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Recovered 09.09.2024 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2196952/reginald-james-rider/
Flight Sergeant REGINALD JAMES RIDER
Service Number: 1196269
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death 01 October 1943 Age 30 years old
Buried MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY VI. G. 18. Tunisia
Son of James and Lilian Helena Alberta Rider, of Old Woking, Surrey.
Personal Inscription I THANK MY GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU
Recovered 09.09.2024 from https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=105974
Circumstances of Death: Raymond Walter Carreck 1449181, Brian Maurice Casson 1381280 and Reginald James Rider 1196269 were travelling in A Crossley transmitter van and trailer Number WD87037 along with 5 other Airmen when at 16:30 hours 600 yards from the fork of the Babaouch to Ain Draham road the lorry got out of control decending a steep hill and having reached 50 MPH on the second bend left the road and fell 100 feet into a ravine. The lorry and trailer were wrecked and Dawson and Carreck killed. Rider was admitted seriously Number 3 general Hospital along with the other Airmen all of whom were also injured where he died of his injuries
Served in 889 AMES