{"id":233,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2021-04-29T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T09:57:35","slug":"barnett-conrad-alfred-stanley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/barnett-conrad-alfred-stanley\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnett, Conrad Alfred Stanley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Conrad Alfred Stanley Barnett<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Navigator, 49 Squadron
Service number 1319045
Died 15 June 1943
Buried Renkum (Oosterbeek) General Cemetery
Age 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headstone Inscription
‘LOVE OVERCOMING DEATH’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conrad was born in 1923 in Paddington, the only child of Alfred and Margery n\u00e9e Krohn of Willesden, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was educated at Kilburn Grammar School and after leaving school he worked in munitions and was a volunteer messenger in the Willesden Civil Defence Service. He became a member of the Home Guard and ATC and joined the RAF aged 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His parents were heavily involved in the Willesden Civil Defence Service with Alfred being a post warden and Margery an ambulance driver. Alfred served in WW1 as a Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conrad was the navigator of Lancaster ED432 which departed from RAF Fiskerton on a night operation to Oberhausen. The aircraft was hit by flak and crashed near Arnhem killing six of the crew and two becoming prisoners of war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nav, Harry Biggin, 1430145
Pilot, George Stanley Cole, 1388306
A\/B, John William Deacon, 1535807
F\/E, John Perryer Harper, 572648
A\/G, Harry Robert Rhodes, 1038105
Nav, Conrad Alfred Stanley Barnett, 1319045<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Francis Arnold, 1331734, POW, Stalag Luft L1
John Henry David Bryan, 1387914, POW, Stalag 357<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n