LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Colin Franklin KENDALL
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 70358 (RAF)
Born: 24 May 1909, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: 1934
Unit: No. 83 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: Battle of Britain and the Germany Blockade (No. 83 Squadron Hampden aircraft L4095), off the Dutch Coast, 11 November 1940, Aged 32 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Edward Allan and Minna Octavia Kendall; husband of Dorothy Kendall, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 6, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
On the night of 10 November 1940, Hampden L4095 took off from Scampton to attack Danzig. The aircraft crashed into the sea off the Dutch Coast and the crew members were killed.
The crew members of L4095 were:
Flying Officer Colin Franklin Kendall (70358) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Norman Tyson (755019) (RAFVR)
Sergeant George Robert Wilson (808414) (RAF (Auxiliary Air Force))
Sergeant Andrew Woodburn (759297) (RAFVR)
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1940, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1992
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis First Impact, Banner Books, Maryborough QLD 4650, 1997