[Peter Cornwell]

Andy,

I suspect that you are right in that the MoD have simply repeated the time as originally documented for the loss of GRUSZKA. But the extra detail as to his last sighting is something I did not pick up during my own scan of the ORB so it's well worth taking another look at and particularly as I have no note of the other five pilots involved on his last sortie. Glaser, Quill, Keymer, & Orchard were all up at the time but I believe they were in a separate flight that took off ten minutes later.

As far as I am aware, though it is literally decades since I last inspected them, the Kent County Archives throw no further light on the subject. August 18, 1940, being particularly badly documented apart from the map detailing crash locations that shows one RAF crash at Wickhambreux which I take to be that of GRUSZKA. This map shows dozens of crashes that, apparently, are now unsupported by any documentary reports which suggests to me that the transcripts of the original ARP reports (on which the map was presumably based) have been lost.