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Squadron Leader

 Kenneth Albert Wigglesworth (DFC)

 

 

 

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Career Details
Kenneth Wigglesworth served as a Sgt Pilot in 3 Squadron, which in 1941-2 was involved in night intruder sorties over Western Europe with Hurricanes. 

 

On 29 October 1943 the citation for the award of a DFC was published in the London Gazette on 29 October 1943, at which time he was listed as being an Acting Flight Lieutenant with 32 Squadron. This unit had been serving in North-West Africa with the Allied Coastal Air Force, undertaking coastal patrols and shipping escorts. 

 

By June 1944 he was a Flt Lt with 56 Squadron which was just in the midst of converting to Tempests.  With this unit he claimed 2 1/2 V-1 flying bombs.

 

In August he took command of 3 Squadron in the same Wing at Newchurch. In the early morning on 13 September 1944 during a ground attack sortie on a V-2 site in Holland, his Tempest JN818 was hit, and crashed near Den Haag. He was killed, and was buried in The Hague General Cemetery.

 

 

 Wigglesworth's victories in Tempest

 

Date of Claim

Type Claimed

Aircraft Serial No.

Location of Claim

Unit

7 July 1944

1/2 V-1

US-M (JN877)

 

56 Sqn

9 July 1944

V-1

US-M (JN877)

 

56 Sqn

19 July 1944

V-1

US-M (JN877)

 

56 Sqn

 

 

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Image:

Peter Wigglesworth

Text sources:

Peter Wigglesworth

Chris Thomas

Chris Shores

This page was last updated 13 October 2009.

 

 


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