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Operation: Habo Patrol
Date: 16th October 1941 (Thursday)
Unit: No. 59 Squadron
Type: Hudson V
Serial: AM740
Code: TR-O
Base: RAF Thorney Island
Location: English Channel off France
Pilot: P/O. Maurice Henry Sherley-Price 62336 RAFVR Age 26. Missing
Obs: Sgt. Charles Ewart White 754875 RAFVR Age 22. Missing
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Sgt. Hayward Fred Tomkins 755409 RAFVR Age 21. Missing
W/Op/Air/Gnr: Sgt. Cubitt Henry Benjamin Page 1162363 RAFVR Age 25. Missing
REASON FOR LOSS:
The squadron rmoved to RAF Thorney Island becoming a general reconnaissance squadron, carrying out anti-shipping strikes, first with the Blenheims and then with Lockheed Hudsons.
Left: Hudson V Cockpit, right: pilot, P/O. Maurice Henry Sherley-Price (courtesy Sherborne School Archives)
Burial details:
P/O. Maurice Henry Sherley-Price. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 34. Further information courtesy Sherborne School Archives: Born 25th August 1915, son of Ernest Alfred Sherley-Price and Elizabeth Sherley-Price of Three Gates, Branksome Park, Bournemouth, England. Attended The Old Ride preparatory school, Bournemouth. Attended Sherborne School (Lyon House) May 1929-July 1933; 6th form. University College, Southampton. Articled to a solicitor.
Left: Runnymede Memorial (archives)
Sgt. Charles Ewart White. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 54. Son of Charles R. White, and of Margaret A. White, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England.
Sgt. Hayward Fred Tomkins. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 53. Son of Frederick and Christiana H. Tomkins, of Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
Sgt. Cubitt Henry Benjamin Page. Runnymede Memorial. Panel 49. Son of Alfred Cubitt Page and Gertrude Rebecca Page, of Sprowston, Norfolk, England.
With thanks to Sherborne School Archives for additional information. For further details our thanks to the sources shown below.
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