Date:	Friday 18 August 1944
Time:	evening
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	103 Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB363
MSN:	PM-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Le Nieppe, Ruisscheure; département du Nord (target area) -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Elsham Wolds
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF Elsham Wolds at 19:06 hrs to attack a flying bomb site at Le Nieppe.
Hit by Flak. Those who perished rest in Longuenesse (St-Omer) Souvenir Cemetery:

Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer John Prescott Austin RAFVR 176233 (NCO:1600720 : Commission Gazetted Tuesday 04 July, 1944) [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant John Thomas Halliday RAF 1681765 [PoW]
Navigator : Sergeant Norman Harold Arthur Osmond RAF 1621871 [PoW]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Philip James Potts RAF 1601357 [PoW]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Kenneth Graham Webb RAFVR 924401 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant James Frank Wright RAF 1673145 [PoW]
Rear Gunner : Sergeant Stanley Hamilton RAFVR 1739618 [Killed]

The casualties lie at the Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France (50.7300550 / 2.249226)

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Royal Air Froce Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1944 Page 389.
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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
26-Aug-2013 16:59	JINX	Added
03-Jun-2015 07:18	Weeks	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, ]
03-Jul-2016 14:55	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
16-Oct-2018 18:47	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ]
15-Jun-2021 17:46	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative, ]
12-Jan-2025 07:52	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]