Surname

Ints.

Rank

Service

Sqn.

Plane

Operation

Crash Site

Buried

Booth

G.

P/O

RAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

Tonsberg, Norway

Burrough

J.H.

Flt. Lt.

RAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

N/K

Corbould

K.B.

Wg.Cdr.

RAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

N/K

Leech

F.S.

P/O

RCAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

N/K

McCann

D.

Flt. Sgt.

RAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

N/K

Powis

T.I.

Sgt.

RAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

N/K

Sinfield

E.J.

Flt. Sgt.

RAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

N/K

Tibbo

C.R.

Flt. Sgt.

RAF

502

JP319

Anti-Ship

Skagerrak

N/K

"Halifax Mk.II (JP319) ‘D’ of 502 Sqn., piloted by Flt. Lt. J.H. Burrough, took-off from RAF Stornoway at 14.14hrs on 26th November 1944 on a ‘Gardening’
anti-shipping sortie to The Skagerrak, off the Norwegian and Danish coasts. (About here?) Apart from the normal crew, on board was the newly appointed
Commanding Officer of 502 Sqn., Wing Commander Corbould, who was on an operational area familiarisation flight. The aircraft was loaded with a typical war
load for such operations, six 500-pound Mk.II anti-shipping bombs. A signal was received from the aircraft at 19.00hrs, after which nothing further was heard.

The aircraft failed to return from the sortie and was assumed lost, reason unknown. The squadron Operational Record Book (ORB) records that,
‘It was learnt from another source that the aircraft was shot-down off the Swedish coast’. A short while after the loss of the aircraft, the body of P/O G. Booth,
one of the crew members, was washed ashore in Norway, and was buried in the nearby cemetery at Tonsberg, Norway.
None of the other crew members were ever recovered."

Details from the CWGC:

Pilot Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) George Booth, 29, was the son of Thomas and Harriet Booth, of Bolton, Lancashire,
and the husband of Barbara Winifred Booth, of Bolton. F.L.A. He was buried in TONSBERG OLD CEMETERY, grave ref. 10. 9. NORWAY.
(Tønsberg gamle kirkegård "old cemetery" is at the centre of Tønsberg on the west coast of the Oslo Fjord.)

Flight Lieutenant John Hardy Burrough, 31, was the son of Ernest James Burrough and Sophie Burrough, of Epsom, Surrey. B.A. (Cantab.).
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 201, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave.

Wing Commander Kenneth Bruce Corbould, 502 Squadron, was awarded the DFC - Distinguished Flying Cross.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 200, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave.

Pilot Officer Frederick Sydney Leech was from the Royal Canadian Air Force.    
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 251, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave.

Flight Sergeant David McCann, 22, was the son of Robert and Bertha McCann, of Watford, Hertfordshire.      
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 220, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave.

Sergeant Trevelyan Ivan Powis, 19, was the son of Frederick John and Frances Annie Powis, of Leominster, Herefordshire.      
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 236, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave.

Flight Sergeant Ernest James Sinfield, 35, was the son of John James Sinfield and Florence Elizabeth Sinfield, and the husband of
Lucy Hilda Gertrude Sinfield, of Palmer's Green, Middlesex.   
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 222, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave.

Flight Sergeant Charles Robert Tibbo, 29, was the son of George E. and Jennie M. Tibbo, and the husband of Dorothy G. Tibbo, of Deer Lake, Newfoundland.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 243, among more than 20,000 other airmen who have no known grave.