Robert Neville Birkhead
Service number
955477
Military unit
150 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
29 Apr 1941 (19 years old)
Place of birth
Long Eaton, Derbyshire
Employment, education or hobbies
Known as Bob.
Notts Archive DD 2091/4/2: R N Birkhead, RAF, Men's Wer Dept.
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Family history
Son of James Byron Birkhead and Agnes M. Birkhead of 22 Birkland Avenue, Nottingham.
Siblings: George Thomas (1915), Byron Stanley (1920) and Joan Kathleen (1921).
His brother, George Thomas Birkhead, served in the RAF and died on service. He was killed during an air-raid on RAF Wattisham on the 30th October 1940. He was possibly trying to dispose of SD2 Butterfly bombs.
1921 the family were living in Long Eaton
Military history
IBCC: Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V. Serial No P4939
Wireless Operator.
Flew from Abingdon on a night training exercise, but the aircraft stalled on take off and crashed NW of the airfield.
Extra information
Buried in Nottingham Northern Cemetery, plot M/23 grave 15.
Photographs
The grave of Robert Neville Birkhead at Nottingham Northern Cemetery
Photo: David Nunn