| Name: WILLIAMS, ROBERT
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Air Gnr.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 44 Sqdn.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 01/05/1943
Service No: 974495
Additional information: Son of William and Annie Williams, of Glasgow.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 6. Row 1. Grave 7.
Cemetery: DALFSEN GENERAL CEMETERY
Lancaster ED783 (KM-F)
Mission to Essen 30/04 - 1/05/1943
Tookoff at 0025 from Waddington. Shot down by a night-fighter (Hptm Wolfgang Thimmig, 3/NJG1), crashing at 0320 at Rechteren (Overjissel), 13 km ESE of Zwolle, Holland. All are buried in Dalfsen General cemetery. The parents of Sgt Le Plage lived in Jersey
Sgt L J Ellis+
Sgt R LLe Page+
F/O W A Rollings RCAF+
Sgt J B Browne+
Sgt H C Ellis+
Sgt R Williams+
Sgt S S McClellan+
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