Photo: Pam Hogg
J.K. Dodds
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
6th April 1943 age 21
Dearly beloved son
of J.W. and E.A. Dodds.
Thy will be done.
Sgt. Dodds was serving with 427 Squadron. He was a crew member of Wellington X HE743 ZL-X which took off from Croft on a Bullseye exercise. The aircraft crashed and then burst into flames then exploded.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
He is remembered in Hartlepool on H115.41, in West Hartlepool on W111.17 and W111.55 and in the list of 1939-1945 Military and Civilian Names
