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Stirling BF528 Information

Type	Stirling
Serial Number	BF528
Squadron	214
X1D	BU-L2
Operation	Dortmund
Date 1	23rd May 1943
Date 2	24th May 1943

Further Information

"Serial Range BF500 - BF534. 35 Stirling Mk.111. Part of a batch of 200 Short S.29 Stirling Mk.1/111/1V. BF309- BF358; BF372-BF416; BF434-BF454 (116) Mk.1; BF455-BF483; BF500- BF534; BF561-BF580 (84) Mk.111; BF464; BF468; BF532; BF575; BF580 were converted to Mk.1V. Delivered by Short & Harland between Mar43 and May43. Contract No.774677/38. Delivered to No.214 Sqdn 21Apr43. BF528 was one of three No.214 Sqdn Stirlings lost on this operation. See: BF478; MZ261. Airborne 2335 23May43 from Chedburgh. Cause of loss not established. Crashed near M_nchengladbach where the two airmen who were killed were initially buried in the St_dtfriedhof. They have been subsequently reinterred in the Rheinberg War Cemetery. Sgt J.K.Wilkins RNZAF KIA Sgt A.Mason RNZAF PoW Sgt W.S.Clifton-Mogg RNZAF PoW Sgt L.G.Freeman KIA Sgt W.A.Leslie PoW Sgt E.T.Hutchinson PoW Sgt B.A.Kennedy PoW Sgt W.S.Clifton-Mogg was interned in Camps L1/L6/357. PoW No.1236 with F/S B.A.Kennedy, PoW No.1252, Sgt A.Mason, PoW No.1258 and F/S W.A.Leslie, PoW No.1253. Sgt E.T.Hutchinson in Camp L1, PoW No.1251. 'Air Battle of the Ruhr', A.Cooper, records Sgt E.T.Hutchinson as Sgt E.T.Hutching. "