Personnel Index - Detail

Name
BECKETT
First Names
John Frank
Rank
Pilot Officer
Service
RAF
Service Number
741297 (NCO) 120331 (Officer)
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
Posted November 1940 and out June 1941
Age
22
Cemetery
Location

Grave 14.

 

Awarded the DFM in June 1941.

Flew 29 Hampden operations (plus a further two as Second Pilot).



P/O Beckett was killed on the 17th April 1942 whilst serving with 44Sqn and is buried in Beaumont-Le-Roger Communal Cemetery.

 

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Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses