Flying Officer Henry William Gattiker was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 12 May 1916, in Hackney, the son of Swiss-born Heinrich Gottfried, who was a catering firm manager when naturalized in 1935,[1] and Bertha Elise Gattiker (née Overy), of London. In 1939, Gattiker was working as an aircraft draughtsman.[2] He was commissioned as a pilot officer on 24 November 1942,[3] and at the time of his death was a navigator with 21 Squadron.
Gattiker died on 22 June 1943 when his Lockheed Ventura (serial AE910) was brought down by flak on a raid against Abbeville-Drucat airfield.[4] He had married in 1941 to Brenda Annie Blackwell.
Gattiker and his four crewmates are buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension
Notes[]
- ↑ The London Gazette (34130, p. 839. 5 February 1935, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
- ↑ The London Gazette (35894), p. 704. 5 February 1943 thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ↑ Crash du Ventura - Mk.1 - s/n AE910 YH-Y (French), francecrashes39-45.net. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
References[]
- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Gattiker, Henry William, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 September 2015.