Order of Service for Memorial Service for Flight Sergeant Kenneth Rutherford

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Title

Order of Service for Memorial Service for Flight Sergeant Kenneth Rutherford

Description

Order of service for a memorial service conducted at sea. Head and shoulders photograph of Flight Sergeant Kenneth Rutherford, 935212, in uniform on the front cover together with 15 signatures ('Jacqui Whitehead' and 14 indecipherable). Border of the front cover created from numbers 218 (Rutherford's squadron number) and the squadron badge. Prayers on pages 2 and 3. Fourth page provides details of Rutherford's bomber and the operation when it was lost. 'Short Stirling Mk1 R9187 HA-A of 218 Squadron, Downham Market, Norfolk.' ' Shot down over the North Sea off the west Frisian Islands after a raid on the Bremer Vulkan Werft submarine building yard at Vegesack, North Bremen 23/24 September 1942.' The crew members are listed:
Squadron Leader Cuthbert Raymond DFC, pilot;
Flying Officer Philip Weller Gales, Observer;
Flying Officer Robert Butler, Air Gunner;
Flying Officer Arthur James Calvert, Air Gunner;
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Rutherford, Wireless Operator;
Sergeant Leonard Anthony Kelly DFM, Bomb Aimer;
Sergeant Henry Norman Pleass, Flight Engineer.
The border of page 4 composed of the squadron number and badge.

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Language

Type

Format

4 page printed document

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Identifier

SButlerR102576v20001-0001, SButlerR102576v20001-0002, SButlerR102576v20001-0003, SButlerR102576v20001-0004

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Citation

“Order of Service for Memorial Service for Flight Sergeant Kenneth Rutherford,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed November 8, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/47201.

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