Bushell, Peter Douglas
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 |
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Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Memorial Stone & Inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | Commemorating 83 Sqn Lancaster, one of the Pathfinder Sqn's operating from RAF Wyton 1942 - 1945 |
Location | St. Michaels's Church, Coningsby, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Wooden Plaque & 83 Sqn Badge |
Memorial Text | This Chapel was furnished by members and friends of 83 Pathfinder Sqn and is dedicated to the memory of those airmen who lost their lives on flying operations from RAF Coningsby in WWII |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 07-04-1945 |
End Date | 07-04-1945 |
Takeoff Station | Coningsby |
Day/Night Raid | Day |
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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. |