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Frederick Peter Hill

Squadron Leader · 60532 · United Kingdom

Died
31 March 1944
Fate
Killed in action

Biography

Not known

Photographs

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Squadron Leader Peter Hill, briefs crews of No. 51 Squadron RAF on the forthcoming raid to Nuremberg, Germany in the Operations Room at Snaith, Yorkshire. The Station Commander, Group Captain N H Fresson, sits third from the left in the front row. No. 51 Squadron lost six Handley Page Halifaxes that night (30/31 March 1944), suffering 35 men killed (including Sqn Ldr Hill) and seven made prisoners-of-war. Sqn Ldr Frederick Peter Hill (Service Number: 60532) is buried in Section 4, Row D, Grave 16 at Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany. GPS Location of the Cemetery is:- N 47° 46' 42" E 11° 44' 0.7"
ⓘ licence & creditClark N S (F/O), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH12598.jpgView source & full licence →

Burial / commemoration

Cemetery
Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany

Operations on this date. One raid in this archive was flown on the night of 31 March 1944: Operation Nuremberg raid. (Cross-reference by date — not in itself confirmation this airman flew it.)

748 others in this archive died on 31 March →

Timeline

Crew & operations

Flew as Pilot with No. 51 Squadron.

Crew: Frank Leonard Newstead (Other) · Alfred Peter Cummins (Other) · Kenneth Dadds (Other) · Eric Montague Buckingham (Other) · Frank Hobbs (Other) · Reginald Hartley Adams (Other)

Source: CWGC casualty record: HILL, FREDERICK PETER → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission