John Donald Fieldman
Sergeant, 226 Squadron
Service no: 1375183
Died 7 Sep 1941
Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom
Age 19
John was born on 22 April 1922 at the Warrington Lodge Medical and Surgery home for Ladies, London to Poland born parents John Donald (Feldman), a coat manufacturer, and Esther nee Gluckstein and he was an only child. In 1925, when John was three years old, his thirty-seven year old mother died from septicaemia. His father remarried in 1928 to Evelyn Norah Connor.
In 1939, when John was seventeen he was living with his father and step-mother at 29 Roehampton Lane, Wandsworth and was listed as a student of wireless telegraphy. In August 1940, John enlisted at Euston, London into the RAFVR and started his training as a pilot.
In 1941, he was flying with 226 Squadron out of RAF Wattisham in Suffolk. John was the pilot on aircraft Blenheim IV Z7306 which departed Wattisham on 7 September 1941 at 11.30 on an anti-shipping patrol. Six aircraft from 226 Sqn and six aircraft from 110 Sqn took off with 110 Sqn heading north and 226 Sqn heading south. 110 Sqn returned to the airfield after no sightings. 226 Sqn encountered a heavily laden merchant vessel which was escorted by three flak ships. One of the flak ships was successfully bombed but John’s aircraft was hit by flak and then seen to crash into the sea Scheveningen, Netherlands. There were no survivors.
1168322, WOp/AG, John Herbert Carr, aged 21
932831, Observer, Frank Kent Phillips, aged 24. Only Frank’s body was recovered and he is buried in Hook of Holland General Cemetery, Netherlands.




