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DILKES MF
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DILKES, Maurice

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Handley Page Halifax III
Serial Number LV820
Markings EY-F
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country France
Burial/Memorial Place Poix-de-Picardie (Poix-de-la-Somme) Churchyard
Grave Reference Row D. Grave 14..
Epitaph OUR DEAR SON AND BROTHER. IN MEMORY WE WILL KEEP HIM AS LONG AS THE YEARS ROLL ON
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 155
Enlistment information
Service Number 1584011
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 4
Squadron 78
Trade Air Gunner
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 12-06-1944
End Date 13-06-1944
Takeoff Station Breighton
Day/Night raid Night
Operation Amiens to bomb railway installations. Part of a 671 aircraft force to further hamper lines of communications leading to the Normandy area. Cambrai and Caen attacks were scattered but Amiens, Arras and Poitiers were accurate. 23 aircraft were Lost (3.4%) including that of Charles Mynarski VC, the subject of the Canadian Lancaster 'Vera'.
Reason for Loss Crashed at Bosc Mesnil, ESE of St Saëns, France