Personnel Index - Detail

Name
JOHNSON
First Names
Robert Newton
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
1488745
Crew Position
Flight Engineer
Posting In
Posted in 10/43 and out 11/43
Age
21
Cemetery
Location

Plot 1. Row A. Coll. Grave 16-27

 

There is no record that this airmen flew operations with 49sqn.

It is likely that he was posted almost immediately to another squadron.



Sgt Newton was killed on 8th May 1944 whilst flying with 106Sqn..........this squadron lost four complete crews that night.

He is buried in the Orleans Main Cemetery.

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Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses