Dawes, Spencer Sidney (Flight Sergeant)
Killed in Action 1942-April-01
Birth Date: 1917
Born:
Parents: Stanley Sidney & Katherine Ellen Dawes, of Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Spouse:
Home: New Milton, Hampshire, England
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
214 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Ultor In Umbris Avenging in the shadows
Base
RAF Stradishall
Rank
Flight Sergeant
Position
Bomb Aimer
Service Numbers
R/67521
Target
Hanau Germany
No. 214 Squadron RAF
details of crash Wellington Mark I C Z8842 (01-Apr-1942) BU-F
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Wellington Z8842
Mission
Wellington Mk. IC Z8842
Flying Incident - Court Martial Hanau Germany 1942-April-01 to 1942-April-01
214 (B) Sqn (RAF) RAF Stradishall
35 Wellingtons and 14 Hampdens to carry out low-level attacks on railway targets, a new experiment which proved to be too costly. 22 aircraft reported that they had carried out this task but 12 Wellingtons - 34·3 per cent of the Wellingtons dispatched - and I Hampden were lost. 57 Squadron, based at Feltwell, a squadron which was often unlucky, lost 5 of the 12 Wellingtons it sent on this raid and 214 Squadron, from Stradishall, lost 7 of its 14 Wellingtons.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Sergeant E G W Shotter, Sergeant V L Stephens: killed; Flight Lieutenant E D Baker (RCAF), Sergeant G E Newman, Flight Sergeant S S Dawes (RCAF), Flight Sergeant E H Erby: missing believed killed
Wellington Z8842 Mk. IC - Flying Incident - Court Martial Hanau Germany - 1942-04-01 to 1942-04-01
Squadron: 214 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1942-04-01
Completion Date: 1942-04-01
Mission: Flying Incident - Court Martial
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Hanau Germany
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Base: RAF Stradishall
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35 Wellingtons and 14 Hampdens to carry out low-level attacks on railway targets, a new experiment which proved to be too costly. 22 aircraft reported that they had carried out this task but 12 Wellingtons - 34·3 per cent of the Wellingtons dispatched - and I Hampden were lost. 57 Squadron, based at Feltwell, a squadron which was often unlucky, lost 5 of the 12 Wellingtons it sent on this raid and 214 Squadron, from Stradishall, lost 7 of its 14 Wellingtons.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Sergeant E G W Shotter, Sergeant V L Stephens: killed; Flight Lieutenant E D Baker (RCAF), Sergeant G E Newman, Flight Sergeant S S Dawes (RCAF), Flight Sergeant E H Erby: missing believed killed