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.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses