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October 22nd 1943

Halifax II LW259 NP-F of 158 Sq.

Crashed: Shot down by flak and crashed 19.50 at Goudswaard, (near the hamlet of Nieuwendijk, on farmland in the Eendragtspolder) 16 km SW of Rotterdam.

Crew:

- P/O Barrington Horsfield MARSHALL (Pilot RAF VR), age 22. KIA
Son of Arthur and Mary Ellen Marshall, of Deepcar, Yorkshire.

- Sgt William HARTLEY (F/Eng. RAF VR), age 21. KIA
Son of Robert Henry and Esther Hartley, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.

- F/Sgt Robert Alexander NIELD ( Nav. RAAF), age 25. KIA
Son of Robert Alexander and Rosalind Nield, of Balranald, New South Wales, Australia.

- F/Sgt Raymond James FARRELLY ( BA RNZAF), age 21. KIA
Son of Edward and Elizabeth Farrelly, of Manawahe, Auckland, New Zealand; husband of Margaret Farrelly of Margate, England.

- Sgt George Prosser FINLAY (WOp./AG RAF VR), age 21. KIA
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Finlay, of High Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

- Sgt Charles Henry Morgan WILSON (AG RAF VR), age 31. KIA
Son of Charles Henry and Lila Edith Wilson; husband of Elizabeth Wilson, of Rayner's Lane, Middlesex.

- F/O Edwin Arthur HARRIS ( AG RAAF), age 33. KIA
Son of Phillip and Elizabeth Agnes Harris; husband of Olive Wilson Harris, of Hawksburn, Victoria, Australia.

All buried Rotterdam Crooswijk General Cemetery


Target: Kassel
Homebase: Lissett
Taken off: 17.20


Details supplied by Jan Weda