Abdulgani Ydlibi

Pilot Officer Abdulgani Ydlibi was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1921, in Chorlton, the son of Syrian cotton broker Abdulgani and Gladys Ydlibi (née Partington).Ancestry.co.uk.Knowles, Oliver (2008), Back Seat Driver: Memories from the End of Empire, p. 16. Ydlibi studied at Mill Hill School, where he was a house prefect.The Book of Remembrance and War Record of Mill Hill School 1939-1945, p. 99.
Ydlibi was commissioned on 30 May 1942,The London Gazette (35615), p. 2880. 30 June 1942, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 26 April 2016. and served with 252 Squadron, which he had operated with as a sergeant.Shores, Christopher & Massimello, Giovanni (2014), A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume 2: North African Desert, February 1942 - March 1943. He died on 2 July 1942, when his Bristol Beaufighter was shot down by a German fighter after a strafing raid against Fuka Airfield in Egypt. The raid destroyed a number of German aircraft on the ground, but the three participating Beaufighters did not return.Twigs and Branches, rootstoyourpast.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
Along with his navigator Flight Sergeant Edward Spiller, he has no known grave and is commemorated by the Alamein Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Ydlibi, Abdulgani, cwgc.org. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
Category:1921 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Syrian descent
Category:British people of Turkish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Alamein Memorial
Category:Pilot Officers