Took off from Elsham Wolds at 22:11 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code PM-J2 Bomber Command) on an operation to Germany.
Shot down by a night fighter and crashed in the North Sea 25 km west of Schagen, Noord-Holland.
Killed includes Couch: Sergeant David Ian Cameron RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery Germany grave 5. F. 9. WO Gordon Edmund Bernard Hardman RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery grave 11. C. 1. Sergeant William Whitelaw McLellan RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 158. Sergeant Bertram George Radbourn RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery grave 5. A. 4. Sergeant David Dennis Williams RAF KIA Sage War Cemetery grave 11. B. 10. Sergeant George Charles Witchlow RAF KIA Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery Holland grave 30. B. 9.
