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04.01.1944 No. 544 Squadron Mosquito PR.IX MM232 Fl/Sgt. Maxwell Bartley

Operation: Reconnaissance

Date: 04th January 1944 (Tuesday)

Unit: No. 544 Squadron (16 Group - Coastal Command)

Type: Mosquito PR.IX

Serial: MM232

Code: Not used

Base: RAF Benson, Oxfordshire

Location: Dargies, Vallée du Planchon, France

Pilot: Fl/Sgt. Maxwell Logan Bartley NZ/415679 RNZAF Age 23. Killed

Nav: Fl/Sgt. Bertram Donald Perman 1227606 RAFVR PoW No: 269871 Camp: Stalag Muhlberg - Elbe (4B)

REASON FOR LOSS:

Taking off at 13:15 hrs from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire on a photographic reconnaissance operation over the St. Didier and Rheims are of Franc.

Understood to have been shot down by the Luftwaffe ace 30 year old, Major Klaus Quaet-Faslem (1) of Stab I/JG3. The pilot was killed but the navigator survived as a PoW.

At the rear right: Fl/Sgt. Maxwell Logan Bartley opposite him Ken Morrison, 2nd left, John Russell Mayo and on extreme right, Raymond Anthony Lindsay - who happened to be the only pilot shown here to survive the war. He passed away in 1991 age 70. (courtesy Jo Featherston - see credits)

(1) Killed on the 30th January 1944. Further details on Maj. Quaet-Faslem can be read on the Kracker archives data base within this site.

Burial details:

Fl/Sgt. Maxwell Logan Bartley. Poix-De-Picardie Churchyard. Row D. Grave 12. Born on the 12th June 1920, the son of Alva M. Bartley, and of Alice Bartley (née Creamer), of Auckland City, New Zealand. A total of 438 flying hours logged.

Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this crew with thanks to the research by Errol Martyn and his publications: “For Your Tomorrow Vols. 1-3”, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Weekly News of New Zealand, also to Jo Featherston whose relative Fl/Sgt. Kenneth Forbes Morrison served with this pilot. She runs a blog as shown here. Other sources as quoted below:

KTY - 19.03.2018

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Acknowledgements
Sources used by us in compiling Archive Reports include: Bill Chorley - 'Bomber Command Losses Vols. 1-9, plus ongoing revisions', Dr. Theo E.W. Boiten and Mr. Roderick J. Mackenzie - 'Nightfighter War Diaries Vols. 1 and 2', Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt - 'Bomber Command War Diaries', Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Tom Kracker - Kracker Luftwaffe Archives, Michel Beckers, Major Fred Paradie (RCAF) and MWO François Dutil (RCAF) - Paradie Archive (on this site), Jean Schadskaje, Major Jack O'Connor USAF (Retd.), Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak, Waldemar Wójcik and Józef Zieliński - 'Ku Czci Połeglyçh Lotnikow 1939-1945', Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses', Stan D. Bishop, John A. Hey MBE, Gerrie Franken and Maco Cillessen - Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces, Vols 1-6, Dr. Theo E.W. Boiton - Nachtjagd Combat Archives, Vols 1-13. Aircrew Remembered Databases and our own archives. We are grateful for the support and encouragement of CWGC, UK Imperial War Museum, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Archives, New Zealand National Archives, UK National Archives and Fold3 and countless dedicated friends and researchers across the world.
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