Pilot Officer Charles Sewell Barrell was born in 1912, the son of Charles Sewell Barrell and Julia G. Barrell. His birth was registered in , Massachusetts, USA, but the family went on to reside in Massachusetts.
In 1940 he was training as a service pilot at the , in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, when he joined the , service number 102519. He was Pilot Officer attached to and was based at .Ìý
He died, aged 29 years, on 27 September 1941, when flying a Hurricane MkIIb aeroplane, serial number Z3335, he was turning to make a final approach to , when he collided with another Hurricane MKIIb, serial number Z3828, piloted by Pilot Officer Walter Gordon Soares. Both aeroplanes crashed near Anton Hill, Fowlmere, Royston, Cambridgeshire. Both pilots were killed and were buried in adjoining graves at , Dawney Hill, Pirbright, Surrey. His grave was , whilst that Pilot Officer Soares was Plot 21, Row A, Grave 1.
He was posthumously awarded the and is also commemorated on the .
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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