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15.08.1940 No. 213 Squadron Hurricane I V7227 AK-C P/O. Maurice S.H.C. Buchin
Operation: Patrol
Date: 15th August 1940
Unit: No. 213 Squadron
Type: Hurricane I
Serial: V7227
Code: AK-C
Base: RAF Exeter.
Location: English Cannel off Portland.
Pilot: P/O. Maurice Simon Henri Charles Buchin 81626 RAFVR Age 34. Missing
REASON FOR LOSS:
On this day well over a hundred aircraft started to attack RAF fighter stations in the south and south east of England. During a patrol V227 was lost over Portland, no further details.


Just a few days previously also on a patrol but with P/O.
Jacques Philippart they each shot down a Ju88. Jacques, at this time an ace with 5 to his credit, was shot down and killed just 10 days later.
Burial details:
P/O. Maurice Simon Henri Charles Buchin. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 7. Next of Kin details currently not available - are you able to assist completion of these and any other information?
Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this crew with thanks to Josette Bens and Mr. Alain Rosseels from Belgium for further information and photographs, Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses' Vol. 1, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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 Captain 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', Andrew Mielnik: Archiwum - Polish Air Force Archive (on this site), Anna Krzystek, Tadeusz Krzystek - 'Polskie Siły Powietrzne w Wielkiej Brytanii', Franek Grabowski, Polish graves: https://niebieskaeskadra.pl/, PoW Museum Żagań, 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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