Surrey Hills, Victoria, AustraliaTook off from Bardney at 18:56 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code WS-N Bomber Command0 on an operation to Hanover Germany.
The aircraft was coned by searchlights and hit by flak and crashed at Bad Münder am Deister, Niedersachsen Germany sixteen miles south-west of Hanover.
Killed includes Crabtree: Sergeant Dennis Everest RCAF R/173859 KIA Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 7. Warrant Officer Class 2 Nelson Albert Noble RCAF R/119448 KIA Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 5. Sergeant Vincent Hirst-Gee RAF KIA Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 16. Sergeant James Breeds Hood RAF KIA Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Sunderland Ward 26. Sec. R.C. Grave 796. Sergeant Victor James Lander RAF KIA Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 4. Sergeant Malcolm John MacRitchie RAF KIA Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 9. Sergeant George Alastair Sales RAF KIA Hanover War Cemetery grave 4. E. 17.
