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Flight Sergeant

Arthur William Coote

Service number 1295109
Military unit 83 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death 20 Jan 1944 (20 years old)
Place of birth Marylebone, London, England.
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

Adopted son of Mr & Mrs J Ford of South Godstone, Surrey; Husband of Olive Mary Coote of 5 Smith Street, Old Balderton, Nottinghamshire. Married October 1943 in Newark, he never got to see his son, also called Arthur. Olive remarried in 1947.

Military history

Lancaster ED974 OL-Y RAF Wyton mission to Berlin. Take off 16.03, hit by Flak and crashed in the target area.

F/Sgt Alfred Millard, DFM
P/O Glen Ranson RCAF
F/Sgt Cyril Plumb
Sgt Paul Vernon de Villiers Vickers
F/Lt Frederick West also killed.
F/Sgt George MacKinnon - POW No 926 Stalag Luft VI - Stalag 357

The squadron was No 8 Group Pathfinder Force at RAF Wyton, operating as a marker unit for the main force of Bomber Command.

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