Colin Frederick Penfold

Flight Lieutenant [Pilot]

DFC

Awards

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Frederick Cuthbert and Lucie Rosina Hartelow Penfold, of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand; husband of Shirley G. M. Penfold, of Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

We are not having much luck this this headstone! On our first visit - missing. On the second, some 4 years later, a wrong insignia has him posted to the Royal Field Artillery.

Better luck next time.

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Casualty

Service Number:

414335

Name:

Colin Frederick Penfold

Rank:

Flight Lieutenant

Additional Rank:

Pilot

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force, 640 (RAF) Squadron

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Not known

Date of Death:

23 April 1944

Day of Death:

Sunday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

Plot KK. Grave 44.

Cemetery Location:

Netherlands