Vivian Florent

Sergeant Vivian Bertram Florent was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1921, in Pancras, the son of Saint Lucian-born Napoleon, a theatrical actor who later worked with Paul Robeson,Bourne, Stephen (2005), Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television , pp. 33-4. and Frances Jewell Florent (née Rouse), of London. 
Florent, a flight engineer with 102 Squadron, died on 9 June 1944, when his Handley Page Halifax (serial LW140) crashed in bad weather at Home Farm, Seaton Ross, while returning from a minelaying operation.LW140, lostaircraft.com. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
He is buried in Pocklington Burial Ground.
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==References==
*Florent, Vivian Bertram, cwgc.org. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
Category:1921 births
Category:1944 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British people of Saint Lucian descent
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:Buried in England
Category:Sergeants