ATHEY Rex Ward

  • First Name(s):
    Rex 
    Ward 
  • Surname:
    ATHEY
  • Service Number:
    1575432
  • Rank:

    Sergeant/Navigator

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    7 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    11th June 1944
  • Age At Death:
    23
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Dreux Communal Cemetery, France, Row 1. Grave 39.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Reginald and Alice Ruth Athey, of Birmingham

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

ATHEY Rex Ward Is Named On These Memorials

Kings Norton Boys School
Kings Norton Boys School WW2 Roll of Honour

Further Information About ATHEY Rex Ward

Rex Athey was born on 11th October 1920. He entered Form IId at Kings Norton Boys School on 8th September 1931, passed the school certificate in 1937, and left from Form 5aii on 22nd July 1937. His home address on the school records was given as 294 Harborne Park Road, Harborne. A hand written addition to the record states that he was killed in action on 10th June 1944.

A hand written document with regard to Rex Ward-Athey reads as follows:
Rex was at K.N. from 1932 to 1937. During the war he became a navigator on Lancasters and served with No 7 Squadron flying from Oakington in Cambridgeshire. He was killed in June 1944 on a raid to Dreux marshalling yards, near Paris – it was his 18th operation – one of many thousands killed in Bomber Command.
Still remembered
Peter Griffiths

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