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RAFVR
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226 (MB) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Non Sibi Sed Patriae For country not for self
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RAF Thruxton
Rank
Flying Officer
Position
Observer
Service Numbers
128402
Dieppe France
Prisoner of War details for Flying Officer Moth are not known. He was injured in the crash of his aircraft and may have been hospitalized
Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton Brock, page 367
226 Squadron RAF (Non sibi sed patriae) RAF Thruxton. Boston Mk III aircraft AL736 MQ-P was engaged in an operation to lay smoke screens over the beachhead in support of the Canadian (Operation Jubilee) landings at Dieppe, France. The bomber was shot down by flak as it emerged from a protective smoke screen and crashed into the sea off the Dutch coast
Pilot Officer Robert James Corrigan (RCAF) and Flight Sergeant William Osselton (RAFVR) were missing, presumed killed in action> The missing have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Flying Officer Stanley Moth (RAFVR) was injured in the crash and taken POW, but the camp was not listed
The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942 by Norman Franks, pages 34,114,232
226 Squadron RAF (Non sibi sed patriae) RAF Thruxton. Boston Mk III aircraft AL736 MQ-P was engaged in an operation to lay smoke screens over the beachhead in support of the Canadian (Operation Jubilee) landings at Dieppe, France. The bomber was shot down by flak as it emerged from a protective smoke screen and crashed into the sea off the Dutch coast
Pilot Officer Robert James Corrigan (RCAF) and Flight Sergeant William Osselton (RAFVR) were missing, presumed killed in action> The missing have no known grave and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Flying Officer Stanley Moth (RAFVR) was injured in the crash and taken POW, but the camp was not listed
The Greatest Air Battle, Dieppe, 19th August 1942 by Norman Franks, pages 34,114,232
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