Twelfth Generation

561. Arthur Clarence BLABER^1056,3710 was born about 1912 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.³⁷¹¹ He was christened on 14 April 1912 at St Dunstan's Church in Cranbrook, Kent, England.³⁷¹² He served in the Royal Air Force World War 2.^3710,3713 He was an Air Gunner in the RAF Voluntary Reserves. Sergeant 1165342, 9th Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. CWGC states he was aged 31 at death.
Arthur died on 25 February 1943 at the age of 31 in Mediterranean Sea.^3710,3713 His plane was shot down and crashed NE of Traunfeld after being hit by flak over the target and caught fire during World War 2. He was a rear-gunner in an Avro Lancaster III, Serial Number ED495 with markings WS-Y. They took off from Waddington RAF Station on a night raid to Nürnberg.
He is named in the walls of remembrance of the War Memorial, Panel 142, Memorial ID: 15245696 at Runnymede, Surrey, England.

Arthur Clarence BLABER and Doris Catherine PLATTS were married about 1934 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England.³⁷¹⁴ Doris Catherine PLATTS³⁷¹⁰, daughter of Frederick Edgar PLATTS and Ada Jane Adelaide JONES, was born on 21 September 1904 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England.^{3715,3716,3717} She lived at 108 Longstone Road in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England in April 1911.³⁷¹⁸ She lived at 39a Seaside Road in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England in 1939.³⁷¹⁹ At the 1939 Register Doris was living with her disabled parents, Frederick and Ada PLATTS and brother, Franklin.
Doris lived at home in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1943.³⁷¹⁰ She died in 1987 at the age of 83 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England.³⁷¹⁵