Identity
Person No.
25456
Service No.
1267812
Last Name
First Name
John Frederick Alfred
Initials
J F A
Date of Birth
Unknown
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Unknown
Age at Death
Unknown
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Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Halifax W7883, on the night of 29/30 July 1943 on their first operational sortie. They were part of a force of 777 aircraft - 340 Lancasters, 244 Halifaxes, 119 Stirlings, 70 Wellingtons, 4 Mosquitos being dispatched to Hamburg. The intention was to approach Hamburg from almost due north and bomb those northern and north-eastern districts which had so far not been bombed. At 22.39 they were airborne from Pockington, shot down at 00:57 by a night- fighter (Lt Gotthard Sachsenberg, 11./NJG3 flying a Dornier 217) from 18,000 feet, crashing at Todesfelde, 6 miles of Bad Segeberg killing all the seven man crew
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Son of John Griffiths Trehearn and Marion Alice Trehearn, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project