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.
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.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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