Lancaster III  ND686  LE-M   630 Squadron  RAF 

18-19 March 1944

Mission: Frankfurt

Crash: Near Adinkerke

P/O  KW  Orchiston  RNZAF   KIA  Koksijde Military Cemetery

Sgt  WP Clough  KIA  Koksijde Military Cemetery

F/S  DC Pearse  KIA  Koksijde Military Cemetery

F/O  JN Gill   KIA  Koksijde Military Cemetery

Sgt  J Palmer  KIA  Koksijde Military Cemetery

F/Sgt  FL Dutchak  RCAF  KIA  Koksijde Military Cemetery

Sgt  AM Kiltie  KIA  Koksijde Military Cemetery

 

Report:

on the 5th April, 1946 and 9th April, 1946 accompanied by the Furnes’ Gendarme I visited Monsieur H. Capoen of Furnes at Adinkerke who states: « On the middle of March 1944 a British Bomber crashed in a German Battery position near my farm. i did not see the aircraft, but I could see the light from the fire. In the morning a Pole in the German Army whom I knew, told me that two English flyers had been killed in the crash.

Later on during that daybmemebers of the German A.F.’s ground crew came to the scene of the accident and removed the two bodies to be buried in the coxyde cemetery.

Signed: I.C.D. Clowes Squadron Leader