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Ronald Shelton | |||
| Rank: | Sergeant | Number: | 1484074 |
| Ship/Rgn/Sqn No: | 078 Sqn RAFVR | ||
| Name of Rgt or Ship: | Bomber Command | ||
| Died: | 31/07/1943 | Age: | 20 |
| How Died: | Killed in Action | ||
| Country of burial: | Germany | ||
| Cemetery or Memorial: | Reichswald Forest Cemetery | ||
| Town Memorial: | Sale | ||
| Extra Information: | |||
Attended Sale Central School, Altrincham Grammar School and the Manchester College of Technology. Member of the Altrincham G.S. ATC Sqn. Employed by the City Justices at the Gas Meter Testing Station in Manchester. Joined the RAF on the 13/10/1941 and was commisioned as a Pilot. He had undertaken several bombing operations over Germany. Flying with 78 Sqn, they took off at 2208hrs from R.A.F. Breighton, Yorkshire, in a Halifax Mk.II, No. JD329 EY-G on a bombing operation over Remscheid (a Rhineland arms town), piloted by Sgt Shelton. They were hit by flack before being finished off by a night-fighter, crashing at Uedesheim on the W bank of the Rhine, 7 km SE of Neuss. Two of the crew were taken prisoner and the bodies of the other 5 were taken to Nordfriedhof at Düsseldorf and later buried at the Reichswald Forest Cem. | |||
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| Alt Grammar School - 145 Squadron A.T.C. | |||
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