Hello,
Brief account of action on 2-3 February, 1944, here:
https://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/44-02.htm
Scroll down to 1.2.-29.2.1944 - Mediterranean/Aegean.
No.38 Sqn Losses (incomplete):
MEDITERRANEAN ALLIED AIR FORCES.
Wed 2/Thu 3 February 1944.
Shipping strike in the Aegean.
38 Squadron, RAF (Berka III [Benghazi], Libya - 247 Wing, AHQ Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East).
Wellington XI MP569 - took off at about 1800 and sent a sighting report at 2230. Twenty minutes later signalled an SOS, the bearings indicating a heading towards Turkey. However, nothing further was heard or seen of the Wellington or its crew, who are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial.
Captain: NZ413150 Flt Sgt Lawrence Rodney TAYLOR, RNZAF - Age 22. 709hrs. 20th op(?)*.
Balance of crew:
133973 F/O (Nav.) Ronald William MORRISON - Missing
1078641 F/Sgt Henry Greenwell BELL RAFVR - Missing
1365619 Sgt Henry Leggat DUFF RAFVR - Missing
1334140 F/Sgt George William Henry FORD RAFVR - Missing
1434995 Sgt George Dennis WRIGHT RAFVR - Missing.
*
See:
For Your Tomorrow Volume Two: Fates 1943-1998
Martyn,Errol W.
Christchurch:Volplane Press,1999.
p.189.
38 Squadron
Wellington XIII JA108
Missing from shipping strike in the Aegean. Operation on enemy shipping off the island of Patmos.
158026 F/O (Pilot) Claudian George BARNETT RAFVR + Phaleron War Cemetery
205854V Lt (Pilot) Cedric Noel VICE SAAF - Missing - Alamein Memorial
139220 F/O (Nav.) Austen Kolbe BARRY RAFVR + Rhodes War Cemetery
171291 P/O Denis Francis READ RAFVR + Rhodes War Cemetery
1033287 F/Sgt Clifford Beilby ROWLSTON RAFVR - POW
1064107 Sgt D ALLATT RAFVR - POW
Corrections/Additions welcomed.
Col.