[Larry]

Dear Mickael,

Thank you for your reply. Very interesting.

Blenheim P4832 of the Special Duty Flight was lost on 17th July 1941, while carrying out radar trials over the channel. It was seen to ditch 15 miles off Cherbourg. The two crew were seen standing on the wing but after that were never seen again.

It could be Sgt Sadler who was buried on 21st July 1941 but something tells me it is too soon for his body to be found without dog tags or any other bit of identity document. It could be that as this was not an operational flight that he did not bother with them, but I will leave this for others to comment as I do not know the RAF procedure.

It is possible the tags came off in the water so he could have remained as unknown.Obviously if a person remained in the sea for a long time I would expect their body to be hard to identify.

Is there any record to say if the body buried on 21st July was washed ashore or recovered at sea by the Germans or French Fishermen?