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Operation: Luxembourg
Date: 10th May 1940 (Friday)
Unit: No. 103 Squadron
Type: Fairey Battle Mk I
Serial: K9372
Code: PM-K
Base: RAF Betheniville
Location: crashed near Dippach, 11 km WSW of Luxembourg
Pilot: Fl/Lt. Maurice Clunes Wells 37535 RAF PoW No. 331 Camp: Stalag Luft Sagan and Belaria
Nav: Sgt. H.F. Bullock 565115 RAF PoW No. 13050 Camp: Stalag Lamsdorf
W/Op/Air/Gnr: LAC. T.H. Bowen 521480 RAF PoW No: 62 Stalag Kopernikus
REASON FOR LOSS:
Taking off at 13:05 hrs to attack enemy columns.
Fl/Lt. Wells was captured almost immediately, his crew were picked up four days later and taken into captivity.
K9264 PM-L Flown by 20 year old, P/O. Kenneth John Drabble from Truro in Cornwall killed with all his crew.
K9270 PM-O Flown by Sgt. C.H. Lowne, made PoW, both his other crew member killed.
Burial details:
None - crew survived.
Research and photographs by Michel Beckers for Aircrew Remembered March 2015.
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