Photo: B. Chandler
W. Kennedy
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
17th December 1944 age 23
God will link
the broken chain
as one by one
we meet again
Sgt. Kennedy was serving with 17 O.T.U. (Operation Training Unit). He was a crew member of Wellington X LP306 which took off from Turweston on a local flying training exercise. It overshot the runway and crashed whilst going round again for a second landing attempt. All the crew died.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol. 7; Operational Training Units 1940-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6