Commonwealth War Grave Municipal Cemetery Kollum

At the Municipal Cemetery in Kollum is one Commonwealth War Grave.
This is the grave of:

Sergeant (Obs.) Kenneth Stoddart Preston, 1069569,
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reseve,
Killed at 06-06-1942.

On 5 June 1942 at 2350 departed from RAF Snaith, the Wellington X3279, with the mission: a bombing raid over the port of Emden. The aircraft was shot down over the Netherlands by the German night-fighter Oblt. Ludwig Becker 6./NJG2 and crashed down at 0047 into the Waddenzee. The entire crew died in the crash. One crew member is buried here, three are buried in Nes, Ameland, one in Jonkerbos, Nijmegen. The last crew member was never recovered.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.nl
• Photos: Klaas Graansma
• CHORLEY, W.R., RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, 1942, Ian Allan Publishing, 1998.
• MIDDLEBROOK, M. & EVERITT, C., The Bomber Command War Diaries, Midland Publishing, 2011.