Prescott, A I
- Name on memorial: Prescott, A I
- Memorial panel: Centre
- Full name: Prescott, Albert Ivor
- Rank: Sergeant
- Service details: 1350917, 514 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
- Age at death: 22
- Date of death: 21/11/1944
- Birth place: Reading
- Parents: Albert Fred and Bertha Eva Prescott, of Banbury
- Mother's maiden name: Hazelwood
- Parents' marriage details: Warwick Jun-15
- Wife: unknown
- Wife's maiden name: unknown
- Marriage details: unknown
- Cemetery: REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
- Additional information: A I Prescott was killed when his Lancaster LM684 JI-C crashed during the Homberg Raid on 21st November 1944.LM684 was one of three 514 Sqdn Lancasters lost on this operation. See: NG121; PD265. Airborne 1245 from Waterbeach. Crashed 1 km NW of Moers. All were buried locally. They have been subsequently re-interred in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery. F/O R.F.Limbert DFC KIA, Sgt R.Scott KIA, F/O H.L.Hallam DFC KIA, F/O A.R.L.Lundie KIA, F/S D.Bolton KIA, Sgt A.I.Prescott KIA, Sgt C.Stepney KIA. Mr Simon Hepworth, whilst researching the death of his great-Uncle, F/S Gosnold, F/E of PD265 who was KIA on this operation, discovered an eye-witness from an adjacent aircraft who states that this aircraft was destroyed by its newly dropped 'cookie' being struck by another bomb and exploding underneath the aircraft.Source: LostBombers.co.uk
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