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Flight Sergeant

Alistair MacNab McKelvie

Service number 971310
Military unit 61 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Golfdrum Street, Dunfermline, Scotland.
Date of birth
Date of death 03 Jun 1942 (34 years old)
Place of birth Cowdenbeath, West Fife, Scotland.
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

Son of George and Janet McKelvie; husband of Elizabeth Walker McKelvie, of North Berwick, East Lothian.

Military history

Lancaster R5613 61 Sqn take off 00.01 RAF Syerston mission Essen shot down by Bf110 night fighter piloted by Ofw Fritz Schellwat 5/NJG1 crashing at La Hulpe, killing all but one
crew member.

P/O Ralph Clark DFM
Sgt Stanley Lincoln RNZAF
Sgt Edward Patchett
Sgt Oliver Beswick - Also killed.

F/Sgt Norman Hartley - Son of Norman and Francis Hartley, of Harrogate, Yorkshire. MIA

Sgt William Griffiths. Bailed out landing near Plancenoit , injured bullet wound to the arm evaded via Spain on the " Comet Line " The best-known of the Belgian resistance networks, The Comet Line, organized by Andrée (Dédée) de Jongh, involved some 2,000 resistance members and was able to escort 700 Allied servicemen to Spain.

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