115 Squadron's Vickers Wellington III (#Z1663) aircraft, with an aircrew of five, took off at night from RAF Mildenhall for an air operation over the Dortmund-Ems Kanal near Lingen in Germany. Z1663 was shot down by a German night-fighter, resulting in its crashing and taking the lives of three members of the crew. The two airmen who survived the crash were captured and imprisoned in a German PoW camp.
The airmen who perished in this incident were-
RAFVR Flight Sergeant William Leonard CLOUGH,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Austin PARKER and
RAF Squadron Leader Robert James Sealer PARSONS.
Military Service-
Service Number: 923190
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Age: 31
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: 115 RAF Squadron; RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Son of Albert John and Hannah Clough; husband of Marjorie Chloe Clough of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
115 Squadron's Vickers Wellington III (#Z1663) aircraft, with an aircrew of five, took off at night from RAF Mildenhall for an air operation over the Dortmund-Ems Kanal near Lingen in Germany. Z1663 was shot down by a German night-fighter, resulting in its crashing and taking the lives of three members of the crew. The two airmen who survived the crash were captured and imprisoned in a German PoW camp.
The airmen who perished in this incident were-
RAFVR Flight Sergeant William Leonard CLOUGH,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Austin PARKER and
RAF Squadron Leader Robert James Sealer PARSONS.
Military Service-
Service Number: 923190
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Age: 31
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: 115 RAF Squadron; RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Son of Albert John and Hannah Clough; husband of Marjorie Chloe Clough of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
1942
ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
FLIGHT SERGEANT
CLOUGH W. L.
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