Bath, Somerset, England (parents)Took off from La Senia, Sicily in Ventura Mk V FP-546 on a Maritime patrol of the Western Mediterranean.
Crashed in the sea and exploded twenty miles north of Cape de Laiguille, Algeria off the city of Oran.
Killed includes Averill: Pilot Officer Neil Donald Campbell RCAF J/88405 KIA Malta Memorial Panel 16, Column 1. Pilot Officer Gerald Alexandre Arthur A. Caron RCAF J/88406 KIA Malta Memorial Panel 16, Column 1. Flying Officer Francis Sale Knighton RAF KIA Malta Memorial Panel 13, Column 1. Sergeant Edward Kenneth John Potter RAF KIA Malta Memorial Panel 15, Column 2.
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