102 (Ceylon) Squadron

Tentate et perficite (Attempt and Achieve)

Flight Lieutenant Arthur Hilton

LW339 DY-F took off at 5.15pm from Pocklington on the 15th Feb 1944, bound for Berlin

One of two 102 squadron planes lost this night, HX155 | DY-Q piloted by P/O Ananda Kularatne being the other one.

F/L Arthur Hilton - Pilot - Aged 23 - (C.W.G.C.)
F/S Richard James Paige - Nav - Aged 22 - (C.W.G.C.)
Sgt E.A. Gosling - F/E - POW
Sgt Lewis Francis Carr - WOp - (C.W.G.C.)
Sgt Frederick Alfred Paskell - A/G - Aged 20 - (C.W.G.C.)
Sgt Arthur Dean - A/G - Aged 21 - (C.W.G.C.)
WO2 Robert Frederick Sykes - (R.C.A.F.) - B/A - Aged 25 - (C.W.G.C.)

Shot down by Flak, crashing 2030 at Bartelshagen.

Those killed are now buried in the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery.

Sgt E.A.Gosling was interned in Camps L6/357, PoW No.1471.

WO2 Sykes had graduated from Manitoba University.

 

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