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Personal data Ronald Norman Fewtrell 

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Household of Ronald Norman Fewtrell

He is married to Margorie Irvine Birchall.

They got married on April 26, 1941 at Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, he was 30 years old.


Notes about Ronald Norman Fewtrell

Ronald Norman Fewtrell

Flying Officer Ronald Norman Fewtrell, 102 Squadron Royal Air Force. Born in 1911 on the Isle of Wight and KIA 28 May 1943.

Ronald Fewtrell was the Air Bomber on Halifax JD149 which was on a mission towards Essen, Germany. They took off from RAF Pocklington on May 27, 1943 at 23.26 hrs. Around 01.40 on May 28th there came a call for help on the wireless transmitter.

Halifax JD149 was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed into the Waddenzee near Wieringen, Netherlands killing the whole crew.

The entire crew is buried at Hippolytushoef Zandburen General Cemetery. The other crewmembers were:

FO Harry Entwistle, RAF, navigator
FO John Denzil Jeffery, RAF, pilot
PO Samuel Zareikin, RCAF, wireless operator
Sgt Thomas Heslop, RAF, air gunner
Sgt Jack Louis Stanley Lowings, RAF, air gunner
Sgt Kenneth Joseph Smith, RAF, flight engineer

The raid on Essen involved 518 aircraft with a loss of 23.

Ronald was married on 26th of April 1941 with Margorie Irvine Birchall in Newcastle on Tyne. Margorie died in 1998...

Gravesite Details Flying Officer ( Bomb Aimer ) 130288 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Age 32 Plot C. Row 13. Coll. grave 378-380.

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Ronald Norman Fewtrell
1911-1943

1941

Margorie Irvine Birchall
1917-1998


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Sources

  1. Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. Web: Netherlands, Online-Begraafplaatsen, 1800-2014, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree / Ancestry.com
  4. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD / Ancestry.com
  5. 1911 England Census, Ancestry.com, The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911 / Ancestry.com
  6. Web: UK and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966, Ancestry.com, International Bomber Command Centre; Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; Losses Database: Https://Internationalbcc.co.uk/History-Archive/Losses-Database/ / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Day of marriage April 26, 1941

  • The temperature on April 26, 1941 was between 0.1 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • January 21 » Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
    • July 4 » Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
    • July 11 » The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
    • September 17 » World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.
    • September 30 » World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
    • December 24 » World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.

Day of death May 28, 1943

  • The temperature on May 28, 1943 was between 7.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • March 13 » German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
    • March 15 » World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
    • April 13 » The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
    • September 8 » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.
    • September 18 » World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
    • December 2 » World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SSJohn Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.


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