AR banner
Search Tips Advanced Search
Back to Top

• Kracker Archive
• Allied Losses
• Archiwum Polish
• Paradie Canadian
• RCAF
• RAAF
• RNZAF
• USA
• Searchable Lists

Info LogoAdd to or correct this story with a few clicks.
Archive Report: Allied Forces

Compiled from official National Archive and Service sources, contemporary press reports, personal logbooks, diaries and correspondence, reference books, other sources, and interviews.
Check our Research databases: Database List
.
We seek additional information and photographs. Please contact us via the Helpdesk.
303 squadron badge
11.09.1940 No. 303 Squadron Hurricane I V6667 RF-K F/O. Cebrzyński

Operation: Patrol (B of B)

Date: 11th September 1940

Unit: No. 303 Squadron (Polish)

Type: Hurricane I

Serial: V6667

Code: RF-K

Base: RAF Northolt, Middlesex.

Location: Pembury, Kent, England

Pilot: F/O. Arsen Cebrzyński P-1416 PAF Age 28. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

Taking off from RAF Northolt to intercept a large enemy force over Horsham. A huge air battle taking place over the Kent countryside. 

303 Squadron shot down, 4 x He 111's, 3 Do 215's, 3 x Me 110's with a further 7 x Me 109's.

 

Sadly the squadron also suffered casualties:

In addition to F/O. Cebrzyński they lost 24 year old Sgt. Stefan Wojtowicz who was shot down flying Hurricane I V7242 RF-B and killed at Westerham. Fl/Lt. Forbes was also hit and wounded, but managed to land his Hurricane V7465 RF-V at Heston.

F/O. Arsen Cebrzyński was shot down at Pembury following combat, South of London at 16:20 hrs. Managed to bale out but fell to his death. Reports that he died later on the 19th September are incorrect. (see notes)

                     



Burial Details:

F/O. Arsen Cebrzyński. Northwood Cemetery. Sec H. Grave 187. N.o.K. Details not available as yet. Born on 8th March 1918 in Batum, Georgia.

Researched for relatives of the pilot. With thanks to the following for further information supplied Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Polish Squadron O.R.B. 'website'. Winston G. Ramsey - 'Battle of Britain Then and Now'.


F/O. Arsen Cebrzyński's grave at Northwood.

Notes: With thanks to Richard King for corrected information on death of the pilot. Richard wrote the publication '303 (Polish) Squadron'. Published 2010 by Red Kite Books. ASBN: 978-1-906592-03-5. Available via Amazon and most leading booksellers. 303 (Polish) Squadron, RAF, was to emerge as the RAF's top-scoring unit of the Battle of Britain. This book tells its story during that fateful summer of 1940: from formation amidst political wrangling, though training against a background of official suspicion and distrust, to its entry into combat at a critical period in the Battle.

Pages of Outstanding Interest
History Airborne Forces •  Soviet Night Witches •  Bomber Command Memories •  Abbreviations •  Gardening Codenames
CWGC: Your Relative's Grave Explained •  USA Flygirls •  Axis Awards Descriptions •  'Lack Of Moral Fibre'
Concept of Colonial Discrimination  •  Unauthorised First Long Range Mustang Attack
RAAF Bomb Aimer Evades with Maquis •  SOE Heroine Nancy Wake •  Fane: Motor Racing PRU Legend
Acknowledgements
Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and MWO François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
Click any image to enlarge it

 Click to add your info via ticket on Helpdesk •Click to let us know via ticket on Helpdesk• Click to explore the entire site
If you would like to comment on this page, please do so via our Helpdesk. Use the Submit a Ticket option to send your comments. After review, our Editors will publish your comment below with your first name, but not your email address.

A word from the Editor: your contribution is important. We welcome your comments and information. Thanks in advance.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember them. - Laurence Binyon
All site material (except as noted elsewhere) is owned or managed by Aircrew Remembered and should not be used without prior permission.
© Aircrew Remembered 2012 - 2024 Last Modified: 10 May 2015, 15:32

Monitor Additions/Changes?Click to be informed of changes to this page. Create account for first monitor only, thereafter very fast. Click to close without creating monitor