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F/Eng. Albert Reilly

Royal Air Force 78 Squadron

from:Carlise

(d.6 October 1944)

My late, would have been, uncle was killed in action on 6 October 1944 (aged 22) before I was born. Albert Reilly was a flight Engineer with 78 Squadron based at RAF Breighton, Yorkshire, when on a flight to bomb Germany he was killed when the aircraft Halifax Mk 3 MZ310 was in collision with another Halifax from 78 Squadron from RAF Breighton over Belgium/Holland, (Grand Bloksepolder) near Oude Tonge.

All crew from both Halifaxes were killed (14 crew) and my uncle was buried in the military cemetery at Bergen op Zoom.

I am trying to find out more information about what caused the collision and obtain a picture of my late uncle.

Coincidentally, Albert Reilly's own uncle, Albert Victor Reilly was killed in action in the 1st World War on 14 October 1918. He was a gunner in the Royal Filed Artillery and died only weeks before the end of the war.

It is a sad story for my mother's side of the family i.e. Reilly which I am endeavouring to try and find more information.



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