Date:	Wednesday 30 August 1944
Time:	00:27 LT
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk I
Owner/operator:	300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF
Registration:	ED327
MSN:	BH-R
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	in Kattegatt, betwen Halland (Sweden) and Anholt Island (Denmark) -   Sweden
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Faldingworth
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Faldingworth at 21:15 Presumed crashed in the Baltic .Sgt Baron is buried in Falkenberg Forest Cemetery Sweden. His six comrades have no known grave.
Heavily damaged by a German fighter over Denmark during bombing raid on Stettin and crashed into Kattegatt Sea.

Crew:-
Pilot : P/O Harry Lupton RAFVR 179649 (NCO:1474368) [Killed]
F/E : Sgt John Bryce Hamilton RAFVR 1825268 [Killed]
Nav : F/S Kenneth James Jewell RAFVR 1401468 [Killed]
B/A : Sgt Donald John Kelsall Baron RAFVR 1389866 [Killed]
W/Op : W/O Frederick William White RAAF Aus/410758 [Killed]
M/U : F/S Ivor Charles Vaughan RAFVR 1389416 [Killed]
R/G : Sgt Stanley Sutton Barnett RAFVR 1584724 [Killed]

Note:-Emblem painted on fuselage of Avro Lancaster I (ED327, BH-R) of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron. It displays a set of Allied nations flags over a white dove of peace with an inscription: 'Facta Non Verba' - 'Deeds not Words'. (Imperial War Museum)

- Falkenbergs Museum/Lars Wikander: De kom aldrog hem (1994)
- Wikander, Lars et al: Flygdramatik i Halland under andra världskriget (1995)
-
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft EA100 - EZ999, published 2010

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 405.
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/lupton-harry.html
http://www.hambo.org/lancing/view_man.php?id=14
http://www.flensted.eu.com/1944augustcombats.shtml
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
13-Sep-2011 04:41	Uli Elch	Added
13-Sep-2011 05:12	Uli Elch	Updated [Location, Narrative]
28-Dec-2011 14:33	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative]
05-Jul-2016 21:32	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
17-Feb-2018 17:16	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport]
04-Feb-2020 12:23	stehlik49	Updated [Operator, Operator]
17-Jun-2021 18:24	TigerTimon	Updated [Date, Time, Other fatalities, Source]
16-Jun-2022 10:19	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]