• Operation Chastise (Dambusters Raid)

Date of birth:

August 9th, 1914 (Stoney Middleton/Derbyshire, United Kingdom)

Date of death:

September 23rd, 1943

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Reichswald Forest
Plot: 18. Row: A. Grave: 19.

Service number:

1265662

Nationality:

British

John Percival Nugent, born on August 9, 1914, in Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, was one of nine children. His family ran a shoe and boot business. He attended De La Salle College in Sheffield, commuting by tram.

After qualifying as a maths and music teacher at St Mary’s Training College, he taught in London before relocating to Brighton when his school was evacuated at the war’s start. He joined the RAF in 1940, training as a navigator in Canada before returning to England.
Assigned to 49 Squadron in February 1943, he flew his first mission on March 12. After his second operation, he was posted to 617 Squadron but remained with 49 Squadron for three more missions, including two over Berlin. Training for the Dams Raid took place near his childhood home at Ladybower Reservoir.

Following the Dams Raid, Nugent resumed operations, attacking Krefeld on June 21. He completed 14 more missions before being shot down by a night fighter near Offenbach on September 23, 1943.

Originally buried with his crew in Offenbach Cemetery, Nugent was later exhumed and reburied in Rheinberg War Cemetery.

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