Ernest Samuel Frostwick

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Ernest died on 27th of April 1943 aged 26. 

Ernest was born at Wood Dalling, Norfolk, on 21 July 1916, a son of Henry James and Julia Ada Frostwick. In 1921 his family lived at Hall Cottages, Wood Dalling. By 1939 they were living at 3 Council Houses, Wood Dalling, and Ernest worked as a carpenter and joiner. 

Ernest married Joyce Evelyn Edith Williamott in 1942. Joyce was born in the Lowestoft area and, in 1939, had been a Salvation Army Lieutenant based at Reepham. Later she lived at Carlton Colville and spent her later years living at 13 Runnymede Court, Lowestoft.

Ernest enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after November 1940. In April 1943 he was a Wireless Operator / Air Gunner serving with 13 Operational Training Unit on attachment from 26 Operational Training Unit.

On 27 April he was a member of the crew of a Blenheim IV aircraft, number L8850, flying from Wing, Buckinghamshire, on a night cross-country exercise. The aircraft exploded in the air and crashed near Stewkley, Buckinghamshire. The cause of the crash was not known. 

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass