12th May 1940 – 103 Squadron - Fairey Battle I – P2193 – P/O Edgar E Morton and crew – Op - Low level attack on German columns near Bouillon, Belgium.
Shot down by light flak and crashed near Sensenruth several miles north of Bouillon.
Crew -
P/O Edgar Elliot Morton RAF ( Pictured below ) - Pilot – 25 – 103 Sqn - Son of William Portlock Morton and Lucy Elizabeth Morton, of Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand – Sensenruth Curfoz Communal Cemetery, Belgium.
AC1 Alexander Strachan Ross RAF ( pictured below ) - Wireless Operator / Air Gunner – 19 – 103 Sqn - Son of Robert and Henrietta Ross, of Edinburgh - Sensenruth Curfoz Communal Cemetery, Belgium.
See account of the last flight of this crew and the commemoration in 2015 in the Corfuz Commemoration FlipBook here.
Compiled by David Fell with thanks to the Belgian Commemoration Group who provided me with pdfs of their event and a detailed account of the crash and also the photo of Ross. The bottom photo of Morton is courtesy of the Auckland Museum. Other photos from my archive.
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