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Flying Officer Kenneth Edwin Harold Bennett

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Flying Officer Kenneth Edwin Harold Bennett Veteran

Birth
Paddington, Woollahra Municipality, New South Wales, Australia
Death
18 Dec 1944 (aged 22)
Le Gros-Theil, Departement de l'Eure, Haute-Normandie, France
Burial
Le Gros-Theil, Departement de l'Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Add to Map
Plot
Coll. grave.
Memorial ID
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Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 424117 ( Pilot )
Posting on Death: 189 Squadron, Waddington Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster RF 847; Place - Gros Theil, France; Date - 17 December 1944.
Crashed at Le Gros-Theil 6 Miles Northwest of Le Neuborg during a Raid on Munich.

The crew of Lancaster RF 847
BENNETT, Kenneth Edwin Harold - (Flying Officer); Service Number - 424117
OGILVIE James Henderson – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 418559
BYRNES R W – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 287660
NUTTALL – (Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1592205
EASTON – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1522162
WATSON – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – RAF187732
FRIZZEL – (Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1787720
FOWLER – (Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1826506

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Annandale NSW, also his name is located at panel 109 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Harold and Ethel Louisa Bennett, of Annandale, New South Wales, Australia.
Flying Officer Royal Australian Air Force 424117 ( Pilot )
Posting on Death: 189 Squadron, Waddington Lincolnshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster RF 847; Place - Gros Theil, France; Date - 17 December 1944.
Crashed at Le Gros-Theil 6 Miles Northwest of Le Neuborg during a Raid on Munich.

The crew of Lancaster RF 847
BENNETT, Kenneth Edwin Harold - (Flying Officer); Service Number - 424117
OGILVIE James Henderson – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 418559
BYRNES R W – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 287660
NUTTALL – (Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1592205
EASTON – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1522162
WATSON – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – RAF187732
FRIZZEL – (Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1787720
FOWLER – (Sergeant); Service Number – RAF 1826506

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Annandale NSW, also his name is located at panel 109 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Harold and Ethel Louisa Bennett, of Annandale, New South Wales, Australia.

Inscription

DEARLY LOVED AND SADLY MISSED
DAD, MUM AND
BROTHER SELWYN OF SYDNEY


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