| Flight Sergeant
Fredrick K. Smith was serving as Rear Gunner Lancaster Mk. III
ND-597 coded TL-A
during an operation to Berlin March 24/25, 1944.
The aircraft took off from Graveley at 1844hrs and was returning
to base when it was shot down by a night-fighter, killing five of
the seven crewmembers including F/Sgt Smith. The
crew consisted of:
|
Name |
Service |
Trade |
Hometown |
Age |
|
S/L Richard Fitzgerald (DFC) |
RAAF |
Pilot |
Namban,
W.Australia |
22 |
|
F/O Cecil Dineen |
RAFVR |
Flight Engineer |
Bexleyheath, Kent
|
20 |
|
F/O John Savage |
RAAF |
Navigator |
Queensland, Australia |
27 |
|
F/Lt William “Scott” Muego - POW |
RAFVR |
Bomb Aimer |
Glasgow, Scotland |
29 |
|
W/O Robert Brewington |
RAAF |
Wop/AG |
Queensland, Australia |
27 |
|
F/Sgt Stanley Boulton - POW |
RAFVR |
Mid Upper Gunner |
- |
- |
Flight
Sergeant Frederick Kenneth Smith RAFVR
(1433744) aged 30,
was the son of Frederick and Mary Smith of Cobridge,
Stoke-on-Trent.
He is buried with his crew in the 1939-45
Berlin War cemetery. |
