Fred Hugh Sykes
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Son of Norman and Victoria Florence Sykes, of Windsor, Berkshire.
Hampden X3129, 144 Sqn take off RAF Hemswell to bomb Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at Brest. The squadron commander decided there was insufficient cloud cover to carry on, but P/O Hartop broke formation and attacked alone. X3129 shot down by Bf109 F-2 piloted by Fw Georg Bock (KIA 23/6/1941), 4/JG2 and crashed at Bourg-Blanc, France.
Also lost;
F/Sgt Robert Lambourne - Son of Albert George and Ethel Minnie Lambourne, of Southampton; husband of Esme Ena Lambourne, of Southampton.
Sgt Jack Riley - Son of John and Hilda Riley, of Heaton, Bolton, Lancashire.
P/O William Hartop DFC - POW No; 1349 Stalag Luft III. Of 23 Chaucer Road, Bedford. Admitted Naval Hospital, Brest and onto Hohe Mark Hospital, Frankfurt. Awarded DFC June 1941.
Admitted Wartburg Hospital June 1942 with appendicitis shortly after a failed escape attempt from Oflag VI-B Dossel.
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