Operation: Intruder operation on enemy troops, France
Date: 19th May 1940 (Sunday)
Unit: No. 150 Squadron
Type: Fairey Battle MkI
Serial: P5235
Code: JN-H
Base: Pouan France
Location: near ‘Chêne Tonneau’ at Barby 3 miles West of Rethel France
Pilot: P/O. David Ernest Thomas Osment 40742 RAF PoW No: 506 Camp: Stalag Luft Sagan and Bellaria
Obs: Sgt. G.W. Clifford 524803 RAFVR PoW No: 13058 Camp: Stalag Kopernikus
Air/Gnr: AC1 W.G. Slade 616565 RAFVR PoW No: 13093 Camp: Stalag Kopernikus
REASON FOR LOSS:
P/O. David Osment’s aircraft was badly damaged in action on an enemy armour patrol north of the Aisne west of Rethel by A/A fire and belly landed near “Chêne Tonneau” Barby, 3 miles West of Rethel at 11.15 hrs.
Burial details:
None - all crew survived.
Researched by Michel Beckers for Aircrew Remembered November 2015. Photographs from his own collection. Thanks Tom Osment for additional for his father Sqn.Ldr. Osment.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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