| Surname: | Wells |
| Initials: | K G |
| Rank: | Captain |
| Army Number: | 174992 |
| Notes: | Provost Officer. Royal Fusiliers. 28/10/1943 to 6 Airborne Div Pro Coy. London Gazette 35103, 1496, 12/3/1941 the undermentioned Cadet to be 2/Lt. Kenneth Griffin Wells (174992). London Gazette 35464, 889, 24/2/1942. Reconnaissance Corps. The undermentioned 2/Lt. to be 2/Lt retaining present seniority 11/7/1941. From Royal Fusiliers K G Wells (174992). London Gazette 35776, 4863, 10/11/1942. Royal Fusiliers, War Subs. Lt. K G Wells (174992) from Recce. Corps, to be War Subs. Lt. 28/10/1942, retaining his present seniority. (Substituted for notifn. in Gazette (Supplement) dated 30/10/1942. 6 Airborne Div Pro Coy War Diary WO 171/4168. 13/3/1945 Capt K G Wells flew to France to visit Land Elements of the unit. 14/3/1945 returned and landed at Redhill. 23/3/1945 Bree, 14.30 hrs Capt. K G Wells proceeded to Geldern area to recce Nutcracker marshalling area. War Diary 6 Airborne Div Pro Coy, WO 171/4168. 12/3/42, 14.00 hrs Capt K G Wells, RSM Bird and 15 NCO's emplaned at Netheravon to make a parachute descent on the Div. DZ. No.12 had a faulty D ring and was unhooked and placed in the forward compartment and ordered not to jump. No'1 to 14 inclusive, jumped successfully, No. 15 (L/Cpl Phillips) jumped and was caught on the tail wheel after his parachute had left the bag and static line, No's 16 & 17, Capt K G Wells and RSM Bird stopped jumping and remained in the aircraft. We drew in the strops, static lines and bags, undid the floor strong point and removed all strops, 10 were joined together and a kit-bag secured to the overhead stray point and the kit-bag lowered away, this did not reach the man, a further three strops were added and the end secured to the floor strong-point and again lowered away. This time L/cpl Phillips managed to grab the strops and sit astride the kit bag whilst he was pulled up to the aircraft. It took 20 minutes to get him to the bottom edge of the door., Another two strops were secured to the aft strong-point, passed over the overhead strop cable and secured to the man's shoulder harness; he was brought partially into the aircraft, the remainder of the way he was brought in by hand. Kenneth Griffin Wells. |
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