Operation: Patrol, Dunkirk - Calais
Date: 31st May 1940 (Friday)
Unit: No. 264 Squadron
Type: Defiant I
Serial: L6968
Base: RAF Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Location: North Sea, Off De Panne, Belgium
Pilot: P/O. Guy Lewis Hickman 42225 RAF Age 19. Killed
W/Op/Air/Gnr: L.A.C. Alfred Fidler 743039 RAFVR Age 27. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Another disastrous day for 264 Squadron. During this patrol the squadron lost 5 aircraft with another damaged but landed at Manston and repairable.
Crew graves at Coxyde (Koksijde) Military Cemetery, Belgium (courtesy Johny Recour)
Burial Details:P/O. Guy Lewis Hickman. Coxyde (Koksijde) Military Cemetery, Belgium. Grave IV.M.16. Son of John Lewis Hickman and Elsie Kate Hickman, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England.
LAC. Alfred Fidler Coxyde (Koksijde) Military Cemetery, Belgium. Grave IV.M.15. Son of Alfred and Mary Fidler, husband of Dorothy Grace Fidler, of Godalming, Surrey, England.
Researched for relatives of the pilot with thanks to the following for further information, Johny Recour in Belgium, Peter Cornwell - 'Battle of France Then and Now', Norman L.R. Franks 'Fighter Command Losses' Vol. 1, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
KTY 26.07.2017 Map updated
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