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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- D Axtell -

Name

Dennis Axtell, son of Allan and Vera Axtell; husband of Agnes Axtell, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 
Service details

Flight Sergeant 626794 D Axtell, DFM, (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner), Royal Air Force

CWGC record ...

His name is recorded on the St Helens War Memorial

Date of Death :Died 17th April 1943 aged 22
Where buried or commemorated :Maucourt French National Cemetery
Aircraft :Handley Page Halifax Mk.II HR784 of 51 Sqn.
Crew
Pilot :Flt/Sgt R H Stewart, RCAF CWGC record ...
Flight Engineer :Sgt W R McBriar CWGC record ...
Navigator :WO W R Keirnan, DFM
Bomb Aimer :Flg Off T C Robinson CWGC record ...
Wireless Operator :Flt/Sgt D Axtell CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :Sgt D H Reid CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :Sgt F M Thompson CWGC record ...


The aircraft left RAF Sneath at 20.42 on Ops to Plzen, and crashed at Maucourt, on the Somme. WO W R Kiernan was taken Prisoner of War. All the remaining crew were killed and are buried at the village Cemetery in Maucourt, 34 km ESE of Amiens.

Flt/Sgt Axtell had lived in St Helens, Isle of Wight.

Information provided by : John Bloodworth



 
 

 
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