Date: 21st/22nd April 1945.
Unit: No. 163 Squadron.
Type: Mosquito XXV
Serial: KB529.
Coded: - W
Location: Target Area Kiel.
Pilot: Squadron Leader, W G Baker. Survived?
Navigator: Flying Officer, Austin Arthur Hawthorne J/40463 R.C.A.F. Killed.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Took-off from Wyton at 2137 hrs. Presumed crashed in the target area, it is also assumed that S/L Baker survived as no burial details have been found.
Mosquito KB529
BURIAL DETAILS:
Flying Officer, Austin Arthur Hawthorne J/40463 R.C.A.F. Kiel War Cemetery. Plot 1.Row F. Grave 19.
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