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PELTON FELL

Spedding, J., Sgt., 1944
In Pontoise Communal Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 2218427 Sergeant John Spedding, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 06/08/1944.

Sgt. Spedding was serving with 50 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I W4824 VN-Z which took off from Skellingthorpe on a mission to Bois de Cassan to raid a storage depot for flying bombs. The aircraft crashed killing 5, but two others evaded capture.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1

He is remembered at Pelton Fell on P27.01 and at West Pelton onW112.03


The CWGC entry for Sergeant Spedding

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk

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