BIRTH-1915 June Quarter birth "registration"-
Name: Parsons, Robert W J S---Mother's Maiden Name: Stopes
District: Swindon [Vol & Page: 5a & 67]
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: 33462
Rank: Squadron Leader
Service: Royal Air Force
Division: 115 RAF Squadron; RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Honours/Awards: Awards: Four times Mentioned in Despatches (MiD)
He is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
BIRTH-1915 June Quarter birth "registration"-
Name: Parsons, Robert W J S---Mother's Maiden Name: Stopes
District: Swindon [Vol & Page: 5a & 67]
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: 33462
Rank: Squadron Leader
Service: Royal Air Force
Division: 115 RAF Squadron; RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Honours/Awards: Awards: Four times Mentioned in Despatches (MiD)
He is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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