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Identity
Person No.
9031
Service No.
778193
Last Name
First Name
Kenneth Esler
Initials
K E
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Hampden Mk.I. AD868, lost over sea off French coast. He and his crew never returned from a bombing mission over Brest which was sent to try and destroy the German battleship, the Scharnhorst
Military Service
Rank
Sergeant
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

Son of Gordon Esler Hall and Helena Hall; husband of Joan Hall, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Ken was educated at Grey High School in Port Elizabeth and was a noted runner - he was South African half mile champion and represented South Africa at that distance in the USA in the 1930's. He worked for the Mobil Oil Company in Cape Town and was transferred to Rhodesian as a relief but stayed on. He was with RAF 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron and was in the last Hampden that was 'lost' before the squadron was equipped with the Lancaster bomber. There is an Unknown Airman found 22 December 1941 buried in CAMARET-SUR-MER COMMUNAL CEMETERY, same cemetery as Kaschula who was on same flight. There is a 1 in 3 chance this is Hall.

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