410508 - Unaccounted airmen - 8-5-1941

[Nick Cooper]

AC1 Kenneth RENNARDSON - 1018950 - the Hull Daily Mail of May 15th 1941 carried the following announcement:

RENNARDSON - Kenneth, RA.F., by enemy action, aged 24 years, second son of Percy (Bert), and loving brother of Edna, Harry (R.A.F.), Wilf (R.N.), Vera, Arthur and Jean.

The death certificate states Rennardson died at Beverley Road Hospital, Hull, on 8 May 1941. There was a very heavy air raid on Hull on 7/8 May, and another the following night. He was probably injured on the first night; cause of death the ubiquitous "war operations."

[jonheyworth]

Robert John Perkins 754061 , attached to 17 OTU was seriously injured when Blenheim V9732 crashed at Childerley Hall, Cambridge on 10th April 1941. He was admitted to Addenbrooks hospital where he died of his injuries

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Rennardson 1018950 , attached to RAF Duxford, was seriously injured whilst at home on leave in an air raid on Hull on 7th May, admitted to Beverley road hospital, he died of His injuries the following day

[jonheyworth]

Frank Leslie Pennock 531518 , was accidently drowned at Tel Aviv

[jonheyworth]

Mark Jordan 543264 | attached to 56 OTU | was admitted seriously ill to the EMS hospital Holbeach on 28 April, becoming dangerously ill on 4 May, dying of encephalitis lethargica

[jonheyworth]

Harry Jackson 1104629 | attached to RAF Wittering | Was killed at the station in an air raid at 01:45 Hours