Date: 1941 Jul 07/07 A/C Type: Blenheim IV SN: Z7424 Code: XD- A/C Nickname:
 File: 176 Airforce: RAF Sqn/Unit:  139 Sqn Mission/Raid: Anti-shipping off Dutch coast
1 Pilot Sgt. John A. Causon             MIA 9    
2 Obs Sgt. Roy Spencer           buried Terschelling (West) 10    
3 WO/AG Sgt. William B. Cundill        buried Amsterdam 11    
4     12    
5     13    
6     14    
7     15    
8     16                    

Came down in the North Sea off Kennemerland. Sgt. Cundill washed ashore at Zandvoort and was buried in Amsterdam.
His body had been a month at sea. He was buried on 9 August 1941, with name and service-no.   

 

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The body of the pilot, Sgt. Causon, is still in the wreck or buried as unknown in the period 7 July 1941 - April 1942 from IJmuiden-Velsen up to the Danish west coast.



Sources: 

- website CWGC
- 2012 reconstruction of the original Amsterdam burial files 1940-1945.




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