Date of birth:

December 31st, 1906

Service number:

169501

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Before WW2, Fred Bone had a career in the Police.
Bone and Wilfred Miller were respectively navigator and pilot of a De Haviland Mosquito.
On August 13th, 1944 they spotted the new Heinkel 219 over Helgoland. They followed it for a while and then attacked it. As the Heinkel fell, they filmed and their Mosquito was consequently hit by debris from the German plane. This caused them to bale out over the Dutch coast. Bone was captured immediately and spend the remainder of the war as a PoW in Stalag Luft 3 (Sagan and Belaria).

Promotions:
October 27th, 1943: pilot officer (probation/emergency)
April 27th, 1944: Flying Officer (war sub)
October 27th, 1945: Flight Lieutenant (war sub)

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Flying Officer

Unit:

No. 169 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Awarded on:

June 13th, 1944

Citation:
"As observer and pilot respectively, these officers have participated in many sorties. They have displayed a high degree of skill and cooperation
and have destroyed 8 enemy aircraft at night, 3 of them in one sortie in May, 1944. Their achievement on this occasion merited the greatest praise. These officers have set a fine example of devotion to duty."

Awarded simultanuously to Frederick Bone and to the pilot, Wilfred Miller

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Flying Officer

Unit:

No. 169 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Awarded on:

October 3rd, 1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

With "FRANCE AND GERMANY" clasp.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

• - Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 36560 published on the 9 June 1944
  - Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 36728 published on the 29 September 1944
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