Date:	Saturday 14 April 1945
Time:	evening
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB377
MSN:	TL-K
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	- -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Graveley
Destination airport:	Potsdam

Narrative:
Abandoned after engine fire returning from mission to Potsdam. Took off from RAF Graveley at 1840. In the vicinity of the target an engine caught fire and, as ordered the crew commenced bailing out in the vicinity of Potsdam. With six departed, and preparing to make his own exit, Fg Off Bowen-Morris regained control and was able to reach Dutch air space at last, being obliged to take to his parachute and landed in Vorrsselaer Belguim.. Sgt Reynolds is commemorated on Panel 276 of the Runnymede Memorial. Twenty Four hours previous,the Lodon Gazette published details of Flt Sgt Meredith's award.

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Vryan Morris Bowen-Morris RAF 177580 (NCO:1381752 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 01 August, 1944)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant William Graham Reynolds RAFVR 1649222 [Killed]
Navigator : Flying Officer Raymond Herbert Harvey Dyer RAF 154634 (NCO:1621747 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 22 February, 1944) [PoW]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Charles S Gibbon RAF [PoW]
Wireless Operator : Flight Sergeant E G Silcock RAF [PoW]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Flight Sergeant J W Tover RAF [Evaded]
Rear Gunner : Flight Sergeant Edward George Meredith DFM RAFVR 1579462 [PoW]

SGLO database - https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T5566
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
http://www.bombercrew.com/35/dyers.htm
Aircraft losses from Graveley 1942-1945.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1945 Page 163.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
27-Aug-2013 06:13	JINX	Updated [Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative]
04-Jun-2015 17:39	Angel dick one	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
02-Jun-2016 18:45	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Jun-2022 11:38	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Country, Source]
14-Apr-2024 07:11	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]