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Pilot Officer Robert Davies
was serving as Second Pilot Halifax Mk.BIII MZ687 coded PT-L during an
operation to Kiel on August 16, 1944. The aircraft departed Tholthorpe at
2101hrs but failed to return as it at some point crashed into the North Sea.
Seven of the eight men aboard perished, including P/O Robert Davies.
The
crew consisted of:
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Name |
Service |
Trade |
Hometown |
Age |
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F/O Gordon Pritchard |
RCAF |
Pilot |
Ottawa, Ontario |
20 |
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P/O Robert Davies |
RCAF |
2nd Pilot |
Okotoks, Alberta |
20 |
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Sgt E. Proud - POW |
RAFVR |
Flight Engineer |
- |
- |
|
F/O Francis Moffit |
RCAF |
Navigator |
Ottawa, Ontario |
- |
|
F/O Dalton Block |
RCAF |
Bomb Aimer |
Waterloo, Ontario |
20 |
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W/O2 Dennnis Lorenz |
RCAF |
W/Op/AG |
Brantford, Ontario |
26 |
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P/O Kenneth Boucock |
RCAF |
M/U Gunner |
Merritton, Ontario |
19 |
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F/O Antonio Roski |
RCAF |
Rear Gunner |
- |
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Two of the crew, F/O Moffit and W/O2
Lorenz , were recovered and buried in the Kiel War Cemetery. P/O Robert
Davies is commemorates on the Runnymede Memorial and has no known grave
along with the remaining crew members that were lost.
Sgt E. Proud was rescued from the
North Sea two days after the crash (this would suggest that the aircraft
ditched) and taken prisoner.
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