Date of death:

September 12th, 1944 (Vitry-lès-Nogent, France)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Vitry-lès-Nogent
Grave: 4.

Service number:

913872

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

The 23-year-old Flight Engineer Freddie Wood was one of the crew members aboard the Lancaster PB193, on 12 September 1944 at 18.22 they departed from airbase RAF Tuddenham. Their mission: a bombing raid over the city of Frankfurt in Germany. For unknown reasons it crashed in Vitry-lès-Nogent. All seven crew members were killed, they are all buried in this cemetery.

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• Photo 1: Family of Freddy Wood
• - MIDDLEBROOK, M. & EVERITT, C., The Bomber Command War Diaries, Midland Publishing, 2011.
  - SCHMITH, K., Die Brandnacht. Dokumente von der Zerstörung Darmstadts am 11. September 1944, Reba-Verlag GmbH, Darmstadt, 1964.
  - W.R. CHORLEY, RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, 1944, Ian Allan Publishing, 1997.
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