Best, Alec Patrick (Flight Sergeant)

608 Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis) Blenheim IV Z5982 UL-U ditched while on an ASR search, cause unknown. Flight Sergeant AP Best (RAFVR)(Can), Pilot Officer Sir Iain W MacRobert (RAFVR), Sergeant H Hillwood (RAFVR) and Flying Officer RK Keating (RAFVR)(NZ) missing, believed killed and have no known graves. Pilot Officer MacRobert was one of 2 brothers lost in service in the RAF (and a third in a pre-war flying accident). His mother, Lady MacRobert, later donated several aircraft, a Stirling bomber and four Hurricanes to the RAF, including a Hurricane named "Sir Iain".