Loss Register
Day or Night of operation | Operation | Target | Nickname Aircraft | |||||
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25/26 Jun 43 | Bombing | Gelsenkirchen | ||||||
Factory | Aircraft | Mk | Serial/Wnr. | Code | Unit | Air Force | TO/t | Airfield |
Short | Stirling | III | BK768 | AA-L | 75 Sqdn | RAF | 2335 | Newmarket |
Time | Cause of the Crash | Crash Location | Damage | Province |
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0113 | Shot down by Oblt. W. Husemann of Stab NJG 1 | Crashed into IJsselmeer 3 km s of Hoorn | IJsselmeer |
Function | Mil Rank | Ini | Name | Age | Mil reg | Air Force | Fate | Cemetery | Grave | Remarks |
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Pilot | F/O. | W.R. | Perrott | 21 | NZ416155 | RNZAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 B 15 | Initially buried Urk |
Flight Engineer | Sgt. | W.W. | Hilditch | 23 | 611325 | RAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 153 | |
Navigator | F/Sgt. | G.D. | Thomson | 22 | NZ42317 | RNZAF | KIA | Harderwijk | 2 12 | Recovered from Ijsselmeer 4 Jul 43 |
Bomb Aimer | F/Sgt. | C.J. | Whitelaw | 22 | NZ416188 | RNZAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 199 | |
Wireless Operator | Sgt. | C.C. | Mould | 29 | 1314162 | RAF | MIA | Runnymede Memorial | 160 | |
Mid Upper Gunner | Sgt. | G.W. | Colyer | 19 | 1809432 | RAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 B 14 | Initially buried Urk |
Rear Gunner | Sgt. | H. | Squire | 31 | 1302829 | RAF | KIA | Amsterdam NOB | 69 B 14 | Initially buried Urk |
Wartime Records | Background Info |
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Operations Record Book | Chorley, ‘Bomber Command Losses 1943’, page 209; Boiten, ‘Nachtjagd Combat Archive June-September 1943’, page 15; Jansen, 'Wespennest Leeuwarden II', page 264 |
Version March, 2022