[paulmcmillan]

for clarity here are all other L205x Hurricanes and it can be shown that it could only be L2050 or L2056 and L2056 did not have combat damage and also looks like serious enough to injure pilot and based on date and fact Sqn retreating through France at time before evacuation to June 17th 1940 and then to UK

L2050 32/79/501 Presumed lost in France 5.40 Flying Officer Eustace 'Gus' Holden #37970. Crash landed / tail unit destroyed in taxying accident after return damage in combat with Dornier Do 17 on 12 May 1940

L2051 111 Shot down by Bf 109 on patrol over France 18.5.40 Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Charles Sidney Darwood, RAF 37085 killed AIR 81/2125

L2052 501/111/6 OTU/5 FTS/59 OTU SOC 5.4.45

L2053 501 Crashed, presumably damaged by return fire from He 111s near Mezieres 12.5.40 coded "SD-M" Flying Officer Michael Fauconbridge Clifford Smith RAF (AAF) #90026 killed

L2054 501 Crashed after attacking enemy bombers near St. Hubert, Beauvillers 12.5.40 Coded "SD-E" Flying Officer Peter Herbert Raynor RAF (AAF) #90022 killed AIR 81/286

L2055 501/1/111/56 OTU 501 Coded "SD-K" Spun into ground, West Walton, Norfolk 11.6 1941. Sgt Andrew Masson Duthie #1053684 Killed

L2056 501 Crashed on landing, Anglure 31.5.40. Abandoned. Coded "SD-G" Crashed on landing in bad weather. Pilot Sgt John Eric Loverseed #907964 “On 31st May he was injured after his Hurricane L2056 SD*G crashed on landing after a planned patrol was aborted due to bad weather. He was evacuated to a hospital in England and by the time he returned to 501 on 19th July they were back in England too.”

L2057 213/601 Missing off Portland; presumed shot down by fighters 11.8.40 . Pilot Officer William Gordon Dickie #80541 missing presumed dead;

L2058 605 Shot down by BF 109's near Arras 22.5.40 Sergeant William Michael Florence Moffatt #566018 injured on landing by parachute; AIR 81/532

L2059 605 Hit by return fire from He 11s and collided with one near Odiham 9.9.1940. Pilot Officer George Mathwin Forrester #81369 killed