MARGETTS Edward William

  • First Name(s):
    Edward 
    William 
  • Surname:
    MARGETTS
  • Service Number:
    591580
  • Rank:

    Sergeant/Wireless Operator/Air Gunner

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force
  • Air Force Unit:
    15 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    27th August 1942
  • Age At Death:
    20
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery, Netherlands, Plot 13. Row 4, Grave 54.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Edward George and Ethel May Margetts, of St. John’s, Worcester

Sergeant/Wireless Operator/Air Gunner Edward MARGETTS served and died in WW2.

MARGETTS Edward William Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester St Clements Church

Further Information About MARGETTS Edward William

The following report appears in the Worcester Evening News, Tuesday 1st September 1942:
Worcester Air-Gunner Missing
Mr and Mrs Margetts, 3, Croydon Villas, Oldbury Road, Worcester have received information that their elder son, Sgt. E.W. Margetts is missing following operations. Sgt. Margetts was an air-gunner in the R.A.F., in which he had been eighteen months before war broke out. He was educated at St Clement’s and Christopher Whitehead School and after a period at the Victoria Institute Commercial School, he went to Osborne & Sharpe’s for a time and then into the R.A.F.

Reported with a photograph of Sgt. E. Margetts.

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