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Flying Officer

Peter Frederick Barlow Bluett

Service number 86728
Military unit 61 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address 199 Station Road, Harrow, Middlesex, England.
Date of birth 28 Oct 1909
Date of death 31 May 1942 (32 years old)
Place of birth Wealdstone, Middlesex, England.
Employment, education or hobbies

Company Director.

Family history

Son of Reginald Peter Nutcombe Buckland Bluett, M.C., L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., and Florence Martha Bluett, of Harrow, Middlesex.

Military history

Takeoff at 00:40 hrs for participation in the first 1000 bomber raid, target Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

The aircraft was coned by the 3./Flakscheinwerfer-Abteilung 159 and hit by heavy (schwere) Flak; crashed Niederaussem 21 km WNW of Köln city centre.

F/Sgt John Charles RCAF
F/O Peter Bluett
P/O John Patey RCAF
P/O John Underwood
P/O Benson Usher RNZAF
Sgt Anthony Williamson
F/Sgt Robert Fawkes - All killed.

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