Personnel Index - Detail
Name
BARRELL
First Names
Ernest Rowe Newton
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
992916
Crew Position
Air Gunner
Posting In
Posted in 12/42
Flew 27 operations as Rear Gunner all with F/S B F Gilmore.
It also seems he flew one operation in the FE position!Sgt Barrell was KIA flying with 635Sqn on the 20th April 1944 during a raid on Ottignies.
W/O W C White was also an ex-4T9er.
They are buried in the Heverlee War Cemetery.
Photographed for the 49Sqn Association by Guy Lapaille.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses