On the evening of 22nd November 1944 the crew of this 630 Squadron aircraft took off from their Lincolnshire base of East Kirkby at 16.26hrs to undertake an operational flight to bomb a target at Trondheim, probably German shipping or U-Boat targets. Of note is that the Tirpitz had capsized at Trondheim after bombing ten days earlier. On their return to England this aircraft appears to have crossed the coast too far north and been running out of fuel. The aircraft crashed onto a sand bank or mud flats in the River Humber, just off the village of Sunk Island, at around midnight. In this general area was a minefield. The crew are listed as having died on either 22nd or 23rd November 1943 suggesting that either some were believed alive shortly after the crash (which may have occurred before midnight) or the precise time of the crash was not discovered so the double dating was used. This area of The Humber is tidal and 60 M.U, who were tasked with the recovery of the wreckage reported that they had great difficulty recovering the airframe, a job which was only finished in April 1945.

Pilot - F/O George Ross Flood RNZAF (NZ.421503), aged 21, of O'tahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/D/17).

Navigator - P/O Charles Agnew RNZAF (NZ.428826), aged 25, of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/D/19).

Bomb Aimer - F/Sgt Kenneth James Aspell RAFVR (1579265), aged 26, of Coventry. Buried Coventry (St.Paul's) Cemetery, Warwickshire.

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - F/Sgt William Ritchie Ingram RNZAF (NZ.42196), aged 22. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/D/18).

Air Gunner - Sgt Frederick Hughes RAFVR (1431375), aged 23, of Moston, Manchester. Buried Moston RC Cemetery, Lancashire.

Air Gunner - Sgt Maurice Benjamin Henley RAFVR (1211299), aged 22, of Birmingham. Buried Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery, Yorkshire (G/D/20).

Flight Engineer - Sgt Leslie Thomas Woodward RAFVR (1811689), aged 20, wife of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. Buried Hampstead Cemetery, London. Died of injuries on 1st December 1944.

George Flood and his grave in Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.

Charles Agnew 's grave in Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery. He was the son of Robert and Margaret (nee Monahan) Agnew and was born in Cowdenbeath, Scotland in 1919. The family had emigrated irst to Australia and then to New Zealand.

William Ingram and his grave in Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.

Maurice Henley and his grave at Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.