Arthur Matthissen

Sergeant Arthur Robert Vilhelm Matthissen was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1917, in Barnet, the son of Danish-born Oscar Vilhelm, who was a company manager when naturalized in 1932,The London Gazette (33843), p. 4377. 5 July 1932, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2015. and Marie Matthissen (née Gaster).
Aged 25, Matthissen, serving as a wireless operator with 109 Squadron, died on 9 June 1942, when his Vickers Wellington (serial Z1048) crashed at Burdinne while engaged on an operation against Essen.Chorley, W.R. (1994), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses 1942, p. 123.
The six crew are buried in Burdinne Communal Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Matthissen, Arthur Robert Vilhelm, cwgc.org. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
Category:1917 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Danish descent
Category:Buried in Belgium
Category:Sergeants