MZ283 Halifax III HD-F

  
7th June 1944
                 
Pilot Bomb Aimer Navigator Wireless Operator Flight Engineer Mid Upper Gunner Rear Gunner  
                 
  F/S W R Pearce F/S P B Giles W/O J W Godfrey F/S W N Heywood Sgt K B Woodman F/S J R Cottle F/S R Beard  
  RAAF RAAF RAAF RAAF   RAAF RAAF  
   
                 
   
                 
                 
  Take Off :- 22:48   Base :- RAF Driffield   Mission :- Juvisy  
                 
  Details :- MZ283 crashed at Illeville-Sur-Monfort (Eure) 6km North East of Monfort-Sur-Risle.  
                 
  All of the crew are buried in Illeville-Sur-Monfort.  
         
    Picture of F/S Robert Beard kindly supplied by Mark Beard.    
    Picture of F/S W N Heywood courtesy of Australian War Memorial.    
               
               
 

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