J. C. Greenfield
Attended Queen Elizabeth School between 1928 and 1934.
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John was the son of Charles and Pauline Hilda Greenfield and he was brought up on his family's farm.
IBCC: Armstrong Whitworth Whitely V
Serial No P 5109 Marking ZA
They took off from Leeming for an operation over Warnemunde, near Rostock on the Baltic Sea. Warnemunde was the site of Heinkle and Arado Flugzeligwerke aircraft factories.
They were last heard of by wireless transmission indicating they were to ditch some 80 miles of the east coast.
Old Elizabethan's Society Service Record:
Pilot Office John Charles Greenfield, was lost on the return from the first raid on Rostock on the night of September 11/12 1941 and is persumed to have come down somewhere in the North Sea. Little information is available about his flight over enemy territory so early in the war. He was 21 years of age. His parents live in Edwinstowe.
John has no grave and is remembered on the R.A.F memorial at Runnymede, panel 32.
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