First names 429 RCAF sqdn crew

[Henk Welting]

F/Sgt John Blair LINSTEAD - R/222288 (P/O J/94527), from High River, Alberta and F/Sgt Harold Dick McLEOD - R/196971 (P/O J/94365), from Toronto, Ontario were both killed on Halifax PN 228.
AUGUSTA, HENDERSON, POTTS, LADNER, McLEOD and LINSTEAD also crashlanded their Halifax LV 965 22.22 hrs 9-10-1944 on airfield Old Buckenham in Norfolk. The Halifax near Keerbergen was MZ 453.

Henk.

[Alain57]

Thanks Henk

Alain57

[steven volckaerts]

Dear all,

since few years I am studying the crash of Halifax MZ453. Mr. Augusta confirmed that he landed with the parachute in Keerbergen and it might be possible that the plane crashed in Tremelo, the village where I live. Does somebody know how/where we possible may find the confirmation about the correct crashlocation ? The civil records of Tremelo do not contain any information about the crash but there are several eye-witnesses who visited the wreckage of an "olive coloured allied airplane" in my village. We also found a smal part of a kind of a tank but untill now, we do not have official confirmation about the identity of the plane that crashed at this location.

Many thanks in advance for your help

Steven