229781 Terence Alfred Grosvenor Royal Air Force (d.13th June 1941) I hope someone may be able to help me? I have been tending the grave of a young flight sergeant called Terence Alfred Grosvenor who died on Friday 13th June 1941. He was a wireless operator and a gunner. His grave is near to my father-in-laws here on the Isle of Wight and is never visited. We have tried to find out what we could about this young man but there is little information about. To my knowledge he did not come from the Isle of Wight as there is no sign that anyone has visited the grave.
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Terence was the son of James Alfred Grosvenor and Constance Florence Grosvenor of Katihar, Bihar, India.
He was a member of the crew of a Wellington Bomber (No. R1708) which had been on a mission and was returning to base at Finningley. It was attacked by an enemy nightfighter - a Junkers JU88 - and the Wellington crashed near Misson at about 02.00 hours. The six-man crew were killed. The occurred close to the Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire border.
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