Geoffery Brereton

Malpas Cemetery

Geoffery Brereton

Sergeant Pilot No. 518589

Royal Air Force. 56 O.T.U. 

Died on active service in Norfolk. 9 March 1942. Aged 27.

Buried in Malpas Cemetery. Grave 823 A.

Born in Chester, birth registered in Q4 1914, the son of Harold & Jane (Nee Roberts) Brereton.

The family were living in Hampton Green in 1939.

Jane Roberts (born 1888) married Harold Brereton.

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It is most likely that he was piloting Hurricane fighter P3739 which dived into the ground at Walpole St. Andrew, Norfolk having returned from a mission over France.