SQN LDR ARTHUR ‘JACK’ MAHOOD DSO DFC

[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

The then, P/O J A Mahood, had earlier served on No. 148 Squadron RAF:

29/30 May 1942
148 Sqn
Wellington IC DV654
Op: Tmimi.

Took off 00028[sic], ALG 106, to attack the landing ground at Tmimi, belly-landed after engine fire 28km SSW of Sidi Barrani, and destroyed by crew. They then walked to the frontier wire at El Beida, and signalled a Bombay, which later returned and circled, dropping a message and water bottles, the crew being later rescued by lorry.

F/O J G Brown (+ 16/17-7-42 148 Sqn - Wellington IC HX400. see:BLME1/164)
Sgt M A Bennetto RCAF
P/O J A Mahood
Sgt R C Drake
Sgt C J Griffiths
Sgt C S Parker

See:
Royal Air Force Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean Vol.1: 1939-1942
Gunby,David & Pelham Temple.
Hinckley:Midland Counties Publishing,2006.
p.148.

See also: TNA AIR 81/14883 - (albeit, with an incorrect serial, ie FD657)

https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ls/r/C17386382

Col.