Kenneth Walter Holbrook
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Sergeant 908629
Parents: Gilbert Walter and Mabel Holbrook
Home address: 222 Charlton Road, Kingswood
Date of birth: 1920
Date of death: 09/11/1941
Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site. Commemorated at Alamein Memorial, Egypt. Not commemorated on a local memorial.
Age: 21
Further information:
Kenneth was the son of a senior office clerk. He enlisted in the RAFVR in 1940 and was killed during the North African Campaign (10 Jun 1940 – 16 May 1943) the following year. The Campaign was an allied victory but at a cost of 250,000 allied casualties. Kenneth's body was never found and the Air Forces panels of the Alamein Memorial where he is remembered, commemorate more than 3,000 airmen of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar, who have no known grave.
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/