ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 159431
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| Date: | Saturday 23 December 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Avro Lancaster Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | PB683 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Off South Foreland, Kent -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Collided with PB678 on mission to Cologne, Germany. 3 MIA and three bodies washed ashore in the UK. The seventh body of Flight Lieutenant John Geoffrey Faulkner, navigator, washed ashore in France. He is buried in Hautot-sur-Mer, Seine-Maritime.
PB678 also seven fatalities.
Crew:-
Pilot: 149628 Fg Off George Simpson Lawson - Margate Cemetery Kent Section 50 Grave 16252 (NCO:1346158 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 14 September, 1943)
Flight Engineer: 1092752 Flt Sgt Albert Sutcliffe DFM - Runnymede Memorial Panel 222.
Navigator: 84712 Flt Lt John Geoffrey Faulkner - Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery M. 61 (NCO:747892 Commission Gazetted : Friday 04 October, 1940)
Bomb Aimer: 115788 Flt Lt Norman Brown - Eastbourne (Ocklynge) Cemetery Plot V Grave 287 (NCO:1100942 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 24 February, 1942)
Wireless Operator: 1231043 Flt Sgt John Seymore Winter - Runnymede Memorial Panel 223.
Air Gunner: 1595708 Sgt Alexander Stewart Fleming - Bathgate (Boghead) Cemetery Compartment B Grave 14.
Air Gunner: 1595759 Sgt Lawrence White - Runnymede Memorial Panel 223.
Sources:
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
http://www.crash-aerien.news/forum/ww2-t20465-9735.html
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Aug-2013 16:51 | JINX | Added |
| 11-Mar-2015 21:12 | harro | Updated [Narrative] |
| 04-Jun-2015 17:44 | Angel dick one | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |
| 24-Dec-2020 09:31 | gerard57 | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-May-2022 19:51 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 23-Dec-2023 08:30 | Rob Davis | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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