Den 17. august 1944 styrtede HAL MZ863 i havet måske omkring her under en minelægningsoperation ved Kiel. Alle ombord omkom.
(Forget-me-not, se Minelægningsområder - kilde p342MACR.)

J. C. Sprott og G. Scott blev fundet ved Kegnæs (som er her) den 25. august 1944 af en grænsegendarm. De blev begravet i Aabenraa den 29. august 1944.
M. H. Fleming blev fundet den 26. august 1944. Han blev begravet den 27. august 1944 i Aaabenraa uden ceremoniel af nogen art.
Den 21. august 1944 blev liget af  J. A. Tolmie indbjerget til Bagenkop Havn. Begravelsen i Bagenkop blev foretaget af en tysk feltpræst den 23. august 1943.
T. L. Baker er begravet i Kiel. R. I. Atkinson og J. C. Valk forsvandt i havet. (Kilde: FAF)
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Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Thomas Lloyd Baker, 20 år, var søn af Alfred Joseph og Martha Elizabeth Baker, Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.
Han blev begravet på KIEL WAR CEMETERY, 4. G. 3. i  TYSKLAND. (Kilde: CWGC) Se fotos 2019 fra Kiel.

3 flyvere fra HAL MZ863 er begravet i Aabenraa, 1 i Bagenkop og 1 i Kiel. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 17 august 1944 HAL MZ863 crashed into the sea maybe about here on a minelaying operation at Kiel. All on board perished.  
(Forget-me-not, see Minelaying areas - source p342MACR.)

On 25 August 1944 J. C. Sprott and G. Scott were found at Kegnæs (which is here) by a border gendarme. They were buried in Aabenraa on 29 August 1944.
M. H. Fleming was found on 26 August 1944. On 27 August 1944 he was buried in Aabenraa without any kind of ceremony.
On 21 August 1944 the body of J. A. Tolmie was taken to Bagenkop Harbour. On 23 August 1943 a German Army Chaplain officiated at the graveside ceremony
in Bagenkop. T. L. Baker is buried in Kiel. R. I. Atkinson and J. C. Valk disappeared into the sea. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) Thomas Lloyd Baker, 20, was the son of Alfred Joseph and Martha Elizabeth Baker, of Arnprior, Ontario, Canada.
He was buried in KIEL WAR CEMETERY, 4. G. 3., in GERMANY. (Source: CWGC) See photos 2019 from Kiel.
His name is engraved on the Memorial Wall at the BC Museum of Canada. The Canadian Virtual War Memorial has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 126.

3 airmen from HAL MZ863 are buried in Aabenraa, 1 in Bagenkop and 1 in Kiel in Germany. 2 airmen have no known grave.

No. 433 (Porcupine) Squadron was formed within No. 6 Group, see No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons
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Halifax III MZ863 BM-I took off from RAF Skipton-on-Swale at 21.15 hrs on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  p342MACR   7 airmen.