Day, Albert David (Sergeant)

Evader 1941-August-06

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Mentioned in Dispatches (1)

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RCAF

Unit

77 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Esse Potius Quam Videri To be, rather than to seem

Base

RAF Topcliffe

Rank

Sergeant

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Service Numbers

10263A

Took off from Topcliffe at 22:07 in Whitley Mark V (Sqn code: KN- Bomber Command).

Shot down by flak and abandoned near Muelebeke.

Baled out in Northern Belgium, he evaded capture and made his way through France and Spain, from where he was repatriated

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