Called up to RAF Station, Feltwell, Norfolk (unit n/k).

RAF Station, Martlesham Heath, Suffolk (unit n/k).

3 Wing, No. 3 Electrical & Wireless School (E&WS), Compton Bassett, Wiltshire.

Remustered as Wireless Operator.

2 HM (abbreviation n/k) Unit (Wireless Telegraphy), location n/k.

Attached to RAF Station, Castle Archdale (Lough Erne), County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland; unit n/k.

Returned to 2 HM (abbreviation n/k) Unit (Wireless Telegraphy), location n/k.

Promoted to Aircraftman First Class (AC1).

No. 1 Air Crew Reception Centre (ACRC), Lord’s Cricket Ground, St John’s Wood, London.

Returned to 2 HM (abbreviation n/k) Unit (Wireless Telegraphy), location n/k.

No. 2 Command Training School; location not known, date TBC.

Promoted to Leading Aircraftman (LAC).

Promoted to Corporal.

Returned to 2 HM (abbreviation n/k) Unit (Wireless Telegraphy), location n/k.

No. 4 Signals School (SS), Madley, Herefordshire.

Remustered as Wireless Operator/under training Air Gunner.

No. 1 Air Armament School (AAS), Manby, Lincolnshire.

Anson tbc

Awarded Air Gunner’s (AG) brevet, promoted to Sergent, and remustered as Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.

No. 2 (Observer) Advanced Flying Unit ((O) AFU), Millom, Cumberland.

Blenheim, Anson, Oxford tbc

Awarded 1st Good Conduct Badge.

No. 28 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Course 15, Wymeswold, Leicestershire, joins L R B Matthews crew.

Wellington

Attached to No. 28 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Course 15, Ossington, Nottinghamshire.

Wellington

Returned to No. 28 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Wymeswold, Leicestershire.

Wellington

No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School, Hemswell, Lincolnshire (Lancaster) only if Lancasters not flown at HCU - tbc, date TBC.

Lancaster

No. 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU), Blyton, Lincolnshire.

Lancaster/Stirling/Halifax tbc

No. 101 Squadron, Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire (Lancaster)
Ops (7): L R B Matthews crew
27 Sep 43 – Hanover
29 Sep 43 – Bochum; faulty engine
03 Oct 43 – Kassel
07 Oct 43 – Stuttgart
22 Oct 43 – Kassel; abandoned 1h45 after take-off due engine failure and icing
03 Nov 43 – Dusseldorf
10 Nov 43 – Modane
26 Nov 43 – Stuttgart

Lancaster

Discharged on appointment to a Commission.

Commissioned as Pilot Officer on probation (emerg) from Sgt (LG 21 Dec 43, p5534).

No. 576 Squadron, ‘B’ Flight, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire
Ops (1): L R B Matthews crew
04 Dec 43 – Leipzig; lost in JB550 UL-T2

Lancaster

Leipzig; lost in JB550 UL-T2

Hit by flak on way to the target in the vicinity of Burg at about 2300 hrs or possibly shot down by Fw. Heinz Oberheide of 4./NJG3 at 0322 to the SW of Leipzig at 21,000 ft. and caught fire. Part of the bombload jettisoned before the aircraft fell apart and crashed in two pieces, one near the brickworks in Stegelitz and the other in a field near Landhaus Zeddenick, near Möckern, 14 miles East of Magdeburg. The two villages are approximately 4 miles apart, which might suggest strong winds. Only one crew member (unknown) baled out but did not survive. 

Buried originally locally in the two villages, he and the crew were reinterred at City Cemetery, Möckern and were reinterred on 19 Jul 47 at the Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery, Charlottenburg, in Collective grave 6.H.5

LAncaster

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