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Wood, G.R.N., W/O, 1944
In Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 412792 Warrant Officer George Robert Newton Wood, serving with the Royal Australian Air Force, who died 31/03/1944.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
W/O Wood was born on March 2nd 1913, and his birth registered at Morpeth. He was killed when Avro Lancaster III ND406 GT-S of 156 Squadron was lost on a mission to Nuremberg. The Lancaster was shot down by a Ju-88 night-fighter flown by Oblt. Gunter Koberich of II./NKG2, and crashed near Holzwellen. Of the seven crew, six were lost, the survivor becoming a Prisoner of War.

He is remembered in Ashington on A11.01 (A17.27) and A11.43


The CWGC entry for Warrant Officer Wood

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

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