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Duder, Michael Sedgwick

Date of death:
March 9th, 1942 (Dreumel, Gelderland)
Buried on:
Commonwealth War Cemetery Uden
Plot: 1. Row: e. Grave: 13.
Service number:
1152502
Nationality:
British

Biography

Flt. Sgt. Michael Sedgwick Duder
Pilot RAF No. 12 Squadron RAF
Flt. Sgt. Duder was the second pilot of Vickers-Armstrong Wellington bomber Z8409 PH-H, which was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed near Dreumel around 6:00 a.m. on the night of March 9, 1942.
He had taken off from Binbrook Air Base at 2:04 a.m. The destination of the flight was Krupp, Essen (Germany).
He was buried as an unknown in the rectory garden of St. Peter's Church in Uden.
He was identified in mid-1942.
The following were killed with him:
Flt. Sgt. K. Crouch, W.Op./Air Gunner RAF
Flt. Sgt. F.J. Menshekl, Pilot RCAF
Sgt. G.E. Warrem, W.Op. / Air Gunner RAf
Sgt. E.I.C. Wood, Observer RAF
All buried in Uden on 11-3-1942, Warren and Wood unknown. They were identified in mid-1942.
He was reburied in the British War Cemetery Uden in the summer of 1946.

Sgt. G. Macey was taken prisoner of war, seriously wounded.

Archief A. Verbakel / Heemkundekring Uden

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