Leading Aircraftsman Reginald Baden POWELL (1592134)
16 Service Flying Training School, Royal Canadian Air Force

Date of birth: 20th May 1912
Date of death: 5th August 1945

Died aged 33
Buried at Knox Presbyterian Church, Jarvis Cemetery, Soldier's Plot Grave 8
He was born at Canterbury on the 20th of May 1912 the son of Shirland Thomas Powell, saddler, and Bessie Jane (nee South) of 43 Whitstable Road, Canterbury.

He was educated at the King’s School Canterbury from January 1927 to December 1928.

In March 1930 he joined the civil service as a clerical assistant at the Department of Agriculture for Scotland and in March 1935 he transferred to the Air Ministry.

He was married in 1936 to Hilda (nee Knight) of 8 First Avenue, Garston, Watford in Hertfordshire.

He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was posted to Canada for pilot training in April 1945. He joined 16 Service Flying Training School based at Hagersville in Ontario where he was taken ill with diabetes mellitus on the 30th of July 1945. He was operated on the following day to drain pus but he died from diabetic acidosis a few days later. He was buried on the 7th of August 1945.

He is not currently commemorated on the war memorial at the King’s School Canterbury.
 

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