Robert John Bennett

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Robert died on 9th of May 1941 aged 20. 

Robert was born at Deddington, Oxfordshire, on 19 July 1920, a son of John Gardner Bennett and Fanny Bennett. In 1921 his family lived at Adderbury West, near Banbury, Oxfordshire. In 1939 his family lived at White House Farm, West End, Wrentham, and Robert was an assistant buyer at a grocery. Later his parents lived at Kessingland Beach.

Robert enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, service number 908791, between September 1939 and June 1940. He was a Wireless operator / Air gunner.

Robert was a member of the crew of a Wellington bomber IC, number R3208, part of 214 Squadron, based at Stradishall, Suffolk. His aircraft was on a bombing raid to Hamburg when it was lost, presumed to have crashed into the sea. 

WITH THANKS TO:Malcolm Barrass