1335643 Sergeant [Pilot] Sydney Abel
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
106 Squadron.
Aged 21.
Son of Hugh Stanley Abel and Lily née Tuggett Abel, of 429 Kings Road, Stretford, Lancashire.
Sydney attended Stretford Grammar School and when he left in 1939, he joined the Customs And Excise service. He joined the RAFVR in March 1941 and volunteered for aircrew. He was sent, under the "Arnold Scheme", to Tuscaloosa, Alabama for his flying training and received his wings at the U.S.A. Army Air Corps Flying School at Maxwell Field, Alabama.
Sydney was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber which crashed whilst on a mission to attack the Krupps steelworks at Essen.
The story of the flight is noted at the following site, The Aircrew Remembrance Society, noted under the name of the pilot Sydney Abel
The crew of the Avro Lancaster Mark 1, ED 451, Code ZN-O, all of whom are buried in Reichswald Cemetery, were
Pilot: Sydney Abel
Flight Engineer: John Gordon Alderson
Pilot/Navigator: Vincent Anthony Nono
Pilot/Air Bomber: Stanley Plaskett
W'less Op/Air Gnr: Charles Malcolm Harrower
Air Gunner: Alfred Lionel Barber
Air Gunner: Douglas Brown
His father Hugh died in 1960.
His mother Lily continued living at Kings Road until the late 1960's, when she went to live in a care home at Sale.
1335643 Sergeant [Pilot] Sydney Abel
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
106 Squadron.
Aged 21.
Son of Hugh Stanley Abel and Lily née Tuggett Abel, of 429 Kings Road, Stretford, Lancashire.
Sydney attended Stretford Grammar School and when he left in 1939, he joined the Customs And Excise service. He joined the RAFVR in March 1941 and volunteered for aircrew. He was sent, under the "Arnold Scheme", to Tuscaloosa, Alabama for his flying training and received his wings at the U.S.A. Army Air Corps Flying School at Maxwell Field, Alabama.
Sydney was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber which crashed whilst on a mission to attack the Krupps steelworks at Essen.
The story of the flight is noted at the following site, The Aircrew Remembrance Society, noted under the name of the pilot Sydney Abel
The crew of the Avro Lancaster Mark 1, ED 451, Code ZN-O, all of whom are buried in Reichswald Cemetery, were
Pilot: Sydney Abel
Flight Engineer: John Gordon Alderson
Pilot/Navigator: Vincent Anthony Nono
Pilot/Air Bomber: Stanley Plaskett
W'less Op/Air Gnr: Charles Malcolm Harrower
Air Gunner: Alfred Lionel Barber
Air Gunner: Douglas Brown
His father Hugh died in 1960.
His mother Lily continued living at Kings Road until the late 1960's, when she went to live in a care home at Sale.
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