An Unteroffizier and Bordfunker [wireless operator] serving with 6 Staffel Kampfgeschwader 6, he died on a mission against London when his aircraft (Ju88A-4; wn:2537; 3E+BP) was shot down by a Mosquito of 96 Squadron RAF (crewed by Pilot Officer John Cecil Owen and Flight Sergeant William Milne Patterson), crashing at Coursehorn, near Cranbrook, Kent. The Bordschütze [air gunner] Unteroffizier Fritz Götze also died.
He is also commemorated on the War Memorial it the Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist, Stadt München, Oberbayern, Bayern.
Originally buried in Section C Grave 54 at Cranbrook Cemetery, Kent.
He is also commemorated on the War Memorial it the Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist, Stadt München, Oberbayern, Bayern.
Originally buried in Section C Grave 54 at Cranbrook Cemetery, Kent.
An Unteroffizier and Bordfunker [wireless operator] serving with 6 Staffel Kampfgeschwader 6, he died on a mission against London when his aircraft (Ju88A-4; wn:2537; 3E+BP) was shot down by a Mosquito of 96 Squadron RAF (crewed by Pilot Officer John Cecil Owen and Flight Sergeant William Milne Patterson), crashing at Coursehorn, near Cranbrook, Kent. The Bordschütze [air gunner] Unteroffizier Fritz Götze also died.
He is also commemorated on the War Memorial it the Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist, Stadt München, Oberbayern, Bayern.
Originally buried in Section C Grave 54 at Cranbrook Cemetery, Kent.
He is also commemorated on the War Memorial it the Pfarrkirche St. Johann Baptist, Stadt München, Oberbayern, Bayern.
Originally buried in Section C Grave 54 at Cranbrook Cemetery, Kent.
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