Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Ian Alan Mead -

Name

Ian Alan Mead, son of Robert and Muriel Mead; wife of Doreen Winnie Mead, of Bembridge
 
Biography

Flt/Lt (Pilot) 33157 Ian Alan Mead, Royal Air Force

CWGC record ...

Further information

Flt/Lt Mead's name does not appear on any Isle of Wight War Memorials.

Date of Death :	Died 2nd June 1941 Aged 24
Where buried or commemorated :	Air Forces Memorial Runnymede Panel 29
Aircraft :	Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV L9192 WV-Q of 18 Sqn.
Crew
Pilot :	Flt/Lt I A Mead	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt W F Richards	CWGC record ...

The aircraft took off from RAF Oulton at 19.02 hrs for operations in the Kiel Canal area. The aircraft was believed to have been shot down 160km west of Texel by Ofw. Karl Munz of 2JG52. Both crewmen died.

Information provided by John Bloodworth