Date: June 12th 1943
Unit: No. 432 Squadron (Leaside Squadron)
Location: Skipton-On-Swales, Richmond
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Fl/Sgt. Donald Robert Kelly R.C.A.F. R/55516 Age; 21, Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Fl/Sgt Kelly was killed at the R.C.A.F. station in Yorkshire when he walked into a moving propeller of a Wellington. During an operation to Wuppertal, Germany on the 29th May 1943 he had shot down a German JU-88 aircraft and this action was confirmed the day before he was killed.
Burial Details:
Fl/Sgt. Donald Robert Kelly R.C.A.F. R/55516 Ripon Cemetery Sec. H. Grave. 370
Son of James and Myrtle E. Kelly, of Richmond, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Researched by David King (Aircrew Remembrance Society February 2009)
