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ABBOTT, Wilfred

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Handley Page Halifax III
Serial Number MZ628
Markings SE-Y
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country France
Burial/Memorial Place Cramoisy Communal Cemetery
Grave Reference .
Epitaph A GOOD LIFE HATH BUT FEW DAYS: BUT A GOOD NAME ENDURETH FOR EVER (Ecclesiasticus 41:13)
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 121
Enlistment information
Service Number 175843
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 6
Squadron 431 (Iroquois)
Trade Navigator
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 18-07-1944
End Date 18-07-1944
Takeoff Station Croft
Day/Night raid Day
Operation Vaires- to attack railway yards. 110 aircraft- no report is available on the bombing results. Two aircraft lost.
Reason for Loss Crashed SW of Cramoisy, west of Creil, France