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BUSHELL, Peter

Personal Information
Rank F/O
Forename(s) Peter Douglas
Surname Bushell
Gender M
Age 25
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Date of death 07-04-1945
Next of kin Son of Neville and Margaret Gladys Bushell.
Aircraft Information
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Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country United Kingdom
Burial/Memorial Place Cannington Cemetery
Grave Reference Grave 1249..
Epitaph HIS LOVE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY, OUR LOSS A SILENT GRIEF
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 1
Panel Number 16
Enlistment information
Service Number 54204
Service Royal Air Force
Group 5
Squadron 83
Trade
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 07-04-1945
End Date 07-04-1945
Takeoff Station Coningsby
Day/Night raid Day
Operation
Reason for Loss On the 7th April 1945, aged 25 years, whilst on leave he was killed in Weston-super-Mare when the three wheeler car he was driving overturned. F/O Bushell was born in Barnet, London, but spent his Air Force leave periods with the family of his friend Mervyn Lye in Cannington. On the night of his death his squadron flew the last strategic bombing raid of the war on Tonsberg Oil Refinery, Norway.