Frant Seda

FRANT SEDA

Frant Seda was a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.

Service No: 787666

Formerly from Czechoslovakia he had recently been married to Joan Malthoff from Thorpe Bay, Essex, although they were planning to move to East Tilbury at the first opportunity.

Before the war Frant Seda was a pilot employed by the Bata Shoe Company at Zlin. At the time of the Munich agreement, in company with another Bata Pilot, he had flown to Gravesend with two Zlin twelves, light aircraft turned out at the Company’s Zlin factory.

Frant died on Tuesday 12th August 1941, aged 26.

He was killed whilst flying in Master I, T8378 of No 9 Service Flying Training School, which crashed after colliding with an Oxford during a training flight.

Frant Seda’s Grave in Chippenham (London Road) Cemetery.