Date of death:

February 18th, 1943 (Amstelmeer, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Bergen op Zoom
Plot: 32. Row: C. Grave: 5.

Service number:

130147

Nationality:

British

Flying Officer Kenneth Charles Wood, co-pilot Bristol Beaufighter Mk VI F V-8325. Perished on 18-2-1943.

The aircraft had taken off from Coltishall airfield in England at 21.05 for an operation on Vlieland. Over Texel, the aircraft was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire at around 11.03pm. Squadron Leader William Dudley Winward made an emergency landing at high speed on the Amstel Lake. Kenneth Wood did not manage to get out of the plane. His body washed up in De Haukes harbour a few days later. After first being buried with military honours in Huisduinen, he was reburied in Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery after the war.

William Dudley Winward became unconscious in the crash and regained consciousness when the plane was on the bottom. He managed to swim to the surface and hoist himself into the dinghy. He was later towed away by a boat. The crash left him with a broken arm and a paralysed hand. He became a prisoner of war and survived the war.

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