/Op, Air Gnr.
ROBERTS Charles – (Pilot Officer) RAAF – 3200
KECK Frederick Abbey – (Pilot Officer) RAAF – 420623 Navigator *
WRIGHT J R – (Sergeant) RAFVR 1057411 W/Op, Air Gnr.
Remembrance
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Melbourne Vic, also his name is located at panel 106 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Family & Military Connections
Son of the Revd. Harry Alfred George Keck and Ethel Annie Keck, of Box Hill, Victoria, Australia.
Father Harry Alfred George KECK (1883-1960)
Record information.
Mother Ethel Annie WYLIE (1885-1984)
Brother Flt Lieut H.K. Keck RAF, killed over Libya March 30,1942.
Harry Kingwell Keck
Flight Lieutenant Royal Australian Air Force 400623
Posting on Death: 455 Squadron (RAF) Wigsley Nottinghamshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Hampden 1 AT 221; Place - near Dusseldorf, Germany; Date - 10 April 1942.
Crashed at Sturzelberg on the West Bank of the Rhine 7 Miles Southeast of Neuss during a raid on Essen.
The crew members were;
CANNING Frank Hill - (Sergeant) RAAF - 408045 W/Op, Air Gnr.
ROBERTS Charles – (Pilot Officer) RAAF – 3200
KECK Frederick Abbey – (Pilot Officer) RAAF – 420623 Navigator *
WRIGHT J R – (Sergeant) RAFVR 1057411 W/Op, Air Gnr.
Remembrance
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Melbourne Vic, also his name is located at panel 106 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial .
Family & Military Connections
Son of the Revd. Harry Alfred George Keck and Ethel Annie Keck, of Box Hill, Victoria, Australia.
Father Harry Alfred George KECK (1883-1960)
Record information.
Mother Ethel Annie WYLIE (1885-1984)
Brother Flt Lieut H.K. Keck RAF, killed over Libya March 30,1942.
Harry Kingwell Keck

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