Peter Popoff-Rikovsky

Sergeant Peter Popoff-Rikovsky was an airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War War.
He was born in Russia, the son of Feodor, a colonel in a Don Cossack regiment, and Patricia Popoff-RIkovsky. His parents were of Cossack extraction, and left the Soviet Union in 1924. He attended Dulwich College Preparatory School and Dulwich College itself before studying business methods and languages in France, Belgium, and Germany.Dulwich-College-War-Record-1939-1945, p. 249.
Popoff-Rikovsky, who had been planning to start a business, enlisted after the outbreak of war and was serving as an air gunner with 21 Operational Training Unit at the time of his death, aged 29. He died on 25 February 1943 when his Vickers Wellington was lost to unknown causes while on a flight to Gibraltar.Peter Popoff-Rikovsky, lincsbombercommandmemorial.com. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
The crew have no known grave and are commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
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==References==
*Popoff-Rikovsky, Peter, cwgc.org. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1943 deaths
Category:Russian military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial