McGREGOR, Keith Malcolm


913353, Sergeant(Observer), Keith Malcolm McGREGOR
Aged 20


101 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Killed in Action on Monday, 27th July 1942


"Mens afitat molem" - Mind over matter
Keith Malcolm McGREGOR was born 1921 (Woolwich Q3-1921 1D:2220), son of Sqn/Ldr Malcolm Kenneth and May McGREGOR (née EVANS) of Felixstowe.

In the 1939 register, none have so far been identified.,


On 27th July 1942, Vickers Wellington IIIC ser.no. BJ590, sqn id. SR-H took off from RAF Bourn, Cambridgeshire on a mission to Hamburg (ORB 954) and failed to return.

For this mission, (apparently their first together, all RAFVR) the crew was:-
Pilot - Sgt Donald Ernest RAYMOND; observer - Sgt Keith Malcolm McGREGOR; Observer - Sgt David Jon MILLER; W/Op/Air Gunner - Sgt Alexander LYLE and Air Gunner - Sgt Jack Stead JARVIS

Initially buried in Delmenhorst (on the SW suburbs of Bremen), they were re-interred in Becklingen on 21st August 1946.




Keith McGregor is buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany, joint grave 13:A:13-14

click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details


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