Personnel Index - Detail
Name
AMOS
First Names
Alwyn
Rank
Sgt then F/Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
1378224
Crew Position
Air Gunner
Posting In
Posted February 1944.
Cemetery
Flew 25 operations as mid-upper gunner with P/O R Hales and 4 operations as rear-gunner for F/L R Hiddersley.
We believe that F/Sgt Amos was KIA on 21st March 1945 whilst flying with 75Sqn and is buried in Venray War Cemetery.
Photograph by Barrie Davies
Image courtesy of Alwyn's niece Frances Bagnall (via Henk Brul)
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
Earlier images of Sgt Amos at 19 OTU (Squadron code ZV) - a Whitley bomber
Images courtesy of Alwyn's niece Frances Bagnall (via Henk Brul)
There is a small issue of service numbers:
We record 1378224 but the CWGC shows 1578224.
As all others details seem to match we feel this is a 'handwriting' confusion