John Shaw Willis

A Flight Sergeant with the Royal Air Force, John died on 22nd of June 1941 aged 25. 

John was born at Colchester in 1916, a son of John Albert and Ellen Willis. In 1939 his family lived at Hilldora, Elmstead Road, Colchester.

John was a senior clerk in the Colchester offices of the Pearl Assurance Company and volunteered for service with the Royal Air Force in 1938.

John married Margaret Hide Breach, of 263 Whapload Road, Lowestoft, in 1939, this was registered in the Ploughley district of Oxfordshire. 

By June 1941 John was aircrew with 221 Squadron. On 22 June 1941 he was part of the crew of a Wellington Viii, number W5664, flying out of Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The aircraft was on an anti-submarine warfare patrol but failed to return.  

WITH THANKS TO:Malcolm Barrass