31 July 1942 - 415 Squadron, RAF North Coates – Handley Page Hampden I – AD762 – W/O B D R McComb RCAF – Duty Convoy protection operation.
Location – 2 miles from North Coates near Donna Nook.
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Handley Page Hampden Coastal Command
415 Squadron Handley Page Hampden I returned from a convoy protection duty with engine trouble. The visibility was very poor with thick fog and after several landing attempts the aircraft crashed about two miles away near Donna Nook
W/O Bud Douglas Roy McComb RCAF - Pilot – 415 Sqn - North Cotes St Nicholas Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
F/S Mandel Bloomfield RCAF – Observer – 21 – 415 Sqn - Son of Harry L. and Rebecca (née Shaw) Bloomfield of 123rd Street in Edmonton – Grimsby Hebrew Congregation Cemetery, Nunsthorpe, Grimsby
F/S Roy Milton Ennis RCAF – Wireless operator/Air gunner - 22 - 415 Sqn - Son of Joseph and Ruth Read Ennis, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – North Cotes St Nicholas Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
F/S John Henry Labelle RCAF– Wireless operator/Air gunner - 32 – 415 Sqn - North Cotes St Nicholas Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
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McComb crew L to R Ennis Bloomfield McComb Labelle
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Bud McComb on right with friend
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Bloomfield newspaper cutting
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McComb grave
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Bloomfield grave
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Ennis grave
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Labelle grave
Compiled by David Fell with Photos from my archive and the Canadian Virtual War Museum
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