Service Details
Name:
TREHEARN
Given Name:
JOHN FREDERICK ALFRED
Initials:
J F A
Service No:
1267812
Trade:
W.Op./Air Gnr.
Rank:
Sergeant
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Regiment:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
102 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
1943-07-30
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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
Additional
Information:
Son of John Griffiths Trehearn and Marion Alice Trehearn, of Durban, Natal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
Germany
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Locality:
Hamburg, Hamburg
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Cemetery:
HAMBURG CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
4A. A. 3.

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