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on 13 July and that Nettleton’s was probably shot down in this encounter. The bodies of
him and his crew were never found. In February 1944 he was finally presumed dead.
He was survived by his parents and two sisters of Rondebosch, his wife, and his son
(posthumously). His son was born on 19 February 1944 and was christened John Dering in
memory of his father, and in the same church where his parents had married nineteen
months previously.
His name is inscribed on Panel 118, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK.
Sources: Cape Times 1942; The Illustrated London News 1942, 1943; Who Was Who
1940 – 1950; Grutter, W., 1973; Salt, B., 2001; Commonwealth War Graves Commission
website; www.thescale-info/news/publish/luftwaffe-fw190-10Z1.shtml.
Fig. 3.31: Charcoal on paper representation by an unknown artist in 1943 of Nettleton’s
attack on the M.A.N. factory. (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar)
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