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Sergeant

Fred Drinkwater

Service number 541979
Military unit 103 Sqdn Royal Air Force
Address 99 Hurdsfield Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Date of birth
Date of death 09 Sep 1940 (23 years old)
Place of birth Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

Son of Frederick and Georgina Drinkwater, of Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Military history

Battle L5010 103 Sqn. Take off from RAF Newton to bomb the port at Calais, reported lost without trace. It is believed the aircraft was shot down by German flak and crashed near Audinghen on the French Channel coast not far from Calais. The wreckage was investigated by the Germans (https://vgy.me/u/wsy9vA) and the remains of the crew buried nearby. The burial site was recorded and is known. (https://vgy.me/u/yIXXBF)

However it appears that the crew could not be identified and for some reason it is thought they were Canadian. After WW2 the graves were exhumed and it is possible that these were buried in the Calais Canadian Cemetery as Unknown.

Also lost;

P/O Walter Cooper - Son of Herbert and Hannah Beatrice Cooper, of Walthamstow, Essex.
Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Acting Sub-Lieutenant Robert De Sanoual-Servier - 3 Fleet Air Arm, H.M.S. Daedalus - Son of Adrian and Muriel de Sandoval-Sievier, of Chiswick, Middlesex. Commemorated at Lee on Solent.

Extra information

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