Stirling III EF392
Built April 1943
to 7 Squadron via 32 MU 9th May 1943.

Code 'MG - N'

Crew on night of 24/25 June 1943 :

S/Ldr J R Savage RAAF ( Pilot )
W/O F J Haines ( 2nd Pilot/(radar?) )
F/Sgt G H Cox ( Flight Engineer )
F/Sgt S J Barnes ( Navigator )
Sgt S A Errington ( Air Bomber )
Sgt A A Caley ( W/Op )
Sgt N R Morrison RCAF ( Air Gunner )
Sgt D R Spanton ( Air Gunner )

Took off Oakington 23:28. Presumed lost in sea off Dutch coast. F/Sgt Barnes is buried in Bergen General Cemetery ; the others have no known graves. Sgt Spanton had been the sole survivor when his Stirling crashed off the Kent coast returning from Nuremburg on 8/9 March, 1943.

( This information taken from 'The Stirling Story' by Michael J F Bowyer and 'Bomber Command Losses 1943' by W R Chorley ).

Really pleased to have been of help, Paul. May your relative and his comrades rest in peace.

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