Richardson, Harry Frederick (Flight Sergeant)

159 Squadron (Quo Non Quando Non). Liberator aircraft B7978 was attacked by enemy fighters, two engines were unserviceable and one RAF member of the crew was killed. FS Richardson and two crew members, not Canadians, were wounded in the attack. The Liberator was forced to land in the Bay of Bengal north of Cape Negrais, Burma. Richardson, one RAF and one RAAF member of the crew got into a dinghy but three RAAF and one RAF member of the crew did not make it out of the aircraft. An air-sea search was organized and although a fleeting glimpse was had twice of the dinghy a rescue could not be effected. FS Richardson succumbed to his injuries on October 28, 1944 while a Prisoner of War in a jail in Rangoon, Burma.