The Airmen's Stories - P/O F G Nightingale

Frederick George Nightingale joined the RAF in November 1934 as an Aircrafthand but later applied for pilot training and was selected. Nightingale was serving with 219 Squadron at Catterick in June 1940.

Commissioned in October, he was killed on 17th December 1940. His Beaufighter IF R2096 spun in at Smiths Green Farm on the approach to Debden. His radar operator, Sergeant GM Leslie, was also killed.

Nightingale was 26. He is buried in Saffron Walden Cemetery, Essex.