Warboys AFB

The crew was performing a training sortie from RAF Warboys. While cruising at low altitude in poor visibility, the twin engine aircraft hit the slope of Mt Rushup Edge located southwest of Edale. The aircraft was destroyed and all four crew members were injured.
Crew (PFNT):
F/Lt Brian Gipson, pilot,
F/Lt Douglas Ivor Jones, copilot,
F/Lt William John Barclay, navigator,
F/O Victor Percival Skone-Rees, bomber.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2121LT on April 17 on an operation to La Spezia. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea, probably off the French coast. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Godfrey Storian Cooper, pilot,
Sgt Ronald Harrison, flight engineer,
Sgt Kenneth Coulson,
Sgt David Roy Edwards,
F/Sgt Neil Owen Robinson,
Sgt James Jardine Vaulkhard,
Sgt Alban Kenneth Eley, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2126LT on April 16 on an operation to Plzeň. The following night, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Brimont. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Harald Roy Andersen, pilot,
Sgt Patrick Langston Brougham-Faddy, flight engineer,
P/O Kenneth Winchcombe Bordycott, navigator,
Sgt Bernard Hamilton Gooding, navigator,
P/O Frederick Smith, wireless operator,
Sgt John Thomas Stephens, air gunner,
F/Sgt William Oldfield Woolnough, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2125LT on April 16 on an operation to Plzeň. While returning to base the following night, it crashed in unknown circumstances in Aigny, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
P/O Hugh Bernard Gonce, pilot,
Sgt Murdo Mckenzie Muirhead, flight engineer,
Sgt John Gordon Kennedy Dean, navigator,
P/O Michael Cyriates Anastassiades, bomb aimer,
Sgt Harry Dawson Rowe, wireless operator,
Sgt James Boyd, air gunner,
F/Sgt Louie Elmo Corley, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2142LT on an operation to Duisburg. It was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Volkhoven, 10 km northwest of Cologne. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Robert Graham Younger, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Musgrave White, flight engineer,
Sgt Newman G. Stopford, navigator,
P/O Noel Ferguson, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Roderick Henry Flett, wireless operator,
F/Sgt James Pearce Massey Grace, air gunner,
Sgt Albert James Jackson, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2042LT on an operation to Kiel. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Sarlhusen, 39 km southwest of Kiel. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Cecil Harold Davies, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth William Taylor, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Jack Arthur Holderness, navigator,
F/Sgt Edward Thomas McHugh, navigator,
F/Sgt Alfred Rixon, wireless operator,
Sgt Albert Ronald Baker, air gunner,
Sgt Philip Jack William Grimwood, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2024LT on an operation to Kiel. Over the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Rosenfeld, two km east of Schwentinental. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/L Brian Grimston, pilot,
F/O Karl Girrbach, pilot,
Sgt Thomas John Woodward, flight engineer,
F/O Alfred Beazley Marsh, navigator,
P/O Stewart James Volante, bomb aimer,
P/O Albert Leonard Stanley Portch, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Kevin Robert Hazelwood, air gunner,
W/O Graham Campbell Stafford, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 1948LT on April 3 on an operation to Essen. Shortly after midnight, while returning to base following an uneventful mission and while overflying The Netherlands at night, the airplane was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the Waddenzee, some 15 km east of Texel. All seven crew members were killed. Few debris of the aircraft were found in 1989.
Crew (156th Squadron):
F/Sgt Reginald Anderson Byass, pilot,
Sgt Gilbert Robert Minns, flight engineer,
F/O Gregory James Black, observer,
Sgt Norman Ray Thurecht, bomb aimer,
Sgt Russell Seymour Trigwell, wireless operator,
Sgt Donald Lawrence Robertson, air gunner,
Sgt Stanley Edward Crooks, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2025LT on an operation to Berlin. It crashed in unknown circumstances near the hamlet of Döberitz, east of Premnitz. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Reginald John Wallis, pilot,
Sgt Alexander Mackenzie, flight engineer,
F/Sgt John Goodwillie Shepherd, navigator,
Sgt Frederick James Walder, navigator,
Sgt Urien Thomas, wireless operator,
W/O Gordon Thomas Hillman, air gunner,
Sgt Stanley Poole, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2108LT on an operation to Munich. Outbound, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in a wooded area located in Hofstätten, some 19 km southeast of Kaiserslautern. Six crew members were killed and one became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Leslie Grahame Goodley, pilot, †
Sgt Richard George Riley, flight engineer, †
P/O James Burdett Thompson, observer, †
S/L William Arthur Coleman Ball, navigator, †
P/O Leslie Jones, wireless operator,
F/Lt Christopher David Gilliat, air gunner, †
P/O Gerard Percy, air gunner. †