Flying Officer John Dawson Blencowe
RAF VR, 149 Squadron 135741
Killed in Action
Date of Birth: 19th of December 1914
Place of Birth: Lambeth, London
Date of Death: 24th of February 1944, aged 29
Buried: Runnymede Memorial, Panel 204
Awarded the Air Crew Europe Star, the 1939-45 Star, and the War Medal 1939-1945
Son of Captain Frederick John Blencowe and his wife Ethel Helen Blencowe and husband of Margaret E Blencowe nee Barrett.
In the 3rd quarter of 1939, John Dawson Blencowe married Margaret E Barrett at Lewisham, London.
In the 1939 register, John, Bank Clerk, and Margaret are living at 1, Paris End, Weald, Sevenoaks, Kent.
RAF
On Thursday, 24 February 1944, the aircraft of the 149 RAF squadron, took off for a mission to the Frisian Islands in the Netherlands from an airfield in or near Lakenheath.
One of the crew members was Flying Officer J D Blencowe. He departed for his mission at 17:11. He flew with a Short Stirling (type III, with serial EF307 and code OJ-E).
Short S.29 Stirling © IWM CH 16996
His mission and of the other crew members was planned for Friday, 25 February 1944, to bomb Kiel Harbour, a bay in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany and the islands of Denmark.
Short S.29 Stirling © IWM CH 11683
The aircraft did not return.
Flying Officer John Dawson Blencowe, RAF VR, 149 Squadron 135741
