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Halifax LK705 Information

Type	Halifax
Serial Number	LK705
Squadron	431
X1D	SE-X
Operation	Gardening
Date 1	25th February 1944
Date 2	26th February 1944

Further Information

"Serial Range LK680 - LK711. 32 Halifax Mk.V. Part of a batch of 200 HP Halifax Mk.V/111. LK626-LK667; LK680- LK711; LK725-LK746 Mk.V; LK747-LK766; LK779-LK812; LK826-LK850; LK863-LK887 Mk.111. Delivered by Fairey Aviation (Stockport) between 11Oct43 and 20Nov43. Airborne 2027 25Feb44 from Croft to lay mines in Kiel Bay (Quines Region). Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed some 10 km N of Holsted, Denmark. All are buried in Esbjerg (Fourfelt) Cemetery; their average age was 21. william John Bates, brother to Sgt R.L.Bates was also KIA. F/S E.C.Howey RCAF KIA Sgt E.R.Metcalf KIA F/O G.E.Stevenson RCAF KIA Sgt A.D.MacGillivray KIA sgt R.L.Bates KIA Sgt A..M.G.Munro RCAF KIA Sgt L.T.Wardell RCAF KIA "