[malc51]

I contacted the Royal Artillery Museum again and asked them to check the 583 Battery diary for March the 14th 1944, I have received the following reply:

At 23.00hrs 583(M) battery engaged an enemy aircraft (not specified as to type) the claim was confirmed as an enemy aircraft shot down.

I explained this to my mother in law and she says the only plane that crashed close was the one they claimed to have shot down, she now thinks she may have been mistaken with the timming, it was a long time ago and her gun was regularly in action so this is understandable.
This now looks like the Friston Dornier claimed by 71 AA Bde, I suppose it is possible more than 1 battery was firing at the same aircraft.
I now want to try and find which 71 Battery it was and check there diary at Woolwich.