Former cadet of the Air Training Corps - 296th (Stoke Newington) Squadron. Died in WW2.
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Martin Goodwin, aged 21 (Bomb-Aimer) killed in bombing raid over Stetin, Germany.
The line above, using "Goodwin" is from the laminated sign attached to one of the trees planted near the bronze plaque which names this man as Kenneth Martin Goodman.
Kenneth Martin Goodman's birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1923 in Hackney. He was the son and second child of Ernest William Goodman (1894-1946) and Ada Goodman née Stanton (b.1895). His father was a decorator and painter. His elder sister was Madge K. Goodman (1919-1990).
Electoral registers from 1923 to 1925 show the family living at 65 Allen Road, South Hackney and in 1926 they were living with his maternal grandparents at 73 Church Road, N1. The registers from 1929 to 1936 confirm that the family was residing at 69 Church Road, N1, and they were still there in 1937 but the name of the road had been changed by the local council so they were shown at 69 Northchurch Road, N1. From 1938 they family is shown at 110 Shacklewell Lane, Hackney.
He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, service number 1398590, gaining the rank of Sergeant and was attached to No.514 Squadron when on 29 August 1944 he was the bomb aimer aboard an Avro Lancaster III aeroplane, serial number PB143, marking JI-B, when it took off at 21.05 hours from RAF Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire to bomb Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). It was attacked at 00.12 hours on 30 August 1944 by Oblt. Fritz Brandt (Stab11./NJG3) at a height of 5,900 feet in the Strommes area. It turned for home but crashed on the coast at Estruplund, East Jutland, Denmark and exploded. There were no survivors. The wireless operator had jumped from the aircraft before it crashed, but drowned and was buried in Germany. The bodies of the remaining six crew members were buried together in the Estrupland Churchyard.
A few facts are wrong on the laminated plaque: he was not a Flight Sergeant, just a Sergeant; Stettin is spelt incorrectly as Stetin; although his aeroplane departed on 29/8/1944 he did not die until 30/8/1944 and his name was definitely Goodman not Goodwin. A lot of interesting info at Airmen.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan
