Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- J A Weber -

Name

John Arthur Weber, or Arthur John Weber

Service details

Flight Sergeant (Pilot) 1169330 Arthur John Weber, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

CWGC record ...

His name is recorded on the Bembridge School War Memorial

Date of Death :	13th June 1943
Where buried or commemorated :	Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Aircraft :	Avro Lancaster Mk III ED472 of 50 Sqn RAF
Crew :
Pilot:	Flt/Sgt A J Weber	CWGC record ...
Flight Engineer:	Sgt M C Carter	CWGC record ...
Navigator:	P/O M R Felsen, RCAF	CWGC record ...
W. Op/Air Gnr.	Flt/Sgt F Norman	CWGC record ...
Air Gnr.	Flg/Off V W Ferguson, RNZAF	CWGC record ...
Air Gnr.	Sgt R C Kerley	CWGC record ...
Air Bomber	Flt/Sgt R Goldstraw	CWGC record ...

The aircraft took off at 22.03 hrs from RAF Skellingthorp for Ops on Bochum but was shot down by nightfighters (Oblt Dietrich Schmit of 8/NJG1) and crashed at 01.30 hrs at Ahaus where all the crew were buried. Subsequently, the crew's bodies were re-interred at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

Weber had been a pupil at Bembridge School.

Information provided by John Bloodworth