Kl. 21.03 den 18. august 1942 lettede STI W7618 fra RAF Downham Market på et bombetogt mod Flensborg. Det var flyets første operative flyvning.

De tre overlevende blev samlet op af en dansk fiskerbåd efter at have tilbragt tre dage i deres redningsflåde. (p101MACR) Se også Reddet af fiskere.

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Percival George Henry Strudwick, 22 år, var son af Percival Samuel og Mary Ann Strudwick, Old Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Han er begravet på HAMBURG CEMETERY i Tyskland, grav  6A C. 11. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra STI W7618 blev begravet i TYSKLAND. 2 har ingen kendt grav. 3 flyvere blev som krigsfanger ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.

7 flyvere.

At 21.03 hrs. on 18 August 1942 STI W7618 took off from RAF Downham Market on a bombing raid targeting Flensburg. See also Rescued by fishermen.
W7618's first operational sortie. The three survivors were picked up by a Danish fishing boat after spending three days in their dinghy. (p101MACR)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Percival George Henry Strudwick, 22, was the son of Percival Samuel and Mary Ann Strudwick, of Old Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. He is buried in HAMBURG CEMETERY in GERMANY, Grave  6A C. 11. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 249. 

2 airmen from STI W7618 were buried in GERMANY. 2 have no known grave. 3 airmen were as POWs taken to German POW-Camps.

See No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF * No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association * Short Stirling 
Stirling I W7618 HA-V took off from RAF Downham Market at 2107 hours on 18 AUG 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.