Personnel Index - Detail

Name
BAKER
First Names
Dennis Gerald
Rank
Pilot Officer
Service
RAF
Service Number
40068
Crew Position
Pilot
Age
19
Date of Death
19/09/1938
Cemetery

 

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
 

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
 

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Pilot Officer Baker died when his aircraft crashed on the 19th September 1938 at Digby. I believe the ORB entry showing Doddington is incorrect (see the map below)

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The Lincolnshire Echo 20th September 1938

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The 49Squadron Association is very grateful to Jim Whalley of the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) at Innsworth, Gloucester for his assistance in researching details of the above death.