Service Details
Name:
 WATT
Given Name:
 ARCHIBALD ALLEN
Initials:
 A A
Service No:
 778354
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 44 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-09-07
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Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hampden I X2921, aircraft took off from Waddington at 21.15, it was caryying a mine that was to be dropped in Kiel Bay, Germany - a mission known as "gardening". It crashed just 2 minutes later after failing to gain height. The mine and fuel tanks exploded on impact killing all 4 people on board
Additional
Information:
Son of Harold and Maud Watt, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. His watch was found by someone doing some metal detecting at the crash site in 2007.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Lincolnshire
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Cemetery:
 WADDINGTON (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD
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