Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Carisbrooke Mount Joy Cemetery : Robert John Wendes -

Robert John Wendes, son of Samson and Blanche Ethel May Wendes (née Parsons), of 15 Hunnyhill, Newport.

Born : 28 May 1921, Newport.

Education :

1930 to 1933 : Attended Parkhurst / Hunnyhill School.

11 September 1933 onwards : Attended Newport County Secondary School.
 
Circumstances of death :

The aircraft, a de Havilland Mosquito Mk.IX (ML907) of 109 Sqn, took off from RAF Little Staughton at 13.45 hrs for Ops to Julich in Germany. The pilot was Warrant Officer Joseph Garcia-Webb, the navigator Warrant Officer Wendes. On return they experienced bad weather and decided to make a Standard Beam Approach, but on nearing the runway they were seen to pull sharply to avoid overhead High Tension cables, and in doing so Garcia-Webb lost control of the aircraft, which stalled and spun into the ground at 15.25 hrs near the airfield killing both.
 
CWGC record ...
 
Garcia-Webb is buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery (CWGC record ...).