Crouch,+Kenneth

CROUCH, Kenneth John Warrant Officer, Navigator, 1430701, Royal Air Force, 3rd T.A.F. No 221 Group Communication Flight, Sulegon, Burma. Only son of Mrs F. Crouch, 16 Sunnyhill Grove, Keighley. Died 24 July 1945 in Expeditor aircraft, serial No KJ 552. ferrying army personell (2 Colonels, 1 Lt/Col and 2 Captains on a "Special Mission" Crashed in bad weather at Palam, Burma. He had been in the RAF for four years, and all of which he had served abroad apart for eight weeks. He did his flying training in Rhodesia, prior to which he was employed by Keighley Lifts. He was one of the first to join the Keighley air cadets See Keighley News, 18 Aug 1945 (Photo) Commemorated on the Keighley WW2 plate, The Ingrow (St. Johns) Memorial and the St. Andrews (Parish Church) Memorial. All seven in the aircraft were killed and are interred in :- Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar, (Burma), Collective Grave, 26 - E - 18 to 24