Very little is currently known about the flight engineer of Lancaster DS832 on the night of 16th / 17th December 1943 apart from he is believed to have escaped the aircraft and landed without injury. On the night of 27th / 28th April 1944 he was flying in Halifax LW592 with 432 Squadron when the aircraft failed to return from an operational flight on Montzen and is believed to have crashed near Sur-les-Bois, Belgium. Two were killed but he was made a PoW while four others evaded capture.