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Re: Searching records of lost RAF/RAAF planes.
Re your inquiry of 29th August 2006
Lancaster ED530 Information
Type Lancaster
Ser No. ED530
Squadron 467
X1D PO-O
Operation Munich
Date 1 2nd October 1943
Date 2 3rd October 1843
Airborne 1844 2Oct43 from Bottesford. Ran out of fuel and came down in the sea 0138 3Oct43 some 25 miles off Beachy Head. F/S McGrath was picked up by an ASR walrus. Subsequently two bodies were washed ashore; P/O McIver is buried in North Walsham New Cemetery but Sgt McLelland is buried in Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery having been found at Katwijk 30Nov43. The others are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. P/O K. A. McIver DFC RAAF KIA Sgt A. B. McLelland KIA F/S J. K. Gale KIA F/S M. E. McGrath Sgt C. MacLean KIA Sgt R. Short KIA F/S F. W. Shaw KIA "
Kind regards
Ross
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