North Sea

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 1915LT on an operation to Cologne. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
S/Lt J. Hobbs, pilot,
F/Sgt D. D. Baird,
P/O A. H. Cunningham,
F/Sgt A. Sayner,
F/O R. S. Longuet, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton in the evening of October 13 on an operation to Kiel. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Donald Phillips Scott, pilot,
Sgt Richard Thomas Barber,
Sgt James Jeffrey Barton,
F/Sgt Edwin Robert Bergquist,
F/O William James Hedley,
Sgt Robert Pierpoint,
Sgt Alan Alfred Walker, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 1753LT on an operation to Wismar. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Richard Frederick Elliott, pilot,
F/Sgt John Kennedy Cullen,
Sgt Alexander Rae Hendrie,
Sgt Gordon Hodge,
F/O John William Beresford Horne,
P/O Graeme Lonarch Laidlaw,
F/Sgt William Charles Henry Ross.

The airplane departed RAF Croft at 1819LT on October 5 on an operation to Aachen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace. The crew probably encountered poor weather conditions over the sea.
Crew:
Sgt K. E. Crewe,
Sgt R. Doherty,
Sgt George Erwin Robson,
Sgt J. H. G. Shaw,
Sgt S. A. Palmer.

The airplane departed RAF Melbourne at 1756LT on an operation to Flensburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O J. L. Jones,
Sgt R. Q. Stevens,
Sgt M. A. Pickering,
Sgt R. C. Prior,
F/Sgt A. McK. Mowbray,
Sgt K. R. Curran,
Sgt S. C. Carter.

The airplane departed RAF Lakenheath at 1928LT on September 29 on a mine laying operation in the Nectarines area. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Stuart Daniel Wells, pilot,
Sgt Edward George Souter, flight engineer,
Sgt Max Hilton Elliott, navigator,
Sgt Eric Harold Cecil Phillips, wireless operator,
W/O Lawrence Joseph Tighe, wireless operator,
Sgt Robert Bernard Lovett Flint, air gunner,
F/Sgt Gerald Finnbarr McHugh, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Wickenby at 1930LT on a mine laying operation. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Jack Stratford Ward, pilot,
Sgt Jack Bruce Harden, navigator,
Sgt Harold Classen Thompson, bomb aimer,
Sgt Alwyn Charles Rich, wireless operator,
Sgt Phillip Rossiter Mitchell, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Graveley at 1902LT on a mine laying operation. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea off Friesland, Netherlands. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Leslie Arthur Seamark, pilot,
Sgt Richard Lind, navigator,
Sgt Alfred Trewin, wireless operator,
Sgt Nial Thurlow Byrne, air gunner,
Sgt William John Godly, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Stradishall in the evening of September 21 on a mine laying operation. It failed to return to base and is believed to have been shot down by a German fighter and to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Derek Henry Evans,
F/Sgt Russel Quince Leatherman,
F/Sgt William Bradley Martin,
F/Sgt Robert Elmer Paudash,
Sgt Douglas Thomson Simpson.

The airplane departed RAF Stradishall in the evening of September 21 on a mine laying operation. It failed to return to base and is believed to have been shot down by a German fighter and to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Hedley Maurice Hawkins,
F/Sgt John Rimmer,
F/Sgt Joseph Eli Rodgers,
Sgt John Sanderson Sagar,
F/Sgt Whitby Shankland.