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Sergeant

K. W. Stevens

Service number 1177167
Military unit 9 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death 29 Apr 1942 (21 years old)
Place of birth Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies

In 1939 Kenneth was working has a colliery clerk (underground).

Family history

Son of Ernest William and Edith Annie Stevens, of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire; husband of Irene Alice Stevens
Ernest had died in 1936 and in 1939 Edith was living at 2 Grove Street, Mansfield Woodhoue with Kenneth, probably their only child.
Kenneth was baptised at St Edmund's church on 7th July 1920.
In early 1942 Kenneth married Irene Alice Babbs of 10 Hibbert Street, Mansfield. She worked as a machinist in a shoe factory. They were married for less than 4 months. Irene remarried in 1947 to Frank Holliday.

Military history

IBCC: Vickers Wellington III. serial No X3716.
Wireless operator/air gunner.
Flew from Honington to bomb 3 shipyards at Keil. They crashed at Kliplev, Denmark. 2 crew members bailed out but they did not survive.

Extra information

Buried at Aabenraa Allied Military Cemetery, Denmark, plot 1.8.

Photographs

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