REID – Arthur George

Name: REID, ARTHUR GEORGE
Initials: A G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flight Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 10 Sqdn.
Age: 33
Date of Death: 21/11/1944
Service No: 1800613
Additional information: Son of Edward George and Amy Adeline Reid, of Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 20. D. 15.
Cemetery: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY

Stirling IV – LK276 of 190 Sqn. Towing Horsa Glider PF753 (testing new crew). Shot down by a German intruder and crashed along the Old Roman Road near Great Dunmow. (Not listed by Chorley’s Bomber Command Losses because not Bomber Command). Crew also killed: F/O J.I. Kidgell, RAAF 410499 – F/O W.W.D’A. Brain, RNZAF 423365 – Sgt H. Holt, 2209061 – F/O N. Woods, 176742 – F/Sgt R.D. Payne, 1391069 and F/Sgt R.M. Dauncey, 1431216. (Air Britain: Hit trees and cables in circuit near Great Dunmow and crashed, Newton Fields, Essex).

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