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Badshaw, Eric

Date of birth:
July 10th, 1921 (Rochdale/Greater Manchester, England)
Date of death:
June 22nd, 1943 (Hoogwoud, Netherlands)
Buried on:
Commonwealth War Graves General Cemetery Bergen
Plot: 2. Row: D. Grave: 20.
Service number:
1083274
Nationality:
British

Biography

Sergeant
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
90 Sqdn.

Eric Bradshaw was a flight engineer and was only 22 years old.
On 21 June 1943 at 11.46 pm the Short Stirling took off in Cambridgeshire for an attack on Krefeld.
At 02:44 the Stirling was shot down by a German night fighter and crashed near Hoogwoud.

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