| Flight Sergeant
Alfred Baker was serving as Flight Engineer on board
Lancaster MK.I ME-723 coded PG-Z for a daylight operation to
Munchen on April 25, 1944. The aircraft departed from Dunholme
Lodge at 2055hrs but was lost to enemy flak and crashed at
0144, 3km south of the Speichersee at Ascheim. The crew was
initially buried there but were later re-interred at Durnbach
War Cemetery in 1948. The rest of the crew were:
|
Name |
Service |
Trade |
Hometown |
Age |
|
P/O Derek
Schofield - DFM |
RAFVR |
Pilot |
Birkby,
Huddersfield |
22 |
|
Sgt James Durkin |
RAFVR |
M/U Gunner |
Seacliffe,
Whitehaven, Cumbria |
21 |
|
F/Sgt Roy
Withinshaw |
RAFVR |
Navigator |
Hartshill,
Stoke on Trent |
27 |
|
Sgt
Derrick Golding |
RAFVR |
W/Op/AG |
Lyndhurst,
Hampshire |
21 |
|
F/Sgt
Edward Brunt |
RAFVR |
Bomb Aimer |
- |
- |
|
P/O Eric
Powell |
RAFVR |
Rear Gunner |
Ripponden,Yorkshire |
24 |
Alfred Baker RAFVR was the
third eldest son of Alfred and Mary Alice Baker of Blackburn,
Lancashire. He worked as a printer for the Lancashire
Telegraph newpaper prior to the war and was aged 21 at the
time of his death.
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