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.
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
Bud McComb on right with friend
Bloomfield newspaper cutting
McComb grave
Bloomfield grave
Ennis grave
Labelle grave
Compiled by David Fell with Photos from my archive and the Canadian Virtual War Museum
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