BENNETT Robert Francis

  • First Name(s):
    Robert 
    Francis 
  • Surname:
    BENNETT
  • Service Number:
    62299
  • Rank:

    Pilot Officer

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    226 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    7th September 1941
  • Age At Death:
    20
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, Panel 31.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Major Robert H.E. Bennett, M.C., and Dorothy M. Bennett, of Kensington, London

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Further Information About BENNETT Robert Francis

Robert Bennett was born in 1920. He attended Malvern College in House 8 from 1935 to 1937.

On 7th September 1941 Robert Bennett was acting as Observer on Z.7312, one of several aircraft attacking a convoy about 4 miles west of The Hague. The aircraft took off from base at 11.30. Following the attack he and his two fellow crew members along with three other members of 226 squadron flying on Z.7306 were reported as Missing.

Robert Bennett has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Runnymede Memorial.

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