KAILOFER

James

KEENE

George W

KEENE

Steven T H

KELLY

Thomas J

KERRY

Douglas W

KETLEY

Robert J

KETTELEY

Francis J

KING

Charles

KING

Charles L

KING

David R

KING

Leslie J

KING

Roylance S

KINSALLA

Patrick

KIRKLAND

Joseph J

KIRKNESS

Charles E

KIRKNESS

Donald J

KITCHENSIDE

Geoffrey C J

KITTS

Kenneth C

KNATCHBULL

Donald C

KNIGHT

Raymond

KRAMER

Marcus

Pilot Officer 77345, 600 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. A pharmacist from Thorpe Bay Essex, he was born in Bermondsey in 1911 and active in the local Jewish community, son of Mr and Mrs Emmanuel Kramer of 3, Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea. He joined the RAFVR in March 1939, and was commissioned in Feb. 1940. On May 10th 1940 he flew as gunner with PO R C Haine with 6 Blenheims on an attack on Rotterdam (Waalhaven) aerodrome, just captured by German paratroops that morning. After the attack they were shot down by 110’s but he evaded capture and was evacuated with his crew by the Royal Navy. He was awarded the DFC on 9th July 1940 [LG Issue 34892 published 9 July 1940. Page 13 of 78], but he was killed in action on 21st May 1941 with 29 Squadron, aged 29 years. Son of Emanuel and Rosie Kramer, of Thorpe Bay, Essex. M.P.S. His name is on the Runnymede memorial Panel 29. His AJEX card states that the Jewish Chaplains wrote to the father who replied that “his plane was seen to crash into the River Severn near Chepstow and his tunic was washed up almost immediately” and is therefore believed to be dead. Also that the “Times” reported his death on the 31st December 1941 first in a list of RAF casualties under "previously reported misisng beleived killed on active service, now presumed killed on active service" and then in a separate artilce "FALLEN OFFICES - ROYAL AIR FORCE":

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT MARCUS KRAMER, D.F.C., previously reported missing, believed kill;ed, now presumed killed on active service, was born at Bermondsey in 1911. He enlisted as an untrained air observer in the R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve in 1939, and was gazetted to a commisison in 1940. On July 8, 1940, as a pilot officer, he was awarded the D.F.C. for gallantry and devotion to duty during air operations.

In the 1911 census his mother Rosie (aged 23, married 4 years) and father Emanual Iaged 28, Wholesale draper) were living at 225 Southwark Park Road, Bermondsey, London SE.

Information supplied by Kees Stoutjesdijk, of the Dutch foundation called WO2GO, details of this crash are to be found on their website.

KING

James Samuel

Gunner 11264438, 227 A.A. Driver Training Regiment, Royal Artillery Gunner. Died 12 February 1942. Aged 32. Born Harrow, Middlesex, resident Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex. Attested 1941. Son of Samuel and Bertha Grace King, of Westcliff-on-Sea. In the 1939 Register he was born 15 May 1909, unmarried, a Confectionery Manufacturer (Sugar) Working Partner, resident with his parents at 63, Cotswold Road, Southend-On-Sea C.B., Essex. Buried in SOUTHEND-ON-SEA (SUTTON ROAD) CEMETERY, Essex. Plot R. Grave 12050.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1942:

KING James Samuel of 63 Cotswold-road Westcliff-on-Sea Essex died 11 February 1942 on war service Probate Llandudno 25 June to Bertha Grace King (wife of Samuel King).
Effects £484 15s. 2d.

Transcription and article from a Newspaper of the time:

KILLED IN TROOP
TRAIN TRAGEDY.

PARTNER IN WESTCLIFF FIRM.

One of those who lost their lives when a large steel plate sliced through a coach of a troop train full of soldiers at Beighton, near Sheffield, on Wednesday week, was a Westcliff resident, Mr. James Samuel King, 32 years of age, a gunner in the Royal Artillery. Mr. King, a partner in the Westcliff confectionery factory of Messrs. J. and S. King, of 488 and 505, London Road, was a single man and lived with his parents at 63, Cotswold Road, Westcliff.

Mr. King is to be buried at Sutton Road cemetery to-day (Thursday) at 12 noon.