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Robert Louis Nathaniel Simmons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pilot, 57 Squadron
Service number 1378726
Died 6 January 1942
Buried Feltwell (St. Nicholas) Churchyard
Age 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert was born in 1923 in Marylebone, London to Myer King and Elizabeth n\u00e9e Benjamin and he had a younger sister Rose. Robert’s father Myer owned a gents tailor shop in Paddington and in 1939 the family were living at Flat 3, Aberdeen Court, Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert was the pilot of Wellington Z1096 which departed RAF Feltwell Took off from RAF Feltwell at 05:20 hrs to bomb Brest. It crashed at Holmebrink Farm near Methwold. The aircraft was totally destroyed after a fire broke out on impact. A local farmer Mr Thorpe, despite the danger, dragged Plt Off S G Cater from the flames and wreckage with the help of others. They then placed him in a cattle trough full of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the crew were killed.
Flt Lt Douglas Roy Richardson, RCAF
Sgt Eric Ewings
Sgt Victor Haig Mountstephens
Sgt Lawrence Joseph Row
Plt Off S G Carter – Injured<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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