Frederick Fortune
Memorial: Chipping Sodbury - School
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) 145670
Parents: James George and Beatrice Alice Fortune
Home address: Home Address: Patch Elm Lane, Rangeworthy. Lived: Police section house Poplar London.
Pre-war occupation: Metropolitan Police Constable
Date of birth: 02/12/1918
Date of death: 14/05/1945
Buried/Commemorated at: Gauhati (Guwahati) War Cemetery (4.F.13.), India
Age: 26
Further information:
45 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Frederick and his navigator Gordon Lauder were killed whilst he was piloting a Harvard 11B training aircraft that had taken off from Chiringa airport on the Burma border. He was performing a low inverted manoeuvre and crashed on a tea estate in Assam.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/