- SURNAME
Pollard
- FORENAME
Francis (Frank)
- UNIT
138 Squadron (R.A.F.V.R.)
- RANK
Flight Sergeant
- NUMBER
1546295
- DATE OF DEATH
15th August 1943
- AGE
22
- GRAVESITE
Meythet Communal Cemetery,France Row A Joint grave 1-2
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
son of John and Mary Agnes Pollard,Bury,Lancashire
air gunner
SOE Op. Pimento 12,France
Halifax JD180
crashed Meythet,Haute-Savoie,France
note from his nephew Kevin Wild
born Bury,Lancashire., July 22, 1922.
Parents: John and Mary Agnes Pollard.
Sisters: Winefride and Dorothy.
Schools: St. Joseph’s, Bury, and Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton.
April 1939 - he signed a professional football contract with Bury Football Club.
May 1941 - he volunteered for the RAF, 1546296, and trained as radio-operator and gunner.He joined 138 Squadron on May 28, 1943.
August 1943 - The regular rear gunner for Squadron Leader Frank C. Griffiths suffered head injuries in an accident in the vicinity of the camp from which he later died, and was buried August 12, 1943.
Squadron Leader Griffiths choose my Uncle, then a Flight Sergeant, as replacement.
Died August 15, 1943, in Meythet, Haute Savoie, after Halifax JD 180 developed engine trouble and crashed.
His grave, as well as that of Flying Officer Sydney John Congdon, is in the Meythet Communal Cemetery.
DATE OF DEATH:
15-Aug-1943
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