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Sergeant George Leslie "Les" Banks
Royal Air Force 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron
from:Northenden
(d.27th Jan 1943)
The Crew of N3721 were as follows:-
- Pilot Officer A.E.Gough age 20 Pilot and Captain
- Pilot Officer K.A. Taylor age 23 2nd Pilot 1st Trip
- Pilot Officer G C Layley age 23 Navigator
- Sergeant N W Whithead age 20 Bomb-Aimer
- Sergeant G L Banks age 31 Wirless Operator
- Sergeant L C Ehrhart 22 Mid-Upper Gunner
- Sergeant E J Forward age 24 Flight Engineer
- Sergeant W E Jackson 22 Rear Gunner( Later Warrant Officer) Survivor
Their last flight, No 19, was mine-laying in the Baltic. On their return journey they crashed into the forest near the village of Grassborn at Dassel. They were not in their usual aircraft N3721 'P' for Peter as it was being repaired. They were in N6077. The crew are all buried at Limmer Military Cemetry Hannover.
Bill Jackson was the only survivor and he ended up in a POW Camp. He wrote a book called Three Stripes and Four Brownings which details all their Missions. G C Layley's brother was killed 12 months later and is also buried jut behind him in Hanover.
