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June 29th 1943

Lancaster III ED362 HW-E of 100 Sq.

Crashed: Shot down by a nightfighter (Hptm Hans-Dieter Frank, II./NJG1) and crahed 02.47 at Rijsoord, (Binnenpolder) 9 km SE from the centre of Rotterdam.

Crew:

- F/O Philip Jocelyn PASCOE (Pilot RCAF), of Toronto, Canada. KIA

- Sgt Frank WHEELDON (F/Eng. RAF VR),age 23. KIA
Son of Frank and Mary E. Wheeldon, of Prestwich, Lancashire.

- Sgt Horace Henry GENTLE ( Obs.RAF VR) KIA

- P/O Christopher Barton WOOD (AB RAF VR),age 24. KIA
Son of William Threlkeld Wood, and of Eleanor Fulton Wood,of Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

- Sgt Joseph REFFIN ( WOp./AG RAF VR),age 30. KIA
Son of Peter MacKay and Helen Reffon, of Taynuilt, Argyllshire.

- F/Sgt Robert Douglas Webster MOULTON (AG RCAF), age 21. KIA
Son of Mr. And Mrs William A. Moulton, of Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada.

All Buried Rotterdam Crooswijk General Cemetery

- F/Sgt R G STORR (AG RAF) POW number 222422 in Stalag Mühlberg-Elbe

In September 2002 a monument was unveiled at the former crash-site, opposite where the Voorweg emerges the Rijksstraatweg.


Target: Köln
Homebase: Grimsby
Taken off: 23.58


Details supplied by Jan Weda