Service Details
Name:
 SHARP
Given Name:
 GEORGE GUY
Initials:
 G G
Service No:
 84036
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Unit:
 9 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-04-09
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Age:
 29
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Wellington T2473 took-off from RAF Honington at 20.00hrs for an operation on Berlin. Nothing further was heard from this aircraft after take off. The loss of this aircraft was claimed by Orbit. Fritz Gutezeit, Stab III./NJG. The International Red Cross reported later that all the crew had been killed. This was the only aircraft lost from the Squadron on this operation
Additional
Information:
Son of George W. and Edith Sharp; husband of Jeanette Claire Sharp. B.Sc. Eng. (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa). See more at: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/sharp-george.html#sthash.hJRcxAAS.dpuf
Commemoration
Country:
 Germany
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Locality:
 Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Cemetery:
 REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 14. F. 14.

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