Personnel Index - Detail
Name
BIRKS
First Names
Frederick Richard
Rank
Sergeant
Service
RAF
Service Number
1430538
Crew Position
Flight Engineer
Posting In
Posted in 3/43 and out 7/43
Cemetery
The crew transferred (almost to the man) to 83Sqn after 16 operations.
Sgt F R Birks was killed on the 26th November 1943 during a raid on Berlin with 83Sqn and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
Unknown, Sgt M H King, Sgt R H Pennells, Sgt K R Millar, Sgt F R Birks, F/Sgt W Foster, Unknown, Sgt J H Harsley.
One of the unknowns will be Sgt F Earnshaw.