Personnel Index - Detail

Name
BENTLEY
First Names
Joseph Harold
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Service
RAF
Service Number
936573
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Posting Out
Posted 5/41
Cemetery

 

Awarded the DFM.

F/Sgt Bentley completed a tour of operations with 49Sqn.

Image courtesy of Sarah Anderson (F/Sgt Bentley was her Geat Uncle).

Killed in action on 5th August 1942 whilst flying with 44Sqn to Essen.

F/S Bentley is remembered at the Runnymede Memorial.

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Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses