Unteroffizier Kurt ERLACH
II Gruppe, Nachtjagdgeschwader 5 attached to Jagdfliegersammelgruppe, Luftwaffe

Date of birth: 8th February 1924
Date of death: 16th January 1945

Killed in action aged 20
Buried Unknown
He was born at Memel on the 8th of February 1924, the son of Kurt Erlach, merchant, and Gertrude (nee Wille) Erlach of 1, Park Road, Beckenham, later of 25, Sundridge Avenue, Sundridge Park, Bromley, Kent, and of Stallup?ner Allee 49, Stallup?nerstrasse, Charlottenburg, Berlin.

He was educated at the Abbey School, Beckenham and at King's School Canterbury where he was in Lattergate Waiting House and School House from May 1938 to April 1939.

He served with the night fighter squadron, II Gruppe, Nachtjagdgeschwader 5 and was later attached to the Jagdfliegersammelgruppe based at Quedlinburg, which was made up of men from the Luftwaffe who were awaiting reassignment to a new unit following the disbandment or destruction of their previous one.

He was killed some 500 metres to the south of the village of K?nnigde and 3 kilometres to the southeast of Bismark.

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

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