The Halifax took off from Dalton at 9:38 p.m. and was shot down on the return flight north of Ciney by a German night fighter piloted by Oblt Reinhard Eckardt from 6./NJG3. It crashed around 00:30 on April 28 near Hamois. Three men were killed: mechanic Thomas Kenneth Robinson, machine gunner Iorwerth Edwards and machine gunner / radio operator James Garroway. All three rest in the Heverlee cemetery near Leuven / Louvain (Belgium).
The machine gunner H. Lee (920228) was taken prisoner and interned at the Stalag Luft 1 in Barth in Germany (POW n ° 247). William Ralston will manage to escape capture, as will Lawrence Carr and Ronald Shoebridge . As we will see below, Ralston and Shoebridge will not have the same luck as their pilot Carr, who will be able to succeed in his escape.
The wreck of Halifax W7653-DY-A