Evening Telegraph, Thursday, 7th May 1942, transcribed by John Collins.
Reported Missing on His Birthday - Sad News for Young Wife
Recently Sergt. Philip Robert Abbas, of Rushden, wrote home to his wife saying that he was about to go on an operational flight – he believed over France. It would be his 23rd and he had only two more flights to make before he finished operational work. The next day, however, his young wife was informed that he was missing.
Sergt. Abbas, who is a wireless operator-air gunner, is an American by birth, came to Rushden as a boy, and is an old Wellingburian. When he left school he was for a time connected with an insurance business, and joined the R.A.F.V.R. a year last November.
He had been on operations since September, and in that month also he was married to Miss Betty Nicholson, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Nicholson, of Manton House, Griffith-street, Rushden.
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