Date of birth:

December 25th, 1919 (Rait/Perth and Kinross, Scotland)

Date of death:

February 11th, 1941 (Zuid-Scharwoude, The Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves General Cemetery Alkmaar
Row: F. Grave: 3.

Service number:

749336

Nationality:

British

Bomber Command dispatched 222 aircraft against industrial targets in Hannover. 49 Squadron had 12 aircraft airborne, following a briefing in which the Scampton Intelligence Officer had exhorted crews to cause 'maximum destruction' of their specified target. Whilst over Holland, Canadian pilot F/Lt John Green DFC (X3001) and crew fell victim to a German night fighter piloted by Lt Leopold Fellerer of II/NJG.2. The doomed aircraft crashed near Zuidscharwoude in Holland.
Three members of the crew survived and were taken prisoner; sadly Sgt David Cruickshank, who had also baled out, was already dead when his parachute came to earth at Broek op Langendijk. He had sustained a head wound and it is presumed that he struck the tail plane when jumping.

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