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Flying Officer G C Crowther

RCAF 420 Squadron

Wellington HE550 PT-G took off on April 14, 1943 at 2112 hours from Middleton St. George on a mission to Stuttgart. Homebound at 12,000 feet the plane was shot down by a Ju88 and crashed at Mesnil-St Laurent (Aisne), 5 km SE of St. Quentein, France.

F/O Sydney Brown and P/O J A Simpson are buried in the churchyard at Mesnil-St Laurent.

S/L F V Taylor and F/O G C Crowther bailed out and eventually returned to England.

Sgt H N McKinnon was taken prisoner and was eventually repatriated.



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