Operation: Circus 8
Date: 16th April 1941 (Wednesday)
Unit: No. 303 Squadron (Polish)
Type: Spitfire IIa
Serial: P7819
Code: RF-S
Base: RAF Northolt, Middlesex
Location: Near Dungeness, Kent
Pilot: P/O Bogusław Mierzwa P-1389 PAF Age 23 Killed
New Memorial planned - we need your assistance - see link for Dungeness. We would also like any relative of the pilot to contact us with any further information / photographs.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Providing close cover to bombers on a raid to Berck-sur-Mer engaged Bf109’s of JG53 over the Channel and shot down.
Left: Grave of P/O Boguslaw Mierzwa at Northwood Cemetery - taken during a visit by Aircrew Remembered, July 2013. (High resolution photo of the grave is available to relatives)
Sadly, in January 2015 we have been informed that the memorial placed, is in a very bad state of repair - efforts are underway to build a similar memorial in a more visible area. Funds are of course needed for this and we would appreciate your help with these efforts. Aircrew Remembered have provided a donation.
(1) Wictor Stanislaw Strzembosz was killed just 3 months later on the 8th July 1941 in Spitfire IIb P8669 RF-M over Dunkirk, France. Buried at Merville.
Burial details:
P/O Boguslaw Mierzwa. Northwood Cemetery. Section H. Grave 290. NoK details currently not available - are you able to assist completion of these and any other information? Joined 303 Squadron 21 August 1940 - moved to No.5 Operational Training Unit 2nd September 1940, rejoining 303 Squadron 27 September 1940.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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