Hawkes, Robert Campbell (Flying Officer)

Interned Prisoner 1944-August-28

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Service

RCAF

Unit

626 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
To Strive And Not To Yield To strive and not to yeild

Base

RAF Wickenby

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/27535

Target
Google MapStettin Germany

Took off from Wickenby at 20:51 in Lancaster Mark I (Sqn code: UM-B2 Bomber Command).

Aircraft was attacked by two German Night Fighters after crossig the Danish coast near Kattegat. Crew baled out. Aircraft crashed near an open-air dance floor called Nyled, at Dala, South of Bastad, Sweden

Returned to U.K. late October 1944

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster ME742

Flight Sergeant Harold D Charles Allison RCAF

Flight Sergeant Allison, Harold D Charles (RCAF)
Air Gunner (Mid-Upper)
Interned Prisoner
1944-August-28
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Lyle Milton Bovee RCAF

Flying Officer Bovee, Lyle Milton (RCAF)
Rear Gunner
Interned Prisoner
1944-August-28
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Robert Campbell Hawkes RCAF

Flying Officer Hawkes, Robert Campbell (RCAF)
Pilot
Interned Prisoner
1944-August-28
cemetery unknown

Sergeant George Percival Francis Langdon RAF

Sergeant Langdon, George Percival Francis (RAF)
WOp-AG
Interned Prisoner
1944-August-28
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Robert Morrison MacKay RAF

Flying Officer MacKay, Robert Morrison (RAF)
Flt Engineer
Killed in Action
1944-August-28
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer Hugh Duncan McPhail RCAF

Flying Officer McPhail, Hugh Duncan (RCAF)
Second Pilot
Interned Prisoner
1944-August-28
cemetery unknown

Flying Officer R J Williams RAF

Flying Officer Williams, R J (RAF)
Navigator
Interned Prisoner
1944-August-28
cemetery unknown