Kenneth G Saunders

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Kenneth died on 9th of October 1943 aged 20. 

It seems that Kenneth was born at Huntingdon on 2 September 1923, a son of John William and Isobel Clara Saunders. In 1939 his family lived at 36 Monckton Avenue, and Kenneth was an apprentice electrician.

Kenneth enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after April 1941. By October 1943 he was an Air Bomber serving with 106 Squadron based at Syerston, Nottinghamshire. 

On 9 October Kenneth was a member of the crew of a Lancaster I bomber, number W4242 ZN-A, that was shot down by a night fighter, near Rodewald, about 23 miles north-west of their target Hanover. 

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass