George John Wood

An Aircraftman 2nd Class with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, George died on 16th of December 1943 aged 20. 

George was born at Lowestoft on 20 August 1923, a son of Thomas Robert Vere and Margaret Elizabeth Wood. In 1929 his family lived at 130 Denmark Road and George was a bus depot storekeeper. 

George enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer reserve after December 1941. In December 1942 he was at 20 Service Flying Training School in Southern Rhodesia undergoing pilot training.  

On 16 December 1943 George was on a training flight from Cranborne, Rhodesia, in a Harvard I aircraft, number P5954. His aircraft crashed about 35 miles from Marandellas.  

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass