No.639947, Sergeant (Wireless Op/Air Gunner) Bertie SHELDRICK
Aged 24
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Bertie Sheldrick was born in Isleham in 1916 (Newmarket Q2-1916 3B:878), son of Edward and Sarah SHELDRICK (née LAMBERT).
In 1939 the family were in Mill Street, Isleham - father Edward [20-1-1880] a journeyman bricklayer; mother Sarah [10-10-1880] and brother Edward J [19-12-1910] a builder's labourer. |
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He took off from RAF Marham, Norfolk, in Vickers Wellington Mk 1C, ser.no. T2465, call sign KO-O at 17:17 on 29th December on a bombing
mission to Hamm. The exact cause of the crash in unknown.
All the crew were buried initially in a collective grave 28:A:55 at Bochum Cemetery, but exhumed and re-interred in Reichswald on 9th June 1947.
The crew was:- Pilot - P/O P.G.H.Salmon, Sgt C.E.R.Yard, P/O R.T.Hewer, Sgt B.Sheldrick, Sgt R.W.Yarwood and Sgt J.S.Beattie. |
photo; Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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